On last night's Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert welcomed House Democratic Leader and California's 8th congressional district representative Nancy Pelosi. Although she had previously told Colbert she would never appear on the show, Pelosi showed up to discuss Super PACs, abortion, Rick Santorum, and the Disclose Act. Bonus preface footage: Colbert eating a bowl of Rice-A-Roni and wearing ash on his forehead in honor of Ash Wednesday. more ›

Award-winning jazz and cabaret performer extraordinaire Veronica Klaus will hit the floorboards next week at The Rrazz Room in her latest show, After Dark. In addition to being a noted artist and lush chanteuse, Klaus is also very much what San Francisco is all about and why we adore this place we call home. (She also kills it onstage. Seriously. Go see her. We implore you.) SFist recently asked Klaus to give us Twentysomething. She also chatted with us about her new show at the Rrazz Room, her favorite music, North Beach, and her little dog, too. more ›

Our second Pieces candidate (!) John Avalos has a rabid fan base compared to the other mayoral contenders. The notably progressive supervisor represents District 11, which consists of Crocker-Amazon, Excelsior, Ingleside, Oceanview, and the Outer Mission neighborhoods. more ›

Receiving his B.A. from the UC, Berkeley in 1981 and his J.D. from the UC Hastings in 1985, Jeff Adachi once acted as the president of the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area and the San Francisco Japanese American Citizen's League, as well as serving as a board member of the California Attorneys for Criminal Justice and the San Francisco Bar Association... more ›

Behold Bevan Dufty, your wittiest San Francisco mayoral candidate. The openly Pisces / former District 8 supervisor devoted more than 18 years of service to San Francisco, including eight years on the Board of Supervisors. Of Mr. Dufty's many accomplishments, the most pressing and remarkable has to be the fact that his godmother was Billie Holiday. Which, jealous. We sure are. Anyway, his Twentysomething answers are as follows: more ›

Serving his second term as President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, David Chiu stunned many wonk insiders after snatching the coveted SF Chronicle mayoral endorsement. Chiu serves as Supervisor for District 3, which his home to North Beach, Chinatown, Telegraph Hill, Russian Hill, Polk Street, Nob Hill, Union Square, the Financial District, the Barbary Coast and Fisherman's Wharf. He earned his undergraduate degree, law degree, and master's degree in public policy from Harvard University. But wait, there's more... more ›

SFist takes its popular Twentysomething interviewing feature to your top (sane) San Francisco mayoral candidates. Everyone from Ed Lee to Joanna Rees to Bevan Dufty to David Chiu will get a chance. We promise. Kicking things off is Michela Alioto-Pier. She served on the Board of Supervisors representing District 2, encompassing the Marina and Pacific Heights neighborhoods. Before that, Alioto-Pieer served as a member of the San Francisco Port Commission. more ›

Welcome again to Twentysomething, SFist's nifty interview series. This week we have iconic sex writer/guru Susie Bright answering our twenty questions of insight and probe, with a few personal queries thrown in for good measure. Bright, we should add, recently published an excellent memoir (seriously, it is excellent) called Big Sex Little Death. What's more, she will make a special appearance at the Victoria Theater this week to kick off the Good Vibrations Independent Erotic Film Festival. But more on that later. For now, read all about Bright's favorite San Francisco neighborhood (the answer might surprise you), her Zodiac makeup (wow, that's a lot of fire), her favorite restaurant, her views on "bareback" porn (wherein she invokes the good name of Justin Bieber), and why asking to choose between Berkeley and Oakland ain't right. more ›

In her first interview since being fired as CEO of Yahoo on Tuesday, colorful Carol Bartz didn't hold back when discussing her former employers. "These people fucked me over," she said to CNN. And it only gets better/worse. Here's how Bartz's impersonal firing went down. more ›

Welcome to Twentysomething, SFist's latest series of interviews. What exactly is Twentysomething, you ask? Well, similar to the Proust Questionnaire or the gobbledygook heard at the end of each Inside the Actor's Studio, we ask a bevy of famous subjects a series of sering questions, followed by a handful of tailor-made queries. (Hence TwentySOMETHING.) Launching the series today is none other than Stuart Schuffman (aka Broke-Ass Stuart)... more ›

Buster Posey's collision with Marlins rookie Scott Cousins still has fans and teammaktes alike livid. And rightfully so. The crash yanked the noted Rookie of the Year out for the rest of the season. Posey has since refused to return any of Cousins' apologetic phone calls. Which is understandable. He's hurt. We're hurt. Heavens' angels are hurt. Anyone with a heart is hurt. ... more ›

Volti invests in young composers like Kleiner-Perkins in fledgling entrepreneurs and with the same success: years after years this 20 person a capella choir keep unearthing new musical voices. Midwifing and nurturing new music has become the single minded focus of this San Francisco organization which started thirty two years ago by singing Bach. They quickly turned away from any score on which the ink has already dried, and took their name from the Italian for that u-turn, Volti. They're adding now to the choral repertoire the same way Kronos is pushing the boundaries of the string quartet. This takes guts when many musical institutions get cold feet and turn away from the modern stuff when the economy sours. But it pays off, as Volti now has international recognition, a trove of awards and attracts composers who'd kill to write for the choir. more ›

