Arts & Entertainment Video: Hundreds Show Up For 'American Idol' Audition In Oakland On Sunday, the American Idol crew swung through the Bay Area sans celebrity judges to hear some local folks audition for the (is it still popular?) ABC singing competition. As local affiliate KGO
Arts & Entertainment <em>American Idol</em> Returns to SF For Auditions Thursday The show that has ruled all television media for the better part of the decade but which may finally be showing signs of age is returning to San Francisco this week to audition
SF News Quote du Jour: KTVU's Sal Castaneda Calls <i>American Idol</i> Winner During this morning's Mornings On 2 (do do do do do dooooo), KTVU traffic guru Sal Castaneda tells us who he think might win tonight's American Idol competition, the gay screecher or the
Arts & Entertainment MTT Joins YouTube Symphony Project "'Classical' music does not need gimmicks OR marketers/managers," hrumphs an SFGate commenter. Oh, but it does. Joining the likes of Gavin Newsom with this here YouTube craze your father just heard about,
misc Film du Jour: The Most Horrible Day on Earth The Slog, where we came across this jarring piece of performance art, likens the clip above in which six nubile tweens discover that David Archuleta did not win this year's American Idol to
SF News Did You Hear It? After their American Idol hour was unforgivably interrupted by the San Francisco Police Department making an announcement last night, a reader writes to SFist asking: At about 8:55pm tonight, my viewing of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight UndergroundfilmMaker Festival: It goes a little something like this, "In an era where filmmakers are called 'users' who 'generate content,' [Hey now! -- sfist] Undergroundfilm wishes to put the spotlight back where
Arts & Entertainment 3 Questions For Another <i>Comic Book Challenge</i> Team We told you a few weeks ago about Platinum Studios' "American Idol"-style contest for comic creators, through which the winners will get a "multimedia development and publishing deal" based on their concept.
Arts & Entertainment 3 Questions For <i>Comic Book Challenge</i> Contestants A few of those contestants are from right here in the Bay Area. Kevin Buckley is the writer on this project and an artist in his own right, though Marcus Thiele, his collaborator,
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine: The Tyrant. Despite wearing the beret of a dictator, Duykers comes across as pretty innocuous as far as tyrant goes: he anguishes about writing a speech for the 20th anniversary of the coup that put
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV Tonight First off, if you haven't read The Road by Cormac McCarthy yet, drop everything and do it. It's a fast read. It's also one of the most amazing books we've ever encountered--don't let
SF News Day Around The Bay --They reopened the Macarthur Maze! And of course, now the bridge is backed up. --TiVo is getting a lot of angry emails after the triumphant conclusion of American Idol was cut off by
Arts & Entertainment San Franciscan Tries Out For The Boston Pops Meet local boy Aaron Drake, who's trying out for the Boston Pops' American Idol-style PopSearch singing contest that we told you about last week, trying out on Edwin McCain's "I'll Be." In hard-hearted
SF News Day Around The Bay --There were more bikes than cars on Market Street today for Bike To Work Day. Soon we will realize our dream where every car driver is assigned an individual biker to yell at
Arts & Entertainment Try Out For The Boston Pops! (Keep Your Shirt On) We can't stop laughing about the fight at the Boston Pops concert last week! Classical arrangements of popular music make us crazy too! So we're psyched to pass along the news that the
SF News Already Over Fake Question Time Our feelings regarding the sneaky scheduling of Gavin Newsom’s Third Fake Question Time this Monday can best be expressed through American Idol runner-up Katharine McPhee’s latest single, “Over It.” The purple
misc Matt vs. Gavin: the Rematch? Fog City Journal is reporting that Matt Gonzalez has been in talks with a campaign manager, Nicole Derse, about running. We're all guessing it's for Mayor but who knows with Matt? We've heard
SF News American Football Spectacular: Niner Hope Unlooked-For In 2006 Wow. was unforeseen. That's a sweep of the division series on the year, keeping the Niners' tiiiny window of playoff chance alive. How could this have happened? Here's how: The whole enterprise began
Arts & Entertainment Fedorov + Ventriloquism = Our Idea of Heaven And now, here's where you folks come in: After you've bought your ticket, let us know in the comments which of the entertainers you'd like us to interview. We can't absolutely guarantee that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Rock Star OK, maybe "beneath" isn't the right choice of words. One needs to take into consideration that this isn't "American Idol," and that these contestants tend to have many, many years of performance experience
SF News Raiders Rumors Running Rampant The story isn't online because you have to subscribe to the magazine, but since we do, we can detail what the what is. Basically, the story says that Eddie D and Carmen P
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: The Last Suppers So last night the best reality show on television came to an end for this season. It was down to the final two -- perhaps there was a little controversy, perhaps one of
Arts & Entertainment Rock Star Auditions Get your leather pants and best rock caterwaul ready, because Jason Newsted will be attending an open-call audition today here in San Francisco: "Rock Star: The Series" Casting March 21st Rockit Room 406
SF News The Final Frontier Sure it's no secret, but it's no American Idol either. The women's game has been nipping at the heels of the cultural consciousness for about ten years now, but hasn't quite grabbed the
