Results tagged “shows”

-- Perverts. [ASD]

-- Aimee Mann's Second Annual Christmas Show: Paul F. Tompkins, Sean Hayes, Chuck Prophet, and Morgan Murphy join the delightfully blond songstress for a night of holiday warm fuzzies. Because X-Mas is coming and there's no way around it, come catch this wonderful singer/songwriter during the, um, recording-a-holiday-album period of her career. Show starts at 8 p.m. at Bimbo's 365; $35.50.

-- Aaah! Rosebud: This re-telling of Citizen Kane involves a "an evil sled, competitive curlers, an aspiring diva, and soul-devouring zombies." See, if Wells had jus incorporated those things into Kane, he might have won the Best Picture Oscar. The curtain goes up at 8 p.m. at New Langton Arts, 1246 Folsom (at Eighth Street); $20-$25.

-- Writers With Drinks: Tonight Robert Mailer Anderson, writer and game designer Austin Grossman, Sheng Wang, Darieck Scott, and Dom Brassey read. 7 p.m. at the Make-Out Room, 3225 - 22nd; $3-$5.

-- Marga Gomez: Multiaward-wining lesbian/Latina comic makes her Plush Room debut with Joshua Raoul Broday on the ivories, and former Mornings on 2 personality and comedian, Mark Pitta. Show starts at 8 p.m., the Empire Plush Room, 940 Sutter; $20.

-- Double Indemnity (1944) and Clash by Night (1952): Barbara Stanwyck sears the screen tonight in two gems: Billy Wilder's shadow-heavy, film noir hit about adultery and murder, followed by Fritz Lang's fick featuring Marilyn Monroe in one of her first roles. Shows start at 7 p.m. and 9:15 p.m., respectively, at the Castro Theatre, Castro & Market Streets.

When compiling my "Year in Review" in my head, I thought, "Hey, I do get out of the house sometimes!" This year was a year of firsts for me. I saw some awe-inspiring bands, took some fun Bay Area trips, and became a regular at some tasty restaurants.

Since I can't remember half the stuff I spewed out this year (I barely know what I'm writing half the time anyways), here, instead, is a few of my favorite things. Best TV Show (drama)- "Battlestar Galactica" Why I like this show is because it thinks big-- big themes, big action, big drama, big story, big music, big everything. At times (like the episode where they finally get off New Caprica) the show feels almost movie big. But the best part of it is that it's also small in it's way. Shows like "24" or "Lost" might have interesting characters, but for the most part, the characters react to the action. That's not necessarily true on "BSG" because often the action comes because of the characters. For instance, the driving force in the Cylon's occupying New Caprica was partly because a few characters discovered what love means. Which yes, sounds kind of lame until you consider that the whole occupying thing was kind of nasty and that one character plotted the destruction of mankind, another shot Capt. Adama, and the third blew herself and her ship up with a nuclear warhead. Awesome.

This morning we were lying in bed, trying to summon the will face the day as the Alice Morning Show played in the background. (In the words of SFist Jon: "Hey, they're funnier than the Live105 crew and there's only so much public radio one can take in the morning.")

Outbound -- next train, N Wednesday, now approaching. Tonight: The San Francisco Public Library has invited Caldecott-winning book illustrator Tomie DePaola for the 10th annual Effie Lee Morris Lecture. Effie Lee Morris was the coordinator of children's literature at the SFPL from 1963-77 and was a pioneer in spearheading the development of children's library resources. The lecture is free and starts at 6:30 p.m. in the Koret Auditorium of the Main Library.

Saturday: we're hitting the YBCA (700 Howard Street at Third) for the SFist Krissy-recommended Kronos Quartet and experimental musicians, Matmos and Walter Kitundu collaboration. Sure, we love the Kronos Quartet and Matmos, but we're also eager to see the extraordinarily threatening Kitundu in action. Shows are Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., buy tickets here.

Saturday: Box magazine is having their Issue 3 (Fetish) launch party from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. at Oakland's Golden Bull (412 14th Street). They're promising us DJs, drink specials, giveaways, and more.

Saturday: SFist Jackson just about lost his s**t when he heard about MOB: the ArtFag Mafia Premiere Event. Starting at around 9 p.m., there'll be "Fighting Robots, Fire Art, DJs and bands". It's all happening at the NIMBY warehouse (28th St. and Mandela Parkway, in West Oakland).

There was a great disturbance in the internets this week as the Grateful Dead harshed Dead Heads' mellow by trying to close down the main site Dead Heads (and others) use to download taped performances. By amazing coincidence, it was also around the same time the Dead launched a pay service on their own Web site. But after the decision drew major flack and pissed off thousands of Dead Heads (we haven't seen them this mad since the Dead played an entire three show set at Shoreline without playing one "Scarlet/Fire"), the Dead changed their minds and announced that they'll be okay with people downloading concerts taped by fans. Shows taped by the Dead themselves (Soundboard recordings), however, can now only be had on the Dead's site.

Those ubiquitous festive red cups from Starbucks say "It only happens once a year," but apparently it lasts for a good six weeks. We're kicking off party season by celebrating Mesh Magazine's two-year anniversary on Friday at 111 Minna. For a mere $8 cover you can see The Mall, Moggs, Calling All Monsters, DJ Nako (Popscene), and DJ Rooster (Ugly Sundays) while drinking some Fernet-Branca and congratulating the editors and writers on two great years. Gosh, they're even older than SFist. Visit their site for a chance to win tickets.

Our concert picks for the week of 6/30 - 7/6.

Let us begin this week by making a heartfelt plea to the TV Powers-That-Be: Film more shows in San Francisco!

A review by special show correspondent Ginevra.

In this week's stage roundup, we'll take "Improvised Game Shows" for $200, Alex.