Arts & Entertainment 'Survivor: Philippines' Casts Anti-Gay Baseball MVP Jeff Kent, Blair From 'Facts Of Life' Jeff Kent, who won the National League Most Valuable Player award in 2000 while playing for the San Francisco Giants, will grace the CBS primetime line-up by appearing in Survivor: Philippines. Regarding his
SF News Meteorologist Roberta Gonzales Out At CBS5? Say it ain't so, KPIX! Rich Lieberman has word that our favorite meteorologist and color-blocking fashion icon, Roberta Gonzales, is out at CBS 5. And she's going to be replaced (after 16 years!
Arts & Entertainment "From Beautiful Pond To A Ghetto": Tom Fontana's Walking Tour Of Gritty Five Points Known for groundbreaking television like Homicide: Life On The Streets and OZ, acclaimed writer-producer Tom Fontana has, with Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson, now developed a crime show about his own hometown, New York
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Watch Chris Cosentino Go Bravo On 'Top Chef Masters' Incanto executive chef Chris Cosentino will join an elite group of reality TV stars when he appears tonight on the premiere of this season's Top Chef Masters on Bravo. No strangers to both
Arts & Entertainment Watch San Francisco Gay Pride Parade Live! While catching up on the OccuPride drama, be sure to also watch Donna Sachet and Michelle Meow host the San Francisco Gay Pride Parade live right now! Behold: Live Video streaming by Ustream
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hi Tops, Future Castro Gay Sports Bar, Featured On 'Chelsea Lately' Even before Hi Tops (a new sports bar soon to take over the old Lime spot in the Castro) has opened, it's already making national news. Well, it received a hefty shout-out on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink YouTube To Launch Very Porky Food Channel Gone are the days when one could enliven their Sunday mornings by watching Julia Child and Jacques Pepin affectionately debate the proper way to scramble eggs or divulge their secrets to whole chicken
Arts & Entertainment MTV's <em>Real World</em> Premiered Twenty Years Ago Today, SF Installment Stands As Best Season Gothamist reports today that MTV's The Real World — where young people stopped being polite, and started getting real — aired today for the very first time. Created by Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray, the
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco 23rd 'Smuttiest City,' Says Men's Health Men's Health has a breakdown of the top 100 "smuttiest" (i.e., porn-happy) cities in the United States. Orlando, Florida comes in a No. 1. However, San Francisco ranks a distant 23rd and
Arts & Entertainment Casting Call: 'The Bachelor' Needs Titular Stud ABC's drama The Bachelor is looking for a few good-looking men. Well, one. They need a new bachelor to pretend he's looking for love and lifetime companionship. Might that be you? "We are
Arts & Entertainment Meet The Cast Of Bravo's New Silicon Valley Reality Show Bravo unveiled a new batch of must-see shows for the fall season. One in particular, Silicon Valley, produced by Randi Zuckerberg, Mark's sister, will take place here in the Bay Area. (Regarding the
Arts & Entertainment 'SNL' Hires Kate McKinnon, Show's First Openly Lesbian Player Saturday Night Live recently hired a new female comic, Kate McKinnon, known for her work with Upright Citizens Brigade and the Big Gay Sketch Show. The latter hints at the fact that, yes,
Arts & Entertainment Big Brother Casting Call In San Francisco, 4/7 Have you always wanted to live your life in front of TV cameras, with a sundry of people ranging from skinny and attractive to skinny and young? Now's your chance: On April 7th,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Theme From 'Match Game' Slowed Down 800% Basically everything is trippy slowed down by 800%. The true music geeks among you should enjoy this, as well as the same thing done to the Sanford & Son theme song. [via Lady
Arts & Entertainment Can You Find The Misspellings On <em>Alcatraz</em>'s Bay Area Map? Oh dear. Can you find the misspellings on this map that aired on FOX's Alcatraz? For those not in the know, Alcatraz, which aired last night, is J.J. Abrams' latest show is
Arts & Entertainment Terrible Talent Reality Show Holding Auditions In Civic Center This Weekend Among NBC's lineup of must-see-free TV this past couple seasons — oh, don't you "OMG, Smash" us — the most useless, America's Got Talent, will hold auditions in San Francisco's Civic Center this weekend. Who
Arts & Entertainment Where Are The SF Queens On 'RuPaul's Drag Race'? As we mentioned earlier, RuPaul's Drag Race is the show you should be watching. If you don't get Logo from your cable provider, then head over to Midnight Sun. Or any homosexual bar
Arts & Entertainment C-List Celebrities Hang Out On Alcatraz For TV Premiere Last night was the private premiere party for J.J. Abrams' new San Francisco-based time-and-space-bending TV show Alcatraz. As far as we can tell, no one other than Entertainment Weekly and the show's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Drunk & Sticky: Best Bits Of Anthony Bourdain's S.F. 'Layover' We've done a 180-degree turn on Mr. Anthony Bourdain after viewing last night's San Francisco The Layover on The Travel Channel. Bourdain calls Swan Oyster Depot one of his favorite places in San
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink MasterChef Casting In S.F. This Weekend Are you a talented (or camera-friendly) home cook? Producers of FOX's MasterChef, a cooking reality show that insults amateur chefs, will be in San Francisco on Saturday to cast for the third season.
Arts & Entertainment Couple Visiting S.F. Create 'Full House' Intro Parody Video We don't know who the Kaplans are, but we sure do like their style. Lauren and Michael Kaplan used edited footage from a recent trip to San Francisco to re-creating the intro to
Arts & Entertainment 'I Want to Come Back in My Next Life as Darren Criss,' Says Jane Lynch Jane Lynch was the guest of honor at Fall Free for All, the season-opening celebration for Cal Performances, this past Sunday. While speaking to a (rapt) audience, Lynch said, "If I could choose
SF News Judge Mathis Speaks Out On the Execution of Troy Davis Convicted in the 1989 murder of an off-duty Savannah police officer, Troy Davis presented affidavits of seven of the nine witnesses at his trial who have since recanted their testimony. Davis never received
Arts & Entertainment Attention Thespians: TV Pilot About Local Clairvoyant Cafe Owner Wants Your Pretty Face Spotted in the the Talent Gigs section of Craigslist: a call for actors to star and support in "a TV Pilot about a clairvoyant female cafe owner that helps singles find true love.
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour We here at SFist are unabashed fans of KTVU's Sal Castaneda. After all, he's a great reporter and on-air personality. Our godson, however, has his reservations.
