Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: an American Tragedy We saw the Met's new production on Monday, and one thought sprung to our mind: there is an East Coast-West Coast divide that would make the gangsta rappers proud. Oh, we are not
Arts & Entertainment Not Literally Shooting Singles We don't know why this bothered us so much -- is it the implication the the person is so recently single that they have no good pictures without their ex that seemed off,
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: The Media Is the Message Kaleidoscope We may not have the Xbox 360's awesome home media center capabilities, but we may not even need them, if Apple rumor site Think Secret's speculation is correct. They're claiming that Apple
SF News The Warriors: The Turning Point We all acknowledge that as the Warriors feel their way toward the playoffs this year, there will be some stumbles. Well, there are stumbles and then there are the kind of STUMBLES that
SF News What's Going On In Union Square? Dumb us, we just thought it was H&M party hoopla, but nooo, apparently there's glamour beyond economically priced clothing going on this week. Who knew? We've heard from one source that
Arts & Entertainment Daly On TV (Not Shouting) Hey, no one told us Hothead Supervisor Chris Daly was going to be on Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night! About O'Reilly, of course. We're so bummed we missed this! (Usual Suspects, will
SF News "Now that Gavin Newsom is single, who are you going to set him up with?" We had to go to the Television Without Pity recaps of The Bachelor to figure out which one new Niner Jesse Palmer was. Oh, yeah, that guy. We thought he was kinda hot
Arts & Entertainment SFist Makes You A Star It's probably an everyday thing for our pals at LAist -- you open an email and it's a request for folks to come staff a shoot. Well, we don't want to sound like
SF News Who is Kaiser Soze? On Wednesday we relished reading Matier and Ross's column about a brouhaha involving the San Francisco Film Commission. Seems that while shooting days in The City are up, all is not well between
Arts & Entertainment In Pursuit of <i>Pursuit of Happyness</i> The scuttlebutt discussed over coffee and corned beef hash at the St. Francis this morning was about the film crews amassed on York street between 23rd and 24th. The set designers had already
SF News I'm Not Bronstein If we haven't given you enough ideas on what to do this weekend, how about hanging out at the Chronicle looking for famous people? From an email sent to Chronicle staff earlier this
SF News I Make This Look Good Seriously, is the only good Sucker Free City entertainment gossip coming to us via KRON-courting mayors past and present? When Gavin isn't giving Phil Matier the scoop on , Willie Brown is confiding to
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Photologgers at the Apple Store The photo event at the Apple Store was, in SFist's opinion, a smashing success. People crowded the presentation space -- many there from the crew at Bay Area Photologgers, others who were just
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misc Get Ur Geek On Washington, D.C. Federal District Court says the FCC has no power to foist the broadcast flag upon our wonderful gadgets. The forces of evil Rightsholder lobbyists shall decend on Congress. Gigi Sohn
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <em>Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off Screen</em> If this review were an Edgar G. Ulmer movie, it would be covered in fog, have a sweeping orchestral score (public domain of course), and SFist would be a nihilistic outsider desperate for
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews- The W. Kamau Bell Gets a Haircut Show What we did see was several comedians, an impressionist, a magician, some slam poetry, cartoon projections, songs about the penis, and ladies knitting. Yes, ladies knitting, although they were part of the audience,
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
SF News We hope you're still with us/To see if they float or drown</a> Is baseball really the only sport that has a steroid problem or do you believe 350 pound lineman can run the 40 faster than Speedy Gonzalez on a meth bender? Does anyone really
SF News Burning For School So apparently the San Francisco school board held some public meetings to decide on the start of the new school year. Before Labor Day? After Labor Day? Decisions, decisions, decisions. Everyone was pretty
SF News When I Grow Up, I Wanna Be a Stripper Ahh, career day. There's nothing quite as inspirational as inspirational speakers coming into school to tell you how if you work hard, you too could become a lawyer or a doctor or a
SF News Take Action for Tsunami Relief Two dear friends of SFist wrote in to let us know about local tsunami relief events. Your Waitress wants photobloggers and everyone else to know that HiMY SYeD, Toronto native and current Bay
misc rita: 2004's So-Bests It was a good year, it was a bad year. Here's my list of the so-best parts of 2004, in no order at all. So-Best photo: Nope, not Gav+Kim (you all breathe
SF News Thank you! So many people to thank! If we forget you, rest assured that a warm, fuzzy thanks is in our hearts. First, we'd like to thank our contributors, without whom this site would be
Arts & Entertainment Let the Stalking Commence Filming has started for the upcoming Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo romantic comedy "If Only It Were True," based on an adaptation of local novelist Marc Levy's 2000 novel of the same name.
