Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog 'Round the World From Milwaukee to Israel to Australia, you can visit them all from the comfort of your theater seat right here in SF. We've got three shows and one festival for you this week,
SF News Hey, Navy: Leave Our Kids Alone The resolution, natch is non-binding and merely puts the city on record as opposing military recruitment. Schools merely have a choice on whether or not to follow it but as federal funds are
Arts & Entertainment Movietime with Debra Saunders This might get us in a bit of trouble, but we actually like the Chron's token conservative columnist Debra Saunders. Yes, we don't usually agree with her, but we like the fact that
SF News Jan Wahl, Mad as a Hatter Oh man, is this rich. Eric over at Rangelife recounts the following tale of impassioned activism against the evil movie studios who are scared shitless that someone might make a crappy copy of
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Jeffrey Anderson Worst movie of all time: Too many people dump too much abuse on horror and sci-fi movies when the real horror comes in the form of "Forrest Gump" -- truly the most monstrous
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
misc SFist Cares ... About the Long Weekend Memorial Day is also meant to honour those service men and women who have died in military service to the United States. Memorial Day services will be held at the Presidio, at the
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
SF News The Great Flag Fight With the two-year anniversary of the start of the Iraq War this Saturday, the SF Board of Supervisors (once again delving into foreign policy) unanimously passed a resolution to have the flag at
misc Happy St. Pat's from the Essefficist Like we said, it's Irish month around here. So here's the first annual Essefficist St. Patrick's Day column you've all been waiting for. We've got two questions today: one about a St. Pat's
Arts & Entertainment The War Memorial Code Philippines Founding Father Emilio Aguinaldo, while in exile from Spain in Hong Kong, conceived the flag. The flag incorporated various components of other Filipino flags and was designed to represent the Filipino rebellion
SF News Long Day's Journey Into WonderCon The first program we took in was a talk with some some guys who worked on the special effects for the Spielberg-directed War of the Worlds. The host promised the audience that they
SF News Barbara Boxer Cowboys Up about all of this, but it appears as though those rallies and e-mails to Sen. Barbara Boxer worked. Today, during a joint session of congress to certify the electoral vote count, Boxer, along
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads: Next Year Sfist Jon grudgingly admits: "Okay- I want to read War & Peace this year. Because every year I say to myself it's time I should read (aren't we supposed to read it?) and
Arts & Entertainment Probing the Depths of the Psyche...and not Getting Very Far So, this past October, a surreal fuss broke out on their message board, somewhat in the vein of The "If He Wants a War, I'll Give Him One" Hiker: some huffy individual (with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads Addendum: Author Events SFist enjoys going to literary events for a number of reasons, the least of which being that being at an actual book signing or reading makes us realize that these author are "Just
SF News The Bell-Ringer Brouhaha of Ought-Four Could there be more to the story of Salvation Army's bell ringers being asked to leave the grounds of Target stores than what the Chronicle is reporting? Founded over 120 years ago in
Arts & Entertainment They Want Two States Further amplifying the rivalry between here and there, the San Francisco Convention and Visitors' Bureau has launched a new website, called Not in L.A., supposedly to lure Angelenans up what they call
SF News Political Junkie: Anger Management Well, he wasn't wearing a t-shirt to promote his new rap album, but, like Ron Artest, Chris Daly ain't sorry. Well, that's not entirely fair. At yesterday's unprecedented censure motion hearings before the
Arts & Entertainment Rising From the Depths... Nothing caps off a day at the office like the site of a misunderstood monster stomping the corporate towers of Tokyo. When we watch Godzilla we can almost imagine what it must have
SF News Proposition It- San Francisco Style II But we digress. In yesterday's edition of Proposition It, we took a look at a lot of bond issues and lots of bureaucratic mumbo jumbo. Today, we move onto bigger and better things-
SF News Honoring the Fallen Derek over at Ephemera emailed us this morning to point out that he had visited the candlelight vigil in the panhandle organized by Berkeley's MoveOn.org and Win Without War and took some
Arts & Entertainment Academy Fight Song The Star-Spangled Banner was written by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812 on the back of an envelope as he saw with pride that the American flag still flew over Baltimore's
SF News Conservative Pundit to Brave Berkeley One of Rush Limbaugh's pet pundits Michelle Malkin has been invited by California Patriots, the politically conservative campus group at Cal, to speak about her book In Defense of Internment: The Case for
Arts & Entertainment Photo-Friendly, Photo-Averse Thomas Hawk, local San Francisco photo/blogger, posted an interesting essay on his experiences taking pictures at different private cultural venues around town. SFist found the link on Boing Boing, which often covers
