Join us tonight at the Fillmore, where Sia (one of our favorites) will be headlining. We saw her at the end of last year and the show was definitely fantastic; we highly recommend checking out tonight's show. Her latest album, Some People Have Real Problems, is stellar and has garnered critical success jumping to #26 on the Billboard charts, selling more than 20,000 copies and finishing ahead of fellow press darling Kate Nash (all in......

Found over at Laughing Squid, "The Tiki Bar TV is selling a classic pinup calendar featuring the fabulous Lala. The calendar was designed by Vancouver vfx artist and illustrator Kevin Genze." Laughing Squid also has some choice Tiki-related links, so do check them out.......

-- "Hold Yr Horses": Vowel dismissive DJ Rchrd Oh?! spins electro, no wave, '80s, '90s, hip hop, disco punk, synth pop, and more tonight at this TL dive bar's gipster club night. Music goes from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. at Aunt Charlie's Lounge, 133 Turk; $3. -- Mahjong: Drop In and Play: Amos 'n' Andy, mahjong and platinum hair, but...oh, pardon us. We got carried away into song thinking about playing this fun......

It seemed like everyone in the beer-geek world was at the Toronado for their 20th Anniversary party on Saturday night. The place was packed to the absolute gills with locals, brewmasters, and beer fans who'd flown in for the occasion (we met a guy who'd come from Vancouver). Several brewers of note had made special beers for the occasion, and we were lucky enough to score a table and sample a few. We loved......

Passes! Passes! We got movie passes! Wanna see Eve and the Fire Horse, a movie about a high-spirited Asian-Canadian girl whose older sister is going through a Christian religious conversion, and whose family is learning to assimilate in Vancouver? (The "fire horse" part of the title refers to a superstition in Chinese astrology that children born in 1978 are particularly rambunctious.) We have no idea what's going on in that picture above, but it......

SFist inteviews Lyrics Born who is headlining the Fillmore tonight...

R.I.P Barbaro. -Sharks lose to the Vancouver Canucks 3-1. Their penalty killing fu, however, has gotten really good. -Marvelous Norv Turner really wants to go to Dallas. -The Warriors 2.0 are built for Nellie Ball. Also really good at stealing. -Ann Killion thinks New Orleans should host the Super Bowl every other year. -Ira Miller lurves Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith. -Should the Monday after the Super Bowl be a day off so everyone can......

So we were going to the Serramonte Mall in Daly City last night. If you must know, it's because we've put off shopping for our relatives, and we thought we might be able to find a toy store there. We didn't find a toy store -- but we did find what looks to be the very first Daiso store in California celebrating its grand opening!!!! WE'RE SO EXCITED!!! Daiso (or "The Daiso," as its website......

SFist interviews Caila Thompson-Hannant from Shapes and Sizes off of the Asthmatic Kitty Label...

The good news is that vacancy rates are low across the hotel business in San Francisco. The bad news is that at least some of those rooms may be off the rolls as they are being fumigated. When we wrote our original post on San Francisco's growing bedbug infestation, we were at a loss to come up with direct reports of encounters with the parasites in some of The City's hotels. Well, Hotel Chatter dropped......

We had such fun at last year's Reel San Francisco film series at the Balboa Theater, their series of movies set in and/or made right here in San Francisco (not Vancouver masquerading as such). The second annual series begins this Sunday and runs until Thursday, April 27. Sure, we've seen a lot of these movies before, but this is our chance to see studio archive prints of these classics in a big-screen theatre setting.......

You might have noticed a crushing sense of void hitting you recently on Fridays around the five o'clock hour. You probably couldn't place your finger on it, but you just knew there was something missing: Fridays no longer held the joy they once did. We think we know what it is. "Killer Instinct" has been cancelled. You say you didn't even watch the show? So how could its cancellation have anything to do with......

Our guardian angel (not the kind with the beret) Jen sent us a link (free registration required) to our new favorite commercial, "A Street Car Named Dockers". We don't necessarily consider ourselvespart of the Dockers target audience. Their web site sure is nice and all that, but they're...Dockers. It's just not the kind of clothing that fits into our raging rock and roll lifestyle. But this commercial makes us reconsider that stance. A man......

Two dear friends of SFist wrote in to let us know about local tsunami relief events. Your Waitress wants photobloggers and everyone else to know that HiMY SYeD, Toronto native and current Bay Area resident, is asking folks to organize neighborhood vigils on Sunday the 9th and Monday the 10th as part of the Global Vigil for the Global Village. Vigils are already planned for Toronto, New York, Karachi, London and Vancouver, as well......

Well, SantaCon has come and gone, but you still have that urge to make with the merry this holiday season, preferably through participatory art? Well, you're in luck -- San Francisco is hosting its annual performance of Phil Kline's Unsilent Night tonight. Unsilent Night is music intended to be played on boomboxes on a stroll through the city, so participants become in essence a big stereo system, playing Christmas carols (yeah, sort of like KOIT, if they played the Kronos Quartet). The original Unsilent Night was performed in 1992 on a walk through a block in the East Village, and now the piece is performed every year in New York, San Diego, Vancouver, and Cleveland, along with SF. If you're interested in participating, bring a boombox with a cassette player and fresh batteries and meet up at Dolores Park before 7 p.m. (RSVP so they'll know how many tapes to bring; if you don't have a boombox, you can borrow one). The group will be walking around the Mission too for about 45 minutes so bundle up. ...

He's (almost) Miss World, can't look us in the eye -- Hizzoner Newsom announced that he was nominated but did not win in the online World Mayor 2004 contest. (That Giacometti-like figure to your left is the prestigious World Mayor award -- they could call it the Wonkie). Newsom put on his best Susan Lucci face, stating through his spokesperson that "To even be mentioned in a competition like this is a great honor," (and claimed not even to have known the competition was underway. "What, the Oscars? They give out prizes for good acting now?") ...

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