Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To <i>Frankenstein!!</i> The music, played by the traditional orchestra doubling on a battery of toy instruments, ranges from the deceptively tuneful to the mildly berserk, like a Looney Tune score imagined by Mozart. This is
misc Caption Contest Winner! Thanks to all for entering our Second Gavin Newsom SFist Caption Contest! We've been cracking up reading your hilarious entries! And the winner is...... San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and girlfriend Sofia Milos
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef:</i> Something Store-Bought; Something Blew . Before we delve into what happened last week, we must share with you some exciting news: Bravo's Top Chef has been renewed! (Hat tap to our very own Rain, TYVM) . Huzzah! Thus, rather
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Goat Cheese Of course, we weren't alone in those dark, pre-goat cheese days. Thirty years ago, few Americans knew anything about this French staple. A woman named Laura Chenel went to France to learn to
SF News Happy May Day It warms our red hearts to see workers marching here at home and around the world on International Workers' Day, otherwise known as May Day. Protests and demonstrations happened from Berlin to Indonesia,
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Jonestown: The Life And Death Of Peoples Temple</i> Anyone who's interested in San Francisco history must see this movie. Director and MacArthur genius grant recipient Stanley Nelson (who previously directed the Emmy-award-winning ) has put together a sensitive and thoughtful history of
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Favela Rising</i> Arriving at Baycat, the Bayview Hunters Point Center for Arts & Technology, about forty minutes prior to the San Francisco premier of "Favela Rising," we hadn’t banked on the sellout crowd. Fortunately,
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Drawing Restraint 9</i> While mainstream America's attention has been focused on TomKat's recent offspring and Brangelina's pending progeny, we joined San Francisco's arthouse hipster crowd at the Kabuki late Wednesday night for the local unveiling of
Arts & Entertainment Reel SF: Take the Money and Run For those not up on their Woody oeuvre, Take the Money and Run, a mockumentary about notorious criminal master mind Virgil Starkwell (he, unfortunately, never made the FBI's Most Wanted List because, as
Arts & Entertainment Nobody Told Us: Ryan Adams @ 12 Galaxies "Did you guys hear about this? I suppose it's old news by now, but I'm still so thrilled that for $5 the Galaxies packed em in at 12:30am last night, and let
SF News OMG TCB! The Chron breaks it down for you: apparently, the questioning young person texts "sexinfo" to (917) 957-4280 on MetroPCS phones or 36617 on other carriers. You'll get a response text (in "teen-friendly text
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela</i> Faithful readers, you've probably noticed that this SFist watches the same types of movies over and over again: So we figured we'd mix it up a little bit and go watch something a
SF News Fiona v. Janet: Bring It On! Anyone who's played one-on-one against Mayor Newsom's gotta have some game! Look at the fire in Fiona's eyes in this picture! Bring! It! On! After a fairly moribund start (for our purposes, "moribund"
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: The Spanish-American War; Cannes or Canned? Oh, man, we're coming down to it--Bravo's just keeps getting better and better. Watch this San Francisco-based series tonight at 10 p.m. before it's too late! Someone is walking away from this
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>They Chose China</i> is the relatively forgotten story of a handful of American soldiers who were prisoners of war in Chinese camps during the Korean War. At the end of the conflict they chose to stay
misc How Green is Your Valley? Nancy Pelosi maybe the second most powerful Dem in the country, but that doesn't mean she's getting any love from us hometown folks. For some, it's because if it wasn't for the fact
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Cartography Of Ashes</i> It is to tell people that an outdoor movie screening at the fire station on 19th and Folsom, begins at 8:00 p.m. and to get there early to ensure a seat,
misc SFist Whines & Dines: Babies and Dogpatch Saloon The dot on the “i” in this transformation may well be the name of a popular store catering to dogs – Babies on Gough in the Hayes Valley. There are no clothes for children
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF Opening Night: <i>Perhaps Love</i> Such was our feeling at last night's opening of the San Francisco International Film Festival, which kicked off with the North American premiere of . The marathon began with San Francisco Film Society Executive
SF News Really, We're Just Posting This So We Have An Excuse To Use This Picture Again Look how happy Gavin was when San Francisco was awarded the stem cell research center last May! Hope he's got his knuckles ready and another lackey around this afternoon, because Alameda Superior Court
Arts & Entertainment The San Francisco International Film Festival: SFist Has Got You Covered From tonight's opening night gala and screening of , to a projection of Cartography of Ashes against the firefighter's training tower at the SFFD Fire Station #7, we'll be reporting back to you with
Arts & Entertainment The Headlight's Erin Fein's Guide to Champaign-Urbana Erin Fein, keyboardist and singer of Headlights, submitted to the interview process mid tour. If you haven’t heard of Headlights yet, don’t sweat it. They just have one EP out right
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Are Looking Rather Fetching This Evening Submissions go to Yvesdroppings at gmail dot com. Girl in Brown Velour Jumpsuit: "I haven't been alone for 4 years. How long were we friends-with-benefits for -- 3 years?" --From Luisa/On a
SF News The More Things Change... Close to two years later, we've resigned ourselves to the inevitable fisting jokes and are getting honest to goodness insider information, which suddenly sounds related by juxtaposition, but we're sure its not. But
SF News Beer And Movies Eventually At The Red Vic The Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi-penned ordinance goes into effect immediately, but the Red Vic still had several hurdles to leap. We spoke to the Red Vic's Martha Beck, to see if we could be
