Tuesday night at the Eureka Theater, SF Sketchfest presented an up-tempo, mostly hysterical conglomeration of audio-visual entertainment. Interesting that this was Sketchfest's first-ever video night, when it's exactly the kind of evening you'd think would go by the wayside our YouTube world. (Hell, we've even got a video on YouTube, and we don't own a camera!)...

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At the request of our august editor, in honor of this Saturday's townhall meeting and Gavin Newsom chicken-out from Question Time, we're running the YouTube clip of the Chicken Dance from Arrested Development. Gavin Newsom totally needs a GOB in his administration. Aw, COME ON!......

We've had a pretty good time these past couple of years going to the San Francisco Sketchfest and we're pretty excited it's coming around again. This year, Sketchfest starts up January 11th and promises to be just as good as the previous years. ...

Late last night, Yahoo! of all sites was reporting that the leak in the BALCO case was Victor Conte's defense lawyer. Or at least that's what the FBI is thinking as they've launched an investigation. ...

It's looking like a wet weekend as we got a major storm headed our way. Throw in some cold temperatures and it's looking like it's the kind of weekend to stay in, wear pajamas, and catch up on "Arrested Development" repeats on G4. How bad does it sound? Says a weather service guy: "We're looking for winter to step through the door sometime on Friday," The storm will also bring with it big swells and whatnot so the only people who will psyched on the weekend will be surfers. ...

With the advent of this Internet thingamabob, newspapers are finding themselves in quite a world of Darwinian hurt. In short, adapt or die. Lately, the Chron has been adapting by having some of their most favored writers do blogs on the SFGate side. Not a bad idea really as we're sure the idea of paying $30 a year to read Jon Carroll's cat columns is not going to bring in the cash money. How they've been getting the writers to do it is a good question as we have a feeling not many of them were that psyched on the idea. We're thinking either by gun point or with long-lost incriminating photos. ...

Well, friends. The end has officially arrived. "Arrested Development" producer Mitch Hurwitz announced yesterday that they would not be pursuing any offers to continue the series on another network. One could take that to mean that they weren't getting enough money, or not everyone needed to continue the show was willing to continue the show, or everyone thought it was better to go out with three seasons of brilliance than with untold seasons of......

The event seemingly everyone-and-their-senile-uncles was waiting for happened last night, so we can finally move on to other blips on the TV landscape. Don't get us wrong. We totally dug "The Sopranos," but we must have suffered from some severe, Uncle Junior-level memory loss in the two years since the last season ended. We were...confused, to say the least. Anyone prepared to give us a complete history of all the characters that appeared in last......

SFist loves all things local, especially our bands. In between releasing the new album, and touring in support of it, Film School’s Krayg Burton answered SFist’s questions. We were especially thrilled with his choice of best taco (La Taqueria) because not only is it our favorite as well, but it also gives us a legit (semi) reason to name drop. So guess who SFist saw there on Saturday night? David Cross! Fresh out of......

SFist has been adjusting to a new job this week, and has fallen way behind on TV viewing. But one thing that we haven't forgotten is the two-hour season (and possible, series) finale of "Arrested Development" tonight. And how could we forget, really, what with all the TV commercials (did you see the one during the Superbowl?), billboards, and pop-ups we've seen promoting it these past few weeks. It seems like a lifetime since......

Seeing the UCB: A.S.S.S.S.C.A.T. show was, to once again put it in musical terms, like seeing some super group playing a small, intimate theater in an effort to get back to their roots. Why? Because the cast of this show included "SNL" cast members Amy Poehler, Rachel Dratch and Horatio Saenz, as well as Will Arnett (Gob from "Arrested Development"!!!! ) and not-as-famous Matt Besser (grandson of an original Three Stooge, Joe) doing improv for over an hour. All this in the tiny and intimate Eureka Theater. The show was frickin' great. ...

Cole Stratton isn't just one of the founders of SF Sketchfest, which starts tomorrow. (Are you going? We are, and you should, too.) We should have asked him what he did to attract performers from Mr. Show, The Kids in the Hall, Saturday Night Live, Stella, The State, The Daily Show, Arrested Development, and The Upright Citizens Brigade to the Fest, as well as ask him what local stars of the comedy stage Kasper Hauser,......

