misc SFist Rants: Obsessing Over the iPod When we first bought it, we spent the entire weekend uploading our CDs on it. When we did that, we spent the better part of the next two weeks doing nothing but downloading
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Pepito Pea For everyone who is working on MLK day (and who isn’t really), we suggest taking a five-minute personal vacation to watch this video. Pepito is a former member of The Clarendon Hills,
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Consume! The keynote announcements from Google are in line with the more believable rumors of the past couple of days: the Google Video Store, a partnership with CBS and other video content providers for
SF News Jackson's So Best Posts of 2005 In that spirit, I'd like to present my So Best: Jackson's Top Ten Posts, If Measured Quantitatively by Pageviews Logged and With a Chronologically Fore-weighted Data Sample. Since I get to use the
Arts & Entertainment SFisting: Reefer Madness On Demand The week between Xmas and New Year's always makes us into shut-ins. Plus, it's raining, like, all the time. We're broke. We're pervs. And there's nothing on TV. But wait: there is. Something
SF News Rock and Roll Even the rich aren't immune from the laws of gravity -- the folks living in those multimillion dollar homes perched precariously on the edge of Telegraph Hill are all a little on edge
Arts & Entertainment New Contributor Interview: Chuck Jordan You may also have noted a trend among new SFist contributors—they are not lovers of the Mission Burrito. Before you scream “un-SanFranciscan”! we’ll hasten to point out that Chuck is a
SF News How To Get Bush Face it, Niners fans, you were torn last weekend. On the one hand, they had a pretty solid win over the Lambs and Alex Smith finally showed he's got a bit of game.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV This Weekend OK. We promise never to attempt lame rhyming ever again. But we DID want to let you know that there's a "Creature Comforts" marathon on BBC America tonight, starting at 7:30 p.
Arts & Entertainment Big Changes at Tribe.net The very definition of a 'chilling effect' on free speech is when legislation or enforcement of new laws are so potentially onerous that people and organization self-censor out of fear and potential liability.
misc Duck Update Remember the guy who ran over the ducks at a Campbell car wash earlier this year? Well, the cops still haven't made any arrests yet, but "by no means is the case closed,
SF News All We Hear... Is Video Gaga ....video goo-goo, video blah-blah. Even as people continue to debate whether Officer Andrew Cohen's now-notorious film project, involving African-American officers eating out of dog bowls and Charlie's Angels parodies is racist/sexist, in
Arts & Entertainment Wednesday, The New Wednesday Wednesday... can I get a definition, please? Tonight: Check out work by local emerging choreographers at ODC Theater's ODC School Pilot Program performance. Twelve bucks gets you into the 8 p.m. show
SF News SFPD Video Scandal We've never understood this phenomenon of encouraging disgruntled employees to film skits to screen before the whole office to "boost morale." The last time we were forced to do this, we filmed a
Arts & Entertainment Happy Holidays from SFist: Win a "Zatch Bell" DVD! What works well in Japan sometimes doesn't exactly translate over here. "Zatch Bell" passed its hundred-episode mark overseas, but it's made a much more modest splash stateside. The story concerns a race of
SF News Super Softball Action “It is great to have the win, but our team is looking to forward to the playoffs,” said a modest Elsbernd, who put the Super in Supervisor with his outstanding play. Boris Delepine
Arts & Entertainment We Love Dirty Laundry Step foot in the place where all the magic happens as the ALIVE @ 9th Street series continues with with “Don’t Ask, Do Tell”, "an examination of taboo cultural secrets that filmmakers both
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sunday Morning Coffee Conundrum First off, we should thank the powers that be (as SFist Jon alluded to in his recent rant) that we have so many options for good, local, independent coffee places here in the
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: The Media Is the Message Kaleidoscope We may not have the Xbox 360's awesome home media center capabilities, but we may not even need them, if Apple rumor site Think Secret's speculation is correct. They're claiming that Apple
SF News It's Hammer -- And Pizza -- Time She sent us to this craigslist entry, which contains identical verbiage to the one we posted earlier, except that it lists an additional audition venue: Monday November 21st between 7 -9 Round Table
misc Please Hammer, Do Hire Us Tuesday, November 22nd between 7pm - 9 pm Film Arts Foundation 145 Ninth Street #102 San Francisco, CA We are holding an audition for two Hammer music videos, which will have national distribution.
SF News Craigslist is a Starmaker So there we were, on craigslist again, when we came across this ticket out of obscurity: NEED: Interior Designer who POPS on TV (SOMA / south beach) Are you a working designer or decorator
SF News SFist Reviews: <i>Carnival in Rio</i> In a word, it was awesome. We tried to figure out what our favorite part was, but it was just so hard to choose. Was it Arnie's attempt at speaking Portuguese? Was it
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Metallica and The Rolling Stones We got an email from a Noe Valley resident who confirmed they too could "hear every note several miles away in Noe Valley with all [their] windows closed." They called the SFPD who
Arts & Entertainment The Art of Advertising Once, a long time ago, we worked at a film production office in New York City. The crappy part was labelling tapes, getting coffee for people and waking up at 5am to assist