misc We're the Tops! Who'd have thunk it -- l'il old us, San Francisco, the gayest city in the country? That's according to a new study, which pegs (hee hee) our fair metropolis as having an adult
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Rules of Dating</i> The pervy teacher, Lee (played by Lee Yu-rim) is part clumsy lothario and part relentless sexual predator whose creepiness is only mitigated by his over-riding goofiness. In one scene he drunkenly looks at
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Americanese</i> Image from Americanese By contributing SFist MiHi Ahn
SF News Crazy Weather Did you get caught in the downpour last night? We did. We exited the Castro Muni station a little after 6 last night, and were immediately completely soaked (amazingly, our SFist messenger bag
misc The Winner Is Deceitful Above All Things We have a winner in our Fake Tales of San Francisco contest! As you may recall, we're giving out "The Heart Is Deceitful" movie swag to the person who came up with the
Arts & Entertainment A Tribute to Leacock and Pennebaker Film Festival Sure, we've seen a lot of these movies before, but never on the big screen. And the best part of all this -- all shows before 7:30 are FREE. We love free!
misc The Fake Tales Of San Francisco Contest Like the Arctic Monkeys say: . In honor of the soon-to-be-released JT LeRoy movie, "The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things," we've got a new contest! "The Heart Is Deceitful" is based on JT
Arts & Entertainment It's Peter Berlin Day, What Did You Get Me? Inside the Castro, it wasn't much warmer, but event MC Heklina did the best she could to heat things up as, among other things, the Mayor's office officially proclaimed it "Peter Berlin Day"
Arts & Entertainment The Tour Comes to Town Now that the San Francisco Grand Prix is no longer, this race offers Bay Area cycling fans their only chance to see the best road cyclists in the world battle it out on
SF News Red Staters Welcome! See that guy over there on the right? That's Barry Goldwater, accepting the Republican nomination for president in our fair city back in 1964, in the same venue where we now try out
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: <i>Blood Tea and Red String</i> Our appreciation for stop-motion and its fascinating creepiness only increased when we discovered the work of Jan Svankmejer. Here was an artist who took the inherent creepiness of stop-motion and ran with it.
Arts & Entertainment All The Subtlety of Roller Disco, Plus the Nuance of Scott Baio Last Friday, roller films were the theme, with , Roller Boogie (one of the many missteps in the management of Linda Blair's career) and the aborted foetus that is Skatetown USA (which marks the
SF News Take it to the Streets, and Take it Politely There's a lot going on in this picture, snapped last night in the Castro Muni station (click it for a larger version), so let's begin our reading with the original author's intent. Those
misc SFisting: Trying Not to Make Jokes About Wrapping Your Box Because many people celebrate some version of a gift-giving holiday this time of year, it seems like a responsibility of ours to cough up some kind of locally focused sexy shopping guide. No
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Rachael Sbuttoni Hey, what's with the new cool SFist banner and block ads you can see all over the -ist network? Well, after an intense, breakneck reader contest, we had our winner, with Rachael Sbuttoni's
SF News Phil Ting Wins The Crown Just like Ron Chun dreamed it would be -- His Highness Gavin triumphantly hands Phil Ting the coveted assessor/recorder scepter! Ting was the only one who had to go through the RCV
Arts & Entertainment SF Int'l South Asian Film Festival: <i>It's My Country Too</i> As we settled into our seats at the Castro for the world premiere of documentary , part of the SF Int'l South Asian Film Festival, there was a generalized hubbub as a tall man
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Battle Thai Part I There are two categories of Thai restaurants, nowadays: the lounge-y kind, with black clad petite waiters and waitresses, ambient music with a techno beat, sleek furniture. The traditional kind, also known as kitschy,
SF News It Had to be Said It must be 中途ハンパ written in a wrong way. Embarassingly wrong. 中途半端(chew-toe hamper) is the orignal form. 半端 sometimes is written in katakana, thus 中途ハンパ. 中途ハンパ means half-way, unfinished, incomplete, uncompleted. Somewhere
SF News Protect Our Daughters! From, uh, Childlessness. WorkinDevil Originally uploaded by Canon Fodder. Praise the Lord! The latest issue of "SF Faith: The Bay Area's Lay Catholic Newspaper" is out. What do you mean, "newspaper" might not be the right
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rock Out with Eight Guys Out In the two years that the company's existed, feedback has been positive (such as two guys who met through 8 Guys Out, then paused their membership to focus on pursuing each other), and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Spiked! Good Coffee In The Castro While our list of reader-recommended coffee houses to try is growing, we didn't have a chance to cross any places off of it this week. That's because we happened across a wonderful little
misc SFist Rants: Homeland-Protection at Safeway As we exited the store, our purchase (a 4-pack of film) tucked away in our Man's Carry-all (or "purse"), the magnetic door-beeping security thing went off. We ignored it, because we are not
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: Tammy Faye: Death Defying Tammy Faye was present for Frameline's screening of the new documentary, and the audience ate her up. She got a standing ovation just for walking into the house before the movie started (is
