Arts & Entertainment We're All Headed South Last Friday, your East Bay Correspondent left the confines of her designated area to witness a rare spectacle - a Bay Area performance by Survival Research Labs. which took place in San Jose
SF News Talking Trash In other garbage news, the City of Oakland is complaining about the trash accumulating in the DIY Bordertown Skatepark, built by skateboarders and legitimized by CalTrans last year. Bordertown is now faced with
Arts & Entertainment Regifting -- East Bay Public Art Edition Public art is often the butt of jokes and viewed with contempt, along with performance art and washed up aging rockers on the county fair circuit. Whatever your feelings are about the role
SF News Everybody Loves Livermore? Money Magazine has published its annual list of "Best places to live" in these here United States, with the highest ranking Bay Area city coming at number 31. While we've never visited the
SF News Gavin Goes for the Gold Actually, the Mayor has a plan. See, the key isn't necessarily to pass muster with the US Olympic Committee, but the International Olympic Committee since they are the one's who have the final
SF News Was It All Just A Dream? It's so weird, but we could have sworn we heard the CSI half of the late, great CSI: Plumpjack in an interview discussing Gavin in a VERY friendly way. Granted, we missed the
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Send in the Divas DivaFest at Exit Theatre Exit Theatre's DivaFest features female artists who actually have talent to back up their diva title. (Though you may find a transvestite in the mix.) Leading the festival is
SF News Newsom Pile-On (Post 2 of 2) Newsom's beleaguered this week! So beleaguered we broke it down into two posts! While the Chron calls up all the supervisors to get an explication of their beef, the Examiner reports that representatives
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
SF News Sarah Tucker, 1979-2006 We saw the saddest obituary last week in the Chron, for the death of Sarah Tucker, a 26-year-old Mission resident who was killed in a hit-and-run bicycle accident on Polk and Geary Street
SF News Neither a Buyer Nor a Renter Be One of our sources is RealFacts. The research firm specializes in data on multifamily housing, and they send out a regular newsletter. Today's includes the following interesting comments made by its president, Sarah
misc SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Jewish Fashion Conspiracy We've already stated our fondness for the Chanukah Bush thong, and are seriously considering a Happy Madonnakah t for some of our requisite holiday self-gifting. But our current must-have is the rhinestone-studded Gelt
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdropping on Troubled Youth Middle school girl #1: I wish I was skinnier than my boyfriend. Middle school girl #2: We all feel that way. -- Yvesdropped on by Jackson, on the 22 Fillmore at Chestnut Tween
Arts & Entertainment Todd Barry Back in San Francisco Friend of the 'ists Todd Barry is back for another stand up stint here in SF as part of a west coast tour. Last time we saw the show, we fell in love
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: the Buns on GQ's Cover She kindly pre-digested the list for us, so we don’t have to actually purchase GQ and the NYTimes to hide Jessica's skin in the fold. Here it is:... Picture above courtesy of
SF News A Day at the Races Yesterday was a big day for race fans of both the four-wheeled variety and the two-legged variety. First, the Taylor Woodrow Grand Prix of San Jose finished up a wild weekend with Sebastien
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About... Let's get the girl some teeth During practice a couple of months ago, Bay Area Derby Girl (and Varla model) Mad Maxine, slammed into a wall and knocked out her front teeth. Damn! That's hardcore stuff (don't look if
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Now 4: The Scene First off, the crowd was huge. Our sources tell us the event was oversold. Hundreds with tickets had to wait outside, and hundreds more waited to pick up tickets from will-call. We ran
SF News Taking One for the Team SFist Ted, Weatherman, set a new standard for self-sacrifice that is going to be hard to top yesterday. On a cool evening at Jackson Park, SFist and friends took on Wired Magazine in
Arts & Entertainment <em> Inside Out</em> at Low Gallery We've noticed many birds during our travels to and from San Francisco's galleries. They are everywhere—sailing across canvases and tote bags, tattooed onto forearms, pinned onto backpacks, and stitched into shirts. Artist
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Jacob Leland Hometown team loyalty and keen insight into local's seasonal wardrobe? You may have noticed the Oakland pride creeping into new SFist contributor Jacob's posts. When he's not cyber heckling the Red Sox Jacob
Arts & Entertainment <em>Dirt Press: Volume One</em> San Francisco Launch Party, 111 Minna Gallery. SFist Sarah, contributing.
SF News Happy Birthday, Matt Gonzalez! Pictured is, of course, local lightning rod Chris Daly and his wife Sarah who, appropriately enough, is wearing SFist's "Mrs. Chris Daly" tee (buy one today). We'd like to let Sarah know that
Arts & Entertainment Pop Parody: Ron English at Varnish Fine Art Known as the father of "agit-pop," English juxtaposes a highly critical political sensibility with modern advertising techniques, using his message to alter their meaning. Aided by an extended family of subverts, the artist
SF News Billboard Liberation Front Strikes in San Francisco THIS EMAIL IS FOR YOUR EYES ONLY—PLEASE EAT EMAIL AFTER READING. You've been sent this email because you are a Person of Special Interest. The Billboard Liberation Front is planning a large-scale
