misc SFist Tonight Paul Auster: Sure, metafictionist Auster wrote the screenplays to Smoke, Blue in the Face, and The Brooklyn Follies, but he also penned the phenomenal collection of PoMo detective-fiction tales, The New York Trilogy,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Marke B judges a damp jockstrap contest come midnight at ‘70s/‘80s retro dance club “The Rod.” Damn perverts. All of them. Goes from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. at
SF News Barry's On Greenies You stay classy, Bary. Bonds was not punished but had to go to treatment and counseling, something Deadspin has a little fun with as they picture Barry in group counseling. That is part
SF News American Football Spectacular: The Last Time It couldn't have come quickly enough for the Raiders. * Oakland vs. New York Jets Sunday, December 31, 2006. 10:00 AM, PST. Week 17 The Battle Of Motivation In Week 17, with nothing
SF News The Athletics Pounce on Twins: One to Go! The Oakland Athletics this afternoon showed why this year’s team is infinitely grittier and more determined than playoff teams of years past. This collection of misfits and guys barely above the legal
Arts & Entertainment We Take It All Back, Mick LaSalle. OK, Not Really. The Mission District of San Francisco is the kind of place where transgender bike messengers live chockablock with marketing executives, thrift stores brace for the encroachment of Starbucks, and heroin addicts nod off
Arts & Entertainment SFist Wishes It Could Watch: Takashi Miike's "Imprint" Miike's film was one of the most horrifying things we've ever seen. EVER. So we wonder what the producers of "Masters of Horror" could have possibly been expecting. Executive producer Mick Garris is
SF News SchwarzenWatcher Well, the Chronicle has their watch-thingie to pick on small, local bay area officials about semi-trivial issues like broken signs, graffitti and potholes. Since we're small and local, we'll turn it around and
SF News Where's Barry? "dangerous drugs and controlled substances to friends and acquaintances, particularly athletes, for whom he kept no medical records or for whom the medical records were fictitious, inadequate or inaccurate." Ting denies the charges
SF News Bloggers Unite! We initially passed this press release from the Author's Guild along to Gothamist Jen so that she could get the scoop on Gawker and FishbowlNY. Why? Because it looks like the Author's Guild
Arts & Entertainment Living in the Pollan Nation Pollan is the author of and a couple of other books, as well as countless articles for Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, and elsewhere. He is a master of investigative