“It’s been a hell of a year,” Tom Higgenson of Plain White T's told Entertainment Weekly. “But I’m really looking forward to the next one, too.” Plain White T's have received a Grammy nomination for "Best Song of the Year" for the over-played, hugely popular song, "Hey There, Delilah." Higgenson should be worried about writing his next big hit before we start saying, Plain White Who? The second single of their latest album, "Our Time Now" isn't cutting it. more ›

We have the latest and hottest political news today, coming to you from the best place to get the hottest California political news, the gossip pages. Which raises this interesting question: for those of us who read celebrity news to get away from politics, where do we go when politics become part of the gossip pages? And will all of this mean that we should start watching "Extra!" to get the lastest news on the Plame indictments? Anyways, in Monday's edition of the Examiner’s "The Scoop," there is a blurb about Entertainment Weekly saying that Warren Beatty "has been telling anyone who will listen that he plans to unseat Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger." And Cindy Adams writes in her Page Six column in the New York Post that the Governator is so pissed about the President poaching off his Republican money men, which he did last week and which the Governor was once again a very conspicuous no show, that he basically told the White House off and is threatening to become a Democrat over the whole thing. more ›

"SFist Watches TV" returns to the schedule on a new night...er, day, to better help you make sense of what the boob tube has to offer for the week ahead. more ›

How do you decide what to read? We admit that we sit down each week with the and the SFPL's online reserve system. In addition, we get a lot of referrals from friends (especially our fellow SFist, who always seem to be reading something interesting), and we do a lot of browsing at our fine local independent bookstores. How about you? more ›

Everyone seems to describe spoken word artist and writer/poet Beth Lisick as "fizzy" -- but she really is! City Lights was packed to the gills with Missionistas who walked up Columbus from the Montgomery BART/MUNI stop, eager to send Ms. Lisick off in style for the first stop on her book tour. City Lights generously sprung for champagne, wine, and foccacia, but we were too worried about losing our seat to actually get any. Beth Lisick's new book, Everyone into the Pool is a collection of personal essays from childhood to 16th and Mission and onto motherhood, about "turning out too weird to fit into the mainstream world... but being too normal for the fringe." So, you know, essays about diligently attempting to be bisexual, the humiliation of SuperShuttle dropping you off on a crack block, dressing up like a banana for the Fruit Guys -- you know, living in San Francisco. It got an A from Entertainment Weekly! What it was like writing The Buzz Life SFGate column, after the jump. more ›

One of Gothamist's favorite comedians, Todd Barry, will be performing six shows starting tonight at eight at the Purple Onion and running through Sunday. Who is Todd Barry? Well, find out for yourself by reading the interview he did with Gothamist (where, to the world's chagrin, he declined to answer the question "Imagine prostitutes gave receipts. Imagine you go to prostitutes. What do you think your receipt would have on it?"). more ›

We awoke to Jan Wahl excoriating and Leeishly wondered "is that all there is"? Some time spent on the internerd answers this question affirmatively. In fact, the coolest looking film event this weekend isn't a movie at all! more ›