SF News Day Around The Bay --They took away the hazmat license of the company whose truck blew up the Macarthur Maze. We can't really disagree with that. --Oh no! Puddles the hippo has died. He leaves his bereaved
Arts & Entertainment We're Fans of Fans (Actually, in Viacom's defense, the terms are pretty fair: all fans retain ownership, and some retain license to exhibit. Yes, that's right, we just defended Viacom.)
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Audience Of One</i> A movie about local filmmakers wrangling with local politicians? We are so there! The SF Int'l premiered the documentary Thursday night in one of the big newly-renovated theaters in the Kabuki Sundance. Audience
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews "One Man Star Wars" When we first heard about the show, "One Man Star Wars", we weren't sure whether it was the dumbest idea ever or the awesomest idea ever. After seeing it, we can say with
Arts & Entertainment We Are So Doing This See, the way we see it is it'll be cold, the stores will be mayhem, we've already seen "A Christmas Story" over twenty times, and we have no life. What could be better
Arts & Entertainment There...Is...Another...Promotion... What does this mean. Well according to the boards, there will be "Star Wars character appearances (courtesy of the 501st and Rebel Legion)" and by character's we're guessing not Obi Wan or Darth
Arts & Entertainment Local Loses Colbert's Green Screen Challenge For those of you who don't watch the "Colbert Report", Stephen has been running a green screen challenge where he asked members of the Colbert Nation to add all sorts of computer effects
SF News Greetings and Salutations But wait! Don't erase us from your bookmarks just yet! Eve maybe going to greener pastures, but Rita is not going anywhere. Nor is any other of the SFist gang. As for what
SF News Happiness Is a Five Game Winning Streak Well, for us, this past week was the week that did it for us. We are now fully committed, fully into this season and fully about to purchase our tickets for the roller
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Just Like You They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and if the same goes for intellectual property theft and encroaching on other people's business, then a lot of people should be feeling
Arts & Entertainment A Night of Comedy: Lap-Pop! Across from the homeless shelter on Capp street in the Mission District, at the Space180 venue, there was a cosmic convergence. The first ever (it should be held again) Lap-Pop event from Locus
SF News Intel: Not Just for Crappy Windows Machines Anymore Of course it's all over Technorati. Trying to dispel the kind of hand-wringing usually reserved for anytime George Lucas futzes with the original trilogy, Jobs let us in on another little secret: Apple's
Arts & Entertainment In A Galaxy Far, Far From Reality Geeks around the world (pictured: Peruvian Star Wars nerd as Darth Vader) turned out for the final Star Wars installment, which premiered to the public at midnight (SFist, of course, had already seen
Arts & Entertainment Dowd! Friedman! It's Punditpalooza! According to Leah Garchik, the double-bill might never have happened. Dean Orville Schell got Dowd to appear and came up with the idea of adding Friedman to the bill. When he asked an
Arts & Entertainment Attack, Revenge, and Return Of course we can't disclose anything too super about the film that isn't out there already (for that matter, we can't even disclose the stuff that out there already). But we can say
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Blackmail</i> The print of the film was scratchy and old, appropriately and wonderfully so. Nice cozy scratches, great hammy silent-film acting, old-timeish title card remarks about women's place in society. The music was wonderful,
Arts & Entertainment Revenge of the Essefficist <i>Update: Metreon Tix Now on Sale</i> Greetings loyal readers. Welcome to Tuesday. You know those annoying people you see at Giants games with the laptops, busily availing themselves of the free wi-fi network? The Essefficist is them. Even as
misc Resting in Peace with the Essefficist Good news, Everyone! The Essefficist is back! Actually, we've just returned from Denver and our heads are still a little woozy from all that thin air up there. But we're here for you
Arts & Entertainment Star Wars, Nothing But Star Wars With the third and final Star Wars movie mere months away from premiering, we're about to find out the answer to that old zen koan: if Lucas releases a Star Wars movie after
Arts & Entertainment These Pretzels Are Making Me Thirsty- This Week in DVDs So yeah, there's a bunch of movies out this week, but like last week's This Week in DVDs, the movies aren't really the important thing. Sure, we love Harry Potter, but this is
Arts & Entertainment From Beneath You, It Devours- This Week in DVDs Although most people think of DVDs in terms of movies, this week in This Week in DVDs we're primarily going to feature TV shows. And it's not necessarily because this week features only
Arts & Entertainment Hate Leads To Suffering SFist's had a complicated relationship with George Lucas since 1999. He reminds us of a high-school boyfriend who found us on Google and won't stop calling. Dude, we loved you so much at
SF News Debate This We here at SFist were totally going to blog this debate because blogging is, from what we hear, the new black, but since we were also playing the officially sanctioned Wonkette Vice-Presidential Debate
Arts & Entertainment May the DVDs, Video Games and Other Tie-ins Be With You If at work you saw your computer programmers, IT workers, and Web designers walking around with a Christmas-y gleam in their eyes yesterday it was because in Geekville it was Christmas. For yesterday
