SF News We Won't Let The Fire Be Started Just in time for Summer Solstice, there's a new No Fun fracas going on. See, there's this tradition where people go to Ocean Beach and do the bonfire thing. It's like Burning Man
SF News All the Small Things So naturally, this morning, we checked out the Examiner's web site only to see that a court hearing has been set over the Bush administration wanting to put a biodefense lab at the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lou's Living Donut Museum Closing San Jose institution Lou's Living Donut Museum is closing at the end of this month, due to an illness in the family of the owners, the Chaviras. The eponymous Lou of the donut
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: Madame Butterfly As for the 3,000 inside, they were treated to a glorious show. Madame Butterfly is a crowd pleaser, as far as tragedies go, and this production came up with a recipe for
Arts & Entertainment Free We Are Scientists! You might already know that their debut album, With Love & Squalor, will drive you to do strange, angular dances to the stop-start rhythms, alarm clock guitars and addictive melodies. The 'Scientists may
Arts & Entertainment War! It was a typical day on the front. A battle was brewing, but people continued to live their lives, knowing that the day might well be their last. Women in hoop skirts made
Arts & Entertainment The Marginally Engaging Adventures of the Superfisters (While we were visiting our friends at Isotope Comics, we also picked up Issue 5 of the awesome -- God, we can't get enough of swashbuckling youngsters.) New this week: War-Fix, by David
misc Philistine: To Catch a Free Butterfly Tomorrow, for the first opera of new director David Gockley's era, the SF Opera will experiment with a live broadcast of the performance playing inside the War Memorial Opera House, outside on the
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>They Chose China</i> is the relatively forgotten story of a handful of American soldiers who were prisoners of war in Chinese camps during the Korean War. At the end of the conflict they chose to stay
SF News Malkin-vich, Malkin-vich, Malkin-vich The reason for all this is over a protest that arose when Military Recruiters tried to show up at a Job Fair at UC Santa Cruz. Lest anyone actually consider exercising their free
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings: The Movie Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at -gmail - dot - com. Two men ask the waitress to split their check to two ATM cards. She returns a moment later with two receipts stapled
Arts & Entertainment The Motivational Adventures of the SuperFisters People seem to take particular delight in rummaging through the emotional trash of those who project an image of purity, and Adam's no disappointment: he gets tons of love notes from fans, and
SF News The Warriors: Here's to Home Cooking Balanced precariously on the razor's edge between potential and the same old-same old, the War-dribbles are lurching heavily towards the ghosts of seasons past. They're hurting right now, having lost three in a
SF News The Warriors: Get a Move on Already The War-bloons have basically been treading water for the last couple of months, and like a small-time sucker playing conservative bets at the $5 blackjack tables in Reno, the house odds are starting
Arts & Entertainment 2006 IndieFest Award Winners But while we've been recovering, the tireless IndieFest staff has tabulated all those little ballots y'all filled out, and determined the 2006 IndieFest award winners -- after all, what's a film festival without
misc More Redevelopments In J-Town San Francisco Japantown's seen a lot in the last 100 years -- from the influx of Japanese-American immigrants after the 1906 earthquake and the development of an ethnic community, to its forced displacement
SF News SFist Tech Labs: Un-American Activities Fitting in with the internet theme of the proceedings, Lantos invoked Godwin's Law and compared the companies' compliance with the Chinese government with IBM's compliance with Nazi Germany in World War II. (Link
Arts & Entertainment Hotsy-Qatsi Is it wrong that when we saw the movie Koyaanisqatsi, about not despoiling the earth, we left the theater thinking, "wow, San Francisco would be a great city to live in!" Well, San
Arts & Entertainment A Little Wonder, a Little Con WonderCon has come, gone, and left us a little sad. For some reason, the magic we felt last year was lacking this time around. Maybe it's because we're just plain tired of the
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: <i>Yokai Daisenso</i> We acknowledge that it's a good movie, and that the violence isn't completely gratuitous. It makes a solid point about the objectification of women and the consequences of treating people as means to
SF News The Search for a Silver Lining With about 1:17 left in the first quarter of Saturday's game against the Cleveland Cave-ins, Warriors Nation saw the season flash before its eyes when Baron Davis came down for a rebound
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Kang Je-gyu SFist contributor MiHi Ahn had an opportunity to correspond with Director Kang through an intrepeter, see their conversation after the jump! By SFist MiHi Ahn, contributing
Arts & Entertainment The 2006 San Francisco Korean American Film Festival We know, we know, the website is damn near impossible to navigate and just plain confusing. We promise the time you devote to wading through it will be worth your while, as there
SF News Bush/Cheney Escape Another Close Call So why did Elsbernd push it off to committee, a sure-fire way to delay the sucker and keep the thing from ever being voted upon? Says Elsbernd in Matier & Ross: "I have
SF News Bang The Left-Wing Drum Slowly As promised, SFist in fact did not watch the State of the Union address -- though we did catch part of it as we went to stock up on booze at the corner
