Arts & Entertainment Open Casting Call For LGBT History Series Shot In SF, 'When We Rise' That LGBT documentary mini-series that we told you about a few months back, When We Rise, has been shooting in recent weeks in Vancouver most notably, they just shot parts of the White
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Shorted On Latte, SF Starbucks Fan Sues Put on your pearls and clutch hard: Starbucks has come under fire after being accused of under filling their lattes in an effort to save money on milk, as KQED reports. The class
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Clover Stornetta Farms Issues Recall For Their 2% Milk A popular Petaluma-based dairy has issued a voluntary recall of their 2% milk. Clover Stornetta Farms announced on Friday that their 2% milk may contain small pieces of plastic, and is asking customers
SF News Marin County 'Got Milk' After Tanker Dumps 6000 Gallons On Highway 1 There was no use crying on a Marin County stretch of Highway 1 Sunday, not even after a tanker truck carrying a load of milk flipped and dumped its payload all over. According
Arts & Entertainment Photo: 49ers Drink 'Homo' Milk In Locker Room Circa 1951 Today's Niners gem comes from What's On The 6th Floor, the blog for the San Francisco History Center and Book Arts and Special Collections. And what a collection it is. This week they
SF News Obama Honors Harvey Milk With Presidential Medal of Freedom, Kind Words Later this evening, President Obama, who has been soft on gay issues thus far during his administration, awarded Harvey Milk a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom. Sapphic tennis player Billie Jean King, Sen.
Arts & Entertainment Free Screening of <em>Milk</em> at The Independent on Monday Night FuncheapSF alerted us to a free screening of Milk on Monday night at 8 p.m. at the Independent. We just might go and swoon over James Franco and Emile Hirsch some more,
SF News Sean Penn to Lobby For 'Harvey Milk Day' In California State Senator Mark Leno and Sean Penn plan to reintroduce a bill Tuesday to mark Harvey Milk's birthday as a "day of significance" across California. Originally vetoed by Arnold Schwarzenegger -- the lug
SF News Images: "Signs of Hatred" at the Oscars As refined "commie, homo-loving sons-of-guns" approached last night's Oscars, here's what they were greeted with before arriving to the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles. The folks from God Hates Fags ilk. Yep, they
SF News Sean Penn's Oscar Speech Since most of you think you're too smart to watch the Academy Awards, do let us cram them down your throat this morning. Especially since San Francisco got a major tip of the
SF News Outfit Worn by Penn in 'Milk' to Be Auctioned Off for Charity The shirt, suit, and tie donned by Sean Penn in Gus Van Sant's Milk will be auctioned off online to benefit Variety - the Children's Charity of Southern California and the Hetrick-Martin Institute,
SF News Marin Breastfeeding Coalition's Latest Campaign Draws Looks A group that bills itself as the Marin Breastfeeding Coalition has started an unusual campaign in Marin County to get women to breastfeed their babies. In the next coming weeks, life-sized cardboard cutouts
SF News <i>Milk</i> Nabs 8 Oscar Nominations Gus Van Sant's Milk, the biopic about slain San Francisco supervisor and gay activist Harvey Milk, was nominated for eight Oscars this morning. In addition to a Best Picture nomination, Dustin Lance Black
SF News <i>Milk</i> + Love on 12/20 What a smashing idea. Courage Campaign, an organizing network that connects 300,000+ grassroots and "netroots" activists to push for progressive change in California to get Prop 8 overturned, is getting people to
SF News Legislators Plan to Introduce Prop 8 Repeal Measures Senator Mark Leno and (new!) Assemblymember Tom Ammiano will introduce measures that prove Proposition 8 is "an improper revision of the California State Constitution," according to reports. The measure, which should be announced
SF News <i>Milk</i> Cracks Top Ten Hey, Gus Van Sant's Harvey Milk biopic Milk, which is pulling in phenomenal reviews and audience reaction, somehow managed to crack the top ten this with only a fistful of theaters screening the
SF News Could <i>Milk</i> Have Helped Defeat Prop 8? A new theory is percolating about Gus Van Sant's , the biopic about slain SF City Supervisor and gay rights activist Harvey Milk, and Prop. 8, the same-sex marriage ban. It's this: Could an
SF News Sean Penn Calls Prop 8 "Manslaughter" Gothamist's Amanda Spurlock attended a press conference with Penn, Josh Brolin, James Franco, Alison Pill, and Emile Hirsch. Here's her report: Franco revealed that he wanted to be a part of the film
SF News Sean Penn Amazed at James Franco's Monstrous Penis Yeah, yeah. We stuck this in Day Around the Bay, but we feel it merits its own post. (Besides, we'd hate for some local bloggers to go one day without bashing us in
misc Gus Van Sant at Milk Club Dinner Now, Van Sant is set to be speaking at the Milk Club dinner on June 17th. Today's the last day to purchase tickets, so head over to the Milk Club site if you'd
misc <i>Milk</i> Finishes Shooting, '70s Fashions Abound Well, it's been fun. The trailers, the megawatt celebrity sightings, the lights, the cameras, the not being invited to cast/crew parties -- SFist will miss it all. As most of you know,
SF News More <i>Milk</i> Extras Needed We just got word that Gustaf Van Sant needs more extras this Sunday for . You know what that means, don't you? Time to throw on your hippest and tightest '70s duds revealing the
misc Muni's Guide to the Weekend: An Elaborate Web of Closures The weekend's coming up, and that means that Muni's got a long list of street closures and cancellations. And this week, the radical homosexual agenda is to blame: for several nights, streets around
SF News Some Castro Businesses Bash <i>Milk</i> Production Although most of us are giddy that Hollywood has come to our little town to film a moving picture show, others are less than gay about it. Namely, a few Castro merchants who
