Arts & Entertainment Win Tickets to See Negativland The concept of mash-ups is all the rage with marketers and music bloggers these days, but Negativland has been appropriating sounds, images and text and re-arranging them into new works of art since
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Silence of the Blogs What's that? Did you say something, Apple? Sorry, we weren't paying attention; we were too busy watching full-length movies on our Sony PSP's 4.3-inch widescreen. All the tech news and gossip sites
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco's Economy of Art Labors on A mute boy in love with a blind girl! Marionettes! Butoh dancing! A swordfight! Attempted acting! Minnesotan hip-hoppers! Relentless artistic integrity! Sounds like another San Francisco film festival to us. The Foggy Eye
SF News Who Reads Yesterday's Papers -Worried about mercury levels in fish? So is the Board of Supervisors! This week they approved an ordinance that will call for restaurants to post warnings, in English, Chinese and Spanish, about mercury
SF News Supervisor Shouting (Not Daly) We suppose the subject matter trumps the supervisor, as even a Daly-free meeting about condo conversions descended into shouting and gavel-pounding yesterday. Supervisor Bevan Dufty (pictured at right) had proposed that we give
Arts & Entertainment You Gotta Play To Win, Still Remember when we were nagging you to get off the couch and make some damn art, already? Well, we have a couple more shots at the big auteur target in the sky for
Arts & Entertainment You Gotta Play To Win To live in the Bay Area is (frequently) to be able to count more than one aspiring filmmaker in one's circle of acquaintance. The next time you're at some dinner party/Zeitgeist get-together/
misc Win Passes to Cut and Paste at ResFest Congratulations to all our lucky ResFest pass winners! Today we're giving away passes to see Cut and Paste at 6 pm Sunday, September 25 at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre. It's described
Arts & Entertainment Artificial Hip Over 150 shorts, a restropective of the bizarre Tractor group's work, a Beck music video compilation, Jackson and His Computer Band, a Mike Mills (director of keynote, and tours of the very few
SF News Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) We missed the Arcade Fire show this weekend but: (shicka shicka, bell bell). Haven't we already heard this story? Yet another PG&E underground vault blew up this afternoon, injuring a passerby
SF News The SchwarzenWatcher's Running For Reelection The LA Times reports that American Media tried to pay off the guy who shot a movie of Arnie in Brazil for Playboy, called "Carnival in Rio" to stop him from screening it.
Arts & Entertainment Ha Ha, MTV Bet you're sorry now that you didn't pick San Francisco for the Video Music Awards, MTV! Apparently all pre-VMA parties for Sunday's VMAs in Miami have been cancelled in the wake of Hurricane
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Roll Witcha They should just lease the space below the fold on the front page of the Chron's Bay Area section to Supervisor Chris, no? (At rent-controlled rates, we'd hope!) We'll get to a Television
SF News Mobility Device for Disabled Cats, or Hoax? Yesterday, browings the internerd, we were intrigued by a little video linked from BoingBoing of a cat in a box tooling around a workshop on a set of wheels. The video [QT] purportedly
SF News Big Brother BART Edward Champion forwarded us note of BART's new 'awareness' campaign and it's, um, yeah. In the words of Lynette Sweet, a member of the BART board and the security comittee chair, "What makes
Arts & Entertainment Downhill Fillmore Boy, have we got some bad Cow Hollow ideas for you! Have you guys been following the whole "turning Fillmore Street into a ski slope" thing? So Icer Event Management has decided to
SF News A's Brand Baseball: Servin' Up Summertime Our friends and family tried to tell us, but we had to find out for ourselves anyway: July in an ivy-covered Northeastern college town is no place for a California boy. We mention
Arts & Entertainment Local Kids Make Good TV Sometimes, video games journalists seem vaguely Colbert-ish: earnest, confident, utterly out of touch. (Case in point: G4's "Judgment Day," with the slogan "all verdicts are final" -- oooh, the are final, OMG, they're
Arts & Entertainment SFist Does the San Diego Comic-Con SFist attended the 36th San Diego Comic-Con International (SDCC) this past weekend. Last year's SDCC drew almost 100,000 attendees; after trying to negotiate the crowds, we can't see how there could have
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Using Links for Good Marketing is a weird thing. SFist has been known to fall for a good PR game in the past (we're particular suckers for nifty packaging). M.J. Rose is an author and has
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink I to Zed SFist can't even begin to recall the number of times it has aimlessly wandered past the Imperial Tea Court in San Francisco's Ferry Building Market Place and wondered why it appears to be
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Esthero Esthero hit the stage with a fantastic, albeit gigantic, backing band (horn section, drums, guitar, percussion, keyboards, two backup singers and a flute player). She was decked out in a black bustier, black
Arts & Entertainment We Gotta Get Out Of This Place You know, we love all the talk about secession because, well, it's fun. But let's face it, do we really want to secede? If we did, we'd have nothing to make us all
Arts & Entertainment Falling In the Gap Once a PD, always a PD -- Matt Gonzalez comes to the aid of fellow progressive (and former colleague at the public defender's office) Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval, penning an editorial published on the
Arts & Entertainment In the Groove: In your Face! We here at SFist fondly remember the days of our relative youth (past the "kids under 12 eat free days" and before the "SENIOR CLASS OF 2004 SAN DIMAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES
