misc The Fake Tales Of San Francisco Contest Like the Arctic Monkeys say: . In honor of the soon-to-be-released JT LeRoy movie, "The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things," we've got a new contest! "The Heart Is Deceitful" is based on JT
misc SFist Whines and Dines: Pier 23 Since this is the Year of the Dog, we decided to try out some Eastern Medicine and try some canine acupuncture. That’s right – acupuncture for dogs and cats, just without the new
SF News SF Clergy REPRESENT While a protest against us by the venerable Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence might make for a stall in the average San Franciscan's career path, dealing with we pesky liberals seems to have only
misc More Redevelopments In J-Town San Francisco Japantown's seen a lot in the last 100 years -- from the influx of Japanese-American immigrants after the 1906 earthquake and the development of an ethnic community, to its forced displacement
SF News For Those About To Crap We Salute You While the chief issue is that Animal feces make up nearly 4 percent of residential waste (and think about it: that's just from the people who actually bother to pick it up) in
Arts & Entertainment The Sputnik Legacy At this rate, we're totally going to beat the Soviets to the moon! The Randall Museum is sponsoring the 24th Annual San Francisco Middle School Science Fair (scroll down), where middle schoolers in
Arts & Entertainment It's Peter Berlin Day, What Did You Get Me? Inside the Castro, it wasn't much warmer, but event MC Heklina did the best she could to heat things up as, among other things, the Mayor's office officially proclaimed it "Peter Berlin Day"
Arts & Entertainment Win a Copy of Patrick Roddie's <i>Hips</i>! Photographing people shouldn't be intimidating for the photographer -- or the model. San Francisco based photographer Patrick Roddie explains how to put your subjects at ease, find the best light and come away
misc SFist Whines & Dines: Elixir Bar Almost 800 years later, those dogs on the other side of the pond that bark with an accent are about to get their own Magna Carte. Following in the footsteps of San Francisco’
Arts & Entertainment The Tour Comes to Town Now that the San Francisco Grand Prix is no longer, this race offers Bay Area cycling fans their only chance to see the best road cyclists in the world battle it out on
Arts & Entertainment Hotsy-Qatsi Is it wrong that when we saw the movie Koyaanisqatsi, about not despoiling the earth, we left the theater thinking, "wow, San Francisco would be a great city to live in!" Well, San
SF News Say No to Snowballs According to DataQuick, January's sales dropped 20% from their pace in January 2005, although the average price paid for a home was up 12.9% from the year-ago at $628,000, and the
SF News Fox News Hearts San Francisco The big show was Tuesday night when Hannity & Colmes not only had our very own Gerardo Sandoval on their show to be lamb to the slaughter and discuss the possibly earth-shattering news
SF News Red Staters Welcome! See that guy over there on the right? That's Barry Goldwater, accepting the Republican nomination for president in our fair city back in 1964, in the same venue where we now try out
Arts & Entertainment Design A T-Shirt For The Race Frequently Run Naked While we've never run Bay to Breakers, we've run our share of road races and have the drawer of dorky, lame t-shirts to prove it. That's one of the reasons that though we're
SF News Fourteen-Year-Old-Men and Other Faithful Logic Awhile back, we somehow found our way onto the mailing list of "San Francisco Faith: the Bay Area's Lay Catholic Newsletter." Though we have no particular beef with Catholicism, we just can't quite
Arts & Entertainment Small Space, Big City When we first moved to San Francisco, we lived in a teensy-weensy little basement apartment that was so small we could only have two people over at a time. Plus, it had a
Arts & Entertainment Krayg Burton from Film School But we digress. If you haven’t listened to Film School’s latest album, get it here (or maybe here, if you want to be the lucky billionth listener). It’s good. Normally
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV Love However, perhaps you're not like us, and Valentine's Day truly means another chance for new love, or the validation of a current one. If it's new love you're looking for, maybe you'll be
misc SFist Whines & Dines: Bender's Bar and Grill Welcome to the Year of the Dog. To celebrate and honor this year, we will keep our paws to the ground and our nose in the air to uncover all the best places
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Kang Je-gyu SFist contributor MiHi Ahn had an opportunity to correspond with Director Kang through an intrepeter, see their conversation after the jump! By SFist MiHi Ahn, contributing
Arts & Entertainment SFist Looks With Dread to the East Replace Minas Morgul with the Moscone Center, the Witch King with Kevin Smith, and put a "d" in front of "orcs," and you've got WonderCon 2006. It's coming this weekend, and you can
Arts & Entertainment The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and SFist Want You To Fall In Love Cyclist-specific Dating Game will be played, prizes will be given (three dinners for two -- you can find your date at the event, or elsewhere), and Single Exposure's professional photographers will be manning
misc SFisting: Your 'Fisty Valentine For instance, this Friday you could meet legendary "Happy Hooker" Xaviera Hollander at the Center for Sex and Culture, where she'll be answering questions and telling us all about the happy hooking. On