SF News Smoky Halls and Kidneys Battered Until They Bleed With the preponderance of world class gyms and fighters in the Bay Area, SFist has always wondered why the San Francisco Golden Gloves has evolved into more of a fighter friends and family
Arts & Entertainment PG & no E We knew that bag of 100 IKEA tea lights would come in handy one of these days! Yet another fire at that same PG&E substation that keeps bursting into flames blacked
Arts & Entertainment Dirty Laundry: Fab! Holy Cow, has San Francisco actually been able to get something done? A few months ago, everyone was hemming and hawwing about how nobody shoots films here anymore and that the city really
Arts & Entertainment They, Robots Why watch the cartoons when you can see the real thing? SF State is hosting the second annual RoboGames this Saturday and Sunday. Robots will set things on fire, sumo-wrestle, bartend, and open
Arts & Entertainment Get Your Knit On Hark! Do you hear the hosannas of angels wearing roomy striped ponchos and the clicking of bamboo sticks? That's right -- the hipster goddess of knitting, Debbie Stoller, is in town promoting her
SF News The Great Flag Fight With the two-year anniversary of the start of the Iraq War this Saturday, the SF Board of Supervisors (once again delving into foreign policy) unanimously passed a resolution to have the flag at
misc Happy St. Pat's from the Essefficist Like we said, it's Irish month around here. So here's the first annual Essefficist St. Patrick's Day column you've all been waiting for. We've got two questions today: one about a St. Pat's
Arts & Entertainment What? There Are SF Supes <i>Besides</i> Daly? It's no Smash The State, but friend of SFist Windy Chien (isn't that the best name ever?) tipped us off that our boy Matty G (and before you ask, we DO have a
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Music Video Asia So we have a cousin. No, this is not some coy way of referring to the newest -ist site, Austinist(welcome!), we're talking about our actual cousin. Anyways, our cousin plays this game
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Caitlin Atkinson Today’s interview subject has a literal lens trained on the Bay Area. Caitlin Atkinson is a photographer whose art focuses mainly on her experiences (both real and dreamed). You can catch her
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: SFist Has You Covered SFist is proud of our coverage of local events, including SF IndieFest, SF Noise Pop, and Cinequest. We're really happy to continue this tradition with our coverage of the San Francisco International Asian
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Blogspotter What did we tell you, Chris? Switch to blogger.com! The Chron, fresh from learning that "blog" is short for "Web-log," (gosh! You can read them any old time and they can be
Arts & Entertainment I Want You To Hit Me As Hard As You Can Not up for this kind of activity on a school night? Then how about this oldie-but-goodie Chron article about SF's real-life fight club (though they wear mouthguards, so we question their hard-core cred)
Arts & Entertainment Gaming the Downtown Art Scene SFist loves it when punk kids get embraced by advanced-degree wielding curators, independently wealthy socialites and other high-art hangers-on. So when Robin tipped us to Thursday's "Video Game Art Show" we had to
Arts & Entertainment A Cultural Exchange (of Fluids) We're baffled by the party's omission of any local professional pervert (NSFW) and burlesque performers, not to mention the near-total heterosexuality of the event -- fer pete's sake, by SF standards, this event's
Arts & Entertainment Bitch Magazine's Arts & Crafts Benefit Auction If you, like us, want to support our local arts community but aren't really interested in buying one of those Hearts of SF -- we're here to help! If you, like us, want
Arts & Entertainment Drinking with the O'Essefficist After soliciting answerable questions from myriad colleagues and cohorts, the Essefficist has some doozies to work with this week. (But don't let that stop you from sending in some of your own.) Having
SF News SFist Goes To City Hall -- What's Up With SFPD Press Passes? We were originally tipped to the meeting of the San Francisco Government Audit and Oversight Committee by a friend at the SF Call, a local alternative news source that you can find online.
Arts & Entertainment Rock That Sexy Bod Got plans for Saturday night? No? How about SFist gets you and three of your friends in the door for Sensual at the Luna Lounge for free? SFist is like your buddy who
Arts & Entertainment Wanted: Skinny Hipsters. Heroin Habit Optional. So Dan Strachota, one of the music writers for the San Francisco Weekly, forwarded a note from Beau Bonneau casting to the SF Indie yahoo group mailing list. Looks like the Rent production
Arts & Entertainment "Hi, this is Gavin. Leave a message." We know that you're recently single. And okay, we can accept that the hot, SF-appropriate love affair we were hoping for between you and Matty G just isn't in the cards. Still... PARIS
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Bruce Campbell Alert! (Well, no, not really.) No big intro this week -- let's just get on with the picks, starting with something we just know you'll want to see: at the Off-Market Theater You guessed it: Evil Dead: Live
SF News Your Commute: Decongestants We have that cold that's going around (sniffle), so maybe that's why we find this decongesting plan so intriguing -- but Jake McGoldrick, chair of the SF Transportation Authority (and Chris Daly confrontation
misc It's Hard to Leave Your Heart in San Francisco Now, there might be some of you wondering how could this be? How could the city that gave us the Summer of Love, the Winter of Love, and that damn Tony Bennett song
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: Antenna SFist wasn't quite sure what to expect when we went to last night's screening of , and our mind continues to reel almost 20 hours after experiencing the film. With undeniable references to Lynch