Ingrid Michaelson is back - this time on the hugely popular, Hotel Cafe Tour. She'll be here on Friday night at the Great American Music Hall. It is sold-out but we did find one ticket on craigslist, for only $22! Cary Brothers, Meiko, William Fitzsimmons, Jim Bianco and Jessie Baylin will also be hanging out playing some great music. Tonight, MAE and The Honorary Title will be performing at Slim's. Phillyist, gave MAE a......

*FILM: She Done Him Wrong (1933) screens at the Castro Tonight. What's is about? Well, according to CinemaSource, "Lady Lou works as a singer at the Gay Nineties saloon of Gus Jordan, who plays her with diamonds to keep her by his side. She runs afoul of stalwart Salvation Army captain Cummings, who warns her that she''s on the road to perdition. Though Lou herself steers clear of criminal activities, Gus Jordan runs a......

It's been a long time since we randomly clicked on a band's website and were utterly captivated by the music we heard. We saw Bowerbirds' name and photo in Cafe Du Nord's show listings and were drawn to listen to the songs they stream on their site. It's amazing the beauty you can find sometimes just by turning over a few rocks. The music is homespun and intimate; Phil's gentle croon and the spare......

We try to keep our new feature Day Around The Bay pretty short -- so these three longer items we found in our relentless scouring of local news sources have been relegated to their own separate post. --The SF DA's office is dropping the murder charge against the man SFPD arrested for the murder in the middle of the day at the Ella Mae Hutch community center back in March. This is the second murder......

The Ghost of Mae Nak is a sweet confection with a surprisingly tart center. A contemporary version of a classic Thai fable that director Mark Duffield compared to the Western world's Dracula myth, The Ghost of Mae Nak adheres closely to the "vengeful spirit" structure we've seen in The Grudge and The Ring, right down to the spirit's long, stringy hair and ability to kill folks just by showing up and looking creepy. Though the......

We first heard about Kathy FitzHenry and her company Juliet Mae when friend of SFist Fatemeh casually mentioned that she had bought some piment d'espelette. This Basque ground-up pepper product is hard to find but we like it for seasoning meats, stews, and vinaigrettes. We found FitzHenry, a stylishly dressed, slim, energetic woman, at Oakland's Grand Lake market. We left with piment d'espelette and a small armful of other ingredients. FitzHenry's extensive background in......

Of I'm No Angel (1933), which screened Sunday at the Pacific Film Archive, film critics like to write that if star Mae West had spoken only one line in her career--"Beulah, peel me a grape"--she would still have been one of her era's brightest screen stars. That's always seemed hyperbolic, but the film itself makes a pretty convincing case. West (at right), more imposing than coquettish as Tira the Lion Tamer, wields physical presence......