SF News No Booze, No Justice Due to complaints about all the drunken mayhem often associated with the fair, fair organizers had hoped to make the neighbors happy by installing beer gardens where drinking would be allowed. It didn't
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Looking For Love at <i>Summer Palace</i> and <i>Mistress of Spices</i> This was a good weekend, thanks in large part to the Asian-American film festival. We spent part of the past two days at the Castro checking out a couple of remarkably different films:
Arts & Entertainment Actual Celebrities Come To San Francisco! Yeah, we know, we're stuck here at SFist fetishizing weirdo wonks like Gavin Newsom and Ross Mirkarimi because we don't have any actual celebrities in town that we can follow around and talk
SF News American Football Spectacular: Accounts Of Explosiveness Considered And Debunked. Week Seven of the National Football League's 2006 regular season dawns cold and crisp over our Bay Area teams. The Indian Summer is breathing its last and Autumn is seeping in. The advent
SF News Week Around The -Ists Celebrate Ben Franklin's 300th birthday with the Bikini Bandits and Phillyist! (NSFW). Speaking of Mr. Franklin, send in a picture of Ben (or Ed Rendell) with a red tongue and win a free
misc SFist Rants: Our Poor, Poor Favorite Book Of course, with anything coming out of the White House, we first have to plead skepticism. It would be like this Administration to leak out the names of hefty tomes as a way
SF News American Football Spectacular: Meet Your Oakland Raiders 2006 Draft Picks, "The Ivy League Hotelier and The Match-up Solution" * Picked round 7, pick 47; 455 overall / Kevin McMahan / WR / Maine / 6'2" / 196 / "Mr. Irrelevant" * Picked round 7, pick 6; 214 overall / Chris Morris / C / Michigan State / 6'4" / 305 / "The Heady Snapper" * Picked
SF News American Football Spectacular: The First Mutinous Rumblings Of 2006. Ahh, signs of Summer in the Bay Area: Blackberries ripening at creekside. Long lines of cars headed to Stinson Beach. Warm evenings as the sun lingers above the Pacific. And fresh dissent rising
misc Unskinny Bopping No Longer Allowed -Smoke (tobacco, that is). -Put left-over food in a Styrofoam container -Go shopping with plastic bags -Stop somebody from taking a dump on the street And now we can add another thing to
Arts & Entertainment Win a copy of <i>Instant Love</i>! She's reading tonight at Book Shop West Portal (80 West Portal, sorry, no links to this new shop yet) at 7 p.m., and at 7 tomorrow night at Copperfield's Books (138 N.
SF News Gail Devers Extends Claws The errors in question involve track and field star Gail Devers, who was mistakenly described as having trained with admitted steroid distributor Remi Korchemny. To quote the book, "Among his greatest Olympians was
SF News We Won't Let The Fire Be Started Just in time for Summer Solstice, there's a new No Fun fracas going on. See, there's this tradition where people go to Ocean Beach and do the bonfire thing. It's like Burning Man
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Blog Round-Up We were going to blame our missed post on Hurricane, Tropical Storm, Summer Shower Albert, but you see how that went, so we have to level with you. We were in Orlando last
misc SFist Whines and Dines: The Dogs Bollix and Mad Dog in the Fog You can start this Sunday at the W Hotel’s party for dogs cosponsored by Bark Magazine. Come meet the author of “TAILS OF DEVOTION A Look At The Bond Between People And
Arts & Entertainment Mike Taylor from The Court and Spark One word to describe The Court & Spark: Affable. One word to describe your music: Shady. What's it take to get a gig in this town anyway? Other than the belief that what
SF News Not Too Late to Catch Olympic Fever "We are honored to have been selected as a candidate for the 2016 Summer Games. San Francisco embodies the Olympic ideals of peace, friendship, universality and tolerance. This is a testament to the
misc SFist Whines & Dines: 21st Amendment and Hennessy’s Wine Shop The tradition continues with the 10th Annual Dog Days of Summer on August 5th against the Colorado Rockies. But the competition hardly matters, what does matter is before the game all the dogs
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Craig Wedren tickets! Anyone else a little worn out from all this running around to rock shows? Nothing a little hot coffee and a fresh giveaway can't fix. We highly recommend trekking out to Bernal Heights,
Arts & Entertainment Love in the Time of Cleveland Steamers Call us bitter, but we simply don't have any words in us to express love beyond "I'd hit it." It is therefore astounding to us that Lee Lessack deftly assembled seventeen swoony-croony ballads
misc SFisting: Our Famous Local Sex Podcasters, For Reals While we loved the SF Bay Guardian's podcasting piece last year, we felt kinda like the Chron needed a pat on the head and a cookie when they ran yet another lame duck
Arts & Entertainment The 'Fisties: Music Gillian Welch and Victoria Williams sat and watched Emmylou Harris perform, the guys from Los Super Seven hung out with some of the Knitters, and Patty Griffin stood by as Buddy Miller performed.
Arts & Entertainment A's Brand Baseball: Bill King, d. 2005 Holy Toledo. Bay Area sports lost an institution on Tuesday morning, when A's broadcaster Bill King passed away after complications to hip surgery. He was, the Chronicle says, "believed to be around 80.
SF News Interview: Lila Yomtoob Lila happens to be two things SFist holds near and dear: film maker and blogger-- A dreamy, dreamy combination when it comes right down to it. When Lila isn’t racking up credit
SF News Hey Now It's The Sun ... And It Makes Me Feel Today is the Summer Solstice and please, you don't need to be a pagan or Laplander to celebrate. It's funny how there are so many holidays pegged to the Winter Solstice but can
