SF News Your Commute: Cars In The Chron Remember how everyone was so upset because it turns out that SF doesn't collect on like 60% of parking meter money? Well, the second half of the study is in and it turns
SF News Elie Wiesel's Return To San Francisco You may remember when Wiesel was in San Francisco earlier this year for a peace conference, a delusional New Jersey Holocaust denier attacked him in a hotel elevator. So we're making extra efforts
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Congorama</i> It's easy to make a heroic character lovable and the bad guy despicable, but it's much more of an accomplishment to turn a fallible, sweaty, chubby guy with real flaws, including a seriously
misc Curbed SF Gets Its Revenge You know, sometimes maybe it's just better to rent -- a local family attempting to restore their Sunnyside/Glen Parkish area extreme-fixer-upper accidentally slid the house off its foundation and it collapsed into
SF News Your Commute: Lower Level Go It's the A-Race-Ing Maze! (and not related, but SFist Rain, how awesome that the finale of Amazing Race All-Stars was in SF?) As promised, Caltrans's work around the clock paid off handsomely, with
Arts & Entertainment Pictures From The SF Film Society Awards Red Carpet The always-reliable and smartly-snapping Drew Altizer stopped by the SF Film Society's red carpet awards ceremony on Saturday and passes along these views of the scene! Award recipients this year included: Robin Williams
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Family Ties After having watched and Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project on the very fancy SF Int'l Film Fest screener DVD machines this afternoon, we're thinking the theme of the afternoon was family obligations. (This
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Private Fears In Public Places</i> We knew very little about the SF Int'l Film Fest's Private Fears in Public Places but were intrigued by the title. Turns out the play is based on an English play by the
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Audience Of One</i> A movie about local filmmakers wrangling with local politicians? We are so there! The SF Int'l premiered the documentary Thursday night in one of the big newly-renovated theaters in the Kabuki Sundance. Audience
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Artist Paul Madonna In artist Paul Madonna's weekly comic series All Over Coffee, San Francisco architecture—and coffee—seem to be the main characters. Beautifully detailed drawings of SF scenes, combined with disembodied voices that almost
Arts & Entertainment Nic Dillon from Casados Best show you've played and what made it great? Heather and I have played a lot of shows. Our favorite shows are the ones where we can tell people are really listening and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight (and Tomorrow. And Sunday) Garden of Deadly Delights Head over to the Conservatory of Flowers to feast your eyes on a greenhouse full of carnivorous plants! Chomp! opens today and runs through Nov 4. The Red Party
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Roller Derby Over the weekend, photographer Matt Cohen went to the Roller Derby to see the SF Bay Bombers vs Brooklyn Red Devils last weekend. These are the totally cool photos of the event. There
Arts & Entertainment It's Make It Work Time, People! Everybody's favorite Project Runway mentor is in the area on Friday and Saturday to promote his new book , which covers topics like: how to shop (broken down into designer, chain, and vintage), creating
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Fog City Mavericks</i> -- Can You Feel The Love Tonight? Sunday night, the SF International screened the world premiere of the film Fog City Mavericks at the Castro Theater. There were shades of Sundance as many of the films featured filmmakers and actors,
Arts & Entertainment Arrivederci Hans, das war der letzte Tanz. Friday will be a farewell: it is the last "Friday 6.5 show" of the season, a last dance of sorts, if only to make sense of our title. The performance is at
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Win Tickets To <i>Notes From The Toon Underground!</i> If the lines outside the Kabuki this weekend are any indication, everyone and their cousin knows that the SF Int'l Film Festival is the place to BE for the latest and greatest in
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>A Few Days Later...</i> Okay, we're not going to lie. When we read the description of the Iranian movie in the SF Int'l Film Fest guide as "a gorgeous minimalist portrait of a woman crushed by indecision,
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Heavenly Kings</i> The North American debut of Heavenly Kings for the SF Int'l Film Festival premiered at the Castro Theatre Friday night and it must have been a sweet moment for Berkeley-born, Bay Area-raised, local
Arts & Entertainment Roadtripping At The SFIFF This Weekend Who needs Coachella when there’s Oppikoppi, a rock music festival held in South Africa every year? Really, we would have loved to have been at Coachella this weekend, but if you couldn’
Arts & Entertainment Sloan's Patrick Pentland Best show you've played and what made it great?: Osaka, Japan, 1998. Playing our first show, so far from home, not knowing what to expect, and having the crowd go from sitting politely
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Stories From The SF Film Frontiers</i> The SF Int'l Film Festival isn't just about great national and international movies -- they've got music events, gala events, talks about the state of cinema, an online presence through SF360.com, and
SF News Maze Collapse Update Update: All Bay Area public transportation will be free tomorrow -- but does that means all public transportation, including MUNI and Caltrain and SamTrans? We think so, anyways. People who drove to Oakland
Arts & Entertainment Tippi Hedren, <i>Birds</i>-Free at the SF Zoo Drew Altizer does it again! Here's his pictures from Friday's annual SF zoo fundraiser, ZooFest, featuring special guest Tippi Hedren, star of Hitchcock's and mother to Melanie Griffith. Also, some pictures of Chris
SF News MacArthur Maze Collapses Update: 11:45 a.m.: Here's your roads: W-80 to S-880 is closed (from Berkeley to the Oakland airport). E-80 to E-580 is closed (from SF to Lake Merritt and Piedmont). Alternate routes:
