Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Stories From The SF Film Frontiers</i> The SF Int'l Film Festival isn't just about great national and international movies -- they've got music events, gala events, talks about the state of cinema, an online presence through SF360.com, and
Arts & Entertainment See some big babies at SFNature.org’s Heron Watch San Francisco Nature Education is a non-profit run by naturalist Nancy DeStefanis to show a little bit of nature to city dwellers. On their calendar this Saturday at 10:00 AM is another
SF News Treasure Hunt: Bringing in the Dough Despite its strong following, we felt completely let down by Trader Joe's 99-cent whole-wheat dough: once rolled, we could not get it to remain stretched. In fact, its ability to retract to the
SF News Now You Too Can Be Environmentally Conscious While Waiting Forever For a Cab The company was founded by eight cab drivers who wanted to help save the environment by reducing carbon emissions. So they bought a Prius, painted it green, and started up a company. Right
Arts & Entertainment Meet Greta: Golden Gate Park’s Newest Mother This now-famous Pied-billed grebe gently nuzzles her hours-old baby while sitting atop her floating nest in San Francisco. At this point, she had four hatchlings camping out on her back (hiding under her
SF News Station to BioStation On Tuesday, Gavin cut the ribbon on the city's very first commercial B20 biodiesel refueling station. B20 fuel is fuel made up of 20% biomass, 75% diesel, and 5% tomato juice and the
Arts & Entertainment The SFIFF's Here (and Contests Are Coming)! Tonight's the opening night for the San Francisco International Film Festival! It's two weeks of everything in the world you can think of that's related to film: new indie favorites, an old (remastered)
Arts & Entertainment Prom Dresses and Combat Boots in Union Square The organization Teens for Safe Cosmetics held a rally in San Francisco yesterday to raise awareness of carcinogens in personal care products and cosmetics. The invitation's recommended attrie? Prom dresses and combat boots.
Arts & Entertainment APE Escape 2007 Part 1: Strips, Teases, and Gags The Alternative Press Expo (or APE) was this past weekend at the Concourse here in San Francisco. The show, which is put on yearly by Comic-Con International, features indy and small press creators
SF News Wanna Edit SFist? So hey, we've got some sad news. SFist is sorry to report that our beloved sports guru and fun-loving grammar anarchist Jon Shurkin is stepping down as editor. We're going to miss him
SF News The "No Duh" Story of the Day The study looked into the idea of creating bus only lines, either the center lane or outside lanes. One scenario envisioned would consist of two lanes towards the center with an island dividing
SF News Immigrant Song What's been happening is the INS has been cracking down on immigrants throughout the Bay Area. It seems to be really willy-nilly to as they've been pretty much sweeping people up in nets
SF News What to do About the Angels Blue? But surely you jest, said supporters, those things never crash! Oh, but they do. Over the weekend, a Blue Angel crashed at an air show in South Carolina, killing the pilot. An investigation
SF News If I Can Make It There, It'll Make it Anywhere Guess it's not that much of a nutty idea. Now because it's New York, it's instantly taken more seriously because it's New York and everything is taken more seriously there (damn East Coast
Arts & Entertainment Cherry Blossom Parade Anime Costume Contest Hey, it's time once again for the Cherry Blossom Festival pre-parade anime costume contest at City Hall in San Francisco. The weather turned out great. Let's meet some of the contestants, after the
Arts & Entertainment Earth Day XXXVIII Earth, El Sol, and a polar bear all made appearances in this skit put on by local youths. Very cute. Here in San Francisco, Golden Gate Park ended up looking like a military
Arts & Entertainment Good Dance vs. Bad Dance (Handy tip: text "follow deepasaurus" to 40404 to get Twitter updates from the organizer -- it'll be canceled if the rain gets to be too much.) But! There's more! If you've got a
SF News Joe Joe Alioto Alioto District District 3 3 Well, there's now two more vying for elective office -- and hey, check this out. According to Fog City Journal, Joe Alioto is running in District 3, and Joe Alioto is running in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Cuz a little culture never hurt anyone.... Aaron McGruder at the JCC: Ever crack open the morning paper to catch up on the latest exploits of Huey and Riley, adorable inner-city youths exiled
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Lots of sports today Warriors 120 Blazers 98- Okay, let's put this in perspective, the last time the Warriors made the playoffs was thirteen years ago. This is what the world was like
misc World Still a Potentially Scary Place What's the price of a free society? Lunatics running around loose: online threats have lead UC Hastings to shut down, just for today. What are the threats? Who's responsible? We don't know. What
SF News In Which We Construct a Confusing "New Coke" Metaphor Muni's outreach for the meeting consisted of placing Chinese-only posters in buses in February (they're still up, BTW) and mailing out "several" flyers. According to the report, "staff expected 60-80 youth ... however, the
SF News Love, San Francisco Style The funny thing about all this, however, is that just a few years ago, San Francisco was listed as not one of the best places for singles. Hmm... Anyways, all you need to
Arts & Entertainment Honoring the 1906 Earthquake As usual, there was a bit of a commemeration of the '06 quake, although much smaller than last year's gala Earthquakepalooza. Instead of the thousands who showed up last year, there were only
SF News We're Only Average The survey, conducted by the City Services Auditor found that while the city's grades seem to be improving from the last survey in 2005, they still aren't that great. In fact, in the
