Arts & Entertainment DJ AM's Birthday Party Photographer Drew Altizer goes to all the good parties! Drew reports in from Saturday's birthday party for DJ AM (Adam Goldstein, former fiance of Nicole Richie and just-dumped boyfriend of Mandy Moore) at
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork's Answer to all those Plastic Bags In the spirit of the plastic bag ban we thought we'd weigh in with some of our own suggestions. We think CNN's Glenn Beck needs a new dress. Maybe when he sends all
SF News Treasure Hunt: What's Cookin' Cookin', located on Divisadero between Oak and Page, enjoys all the romance of the fabled elephant burial ground, and boasts of as many hidden treasures. None of them seem to be made of
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco's new 311 telephone service. The city of San Francisco officially kicked off its new 311 telephone service today. That means that you can simply dial these three digits (or 415-701-2311 if you are calling from a non-415
Arts & Entertainment Wind Bag Wants Your Plastic Bag What Beck wants to do is start up a campaign where his radio listeners and TV audience (all five of them) will send in their paperplastic bags and he'll then he'll get a
SF News Number of Homeless People Up. No Down Yes, the numbers are up 2% from the last time the city did the census in 2005 (6,377 now compared with 6,248 then) but that's 28% lower than 2003 when that
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings' Mom We're proud to present another week's worth of Yvesdroppings, only some of which are made-up. Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. And! If you think you might
SF News I'm Getting Too Old For this Sh--- Now the rumor was debunked earlier by Luke Thomas on Fog City who said it was a ploy to take heat off the Matt Gonzalez bandwagon. Matier & Ross, however, contacted Danny's publicist
SF News Free Plastic Bags! The vote passed by a 10-1 margin with only cranky old Ed Jew providing the nay vote. We would assume that the vote would draw usual cries of "oh no they didn't" but
SF News Cracking Down on Parking Scofflaws First up, cracking down on handicap placards. Turns out those handicap placards are all the rage these days, as they seem to be everywhere. According to statistics, the amount of those handy-dandy blue
SF News Gavin Wants To Hear From You We checked our e-mail this morning and saw that OH MY GOD we got an e-mail from Gavin! And what does the Gavster say? That there's much more to governing than "making our
SF News San Francisco Steps Up and Gives 110% San Francisco unveiled some shiny new plan to win back the affections of the Niners yesterday. The plan includes a redevelopment of Candlestick Point and Hunters Point and features a new stadium for
Arts & Entertainment Another Feather in KRON's Cap "Shooting," we are told, "is due to start the third week of June, and rehearsals in April." If that works for your schedule, check out their auditions for puppeteers and VO artists next
SF News No Soup For You According to Executive Director Kevin Westlye, the members of the association are thinking about closing for one day to make a point. And it won't be on a late sunday too, it'll be
SF News It Takes Two To Make a Thing Go Right The one Gavin wants to setup is an actual sort of a mini-court in which there's a DA, prosecutor, and judge and is designed to have a verdict rendered within 24 hours. The
Arts & Entertainment Living Legend Lets Loose At Laurel Lounge No, not the Laurel Heights familiar to San Franciscans, with its chain stores and baby strollers, but Oakland's Laurel District, home to personable purveyors of down-home cooking, musical instruments and lessons, locally-penned books,
Arts & Entertainment SFIAFF: <em>Air Guitar Nation</em> Long-time readers of SFist will know that we love (love!) all things Air Guitar, both for its obvious silliness and its devotion to the rawk. So when we heard that Air Guitar Nation
Arts & Entertainment The Celebrated Canabalizing Frog of Francisco County The story from Fox News last week: "Killer Meat-Eating Frogs Terrorize San Francisco". Is it true that African clawed frogs have "chomped through everything from turtles to fish" down in the park? It's
Arts & Entertainment Trapped In The Closet Sing-Along We said it was awesome, didn't we? Yep, sing a long to all twelve chapters of Kelly's hipoperia-- all with the video itself playing in the background. But wait, there's more! The night
misc SFist Cares: Care Packages For Wounded Veterans Here's how: we've got Veterans Affairs hospitals of our own in the city. * You're for the war? Against the war? Sure, whichever; this is about supporting people who represent all of us. Here's
SF News Everyone is A-Otay Not that we'd want to give him any ideas, however. In the not-so-happy side are homelessness, crime, and housing, all of which were listed as concerns. According to the pollsters crime wasn't even
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Shanghai Kiss</i> The world premiere of played on Saturday night at the Castro Theatre and the house was packed. One of the themes running through the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival last year
Arts & Entertainment We Asked And You Delivered! (Obama Edition) Aw, you guys! Have we told you lately how much we love you? We sent out a plea for pictures from yesterday's Barack Obama rally in Oakland and all you awesome readers who
Arts & Entertainment Pictures From Fashion Week Live As promised, Naomi Campbell came back to town for her very first San Francisco runway walk for our city's night of Fashion Week Live last Thursday -- and as noted by SFist Elaine,
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Na Kamalei: The Men Of Hula</i> The moving and inspirational has the distinction of being the first movie to sell out in this year's San Francisco Int'l Asian-American Film Festival -- and the buzz only got better once the
