Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews... Travis (the Other Coldplay) Take the jump to see what we thought of the concert, with videos...
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV At the beginning of the episode we were put through the always boring selection-of-the-models ritual. This could be a more entertaining aspect of the show if the models were given the chance to
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: The Arcade Fire And what does The Arcade Fire sound like? Figure that the group's music is like some sort of 10-person raucously ad-hoc mix-up of Neutral Milk Hotel, Slipknot, Springsteen's E Street Band, and The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Only 102 Shopping Days Until Christmas At least that was how long we all had last week when we saw these Frosty-esque Snow People up for sale in San Francisco. Have you seen any recent evidence of "Christmas Creep"
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After SFist Jon is taking the day off, so in honor of the Giants playing the Washington Nationals, SFist has the pleasure of announcing that White House Spokesperson Tony Snow will be filling in
Arts & Entertainment To Ski or Not to Ski: Craigslist Code Cracked While it's no longer the biggest secret that on Craigslist, and elsewhere on l'Internet, the hapless verb "to ski" has become synonymous with "to do fresh, energizing, powdery lines of flake." In order
misc Week Around The -Ists Seattlest has a talk with the photographer from last week's "Segway Mom" and then experiences some dissension in the ranks over the question of wine vs. beer. It's not West Side Story, but
Arts & Entertainment Oh No Ed Jew!: Photos Guess where we went for dinner last night? That's right -- we went with friends to support our local public corruption whistleblowers, the fast food bubble tea and salty fried foods empire of
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Chinese Media Yay, Tapioca Ed! We're counting down the days until he's scheduled to get back! (5 days to go.) Today's Chronicle runs a story about how Ed Jew's travails have been covered in the
SF News Oh, Armando After games like last night, Sports Talk radio can kind of be essential listening. Misery loves company after all and there's a lot of misery out there in Giants Land. Yes, the baseball
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Private Fears In Public Places</i> We knew very little about the SF Int'l Film Fest's Private Fears in Public Places but were intrigued by the title. Turns out the play is based on an English play by the
Arts & Entertainment Gearing Up For the SF International Film Festival To celebrate their gold anniversary, the SFIFF is not only presenting the always-dazzling film festival itself, but hosting a huge array of events as well: from tributes to Spike Lee (and a screening
misc The Cry of the Fishmonger #2 The Pond's horrible ice and Teemu Selanne's illegal stick helped the Sharks avoid being down a man in overtime against the Ducks last night. Selanne was called for unsportsmanlike conduct at the beginning
SF News Love Reign O'er Me Uh, where were we? Oh yeah, well, the reason for all the raining is that we are in the beginnings of a full-fledged winter storm. If the rain isn't good enough for you,
misc Week in -Ists Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by
SF News American Football Spectacular: The Best Wknd It's the best American football wknd of the year. The four still-standing franchises slug it out for a slot in the Super Bowl. Awesome. Oh sure, that whole Super Bowl thing is great
SF News It's Getting Cold In Here We don't know about you, but it seemed like the temperature dropped about ten degrees in an hour or so yesterday. In fact, the day started off rather nicely but then the wind
SF News Recycling Your Christmas Tree Well, you're in luck! The godlessness of the town of San Francisco is offset by its environmental zeal -- so if you've got a tree you need to get rid of, drag it
Arts & Entertainment Lake Tahoe: Open for Business Olympic Valley, home of the Squaw Valley Ski Resort, showing a dusting of snow. After getting off to a slow start, it seems the ski season at the Lake Tahoe area is finally
Arts & Entertainment Happy Week Before Christmas You know what? There won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time.
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork: Use Those Hands We fully intended to make some snow globes and document the process here, but we got a little caught up in other activities this week. We even spent a good amount of money
SF News Is It Just Us....? Or do you also think it's in poor taste for CNN to send Rick "Taser Me" Sanchez into the Rocky Mountains on tonight's Anderson Cooper 360, so he can: find out what it
SF News Still Looking For James Kim --- Previously: The pants found were a second pair of pants James was carrying, and not the jeans James was last seen wearing -- so they were probably left as a trail marker.
Arts & Entertainment Tahoe Gets Fresh Pow Pow As for how the season is looking, experts looked into their Magic 8 ball and after getting "Ask Again Later" several times, have deemed the upcoming season as being possibly "exceptional." This is
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Who Says SF Isn't a Theater Town? at Orpehum Theatre We never thought mainstream theater would consider goths a strong potential audience, but we've already seen Wicked, Lestat (well, we'll try to forget about that one) and now Edward Scissorhands.
