Arts & Entertainment SFist Drinking Game: Our Trimethyldioxypurist! We've never watched Check Please! before, ever, so we're going to be kind of making up the drinking game based on the description of the show on their website -- so if nothing
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Lying + Cheating=Lychee-ting? We'll still tune in tonight to on Bravo -- but last week's episode was pretty annoying as far as we were concerned. Is the sheen off the apple, or was this crappy episode
Arts & Entertainment Parties We <i>Were</i> Invited To: Burritophile's TV Debut We were invited to attend a party celebrating the ascension of the gang at Burritophile into the Rulers of All Media. Indeed, after appearing on these esteemed pages, then being quoted extensively by
Arts & Entertainment Where's Leslie? Sometime a few weeks ago, Dennis Richmond's co-anchor stopped being Dennis Richmond's co-anchor and was nowhere to be found. For weeks, the word from KTVU had been only that she was taking a
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: We Left Our Knives In San Francisco Man, we loved last season of . So much so, that we're gonna keep writing about it, even though it's made the move to Los Angeles. Top Chef, for those who don't know, is
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
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV Premieres Tonight That very thing happened when we tried to set a Pass for "Runaway," the CW's entry into the "mysterious disappearances" genre (see "Kidnapped," "Vanished," and "Without a Trace") which premieres tonight at 9
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Even MORE TV Tonight Alas, there is one show on Thursday night we have decided to pass on, and that is CBS's much-hyped "Shark," starring James Woods. Now, we're not passing on the show because it's bad.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Smith Ray Liotta is another. His heist drama "Smith" premieres tonight on CBS at 10 p.m. If you have hopes that this heist series will do more for the genre than last season's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Get Your Own Network, This One Is MINE Since the WB and UPN have merged to create the CW (all country and western music, all the time!) many former affiliate stations are adopting Fox's new network, MyNetworkTV. (Why KRON 4, which
SF News Our Little Nancy In Profile So this week, Time Magazine has a big feature on our very own Congressperson. Wonkette already summed up the gist of the article, but they did miss the fun fact that she likes
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: The End of Summer Anyway, as you may recall, at the end of the first season of "Prison Break" the prisoners did, indeed, break. We just wish they had called this season "Prison Broke" or "Prison Breaked,
Arts & Entertainment Happy Birthday to the Greatest Man Who Ever Lived We are speaking, of course, of television, and tomorrow marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of its inventor, Philo T. Farnsworth. Few know his name, and he never got the credit he
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Rock Star OK, maybe "beneath" isn't the right choice of words. One needs to take into consideration that this isn't "American Idol," and that these contestants tend to have many, many years of performance experience
Arts & Entertainment Lynne Woosley Meets Stephen Colbert Yep, it finally happened. The Mighty Stephen Colbert finally let us better know a district we actually know, that being "The Fighting 6th" of California. That district, of course, is Marin County and
Arts & Entertainment Regifting -- East Bay Public Art Edition Public art is often the butt of jokes and viewed with contempt, along with performance art and washed up aging rockers on the county fair circuit. Whatever your feelings are about the role
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Our Thirties Despite its horrible image quality, annoying upload limits, and MySpace-worthy commenters, we have to admit, we love YouTube, especially when it gives us the opportunity to watch Fall TV pilots weeks before they're
Arts & Entertainment Who Wants To Be A Non-Local Superhero? So the premise of is that Stan Lee, of Spider-Man and Fantastic Four and X-Men fame, is picking the best action hero character, and the winner gets a comic book issue dedicated to
Arts & Entertainment Current TV Contest If you're an aspiring filmmaker who has always dreamed of having your work judged by the likes of Melissa Etheridge, Edward Norton, and Margaret Cho, then have we got the contest for you.
Arts & Entertainment "I Will Always Have a Dildo in My Window!" Meet Jeremy Paul, a husband and father who moved his family to the Castro district, and was shocked, SHOCKED, to see such blatant promotion of the homosexual lifestyle in his own backyard. Literally.
SF News Le Tour de France: Who's Watching Who? After a day off, the 2006 Tour de France is heading into its second week today, unbeknownst to most Americans. According to the Chronicle, only 280,000 Americans watch the Tour on TV.
Arts & Entertainment We May Never Know If the Guy Was Got We finally get a crappy reality series to call our own, and then aren't even allowed to suffer for the full six weeks they promised us. Damn you, ABC. DAMN YOU! We'll still
Arts & Entertainment The Treatable Adventures of the Superfisters This isn't a comic book you can approach lightly; it's a graphic novel that requires you take a few deep breaths before diving in. Childhood awfulness led Madison to dissociate herself into a
SF News Catch A Wave and You're Sitting On Top of the World How this thing would work is that the turbine put near Ocean Beach would convert the energy given off by waves into electricity. The other one would go somewhere under the Bay Bridge
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i> To Get New Host; Animatronic Puppeteer Seeks Work Hey, folks -- season one is over, but that doesn't mean there's not something delicious about it in the news to help us bide our time until season 2 begins (thankfully, again here
