Can you believe it's been a year since James Kim died in the Oregon mountains? We're very sorry to pass along the news that another Northern California family is missing in what we're hoping is not going to be another family holiday tragedy story. The Dominguez family went out last Sunday to cut down Christmas trees in the Sierra mountains: the father, Frederick, and his three children, Christopher (18), Alexis (15), and Joshua (12). That's......

Coming out of the Fall Out Boy/Gym Class Heroes/Plain White T's concert (which we'll cover later) we ran into the Invisible Children's van. Pete Wentz, an avid supporter of the organization that helps Uganda's children, talks about this at all of his concerts. He raises awareness and asks for donations, sells emo-inspired t-shirts, sweatshirts and anything else that 13 year-old fans want. (Kudos to him!) Apparently there is even a van that helps promote......

Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. Standouts: 1. Serj Tankian - Elect the Dead: With his newest single, "Empty Walls," System of the Down's front man sings a passionate protest against the war. He cleverly sets his newest video in a daycare juxtaposing the violence of day-to-day objects such as silly-string, bubbles, helmets, doll houses and even a fun-dome filled with hundreds of plastic balls. His......

There's nothing pedestrians love more than running into groups of college students clustering on the sidewalk with clipboards and messagey t-shirts, making intense eye contact and hollering, "HI OKAY WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAVE THE WORLD AWESOME YAY." Now at last you can be one of those dreadful people, and on behalf of Barry "The Mad Bomber" Hussein Mussolini Obama! The campaign's San Francisco Walk for Change starts this Saturday, the 9th, in Dolores......

It's our turn to read the Weeklies this week, and we start with SFist Sarah L's pick of last week, the newly-re-indied East Bay Express. Congrats! The letters hate on the UC Regents. Something about racial bias in contracting, we didn't really understand it. The story behind those "nappy headed hos" t-shirts at Bear Basics. Cover article: Some well-paid lackey of "Golden Pig" Don Perata. Bless their hearts at the EBX! They've also started summarizing......

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Like the ant and the grasshopper, you can either fold t-shirts now to see Frameline films for free; or you can wait until June and pay to get in. We vote for folding t-shirts, of course. Or you can staff the press table if you prefer. Ryan Jones, the Volunteer Coordinator at the queer film fest, would like you to know that there's tons of opportunities for Frameline volunteers, in exchange for which you'll......

East Bay food critic SFist Julie hella hearts Oakland. Remember those days? My parents went to blah-blah-blah and all I got was this stupid... Well, if you go to Oakland's Bulldog Coffee Shop today from 6-7:30pm, not only will you get to enjoy Cindee de la Vara's newly-installed paintings, but also you will get free snacks and wine (natch), musical accompaniment by singer/guitarist Mercedes Skye (we wouldn't have it any other way) and access......

SFist Mihi leaps through the SFIAAFF for some warm-hearted, life-changing anime! This is why we go to film festivals. Once in a while you get to see a movie that you probably would have missed if it weren't for film festivals, but has made your life just a little bit better. A movie that transforms you. A movie that makes your heart swell and your soul sing. A movie that makes you weep silent streams......

LA's The Love Movement, an art collective whose members are recent Philadelphia transplants, are changing the world with love and art—not in a hippy way, but in a hip way. They are wise beyond their years but fresh and innocent at the same time. They recently bought a well in West Africa, and Integrity Fashions had a piece of their artwork printed on t-shirts to draw awareness to the genocide in Darfur. Add them on MySpace to be part of the love and to stay updated on their latest projects. The Love Movement are having an art show called "Love Conquers All," a collaboration with the Love Bandits, on Saturday night at the fabulous Space Gallery, and they will be giving away free art. They invite you to come and "share the love." ...

As if we don't have enough wars going on, the first shots were fired in yet another war, that being the War on Easter. Five years ago, at the behest of a Jewish resident, Walnut Creek decided to take the Easter out of Easter and replace it with spring. So the Easter Bunny became the Spring Bunny, Easter Egg Hung the Spring Egg Hunt and so on and so forth. This was no big deal until somebody wrote into a newspaper complaining about it. And somewhere out there, Baby Jesus started crying. ...

The BAGeL Radio 4th Birthday Party was a blast last Thursday, with great music, cupcakes and even a reunion with one of our childhood best friends who we hadn't seen since we were three and a half feet tall. We saw great sets by Birdmonster and Division Day (unfortunately we missed Two Seconds) and a good time was had by all. Despite the fact that we killed BAGeL Radio for about five full minutes......

While reading the San Francisco Sentinel, we couldn't help but notice that Pat Murphy has made himself an extremely awesome personalized SFist t-shirt! (we don't have the rights to run the picture here, but it's the last picture on the page). LOVE! The San Francisco Sentinel IS First-Ist! Thanks for the support, Pat! Anyways, if Pat's shirt inspires you to make your own personalized SFist gear too, check out our Spreadshirt.com shop, which should be......

Last Friday, the Examiner got their hands on a bunch of statistics and a calculator and crunched a whole bunch of numbers about crime in the city. Their verdict is that curiously, the number of homicides has gone up but the number of people arrested for said homicides has gone down. It doesn't take a math major to realize that's not very good. ...

Today we're going to write about the Web site Wolfgang's Vault, one of those things we were always meaning to write about but never got the chance to. For various reasons which we'll get to later, we're going to write about it today. ...