We really got a kick out of reading everyone's TiVo (or plain old TV) top tens last week. The presence of "Lost" and "Arrested Development" on many of the lists was pleasing, while the avid devotion to "Dancing With the Stars" continues to perplex some of us at SFist. Perhaps we'll tune in to Fox's rip-off "Skating with Celebrities" next week instead, as it seems to have even more comedic potential (Todd Bridges on......

The Year 2005 has finally come to an end, and none too soon. It kind of blew. We have higher hopes for 2006. But even though the calendar may say 2006, and even though vacation is officially over, you'd never know it by watching TV. This is another week where the reruns outnumber the new episodes. Come next week, that will no longer be the case, but we're hard-pressed to really find anything to......

First, a little politics. Nancy Pelosi calls for the declassification of her memo to the administration regarding secret surveillance of American citizens. Ann Harrison has an exhaustive first-person account on the recent medical marijuana dispensary raids. Executive Editor Chris Lopez softens the "Wiretap Scandal" headline at the Contra Costa Times. And Dan Gillmore is going non-profit and creating a Center for Citizen Journalism along with Cal Berkeley and Harvard, causing some to ask whither......

First, the obvious: There are two episodes of "Arrested Development" airing tonight, a new one at 8 p.m, and a re-run of "My Hand to God," in which Buster tries to deal with the loss of his hand, and Michael attempts to find out if he's really the father of Maggie's child. (Julia Louis Dreyfuss guest stars.) In other news, we were pretty bummed when we realized we had missed Oprah's Christmastime Favorite Things......

We were going to make this post short and simple: Watch "Arrested Development tonight, dammit!" But we realized that while we've made frequent pleas for that in the past, the show's demise still seems imminent. Our powers of TV-viewing persuasion aren't as strong as we'd thought. So, in addition to urging you to watch "AD" tonight at 8 p.m. on Fox, we'd also like to suggest that you go out and purchase seasons one......

We usually aren't very into those "Separated At Birth" bits you find all over the internets, but this one is kind of fun. On Deadspin the other day, Deadspin Will was pointing out a "Separated at Birth" connection between ESPN commentator Jay Bilas and GOB, master magician and puppeteer from the tragically cancelled "Arrested Development" (the show everyone claimed to watch, yet supposedly nobody did, and if you were one of the one's who didn't watch, we're totally blaming you), a commenter pointed out that Bilas isn't GOB's twin as much as our very own Mayor, Gavin Newsom, is. We're not sure ourselves, but it sure is something to ponder and think about as we reminiscence about all the good times we had with the Bluth family. And while we heard that during his Mayoral run, a confident Gavin played Eminem's "Lose Yourself" before campaign appearances, something we find funny for many a reason, the idea of Gavin playing "The Final Countdown" before campaign appearances we find even funnier. That's Gold, Jerry, Gold...

No, Bill, no! That's not Coit Tower! It was a week of O'No O'Reilly in these parts, as everyone from Peskin to Daly to Newsom to Pelosi to our faithful readers chimed in. Why are we giving him any more publicity? But it's so hysterically funny! When we weren't storming over Coit Tower, we were storming into the new H&M. Or storming about the LOUDLOUDLOUD Rolling Stones show, babies, and the cancellation of Arrested......

When news came Friday that Fox had decided to pull "Arrested Development" from November sweeps and cut the order of the show from 22 to 13 episodes, all-but officially cancelling the series, we were despondent. We were still re-watching last week's one-hour show, catching some of the jokes we missed the first time around, and Mondays were looking a little brighter with "Arrested Development" back on the air. But here it is, Monday again,......

November sweeps is upon us and you can kiss those nights of re-runs goodbye. We hope the past few weeks and their lack of new nightly programming meant you got out of the house for a change. But since the networks are back to pimping their products and the weather outside is frightful, you can come back inside and plant your ass on the couch where it really belongs. There. Isn't that better? Now,......

So, yes, yesterday was Gavin's big State of the City speech. In a speech entitled "Why it matters to be a San Franciscan," a question that answers itself if ever there was, in the fact that only in San Francisco would that question even be asked (for instance, we bet there’s never been a speech entitled "Why it matters to be a Topekan"), Gavin pronounced the city "strong and getting stronger." Just wondering, but has......

These are the dog days of TV watching. There aren't a lot of big summer series starting, and a lot of the networks are instead promoting their re-runs big time. (Such as the aforementioned "Arrested Development" blocks on Friday nights. As well as the return of "Boston Public Legal" on its new night, Tuesdays at 10 p.m.) This is, of course, in an effort to get the excitement rolling for all those season premieres......