Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Anthony Gordon of Loquat Update!: We got the contest entry form working (we think) -- sorry about the mixup. Go on, enter now! San Francisco pop darlings Loquat are peeking their heads out from inside their studio
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Theater: <em>No Parole</em> At an efficient 90 minutes, Peruvian-born D’Amore seamlessly breaks down (in more ways than one) his trajectory from wide-eyed, Italian/Latin-American kid in 1980s Peru to neurotic adult living with his too-brilliant
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Garbage Confirming what we heard yesterday, quote-unquote "District 4" Supervisor Ed Jew, along with Michela Alioto-Pier and Jake McGoldrick, showed up for yesterday's committee hearing to find out who exactly took those 300 trash
SF News SFist Blotter A four-year-old boy drowned to death in the 2-foot deep section of the wave pool at Great America in Santa Clara yesterday. There were six lifeguards on duty at the time, but there
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City Tonight catch brazen British siren Carina Round at Cafe Du Nord, who will be a hard act for headliner Cary Brothers to follow. On Friday, singer songwriter Rocky Votolato plays songs from his
SF News Garbage In, Garbage Out Over in the East Bay, the city of Oakland's filed suit against Waste Management, the garbage company that's locked out the local workers for 11 days now, and is letting trash pile up
SF News These Colors Don't Run ...but then again, neither does the engine! Ha ha ha! Just kidding of course; Muni does a fantastic job. Really, top-notch service. Never a single complaint. SFist reader Bob sent us this photo
SF News Steamy, Hot Construction Worker Scene On Stillman Here you see an image of construction on Stillman and Third Streets that started a few weeks ago, more or less. (What was a precocious orphanage was violently burned to the ground to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Fell and Masonic Deathtrap Revisited So what's the deal? Can a few simple changes increase safety? See you after the jump.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Food Section Round Up We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. Here are our favorite nibbles from today's offerings. SF Chronicle: Sun-heated ovens are examined. Good: thought to help save the planet, low(ish) cost,
misc Free Slurpees Today, So Go Now. I Said Now! Since it's July 11, 7/11 stores (get it?) are giving away free Slurpees until 11 p.m. this evening. (Store locations in San Francisco found here, in Oakland here, and in Berkeley
misc Get A Job (One Where You Can Still Read Us, Of Course) - Marketing Communications Associate (H5) - iPhone Media Engineer (Apple) - DBA / Data Analyst (Oak River Insurance Co.) - Marketing Assistant (International Museum of Women) - Outreach Coordinator (On Lok) - Senior Technical
misc Fallen Idol, Mate: Sydney Falls, San Francisco Climbs Oh dear God. Sydney, Australia has locked itself in the bathroom with a razorblade, threatening to cut its wrist, because you just totally don‘t understand them. It seems after an eight-year high
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: The Knight Bus Comes to San Francisco A few more shots after the jump. All photos courtesy of Mugglewatch.uk
misc Blocker: 1400 Montgomery 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. Blocker, No. 7: Montgomery St.
SF News San Francisco Homicide Rates Up 20% This Year It's time for the San Francisco crime mid-year report card, and we're not doing so great -- homicide rates are up 20% from last year. The SFPD reports that drug-related homicides are up
Arts & Entertainment Harry Potter and the Smooth Chest (Non-Baseball Event) Anyway, check it: The purple triple-decker Harry Potter Knight Bus will be parked outside the Main Library (Grove St. side) from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on Wednesday, July 11, and a
Arts & Entertainment Sing-a-long With Dick and Condi As we told you last week, the San Francisco Mime Troupe performed in Dolores Park for the public on the 4th and last weekend. It was the premiere of the group's show "Making
Arts & Entertainment 3 Questions For Another <i>Comic Book Challenge</i> Team We told you a few weeks ago about Platinum Studios' "American Idol"-style contest for comic creators, through which the winners will get a "multimedia development and publishing deal" based on their concept.
Arts & Entertainment A view of (another) San Francisco We recently went on a trip down to Bolivia, where we took a three-day hike that happened to pass through a small village called....San Francisco! The store above was the only business
SF News Society Snaps (So Send Us Your Society Shots) San Francisco socialites have been fellated for far too long by such hard-hitting glossies as 7x7 Magazine and San Francisco Magazine. Hell, even the pages from new society (excuse me, “philanthropy”) rag Benefit
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Other events, for the non-baseball inclined: --It's the Zeitgeist Int'l Film Festival! Short films in the backyard. $5, 199 Valencia (x Duboce), doors at 8, movies at 9. --We know, we always give
Arts & Entertainment Chris Daly Has A Blog Man, we were reading the Chron on the plane out of San Francisco on July 4 for vacation, balling our fists in frustration over missing the stories on Ed Jew's "part-time lover" response
SF News And We're Off (Sheehan Runs Against Pelosi) Let the vanity runs for offices begin: Tenacious Texas trespasser and brilliant anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan just promised to maybe, possibly, perhaps make a run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi if our current
