The opening night gala is more a fashion show than a musical performance, and was at Davies Symphony Hall on Wednesday night to compliment each other on their expensive outfits. Here you can learn who is wearing an Alexander McQueen dress with her Jimmy Choos, which you are totally dying to know. more ›

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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), Wendy Tokuda, and wet dream-inducing Ross Palumbo - the place was renovated into the Fox News Corp's MyNetwork TV. Ta-da. (Really, the station could have saved itself if they had planned a local reality show on the lives of crystal meth-infused trannies. We're not kidding.) more ›

The singing starts at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. at Slim's; $15.

Now, here's something for Jan Wahl to aspire to be: Maria Salas, entertainment coorespondant for South Florida's NBC 6. more ›

Yee-ha! It's animal roundup time! more ›

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. more ›

...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! more ›

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. more ›

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. more ›

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. more ›

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. more ›

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 a big bucket of popcorn, a pen and paper, and plays Jan Wahl. Which is fine, we've played movie critic a few times too. Except that when she does, the usually intelligent Saunders smokes whatever stuff Anne Coulter does and goes on some liberal conspiracy tirade, seeing liberal propaganda in the least political of movies. more ›

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 , 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. more ›

It's all about bravery, people. But don't misplace your faith. more ›

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 blog-friendly, and a lot of their staff members are churning out blogs on their own, so now KRON's realizing that it wants in. 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 ›

and that it's not in reference to Ian Ziering (as the Sports Guy on ESPN put it- "when you've worked with Eastwood, Freeman, Ziering and Morita in a 10-year span…that's a career."). Also being released today is Moolaadé, a cheery holiday movie about female genital mutilation. Sounds like a perfect movie for that post-New Year's Hangover. more ›

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. more ›