Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight *CLUB: Check out Rock Out Karaoke over at Amnesia. What is Rock Out Karaoke? Well, it mean that you will hear neither a Righteous Brothers cover nor a note from everyone's least favorite
Arts & Entertainment Reviewing Summer of Love Anniversary Reviews Seeing as how the Summer of Love was the single most important event in the history of time and space, we thought it would be delightful of us to review a smattering of
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, the Bay Guardian: Tim Redmond asks why's everything got to be a public/private thing around here. Also, they hate the new Don Fisher museum. A poignant letter about the failures
SF News David Halberstam Killed in Car Crash Halberstam gained fame for his coverage of the Vietnam War, especially the book "The Best and the Brightest", a book that echoes so many things about today that it's scary. In later years,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Treasure Hunt: Balut Welcome back to our new SFist feature, Treasure Hunt, as SFist Natacha scours the city and outlying areas for things one definitely cannot find at your average Walgreens. When visiting your republican parents
misc SFist Raves: The Power of Rock Compels You After realizing that we were probably never going to make it past the C, G, and F chords, we promptly gave it up (just like karate, the piano, African line-dancing, and summer school
misc Political Junkie: Mean Commissioners So Matt Gonzalez's new law firm has sued the San Francisco School District for approving Superintendant Arlene Ackerman's "platinum parachute" contract without proper notice. This post isn't really about that (and SFist will
SF News New Book Links Computers With Counterculture Yesterday on Slashdot was a review of local NYT tech correspondent John Markoff's new book, "What The Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry." Quoting the review: Most histories
Arts & Entertainment Mr. McNamara's Vacation In the truly tasteless department, Low Culture tipped us off to the "Apocalypse Now" tour of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, one of Wild Frontiers "Reel Adventures." Kate Watson of Wild Frontiers, quoted in
Arts & Entertainment Home Furnishing Fantasy SFist often fantasizes about the day we win the lottery and, among other things, kick our crappy-ass IKEA furnishings to the curb (or hire someone else to do so). Our dream then moves
