Arts & Entertainment Ken Garcia Lands Job at the Ex "This is a great chance for me to write about what I love: San Francisco and the Bay Area and all the politics, personalities and eye-opening exploits that entails," Garcia said. "I'm looking
misc Wells Embargo Red state on blue state violence! The conservative Colorado-based group Focus on the Family (the guys who came out against SpongeBob Squarepants) has announced that it's withdrawing all its money from Wells Fargo
Arts & Entertainment Shop Early and Often! The Small Business Commission of San Francisco recognizes both the benefits of keeping our spending close to home and our desire to buy cool stuff with its Shop Local First Week. All this
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Take a Break from the Holidays at Magic Theatre Extended to New Year's Eve due to great reviews, The Hopper Collection is a world premiere by one of those young up-and-coming writers that makes the rest of us who
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes to IndieFest's Rock N Roll Horror Show! Doors open at 7, screens at 8, and at 10 musical acts Stolen Babies and The Graves Brothers Deluxe hit the stage, with between sets by Church of Elvis DJs Bishop and Moonshine.
SF News Welcome Houstonist! In our parent company's continuing spread across the globe, we're happy to welcome Houstonist to the fold. We've heard tell of some sort of barbecue-related rivalry between them and Austinist, and words have
Arts & Entertainment Bike Likers Unite That climatic consistency, we assume, is one of the reasons bicycle culture is so very strong in San Francisco. Take part in this cultural force at tonight's Winterfest 2005, the San Francisco Bicycle
SF News No-Host Bar If this were an Evite, a bunch of people in San Francisco would be frantically changing their responses from "yes" to "unfortunately, something's come up," for Memphis, TN Democratic representative Harold Ford Jr.
SF News Political Junkie: Smother Mother Come here, widdle Andrew, let Mommy bury you in her bosom! San Francisco's current best Freudian drama took another lurch into the Viennese land of cigars and trains steaming into tunnels, as the
misc SFist Rants: Hating on Starbucks And yes, we're totally serious. Let's go to the way back machine and take a look at those bleak, dark days before Starbucks entered the world. You remember what that was like? The
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: The Media Is the Message Kaleidoscope We may not have the Xbox 360's awesome home media center capabilities, but we may not even need them, if Apple rumor site Think Secret's speculation is correct. They're claiming that Apple
SF News Who Will Win In The T-Shirt Cage? In a bitter battle to the death -- or at least, the pain -- Imaginary Foundation is part of a 5-city (and designer) t-shirt showdown, with the winning shirt to be featured in
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Some Holiday Alternatives Last week we featured some of the more usual holiday fare, but the San Francisco Bay Area is known for its unusual holiday shows as well. with gears and hammers? Clowns and toilet
SF News A's Brand Baseball: Esteban! Just like we said at the end of the 2005 season: the A's need pitching in '06. On Monday, Billy Beane surprised baseball insiders by putting on shoes with laces and signing free
SF News It's Hammer -- And Pizza -- Time She sent us to this craigslist entry, which contains identical verbiage to the one we posted earlier, except that it lists an additional audition venue: Monday November 21st between 7 -9 Round Table
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads -- Or Listens to Others Read A couple literary events have made their way into our inbox lately, and we want to tell you about them. It's just that simple. Sometimes we like to watch people reading, it's like
SF News Crabby Peace in Our Times As reported earlier, fishermen and processors had been unable to agree on per pound pricing until this past Saturday, when "the two groups agreed on a price of $1.75 a pound and
Arts & Entertainment Truffaut or Not Truffaut? The work can be documentary, narrative or experimental, animated or live action, and can be of any length. The final deadline for submissions is Friday, December 9. To make things interesting, the festival
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Greg Whiteley SFist is thankful for many things this time of year. We are especially thankful for independent movies and the independent theaters that show them. SFist has been lucky to attend the Sundance Film
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Would You Like Some Cicciolina With That Wine? An advance edition due to the upcoming holiday. Happy Thanksgiving to you all! We cannot find a link to it, so take it with a grain of salt, but we read recently that,
misc Q to Zed Do you know how many eating establishments there are in San Francisco that begin with the letter Q? The answer is not many. You could probably count them all on three fingers. Our
misc Please Hammer, Do Hire Us Tuesday, November 22nd between 7pm - 9 pm Film Arts Foundation 145 Ninth Street #102 San Francisco, CA We are holding an audition for two Hammer music videos, which will have national distribution.
SF News Craigslist is a Starmaker So there we were, on craigslist again, when we came across this ticket out of obscurity: NEED: Interior Designer who POPS on TV (SOMA / south beach) Are you a working designer or decorator
Arts & Entertainment Does C.W. Nevius Suck? Ever since Deadspin started running their "Why Your Hometown Columnist Sucks" feature we've been eagerly awaiting to see if one of our hometown sports columnists is indeed deemed as sucking. Not just because
Arts & Entertainment <i>San Francisco: The Unknown City</i> Reading a guidebook about your own town is always interesting. What did they forget? What did they get wrong? Not to mention what they found that you still haven't. And we have to
