misc Free Filth! SFist Jackson can't even believe we're giving away a bunch of passes to , which he saw in a press screening months ago and has been wanting to write about ever since. But despite
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: SF Mime Troupe Right before the first scene of the San Francisco Mime Troupe's which opened on the Fourth of July weekend in Dolores Park, a trouper walks onstage holding a sign up for the audience:
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Breasts It's probably too late for you to sign up for the walk this weekend, though it's definitely not too early to start training for next year. And it's always time to send... money,
Arts & Entertainment Falling In the Gap Once a PD, always a PD -- Matt Gonzalez comes to the aid of fellow progressive (and former colleague at the public defender's office) Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval, penning an editorial published on the
Arts & Entertainment Win Tickets to the SF Opening of <i>Mana: Beyond Belief</i> Enter below to win a pass for two to at the Roxie this Friday, July 8. If you win, we'll send you an email comfirming this and will let the Roxie box office
SF News Last Call... We were a little slow to pick up on this sad note. Seems that Betsy Culp has decided to turn out the lights over the San Francisco Call. The call has existed in
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: A Little Something for Everyone For the last couple of weeks, Stage Fog has been rather thematic, which makes for a nice, tight column. But sometimes we just want variety. Mix those peas and carrots! Besides, the Shakespeare
Arts & Entertainment Glamberloin? Tenderfab? We need to come up with a new word to describe the tasteless, fabulous, trashy, glamorous style of the Tenderloin. It's not just a slummy neighborhood; it's a slummy neighborhood with a can-do
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Bring-a-Blanket Edition San Francisco Mime Troupe's at Dolores Park What better way to show your patriotism than with an afternoon with the SF Mime Troupe, which has been skewering the US government for over 40
SF News Your Commute: Steeeeeee-rike! Hang up those K signs -- looks like we might be having a BART strike next week. Hey, at least it's not happening the Friday before July 4. So how you getting to
SF News May Just Look Official Enough Via the Flickr blog (disclosure: Yahoo owns Flickr, Yahoo pays some of this SFist's bills, but this isn't officially from Yahoo) we find out about an ID generator for photographers who use Flickr.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: Cosi Fan Tutte It only turned out that this production of Cosi had been set into a hotel on the Riviera at the onset of WWI, instead of the traditional foothills of the Vesuvio. The change
Arts & Entertainment Public Space; Keep Out Well, thanks to intrepid blogger (and friend of SFist) Michael, the chain link fence is finally down. Michael gets huge props for actually Getting Something Done -- a rarity in this town --
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: The Futureheads Some of you more discerning readers may have noticed SFist's anglophile tendencies, which we indulged last Saturday night by taking in The Futureheads at the Fillmore. The four deliciously British lads did not
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: <i>Ned Rorem: Word and Music</i> Ned Rorem: Word and Music. Ned Rorem certainly was a hottie. It's easy to see how this handsome, talented, literate 25-year-old American slipped comfortably into Parisian artistic and social circles of, shall we
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Ashland's Not the Only Theater Destination, You Know You've heard of tornado chasers, but how about tsunami chasers? Despite numerous aftershocks, this week we're actually heading north to the towns of Arcata and Blue Lake to catch the first-ever Ensemble Theater
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Deliver Us From Yet Another Burrito You know we love San Francisco. You should also know that we hate the fact that nobody f**king delivers (coming soon to an SFist Rant near you). So when we heard about
SF News There Goes The Neighborhood Wow, it wasn't even six months ago that the Chron exposed their ignorance about blogging, and they've already up and gotten themselves one! We were a little pissed at first, what with the
Arts & Entertainment The Daily Cho "Everyone who comes to a Margaret Cho show is either gay or Asian," one of our companions said as we fought our way into Symphony Hall on Friday night among the oceans of
misc SFist Raves: Stern Grove We are so getting ready, we are packing our icebox with cold cuts, pasta salads and a few bottles of chardonnay. We do not enjoy carrying the cooler on muni, even though the
SF News UN-invited Oh no, after we got out the nice china and everything! President George Bush has sent his regrets that he will not be attending the party for the UN's 60th birthday that we're
Arts & Entertainment Basketball Jones The San Antonio Spurs and Detroit Pistons have Wednesday off, and the And1 Mixtape tour has come and gone. San Francisco basketball fans, though, have long needed to seek a June hoops fix
SF News Interview: Sam Breach Foodies! As we've been interviewing the new crop of SFist foodies we've noticed a foodie trend: they don't like burritos. We can't cite a systemic cause for foodie disdain of an SF staple,
Arts & Entertainment Hey, That Rhymes! There's an advantage to this -- if you don't like one page, just look to the next for something completely different. But it's also a little numbing after a while; how many times