Arts & Entertainment Hungry? Go Fetch! Of course you remember that bouncing-ball commercial they shot in SF a few months ago. Wasn't it pretty? Yes, yes it was. But we couldn't help thinking, at the time, "couldn't this be
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: SFist Has You Covered In addition to our coverage, we'll be giving away tickets to DocFest screenings, of course. So come back to SFist early and often for all sorts of DocFesty goodness. In fact, let's kick
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tech Labs: Because No One Should Have to Go To LA Of course, we're still scouring the internets for any hint of game news. There's plenty of coverage all over the place, in particular GameSpot's media blitz and Joystiq's ongoing blog updates, dealing with
SF News Bikes 1, Cars 0 The "Healthy Park's Initiative" (that title polled much better than "Traffic Congestion Saturday!") now goes before Gavin who gave this definitive response: "There's a chance of a veto. There's a chance I support
SF News Save The Date! Dum-dum-da-DUM, dum-dum-DA-dum..... -- that's right! SF's own J.Lo, Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom, has announced that she's getting married in Barbados on Memorial Day, in three weeks! Who's the lucky mayor TV personality? Eric
SF News To Be Continued... Two stories from last week are still being stories this week, so we thought we'd update everyone on what the latest has been. First up, North Beach, where yet another big, fun festival
SF News Keep It Well-Lighted! We can't take any more of this Bay Area independent bookstore stress -- first the Kepler's drama and now this? Venerated SF independent bookstore stalwart A Clean Well-Lighted Place For Books is on
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Favela Rising</i> Arriving at Baycat, the Bayview Hunters Point Center for Arts & Technology, about forty minutes prior to the San Francisco premier of "Favela Rising," we hadn’t banked on the sellout crowd. Fortunately,
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Drawing Restraint 9</i> While mainstream America's attention has been focused on TomKat's recent offspring and Brangelina's pending progeny, we joined San Francisco's arthouse hipster crowd at the Kabuki late Wednesday night for the local unveiling of
SF News Ma v Ja: The Update Commenter Seamus! We love the name "Ma v Ja" for our new column about the 12th Assembly District race between Fiona Ma and Tori Spelling Janet Reilly! So, to update everyone on the
SF News It's a Municipal Horn of Plenty If it's the Board of Supes you're looking to subscribe to, you've got to navigate through "Video on Demand" (even if you're seeking audio, not video), then click "Board of Supervisors," and then
SF News Fiona v. Janet: Bring It On! Anyone who's played one-on-one against Mayor Newsom's gotta have some game! Look at the fire in Fiona's eyes in this picture! Bring! It! On! After a fairly moribund start (for our purposes, "moribund"
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Last week's winner, the East Bay Express: Vote for SFist in the EBX Readers' Poll! We love the chicken holding a sword with its foot in this week's Dream Comic. A company that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads SFist Cheshire is trying to get into Jonathan Lethem's , but so far it's a little impenetrable. Too much writerly acrobatics for Chesh's taste in the first 40 pages or so. Disappointing considering his
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: The Spanish-American War; Cannes or Canned? Oh, man, we're coming down to it--Bravo's just keeps getting better and better. Watch this San Francisco-based series tonight at 10 p.m. before it's too late! Someone is walking away from this
Arts & Entertainment Wednesdays, The New Wednesdays Wednesday, please pack your knives and go. Tonight: We're keeping it bipartisan for once! You can stop by the Democratic County Central Committee monthly meeting at the State Building at 455 Golden Gate
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Cartography Of Ashes</i> It is to tell people that an outdoor movie screening at the fire station on 19th and Folsom, begins at 8:00 p.m. and to get there early to ensure a seat,
Arts & Entertainment The Headlight's Erin Fein's Guide to Champaign-Urbana Erin Fein, keyboardist and singer of Headlights, submitted to the interview process mid tour. If you haven’t heard of Headlights yet, don’t sweat it. They just have one EP out right
SF News Gavin Newsom Eats A Child! You know, they have some pretty awesome pictures of Hizzoner Mayor Newsom in the "Mayor's Photo Gallery" page on sfgov.org. We've been dying for an excuse to use this picture for weeks
SF News Set Your Alarm For 5:12 A.M. We're just trying to spare you some panic tomorrow morning, folks -- if you hear bells and sirens at 5:12 a.m., no need to wonder about the cosmic coincidence of an
Arts & Entertainment Reel SF: <i>San Francisco</i> There's something vaguely weird in reviewing a movie that came out in 1936 (Who this young rising star Clark Gable? He's going to go far!), but we had a great time at the
SF News Third Street Rail Service Still Almost a Year Away We're getting pretty antsy, waiting for service to start on Muni's fabled new Third Street line. It was originally supposed to be operational when, like, 2005? And the delays just keep mounting. The
SF News Everybody Hates Chris: The District 6 Election (Part I) This week's episode: Everybody Hates A Scoop! A super-secret source passed on the word that the Downtown Lobby has a new candidate to run against Chris Daly in the November 2006 election for
SF News Gavin's In Another Shiny Magazine! SFist Jon, on the East Coast this week, took a break from his family vacation to excitedly email us that our boy Gavin's featured in national magazine photo spread, this time for Vanity