Tina Fey visited the Googleplex in Silicon Valley last week where she sat down for an interview with noted vaudevillian Eric Schmidt. Hilarity, of course, ensued. The 30 Rock creator/star discussed everything form raising her daughter, mobiel communications devices, differences between male and female writers, and her favorite laugh-inducing bit. Gawker boiled down the funnest parts here. Or, for diehard Fey fans, you can watch the entire hour-long interview below. Enjoy. We certainly did. more ›

by Erick Pressman When we were young, if you wanted to find new music, you went to a record store or at very least bought a copy of Spin, Rolling Stone, or one of the many genre specific music magazines that came and went over the last twenty years. Who knew that in the late 2000s, you could use cable television’s “On Demand” function, which features music videos as well as television shows and movies, to find new, and furthermore punk, bands you haven’t heard of. That, oddly enough, is how Broadway Calls first caught our attention. more ›

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by Naomi Kirsten Litquake’s most riveting event just may be its most violent. At least in theory. Literary Death Match co-creator and Opium magazine founding editor Todd Zuniga reveals why literature could use a serious smackdown—and why this Wednesday’s LDM100 may change your life. more ›

by Daniel Phifer The Eels have just released their ninth album, Tomorrow Morning, which is the final installment in their recent trilogy of records, preceded by 2009's Hombre Lobo and 2010's End Times, and will be at the Fillmore on October 11th. more ›

Obsessed over last night's Dan Noyes vs. Laguna Honda PR flack showdown? We sure are. It's uncomfortable. It's touchy-feely. It hints, but never reaches the point of, fisticuffs. It's everything we want from our local news outlets. ABC 7's Dan Noyes, as most of you know by now, got into an awkward confrontation with Director of Community Relations Marc Slavin (who, along with Hospital Director Mivic Hirose, ignored ABC 7's request for an interview, hence this surprise interview.) more ›

by Ben Kasman Ben Kasman spoke with artist Micke Tong, who himself has done some great interviews for SFist recently. Tong is having a solo show, Ground Control, which opens at Public Barber Salon on Saturday night and runs through May 16. Ground Control is the second part in a miniSeries, the first part of which was microHabitat, which was at the BellJar last summer. more ›

by Justin Juul M.C. Mars is a 59 year-old rapper with HIV who has been driving cabs for over thirty years. He’s also a published writer and a former sex machine. No big deal, really. The cool thing about Mars is that, even though he’s of-a-certain-age, unsigned, and grappling with an incurable disease, he still gets up every morning and makes shit happen on his own terms. He may not be the best rapper in the world and he may not be famous or wealthy, but at least he never rolled over and got a desk job. Instead, he performs weekly at Royale, makes music like crazy, and works on his upcoming novel every day... more ›

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by Micke Tong Artist Micke Tong spoke with inveterate DJ Tony Sison (Ts) about growing up in San Francisco, the club scene throughout the '90s and '00s, and Club Life/Style, Ts' latest endeavor with fellow Bay Area native/musician Raul Sanchez (DJ Roll). more ›

Yes, it's the time again when Bay Area chefs, critics, and other artisan slop notables break their silence on what junk food they let pass over their acclaimed, richly-textured palates. Everything from aged (read: stale) Swedish Fish to Tombstone Pizza (mmm) to Rotel cheese dip (quadruple mmm) to Beard Papa cream puffs receive tips of the hat from the gastronomic elite. Many thanks goes out to the fine food folks who participated. more ›

San Francisco Symphony music director Michael Tilson Thomas looks like a laid back conductor on stage: he makes sweeping gestures which sometimes seem (to us, anyway) too vague to contain a beat; often enough, it looks like he's surfing over the musical waves of the orchestra rather than leading them. And he has a genial bonhomie in chatting up the audience to introduce a piece here or there, as Keeping Score shows. more ›

Pianist Adam Tendler will perform John Cage's Sonatas and Interlude, a set of music for prepared piano. John Cage was an avant-garde music composer who pushed the boundaries of music. In 1952, inspired by the white paintings of Rauschenberg, he composed 4'33", a piece (and its expected duration) where the pianist sits at the keys, opens the lid, and then: silence. more ›

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art began its 75th anniversary celebration this weekend. Each department mined its archives and scoured through new work to present shows that would represent the museum’s impact... more ›

by Amy Crocker How does a girl from Marin County end up with a role in American Pie? According to Beth Behrs, with lots of luck. A graduate of the UCLA School of Film and Television, the Bay Area native is living and auditioning in Los Angeles - carving out a career in acting. Though she is a trained singer, her first film role is as the star of American Pie Presents: The Book of Love, which came out on DVD last Tuesday. SFist spoke with Behrs to get an insider’s perspective on the Hollywood ladder, American Pie, and of course, her run in with the cast of Twilight. more ›

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Why couldn't Newsom tell CBS 5's Hank Plante, "Yeah, I took off to Hawaii. And what, hooker? Somebody hold my earrings." more ›