Class and Power in Queer San Francisco: Come hear poets Meliza Bañales and Solidad de Costa, circus performer Keith Hennessy, and writer Michelle Tea push forth the homosexual agenda. Mwa ha ha. They will also touch upon the "schisms between different classes" among the queer community. That is to say, being poor and gay, like, really sucks. Starts at 7:30 p.m. at CounterPULSE; free. Secret Sunshine (2007): South Korea's official Oscar entry is a......

SFist interviews Mike Birbiglia and gives away tickets to his upcoming show at Cobb's. ...

-- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: A typical night at the cabaret this is not. The last time we saw Connie Champagne perform (during her stint at the Plush Room), tweakers were passing out in the audience, drunks wept into their vodka rocks, and Connie busted out a dead-on tribute as Judy Garland. Performing Garland's classics (like "San Francisco") as well as songs she might have crooned ("Bohemian Rhapsody" and "A Case of You"), Champagne......

Did you miss us last week? Here are our excuses: we caught a cold, had a birthday, and were up to here with work at our dayjob, for real. We're back now and anxiously awaiting a copy of Or, the Whale's brand new CD Light Poles and Pines to arrive in our mailbox. The few songs we've previewed on their site offer up banjo, steel guitar, and a chorus of male and female vocals......

What Made Milwaukee Famous just want to make your day a little better with their bouncing rhythms, pop melodies and plinking pianos. What, are you in a mood again? They've got something for that too. Just give them a listen and come as you are on Tuesday night when they play Cafe Du Nord. We're giving away a pair of tickets to one lucky winner. Tonight, the UK invades Popscene with Klaxons and Amy......

Inspired by Santarchy and Bad Santa, a bunch of people have started up their very-own Easter themed bar crawl, the Bad Bunny Bar Crawl. For those of you who missed it (including ourselves because NOBODY TOLD US ABOUT US), here's some photos of the event. Inspired by Santarchy and Bad Santa, a bunch of people started up their very-own Easter themed bar crawl, the Bad Bunny Bar Crawl. For those of you who missed it......

Conan O'Brien and his "Late Night" crew are coming to San Francisco for a week starting April 30th. The shows will be taped at the Orpheum theater. He's scheduled to make the announcement on his show tonight, along with details on how to get tickets. (We've been clicking on supposed link to get tickets for a while now, and the dang page just won't load!) What kind of San Francisco-centric guests would you like......

We just looked at the SFist Watches we posted last Christmas and you know what? The TV offerings are basically the same this year! Darlene Love performing the best Christmas song ever, "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" on Letterman tonight? Check. Twenty-four hours of A Christmas Story on TBS starting on Christmas Eve? Check. It's a Wonderful Life on Christmas Eve, (albeit on NBC and butchered by an hour's worth of commercial interruptions)? Check.......

This week, it's safe to go back into the water as the Aquatic Park Lagoon has been reopened for swimmers. The lagoon had been closed due to the recent wave of sea lion attacks but park rangers have declared the water safe. ...

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......

'Twas the night before the night before Christmas, and all through the house, "Creature Comforts" was airing, and it included a few mouse....er...mice. OK. We promise never to attempt lame rhyming ever again. But we DID want to let you know that there's a "Creature Comforts" marathon on BBC America tonight, starting at 7:30 p.m. with the premiere of "Merry Christmas Everybody!" If you've ever seen Nick Park's Oscar-winning short "Creature Comforts," then you......

Piedmont is known for being full of seriously nice houses -- we always joked that the city's raison d'etre is so that rich folks wouldn't have an address in Oakland (okay, we bear a grudge -- we were denied a pass to the Piedmont tennis court because we lived three doors down from the city line). But David Letterman has made the kids at Piedmont High known across the country thanks to a quirky......

A Holly Jolly bar review column, desperately trying to clear our head of those damn dancing sugar plums so that we can hail a cab home, by Drew. This week's special Christmas edition, "They Took My Bar Away!" (Loosely based on a David Letterman sketch about the cancellation of the short-lived TV series, 'Manimal' in 1983). It's a tale of love, loss and booze. And as an added bonus, the bar reviewed has a big......

We realize you've probably got more important things to do this week than watch TV. Perhaps your shopping isn't quite done. Or maybe you still haven't packed for that trip home, much less braced yourself for the glut of family encounters ahead. So we'll keep this week's guide short, sweet, and for those who actually stay in the City over the holidays. (Not that we're complaining. The fact that no one really seems to......