Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>New Urban Cowboy</i> The Mission's an interesting place to screen a movie about gentrification, filmed from the eyes of the gentrifier -- so there was certainly no shortage of things to think about at last night's
SF News SFist Blotter 101, the highway of doom! There was a drunk driving death near Willow Road Wednesday morning, along with all those random shootings the day before. The cops, for what it's worth, say none
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews András Schiff Someone told us a story of a famous pianist who believed in bringing culture to the people, and went to a factory in Italy to give a lecture in front of a piano.
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City - R.I.P. R.I.P. When The Lights Go Down In The City November 2004 - September 2007 It was SFist's first editor Jackson West who asked me to write a music column back in
Arts & Entertainment The Dirty Ol' Fall Tour Stephen Kellogg & The Sixers and special guest MoZella October, 4 2007 Cafe du Nord (2170 Market Street, San Francisco, California 94101) Cost : $12 All Ages Photo courtesy of flickr user: caitlinbango
SF News Blue Angels: They're Here There's nothing like hearing the roar of fighter jets above-head on a sunny afternoon in downtown San Francisco. Just when we were this close to being cured of our September 11th PTSD, the
SF News Look, Ma! It's the World's Biggest Passenger Jet! Step right up and see the world's largest passenger jet...in your very own backyard! This story has saturated the news this morning, but these kind of items (along with anti-vertical growth rhetoric)
Arts & Entertainment Tales Of Mere Existence "I COULDN'T THINK OF AN IDEA FOR A CARTOON TODAY..." "Tales Of Mere Existence" By Levni R. Yilmaz Esq HEY! I'll be selling books at the SF Zine Fest Friday & Saturday. Friday, October 5 from 2:00pm - 8:00pm Saturday, October
misc Ask SFist -- Bay Area Gay Blogs? A reader would like your help: Can you recommend any popular blogs in San Francisco with a queer voice? thanks, [presumed homosexual's name withheld] Well, we can't recommend any "popular" Bay Area blogs
misc Blocker: 1800 Haight Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. View the map of all
SF News Baskets Are the New Minimalism It’s a classic example of fixie bike lust: the carefully accented color coordination, expensive but mismatched wheels, improbably narrow handlebars, and, of course, lack of any unsightly “extras” such as gears and
misc We Are All Equal...Except You, Tranny Queer rights groups freaked out, threw a tizzy (understandably), and nixed their support for a workplace discrimination civil rights bill "after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco and Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.
SF News Fire at Downtown SF Apple Store (Or Not) Scanning Some Life this morning, we see that the Stockton Street Apple Store caught fire on Sunday morning at around 11 a.m.-ish. Or at least something inside the glassy box was
Arts & Entertainment Pre-Appomattox Interview: Christopher Hampton, We were eager to talk to Christopher, as he is the librettist for Philip Glass's opera Appomattox, which opens next Friday at the San Francisco Opera, and is the Big Event of the
SF News American Football Spectacular: No Surprise * Seattle vs. San Francisco Sunday, September 30, 2007. 1:00 PM, PST. Week 04 The Surpriseless Battle This is it, the game that will tell whether the 49ers can seize the lead in
Arts & Entertainment Groovy Scavenger Hunt This Weekend You might think "potatoes" when you hear this street. Something big and red, there you might meet. If figuring out rhyming, city-themed clues is your kind of fun (and why wouldn't it be)
misc Thanks to This Week's Advertisers Once again, we would like to take a brief moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. Sarah Silverman Program, who has new episodes starting in October. Cazadores, because after a long week,
SF News One In and One Out One day in San Francisco politics you're in, and the next day, you're out. IN: District 1 Supervisor Jake McGoldrick, who successfully managed to fend off the petitions calling for his recall, which
Arts & Entertainment Literary Fest Litquake Opens With Lovely Laura Linney Serialized gem / siren song Tales of the City drew many folks to SF. Well, it brought us here, anyway. And the character of Mary Ann Singleton acted as a temporary stand-in until many
misc Blocker: 400 Cortland Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. View the map of all
SF News Marines Banned From Filming Commercial On SF Streets We stuck it in Day Around The Bay already, but thought we would let you hash it out here in its own pad, readers. It seems that, according to the preciousness that is
misc RIP: Port Of Oakland Longshore Worker Killed Reginald Ross, 39, of San Francisco died today after getting struck by a 15-ton shipping container while working aboard the CMS Stuttgart Express. Due to the incident, all longshore workers halted shiploading for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Save the Barleycorn! Save the Barleycorn! Seeing as how they have nothing else going on, this week the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote on a city proclamation honoring John Barleycorn Pub, calling for its preservation. The bar
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tofu Warning/Recall Although neither death nor illness have been reported, state health officials are warning people to steer clear from tofu produced by South San Francisco-based Quong Hop and Co. According to the Chronicle, the
