SF News That Rain? Fogettaboutit! Summer Is Here. In the last 155 years of area record keeping (yes if you didn't know there was a SFist weatherist way back in 1850) it's only rained 12 times on June 8th in San
Arts & Entertainment Calling All Font Film Auteurs The Typophile Film Festival is now accepting entries for its 2005 edition, to be shown at TypeCon 2005 in NYC this July. Last year's festival featured two of the shorts we created (catch
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: SFist Unscripted (the Drinking Game) Those of you who read SFist Watches have probably deduced that your Junkie's TV viewing habits consist solely of KRON 4 News at 11 and Animal Cops SF. (It's not true -- sometimes
SF News A's Brand Baseball Goes to Washington In which we review a homestand, and preview the first series of a road trip to the NL East: A's third baseman Eric Chavez was named American League Player of the Week for
Arts & Entertainment (Yet) Another Hole in the Head: SFist Has You Covered The fun begins Thursday night at 8 with the launch party at the Rickshaw stop, which includes a screening of . Right after the movie, bands The Formaldebrides, The Godz of Rock, and the
SF News Shilling Schwarzenegger The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights slammed the ads and has asked Arnold to return the money he received from the advertisers. You can also bet dollars to doughnuts, whatever that means,
SF News Root, Root, Root for the Home Team Hey Bay Area baseball fans, take a deep breath of relief as your offensively challenged, injury riddled, questionably GM'ed baseball team faces off against another offensively challenged, injury riddled, questionably GM'ed Bay Area
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Citizen Cope When we met Citizen Cope, a.k.a. Clarence Greenwood, back in our New York City days, we thought he was handsome, mysterious and reserved. In other words, a little unnerving. We soon
Arts & Entertainment Punk Farm Then he emailed us about his newest opus, . He told us, "I'm especially excited about it, so any plug that you could give it would be so appreciated (Ed note: Ask, and ye
SF News Everybody Loves a Hagiography He also wants the paper to work more with its Web site as a "continuous" news source, but admits a lack of interest in blogs, claiming many are just "people writing about what
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: An Interview With Dan Leone. Before we talk with Dan, let's wrap up the Yucatan definitely-not-yuck-a-thon: since last week we had the opportunity to sample City Blend Cafe's cochinita pibil. City Blend is a coffee shop on 16th,
SF News A's Brand Baseball: Fools in the Rain Baseball is, like, so weird. A 6-game homestand that included Barry Zito’s first win since last July, Rich Harden’s first major league complete game and the catch of Eric Byrnes's life
misc A Bear By Any Other Name What the what is that the San Francisco Zoo has gotten themselves in a bit of a pickle over the naming of two new grizzly bears that they rescued from Montana. The zoo
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Beyond Our Ken</i> North American Premiere It’s the story of two girls -- Shirley, who’s dating a doofy firefighter named Ken, the other, Chan, his ex-girlfriend. Chan introduces herself one night to Shirley, explaining that Ken has
SF News A's Brand Baseball: Do We Hear Three in a Row? Here at SFist, we think a win is a win is a win and we’ll take those two. We’ll also take it if the Seattle Mariners, in town for three games
SF News Your Giants: Breeding Lilacs out of the Dead Land Let's just come right out and say it: the Giants, now 8-10, had a crappy week. They went two-and-five against teams that, even without Barry Bonds (whose return is still shrouded in steroid-enhanced
Arts & Entertainment On The Road with Electric Six Electric Six are a rock band from Detroit who want you to enjoy yourself, whether that's through the guitar-heavy dance grooves they deliver, or through their laugh-out-loud lyrics. Don't get them wrong; they
SF News A's Brand Baseball: Good Seats Still Available We hope the crowds will start doing the same as nights at the Coliseum get warmer, as much as we enjoyed having the stadium to ourselves (announced attendance: 15,860). It's great baseball,
SF News Back To Oakland The promising new and/or young players have so far delivered upon their, uh, promise: Nick Swisher hit two home runs against the Orioles on Wednesday, Danny Haren struck out six in six
misc Last Dance at SJSU This all started last month when a long-time booster and alumni Ray Silva, 74, complained about a performance the dance team was doing to the tune of LL Cool J’s "Move Sometin'"
SF News Your 2005 Giants: Six Down, <strike>154</strike> 156 to Go Considering that the Giants are missing their two biggest bats and have suffered through a couple of ugly bullpen metltdowns in the last few games, they've got to be pretty pleased with their
Arts & Entertainment SXSW Music Wrap Up For those of you who aren't familiar, SXSW is the biggest music festival in the U.S., happening over five days and four nights each year in gorgeous Austin, Texas. More than 1,
Arts & Entertainment Santa Rosa: San Francisco's Best Kept Secret Though SFist can't possibly imagine why, there are in fact human settlements outside the immediate vicinity of the city. Life is rough out on the frontier, but these terraformed colonies all enjoy the
Arts & Entertainment Your Commute: Sucks News flash! Traffic is really bad around here! The Examiner is starting a six-part series looking at specific traffic jam spots, what's wrong with them from a civil engineering perspective, and what we
