SF News Oil Spill Update: Is this the Path of the Cosco Busan? BoatingSF.com has posted an animated video created by using Automatic Identification System (AIS) radio signals. Check out the video here. Nobody, not us and not even BoatingSF, is vouching that the path
SF News Death Watch: YouTube Founders Lie to Oprah The gentlemen at Valleywag have footage of this week's all-YouTube episode of Oprah. (Et tu, Oprah?) Steve Chen and Chad Hurley tell the now famous story about their company's conception. It seems, according
misc Top Drawers: SF International Animation Festival Ticket Giveaway The International Animation Festival starts tonight, kids. And speaking of them, don't bring yours to tomorrow night's wonderfully smut-filled orgy of animated shorts, Top Drawers. What's more, one lucky soul will get a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Eugene Robinson By Frances Reade Eugene Robinson has been the leader of S.F.'s most dangerous art-rock band Oxbow since 1989. We don’t mean Oxbow is "dangerous" as in "Tipper-Gore-no-likey." We mean "dangerous"
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Chicken John hosts the Loser's Ball. Which a lot progressives did. Lose, that is. [Politics Blog] -- Although Prop A might pass due to prog efforts. (See where horizontal pastels get you,
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco International Animation Festival In a city littered with film festivals, few of them stand out. This is one of them. Starting this Thursday (11/6), the San Francisco International Animation Festival will sample a wide array
SF News Now, Where Did We Put Our Blacklight? When he's not busy keeping it real or putting in a couple of loads at the laundromat -- he looks like a Biz kind of guy, doesn't he? -- Gavin Newsom is out
Arts & Entertainment Found Magazine Event Tonight and Thursday Night Found has become a household name in recent years, with fans and contributors from all walks of life. And on this tour, Found followers have been able to keep up with the brothers'
Arts & Entertainment BREAKING NEWS: Some Disabled People Have Sex A warning: Let's just assume that all of the links in this post are gloriously NSFW. We're told that the upcoming Berkeley-area show is "hot activism," which sounds awesome, except that it's what,
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After -It appears Scott Ostler was not the only one to start the Mike Nolan Death Watch. Over at the Merc, Tim Kawakami started the clock up too. On KNBR, the natives are getting
SF News Day Around the Bay -- 177 Townsend's promise of public art delivered, raised. [Curbed SF] -- Grace Cathedral almost burned down last night via an infamous Burner. [CBS5] -- Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner: thin, pretty. [BeyondChron] --
Arts & Entertainment Today's Record-Breaking "Thriller" Dance: the Video Ta-da. whatimseeing.com has the images and video you've been waiting for: the Thrill the World Michael Jackson "Thriller" dance-off (as well as choice images of today's protest, by the way). We hope
SF News Where Was This Dude in '93? It appears to be bomb day here at the ole 'Fist as we have yet another bomb story to relate to y'all. This one involves a die-hard (seriously die-hard) Giants fan who called
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Pierre-Laurent Aimard We had quite a few questions for Pierre-Laurent: he is one of the prominent piano virtuoso right now, has won a Grammy award (for his collaboration with Susan Graham), his repertoire covers everyone
SF News Pete Stark Apologizes to Bush We sure are remorseful these days. First, Archbishop George Niederauer offered his mea culpa to the Catholic Church for giving Communion to the Sisters. Now Stark is getting in on it. After House
Arts & Entertainment They've Done It Again Instantly the audience responded positively to the well-blended vocals, perfectly crafted pop-hooks and the organic-sounding drums played by NYC Subway musician, Shakerleg. You can not deny that these two Australian brothers, Issac and
Arts & Entertainment New Tunes Tuesday #6 Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. Looking at the fact that Serj Tankian's concert at Slim's on October 28th is already sold out, we
SF News We Suspect that this Film was Secretly Financed by the Exploding Fake Blood Packet Industry Ho hum. The outside-of-Tahoe location looks pretty, at least. And WTF is up with Atom's videoplayer not letting you fast-forward? Those four minutes of stewing just gave us extra time to think up
Arts & Entertainment Muni's Guide to this Weekend As previously noted, one of the best weekend guides in the city is produced by Muni and sent out exclusively to the press. (The PresidiGo, meanwhile, extends that courtesy to its riders.) So,
SF News Assholes Want to Clean Your Carpet Update: Oh damn! The video's not working. It's a compilation of all the various calls we've gotten. We'll try re-uploading it when we get home from work. If you're like everyone else on
misc Week Around the -Ists DCist spent the week honoring some local heroes. First and foremost, they honored 75 year-old Mona Shaw, who smashed up a local Comcast cable office with a hammer after she got fed up
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Eat At Bill's: Life In The Monterey Market</i> Now this is why we love DocFest so much! is a completely charming love letter to the famed local organic Monterey Market in Berkeley and its perpetually-cheery (and perpetually-free-sample-eating) owner Bill Fujimoto. The
Arts & Entertainment "Absoludicrous" Found Footage Fest Back in Town This Weekend All of you YouTube addicts out there are probably familiar with many of the "absoludicrous"* found video clips from Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett's touring Found Footage Festival (*Mr. T makes an appearance