Today's edition of the SFist Holiday Gift Guide is Upper Playground duffel bags. Better yet, in this Holiday Gift Guide, we have 10 gifts to give away so it means even that much more people can win....

Don't go buying your brand new "San Jose of Fremont by way of 92" or "Bay Area 49ers of Santa Clara" t-shirts just yet because we're still a long way off from the moving trucks appearing. Things just ain't as easy as it sounds....

Who was fortunate enough to see Sufjan Stevens last week? We made our way to Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall for the first time, alone since our contact could only spare a single ticket but grateful to be able to continue SFist's support of Sufjan. Zellerbach Hall is a formal, seated venue built with the foremost value of great acoustics (rather than easy access to a sticky bar and stinky bathrooms). The majority of concertgoers looked to......

Whoa! A lady gave birth on the side of 101 at Bailey Avenue near San Jose early Sunday morning. The father called in to 911 at around 2:50 a.m. saying he needed an ambulance, but called back one minute later to say the baby was born fine. The ambulance came anyway, to take them to the hospital and (very impressively), CHP cleared the ensuing traffic jam in less than 30 minutes. A UC Berkeley student......

As we promised earlier this morning, in response to SFist MattyMatt's brilliant suggestion -- it's Ask Chris A Question! Do you have a burning question you'd like to ask Chris Daly? Post it in the comments! We can't promise you that he'll answer it or anything, but hey -- you never know, he might. Our first two questions are from commenter El Greco, and he wants to know: Why [are] 19 of the 34 pot......

It's our column about the sartorial elegance that is the District 6 supervisor election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates A T-Shirt. You know we've gotta click on an article titled "Supe's Daly Dose of Irritation" on the 'Gate! So it turns out that some SFPD members printed up on t-shirts the one-liner made to Matier and Ross by the head of their union (the SFPOA), Gary Delagnes: "I don't drink Diet Cokes, I drink screwdrivers......

Evesorange (16 Waverly Place @ Sacramento & Grant) Martin Hsu Original Illustrations Opening: Sat., Sept. 2, 6 – 10 p.m. On a sunny day in 1991, Martin Hsu arrived in Los Angeles, and after five years of animation at CSUF went on to create the much loved character Ruby Gloom. In a Victorian mansion on the outskirts of Gloomsville lives Ruby Gloom. Some kids might be afraid of the dark, eccentric neighbors and the unknown......

Last Friday night, Kathy Griffin, star of the Bravo reality show "My Life on the D-List" and heir apparent to the Sandra Bernhard/Joan Rivers style of snark and dish comedy -- without the singing and the dead husband -- brought down house at the Warfield with her second sold-out San Francisco show.

Onstage doing standup, Griffin is energetic and totally comfortable, with a loosely structured conversational routine that could seemingly go on forever. Her Robin Williams-like manic energy leads the audience on a frenetic, often disjointed, but always piercingly funny walkabout through American pop culture.

OK, so you need to know that we love Veselka. Maybe it reminds us of our grandmother's cooking, maybe it's the portions, maybe it's just a magical place, but we love it. We own two Veselka t-shirts and a few of their place settings. So we are overjoyed to hear that they now deliver, although this is a little disturbing. Can we sign a petition or something? And, how much do you think we'll have......

Who saw We Are Scientists at the Warfield last night? Perhaps the thing we like most about W.A.S. is how they make the most out of what they've got. They've trimmed the fat. There are no five-string basses or extraneous conga players. The drummer's kit is tastefully small. Everyone in the wiry trio does double duty, playing their instrument and singing along on harmony. And even though a lot of their sound relies on of-the-moment......

It's March, and that means all eyes are upon the sport of college basketball. And why not? College basketball is primal, peppy, loud, fun, historic, goofy, social, exciting, unpredictable, decisive, brave, clean, and reverant....

For those people feeling down that it's been weeks since the last good rally, cheer up, cause there's going to be a rally tomorrow in front of the Danish embassy. The Free Republic will sponsor tomorrow’s rally. The Free Republic? Yep, the Free Republic. As in one of the largest and most notorious conservative organizations in the land. As in an organization that has on its Web site a whole section titled "Pray for President Bush" and mean it in a completely sincere, non-snarky way. Do conservatives rally? Do they even know how to? Do they do drum circles? Will people hold up signs calling for the execution of Mumia? We thought they were too busy running everything to protest. ...

While we've never run Bay to Breakers, we've run our share of road races and have the drawer of dorky, lame t-shirts to prove it. That's one of the reasons that though we're not even sure where our running shoes are, we're tempted to enter the Bay To Breakers t-shirt contest. All details are here, so take a look at them if you're interested. Then a "panel of judges will select five finalists, and past......

While we've always been cute, we're feeling extra adorable today. Have we lost weight? Hahaha no. Adult acne cleared up? Afraid not. The only reason for our feeling pretty: we've got hot and sexxy new custom SFist clothing and accessories! We'll admit to a bit of label whoredom in the past, but we'd way rather wear stuff that promotes our beloved SFist than, say this guy. Besides, when's the last time Tom Ford let you......

We're clearing out our archive of cafe press SFist schwag, and find ourselves with three discontinued-style SFist t-shirts, (all sized an adult's unisex small). How hott will you look in one of these SFist t-shirts? Pretty damn hott. Enter below by Monday at midnight to win one of the three different ts, and we'll throw in an SFist button for good measure.......