ROCK: Over at Edinburgh Castle, the aptly-titled indie-punk band Cupids headlines tonight along with Levator (Seattle) and Dazzling Strangers. *FILM: The film you all had to sit through in English Lit class goes up on the big screen, Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet. In addition to the gorgeous Shakespearean tragedy, KRON 4's Jan Wahl interviews Olivia Hussey ("Juliet") and the divine Connie Champagne performs. (Psst, Connie Champagne will be the highlight of the night.......

Compelling television's loss is the bargain bin's gain. KRON 4 is up for sale. Again. Amid a "high level of interest," it seems, Young Broadcasting plans on possibly peddling the network to the highest bidder. KRON 4, once the golden child as the Bay Area's NBC affiliate, was sold eight years ago and turned into an independent station. After seeing much of the KRON 4 news team jump ship - like Pete Wilson (RIP),......

Oakland Interfaith Gospel Ensemble: This awe-inspiring gospel ensemble from "the other side of the Bay," noted for its "interfaith, multi-racial, and multi-cultural" makeup -- will get you in the mood. The Christmas-y mood, that is. And if you can't handle all of the holiday joy abounding, there are plenty of bars around the neighborhood where you can get your joy on, booze-wise. The singing starts at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. at Slim's; $15.Midnight......

Now, here's something for Jan Wahl to aspire to be: Maria Salas, entertainment coorespondant for South Florida's NBC 6. You can watch the on-air personality -- an exhausting and worrisome job title if ever we've heard one -- here, or catch it after the jump. (Note: Sorry about the commercial before the video; it's not ours. Proceed at your own risk.)......

Yee-ha! It's animal roundup time! Thanks to reader SFOJim, who sent along this adorable picture of the coyote in Golden Gate Park. Run, boy, run! There's two or three coyotes who live around the Richmond. It's Blessing of the Animals time again! Churches all over are celebrating St. Francis of Assisi's feast day today, October 4, and throughout the week as well. We missed the one in SF, though -- it was last week. A......

This week's offerings represent the Bay Area's diversity. If that's too PC for you, go for the ones with a touch of taboo....

...had the server not been down. (Things look a little better now after hours, but expect further delays tomorrow). Update: Hey! Comments are back! Try 'em so we can see if they're still screwed up! They had the cable car bell-ringing contest today. The 4-time champ was unseated by another former champ. Jan Wahl won best celebrity ringer, and donated her $1000 to Pets Unlimited. Our only question -- who else competed? Please say......

KRON is in a little bit of trouble these days. Due to the fact an entire schedule of local news and Dr. Phil does not attract the biggest audience, they've been having trouble paying the bills. So instead of laying off more and more people or figuring out something that would attract a bigger audience (hint-- 24 hours of "Buffy") they went and dangled their integrity in front of the highest bidder. So that weeklong special on traveling to Australia? Sponsored by the Australian tourism board. Same with an in-depth, investigative, eleven part special on spas. ...

Creativity Explored is an organization that fosters the artistic talents of developmentally-disabled adults, not only to provide independence and self-sufficiency to the artists but also to give the general public access to their work. They've been around for over 20 years. Creativity Explored is holding its annual benefit next Thursday, March 30, which features a silent auction of portraits of over 40 local celebrities made by their artists. That's Gavin Newsom up to your right,......

As our cab pulled up to the Castro Thursday night, our driver said "ANOTHER film festival? Don't we have one of those every week?" While a look at our email inbox indicates that he's not that far off base, dude, it's IndieFest! If IndieFest happened every week, we'd be in the hospital, rehab, or morgue, but we would have had a hell of a time getting there. Joining the crown filing into the The......

Saturday: We'll be empowering ourselves through sports and the arts at the Mack Daddy Caddy Urban Country Club. Get to Club 6 at 11 AM to hear a free to the public panel discussion between The RZA, Senior PGA tour legend Walter Morgan, Evil E, and Kevvy Kev on the empowering nature of hip-hop and golf, and stay for the $15 concert at 2 PM. Sunday: Our favorite Litquake event happens today with Off......

This might get us in a bit of trouble, but we actually like the Chron's token conservative columnist Debra Saunders. Yes, we don't usually agree with her, but we like the fact that she has the intellectual integrity to call foul on her own side when she disagrees with them. Frankly, our political discourse would be a whole lot better if pundits didn't just repeat the party line. Every once in awhile, however, Debra grabs......

Seriously, is the only good Sucker Free City entertainment gossip coming to us via KRON-courting mayors past and present? When Gavin isn't giving Phil Matier the scoop on Rush Hour 3, Willie Brown is confiding to rabble rouser Jan Wahl that deposed royalty The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Will Smith, will be living and working in San Francisco while shooting the as yet untitled Chris Gardner story. Gardner, the highly successful stockbroker who was......

It's all about bravery, people. But don't misplace your faith. Supporters rally for Gerardo Sandoval, whereas Jan Wahl has trouble with the audience. Dave Chappelle comes to town. How come we didn't know? Because we don't have B-list stars calling us like the Gavster does. Sean Elsbernd -- maybe not so good at math. He is, however, well mannered -- a rare quality these days. We're not narcissists, we're just self-aware. Unless, of course,......

Okay, it's time for us to come clean. This whole blogging thing? It's been fun, but it's all just been an excuse to get in KRON-4's pants. And it worked! This past Saturday, KRON invited a couple hundred of us bloggers to a meetup in its secret headquarters, located at the bottom of two firepoles concealed in the library of stately Wayne Manor. It seems that the station's got a new media consultant who's......

We awoke to Jan Wahl excoriating The Longest Yard 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! We've been enjoying Balboa Theater owner Gary Cannes Reports, and he'll be augmenting them Saturday at 11:15 a.m. at the Balboa. Gary, "representatives of film festivals who scouted for movies, and a local......

There's not a whole lot of movies opening up this weekend, or at least none mentioned in the Chron as they were too busy with their annual "New Year's Eve Hat" cut-out, a tradition looked forward to by no one and an idea so lame it doesn't even work ironically. Suffice it to say, that with the big holiday movies already being released, the studios have been quietly dumping their Oscar-bait movies on us, those......

Today is, of course, Festivus. And with Festivus comes the traditional airing of grievances. Not to mention acknowledgement that we stole the idea from the Daily Quickie column on ESPN.com’s Page 2. So, in celebration of the most holy of holidays, we here at Sfist would like to air our grievances. Sfist Rita’s grievances are that she is cheesed off that she only just started watching the Matt Gonzalez show on public access this......