How do you feel about holiday music? We thought that KOIT started playing their 24/7 holiday programming a little early this year, but we do love randomly hearing Jose Feliciano's "Feliz Navidad" in our car. There are two holiday albums out this year that we've been enjoying. If you're a fan of Sarah McLachlan, you should buy her holiday album Wintersong. The CD has several traditional holiday tunes, but we were pleasantly surprised by......

Saturday: We're hitting the Gama-Go Holiday Warehouse Sale, for 25-50% off the suggested retail price for their uniquely super cute women's and men's tees and accessories. It's all happening at Gama-Go Headquarters, 301 8th Street at Folsom, from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday: We're going to the International Taiko Festival. The Japanese art of Taiko incorporates apects of of martial arts and musicianship, making for a drum performance SFist Chuck describes as "No exaggeration,......

Starting tonight and running until September 27 in SF venues including El Rio, Artist's Television Access, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, with two additional programs at Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive, Oct 6 and 13 MadCat is where it's at this week and next. MadCat is the self-described "highly acclaimed international festival that exhibits independent and experimental films and videos directed by women from around the globe. The Festival emphasizes work that is inventive......

26 years ago there wasn't a single Film Festival celebrating the Jewish experience -- 25 years later, there are hundreds of them! As with so many things, San Francisco's was one of the first, bringing audiences a great mix of International Jewish cinema. This year's San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is no exception, with a with a lineup of films from all over, special guests, and parties. You can catch films all over the......

Anyone who reads our weekly movie posts knows that SFist loves the fantastic side of cinema. Give us a werewolf, serial killer, and a box of Red Vines and you'll see an all-to-rare smile cross our face. So we'll be smiling pretty big this week, with tonight's opening of the Fearless Tales Genre Festival (warning: painfully slow-to-load site) at the Victoria (16th Street just east of Mission) and the Castro. An intriguing mix of......