Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to SF Sketchfest's First Annual Filmed Sketch Night Why gather with strangers in a theater to stare at funny films on a screen when you could . . . sit at home on your couch and stare at funny films (even these most of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Ask Me, Don't Tell Me Boing Boing tips us off to this awesome short 1961 film about juvenile delinquency, and how gangs can help curb the trend towards teenage lawlessness. And by "gangs" we mean "clubs," as that's
Arts & Entertainment Your Guide to Tonight's State of the Union Address Yes, tonight is the State of the Union speech which means it's a good time to do something that doesn't involve watching TV. But to help you survive tonight, here is the Official
SF News Your First Question Time Tomorrow! Well, it's hard to think what could top the chickens last weekend -- so it seems a little anticlimactic to announce that the Board of Supervisors will be hosting its very first Question
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews Kasper Hauser/Elephant Larry Now, before tomatoes get thrown at us, we don't mean it in a negative way. It's not like we didn't enjoy Kasper Hauser-- we very much did-- it's just that we liked Elephant
SF News The Warriors: A Decent Time Out For the past few seasons, the Warriors primary marketing slogan has been, A Great Time Out". Brimming with hope after Tuesday's trade, SFist decided to catch a game at the O-rena to find
Arts & Entertainment Happy Friday A reader sent this in to us with the line "Holy Crap! This has got it all." Which is true. It's a video of Oaktown 357's" Juicy Gotcha Crazy," a song we can
SF News Your Daily Dose of Whatever Gate We're Calling It Talk about tension city-- here was the political rival of the Mayor chatting it up with the Mayor's ex-wife. And according to Matier & Ross, Kimberly signed off with these words: "all right,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: A Mess By now, you must have heard about Paula Abdul's drunk? stoned? stroke-induced? appearance on some morning news shows. We've seen the Seattle show a few times, but didn't actually get to catch her
Arts & Entertainment Free Range Chickens! It's looking like Gavin's townhall meeting on Saturday is becoming the gift that keeps on giving. From GavinWatch, we get word of this YouTube clip of the great kerfluffle that arose when the
Arts & Entertainment Because We Love Old Footage... Way back in 1905, somebody rode a street car (which was probably late and overcrowded) and filmed what it was like to go down Market Street. A year later, after the Quake, they
SF News Political Junkie: Gav Gets Mad As we've mentioned, better watch this clip (or upload it to YouTube) before ABC 7 takes it down -- media hound Dan Noyes from the "I Team" (we think the I stands for
Arts & Entertainment There's Going To Be Some Protesting Tonight Downtown is looking a little shut down today as those wacky Trotskyites broadly-arrayed leftists at A.N.S.W.E.R. are giving their answer to the Bush Surge (hey, that sounds like
Arts & Entertainment SFist Celebrates the Catch We went looking through YouTube to find the actual clip of "The Catch" but found this instead. It's "the Catch" done Tecmo Bowl style.
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Liz Hickok Why Jello? It actually started because I had been photographing scale models that other people had made. I’ve been a photographer for a long time. I was in Havana shooting and came
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your TV! Also, I'm really, really lazy. So, much like I did last year, I will instead offer readers a glimpse at the top ten shows currently on my TiVo Season Pass list. Please feel
Arts & Entertainment Congratulations Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame Winners In honor of Van Halen being nominated to the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame, we give you this, a video of prime Van Halen in 1981 playing "Unchained" at the Oakland Arena.
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Oliver Chin What's your favorite thing about them? Collaborating with fantastic illustrators and artists to give people worthy alternatives to the cookie-cutter commercial widgets that permeate our culture. What's on your holiday wish list? Please
Arts & Entertainment Check Out SFist MattyMatt! As we promised earlier, SFist MattyMatt was indeed on! NBC 11 News this evening -- in the sweet spot right before the weather! -- talking about his 33 MUNI bus video clip with
Arts & Entertainment Tonight at Eleven: A Sad Reflection on Today's Society Among the questions asked while leaning conspiratorially forward: "Is this a sad reflection on today's society?" Why, yes, Jean, it is. In fact, we feel that everything about today's society reflects sadly on
Arts & Entertainment The SFist Douche of the Week We've all seen it happen before-- somebody either tries to get on or off MUNI in ways that they're not supposed to and when the MUNI driver actually tries to enforce the rules,
Arts & Entertainment A Little San Francisco History On PBS Every now and then, we try to watch the national news so we'll get the jokes on the Daily Show the next day. So, even though Comedy Central's fake news outlets are on
Arts & Entertainment Miss the Fireworks? Like thousands of other people, we headed down to the Embarcadero Sunday night to watch the fireworks. They were as they usual are-- pretty spectacular. They even impressed some of the jaded New
Arts & Entertainment SFist Christopher's Best From The Past 365 Days * Album Of The Year: Mogwai -- "Mr. Beast" The mostly-instrumental music of Glasgow's Mogwai has been described as big instrumental rock music for a soundtrack. The soundtrack of your whatever-you're-doing. If whatever-you're-doing really
