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 The Vista from the Valley on Microsoft Of course Microsoft is not an empire that will fall quickly. We doubt Ray Ozzie will pull a Nero and set the Redmond campus alight or feed open-source advocates to lions (that's Steve
SF News Anderson Cooper Sighting I heard a rumor that Anderson Cooper was in town today, shooting a live show this evening. Can you substantiate this rumor? Please? While we here at SFist haven't heard jack about a
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 Elsewhere In The Ist-A-Verse LAist is flashing a sad peace out to their editor Carolyn Kellogg with one hand and bumping knuckles with their new head typist L.A. blogger king Tony Pierce with the other. Where
SF News Everybody Hates Chris: In Memoriam It's a melancholy Everybody Hates Chris column about the District 6 election: this week's episode -- Everybody Hates Death. We were sorry to read in the paper that one of the candidates that
SF News School Daze You know, we're kind of getting into the week-long series that the Chron's doing on the San Francisco school system. It's a comprehensive look at all the various factors affecting the perception of
Arts & Entertainment The Marginally Engaging Adventures of the Superfisters (While we were visiting our friends at Isotope Comics, we also picked up Issue 5 of the awesome -- God, we can't get enough of swashbuckling youngsters.) New this week: War-Fix, by David
SF News Raiders Rumors Running Rampant The story isn't online because you have to subscribe to the magazine, but since we do, we can detail what the what is. Basically, the story says that Eddie D and Carmen P
SF News Second Time's The Charm Ah, the most agonizing time of the year for a certain group of local lawyers is upon us -- the annual releasing of the results from the February California state bar exam. The
SF News SFist Tech Labs: Hot Aluminum Roof It also reminded us how Apple is the quintessential San Francisco company. The products are expensive. They're not quite as fast as the others, but make up for it with style. There's constant
SF News California Catches Impeachment Fever Anyways, the bill has made it through the California Assembly Rules Committee which voted to approve the bill so they can consider it later. Huh? Actually, the vote was to amend a previous
Arts & Entertainment 10th Annual Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival Sunday kicked off the 10th annual Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival featuring over 170 music acts, most of them local but some of them national (Vincent Gallo) and international (Ane Brun). The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tech Labs: Because No One Should Have to Go To LA Of course, we're still scouring the internets for any hint of game news. There's plenty of coverage all over the place, in particular GameSpot's media blitz and Joystiq's ongoing blog updates, dealing with
SF News One More To the Babe Considering Barry's love of drama and his love of hitting most of his momentous home runs here at Whatever-the-hell-it's-Named-Park, it'll be a good bet that he’d hit both 715 and 716 this
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Of War and Blood at Traveling Jewish Theatre FoolsFury packed Traveling Jewish Theatre on Sunday night with friends, funders, foreign consulates and, of course, the press for anticipated opening night of its world premiere English translation of
SF News What Would You Ask Mr Ford? We're totally afraid that we're gonna jinx ourselves by spilling the beans like this, but we can't hold back any longer: this week, we're actually going to get to ask Muni's Executive Director
SF News Sympathy for the Devil's Sliders Apparently, Caltrans is gearing up to begin repair work on the disheveled Devil's Slide this week, but they're not offering any estimates as to when the road might once again be open to
SF News To Be Continued... Two stories from last week are still being stories this week, so we thought we'd update everyone on what the latest has been. First up, North Beach, where yet another big, fun festival
Arts & Entertainment One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Titian: Vik Muniz Pictures of Junk You know how some people just can’t seem to throw anything away? Well, Vik Muniz is one of those people and he has amassed a collection of junk that would make any
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tech Roundup: Super Boss-Fight Mega Edition Xtreme Nintendo gave bloggers-who-think-they're-funny a present on Thursday by announcing the new name for their upcoming Revolution console (). It's going to be called "Wii." Seriously. With a "distinctive ii spelling" that's pronounced like "we,
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Last week's winner, the East Bay Express: Vote for SFist in the EBX Readers' Poll! We love the chicken holding a sword with its foot in this week's Dream Comic. A company that
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Geary Street at the Curran Theatre Spend any amount of time in a Muni or BART station and you'll find that you can't escape the ads for Martin Short's new musical, a pre-Broadway world premiere
Arts & Entertainment The Miniature Adventures of the Superfisters We're suckers for any story about the Monkey King, and we also love the cozy art and fierce personality of Oakland-resident Gene Yang's "American Born Chinese." The six-book series explores Asianness, whatever that
SF News Off To The Village Voice Our secret boyfriend is breaking up with us! The Village Voice media juggernaut has just announced that our WRTW crush Rob Harvilla is taking over the New York flagship alt-paper's music editorship, replacing
