Arts & Entertainment Education Prognostication From George Lucas' 'Edutopia' Mag San Rafael-based Edutopia Magazine, which is brought to us by the George Lucas Educational Foundation, looks to the future in its latest issue, identifying 10 ideas or trends that its experts believe can
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SF News Lunar Eclipse Of The Heart It's a day of relatively-unusual natural phenomena -- first the earthquake this morning and then, less than 24 hours later, there's going to be a total eclipse of the moon. The lunar eclipse
Arts & Entertainment SF Tonight -- Metropolis (1927): Set in 2027, "the thinkers" and "the workers" overlap, shooting off a million theses and dissertations for years to come. Fritz Lang's gorgeous, science-fiction masterpiece. Oh, and there's a sexy
SF News 20,000 Doses of GHB, Oh My The GHB, worth around $400,000 (wow) is now being analyzed to determine its origin. Huh. Science is way more advanced than we realized. Our old roommate used to make the stuff at
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Creators of The Thing If you can’t wait that long we have two suggestions. The first is to read the interview below in which you will find that Will and Jonn have a lot of great
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: A San Francisco Shooting Star The photo at left shows Sutro Tower below a meteor that caused the crowd at Twin peaks to gasp just before midnight. We saw about ten meteors ourselves in the very favourable conditions.
SF News Day Around The Bay -- The jarring, devastating, Lohanesque Midgen-behind-the-wheel 911 tapes will shock you. Only not so much. [Chron] -- Randy Shaw has it that the glowing, science fiction-y Transbay Terminal choices aren't nominees at all,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Finds: Philosophical Bathroom Debate This deep philosophical exchange on a bathroom stall door at Crissy Field appears to be between three or four different people. It was captured by SFist reader Cassie, who was nice enough to
Arts & Entertainment Style? On the Streets of SF? Oh But Yes. Street fashion sites like The Sartorialist -- whose frightening clarity made us weep after saying that the "idea of dark pattern mixing for summer at Prada was one of the best looks of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Considered to be the largest underground hip-hop event in America, Scribble Jam kicks off at 9pm at Slim's. Come check out freestyle and emcee battles plus scratching, breakdancing, beatboxing and graffiti competitions. $16
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight The Asian Art Museum's monthly throwdown, Matcha, kicks off around 6pm with DJs, tours, workshops and cocktails. The Live Action Cartoonists, a performance troupe that combines comics and theatre, will perform highlights from
Arts & Entertainment Quenching our <i>Thirst</i> at Another Hole in the Head Well, it was no or Lost Boys, but we did get a few laughs out of The Thirst this week at the Another Hole in the Head Indiefest film festival. The Thirst thrust
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV Tonight The winner of last season's "American Inventor" isn't exactly rocking the very foundation of American living, (for the record, the winning invention was some kind of child's car seat), but perhaps this season
Arts & Entertainment Sea Invaders: Marine Biology Is Cool There's been much ado about the rather large sea dwellers that have recently visited our general area. On KQED's blog, we saw that Amy Miller, a coordinating producer for QUEST, posted about a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: RiffTrax Live We say almost only because the movie they did, which they kept secret until the night of the show, was the Sylvester Stallone arm-wrestling epic and all the comedic riffing in the world
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Hey, remember that interview that SFist Rain did with Mystery Science Theater 3000's Mike Nelson last week, about his new project, Rifftrax? Download an .mp3 of the MST3K folks and play it while
SF News Swells By The Numbers It's a short Swells this week! Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 85. Number of people pictured whom we recognize: 2: Dede Wilsey and Frank Jordan. Minority count:
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight The acclaimed French-trained Guinean contemporary circus troupe Circus Baobab makes its US debut as part of the SF Int'l Arts Festival, performing The Jumping Drum, a fable about globalization and family, complete with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Michael J. Nelson of RiffTrax and MST3K RiffTrax is Mike Nelson's clever venture which allows him (and frequent contributors Murphy and Corbett) to make fun of more current films (and TV shows) without having to deal with annoying copyright issues.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Patricia Wells Cooks We've long been a fan of her --wait for it, wait for it...-- seasonal and fresh approach to food. The idea of putting vegetables at the center of one's plate is always
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Science Catches Up To Common Sense: Sex, Wine, And Chocolate Are Good For You! Sex is good for you. So is wine. Oh, and chocolate. We think most of know this on an instinctual level, but it's nice when experts back these suspicions up. Of course, the
misc Brainiac Receives Award For Braininess About Brains We've got mad science going on in the city by the bay. Sometimes it gets acknowledged. Michael Weiner, MD, a professor of radiology, medicine, psychiatry, and neurology at UCSF, has won the VA's
SF News PG&E Grants More Than $100K To Area Schools Pretty nice when an area powerhouse (pun sort of intended) puts some money into public schools. Pacific Gas and Electric has awarded 22 area schools a combined $108,500 for "for innovative solar
