Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Crashing Daly's Party Everybody may or may not hate Chris Daly, but we all agree -- everybody looooooves little Jack! Your Junkie's Best Celebrity of 2005, resplendent in his orange Che Guevara onesie, graciously received guests
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kimberly Guilfoyle Villency? Not one but two articles in the Sunday Chronicle breathlessly report that our very own lady of sorrows Kimberly Guilfoyle made a potentially-cuddly first appearance during Fashion Week with Eric Villency, the host
Arts & Entertainment Krayg Burton from Film School But we digress. If you haven’t listened to Film School’s latest album, get it here (or maybe here, if you want to be the lucky billionth listener). It’s good. Normally
Arts & Entertainment SF Indiefest: <i>Filmic Achievement</i> The story tracks a handful of aspiring twits who've enrolled at UNY, a film school that's almost as clueless as its students. Teachers advise that sets should be meat/dairy free, and that
misc SFisting: Your 'Fisty Valentine For instance, this Friday you could meet legendary "Happy Hooker" Xaviera Hollander at the Center for Sex and Culture, where she'll be answering questions and telling us all about the happy hooking. On
Arts & Entertainment The 2006 San Francisco Korean American Film Festival We know, we know, the website is damn near impossible to navigate and just plain confusing. We promise the time you devote to wading through it will be worth your while, as there
Arts & Entertainment Interview with <i>Sidekick</i> Writer Michael Sparaga In a departure from most superhero movies, is told from the point of view of, well, the sidekick. "I think the sidekick, in some ways, is Canada," says Michael "It's not purposeful, but
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: <i>Initial D</i> With other pre-pubescent import car enthusiasts, we obsessed over the finer points of corner entry theory while using a Mazda RX-7 on 3rd gear versus the efficient exit velocity we will need to
Arts & Entertainment IndieFest Special Screenings Announced We called our friends at Larsen Associates, and got the scoop: February 13 and 14 are devoted to TBA screenings and Indiefest favorites. Well, we're ready T A the lineup, right now! Monday,
misc SFist Answers: Do It Like We Do Marie-Christine asks: I'm French, living in Paris and working for an IT company. I'm organizing a business tour (15 people aged 35 to 55) . . . spending 2 nights over SF on Feb 15 &
SF News Today In Police Brutality Turns out the SF Chron really meant it when they said they'd be doing a week-long special on the use of excessive force by the SFPD. Here's a summary for today. See that
Arts & Entertainment Review: Pirates of the Great Salt Lake Pirates airs again at Women's Building on 2/05 at 4:30
SF News The Chron Calls Out The Cops We're taking a break from our usual SF Chronicle mockery for this irony-free moment: Well done! The Chron splashes the results of its years-long investigation into claims of police brutality in the SFPD
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: <i>Twitch</i> is a vignette about an unnamed teenaged girl (none of the characters has a name) whose mother has multiple sclerosis. The daughter (Emma Galvin in the film's strongest performance) pities her mother (Toni
Arts & Entertainment Daly's Art And Policy Supervisor Chris Daly takes a break from smashing the state to continue the Matt Gonzalez tradition of Smashing The State through art, as he hosts what looks like his first City Hall art
SF News The Supes Kill Us With Transportation-Authority Suspense (Unlike Muni, Which Just Manslaughters Us Vehicularly) So until that report finally hits the news stands, we'll have to content ourselves with another recently-completed document pertaining to the Authority: a rootin'-tootin' brand-spanking shiny new finance report! (Part One and Part
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Dumber & Smarter at The Marsh Republicans need love, too. Especially in San Francisco, where even Barbara Boxer practically gets assaulted by protestors. So, performers and SF Mime Troupe veterans Amos Glick and Ed Holmes, playing
Arts & Entertainment Shake, Rattle, and Browse You may want to metaphorically brace yourself under a solid table (and not in a doorjamb, for crying out loud!) -- 2006 is not only the year of the Congressional midterm elections, but
Arts & Entertainment BAGeL Radio 3rd Birthday Party Since the movie deal hasn't been done quite yet, we'l have to be distract ourselves with Wednesday's BAGeL Radio 3rd Birthday Partywhich, as part of the The California Homegrown Music Series "features 3
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Symphony, Which Then Goes to China. The trip will happen, and it would have been a shame if it had ended up being cancelled: for one, classical musicians are not being paid much compared to other entertainers in this
misc SFisting: Our Famous Local Sex Podcasters, For Reals While we loved the SF Bay Guardian's podcasting piece last year, we felt kinda like the Chron needed a pat on the head and a cookie when they ran yet another lame duck
Arts & Entertainment SF360 Revealed! Part Five: Festfest No, apparantly, according to the SF Film Society. As a part of their recently-launched SF360 campaign, they're pleased as punch to announce three new fests, and boy they're really cool. One of them
Arts & Entertainment SF360 Revealed! Part Four: Schooled Now, no doubt there are Brugmans among us who recoil at the "private" component of the "public/private partnership," but we're reserving judgement until more details emerge. What is clear is that if
Arts & Entertainment American Idol in SF: "It is Almost Nonhuman." The show starts with a cheap faux-emo cover of that "If You're Going to SF" song. We don't know who's responsible for this unbearable version of the song (Update! it was Me First
Arts & Entertainment SF360 Revealed! Part Three: It Wouldn't Be SF If It Wasn't At Least Slightly Orgiastic Whew. Let's catch our breaths, here. Celebrity chefs? Srsly? We're not totally sold on this one. While we like the whole one-city/one-book thing that the SF Public Library hosts, this "expanded theater"
