Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Sparkling New Plays San Francisco Mime Troupe at Dolores Park A liberal San Franciscan missing the July 4 Mime Troupe performance is like a fire department missing its small-town Independence Day parade. Heck, we've never seen
misc Shameless Self Promotion Yet Again Maybe it's because we love the idea of folks going through the pain in the ass intrusion of "registering" with real (or false) personal information in order to vote for us. Maybe it's
SF News Political Junkie: Since We Been Gone We're back from vacation -- and it's to get caught up on two weeks of news! Why didn't anyone tell us San Jose mayor Ron Gonzales got indicted? Over a garbage-services contract, no
SF News Welcome Back Blotter The South SF police and Humane Society had to intercede for an unfortunate man overwhelmed by 80+ rabbits last Friday. He had apparently bought two rabbits two years ago for his son's school
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
misc Is It Us, or Did It Just Get Rainbowier in Here? Oh hey Pride is coming up this weekend! We nearly forgot. It feels kind of redundant to talk about gay pride in SF sometimes. So, readers, got any big plans? Looking forward to
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Selected Shakespeare San Francisco Shakespeare Festival Free Shakespeare in the Park returns with starring the magnificent Julian Lopez-Morrilas as Prospero. (If you haven't seen this man in action, you're missing out.) Local director Kenneth Kelleher
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: Verdi's Requiem A shiny light was squarely placed on Verdi's score: all the details came out brightly, all the nuances were expertly underlined. That delicate, masterfully controlled introduction only lead to more of the same
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: the Marriage of Figaro Now, we all know where we are going with this: the last Figaro on the SF Opera stage was Nathan Gunn, in the Barber, a role he'll take again this Fall. Nathan is
SF News Anderson Cooper Sighting I heard a rumor that Anderson Cooper was in town today, shooting a live show this evening. Can you substantiate this rumor? Please? While we here at SFist haven't heard jack about a
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Blog Round-Up We were going to blame our missed post on Hurricane, Tropical Storm, Summer Shower Albert, but you see how that went, so we have to level with you. We were in Orlando last
Arts & Entertainment Another Hole in the Head: <i>Broken</i> and <i>The Gravedancers</i> Nothing a couple drinks can’t handle, we thought. It turns out the drinks, while appreciated, were complete unnecessary. We think there was maybe one scene, in which the typical horror movie blond
Arts & Entertainment Interview: SFist hearts Voxtrot Now that SFist has signed year books, been told to stay “cute ‘n cool” about five thousand times, updated facebook with our new school, and has promised to NEVER change, we’re all
Arts & Entertainment Another Hole In The Head: SFist Has You Covered Last year, we saw nearly every film at the fest, and have the post traumatic stress disorder to prove it. This year is no different, with SFist's crack film fest team at the
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: Joan of Arc The ghost of former general director Pamela Rosenberg was hovering above when a man dressed in a gray business suit was the first to come on the stage. We feared for a second
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique Interviews Marcia Gagliardi Marcia, could you describe in a few words what/who is the tablehopper? “The tablehopper” is an insider weekly e-column/newsletter about the SF dining scene, chock-full of gossip about what’s opening,
SF News Ma vs Ja: Losing My Religion Well, it turns out that the eldest Reilly daughter goes to not just any private school, but a Catholic one. So in retaliation, Reilly supporters stepped up and took it to the next
SF News School Daze You know, we're kind of getting into the week-long series that the Chron's doing on the San Francisco school system. It's a comprehensive look at all the various factors affecting the perception of
SF News The SFist Voters' Guide: 6/6/06 We don't care if your voter information guide isn't here yet -- we can't wait any longer! It's that time of the quarter again -- for SFist's shallow surface summaries of the important
misc Philistine: To Catch a Free Butterfly Tomorrow, for the first opera of new director David Gockley's era, the SF Opera will experiment with a live broadcast of the performance playing inside the War Memorial Opera House, outside on the
Arts & Entertainment Philistine Believes in Life After Love We said "twin" but the Labeque sisters are not twins, they are two years apart. They just play up the confusion with paired outfits and make-up styles, with Katia's bustier in black and
Arts & Entertainment Mission Creek Music Fest: Night Of Electronica They should really have more shows in art galleries -- as we walked into the Lab on Sunday night for the Mission Creek Music Fest ambient noise show Sunday night show, we saw
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Fired!</i> There's no question that getting fired, canned, axed, rif'ed, or booted SUCKS. We were back at one of our favorite SF theaters, the Roxie, for the SF debut of Annabelle Gurwitch's at Docfest
SF News Your Daily Gavin What?? More pictures of Gavin Newsom??? Keep sending them in and we'll keep running 'em. This one's from The Party Cow's Flickr Study of Gavin's facial expressions -- well worth checking out. After
SF News Two Wheels Are Better Than Four Today's Bike To Work Day, and Gavin Newsom, poised on his bike at the Ferry Building, good-naturedly joked to KCBS that "I'm a pathetic politician that only does this once a year. . . . I
