Arts & Entertainment Bassists For Measure O The event's at the law offices of Gonzalez & Leigh, at 2 Shaw Alley, 3rd Floor (off Mission between 1st and 2nd), and Ross Mirkarimi's expected to be there too. We don't know
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Horror and Blood at The Hypnodrome It appears the rumors of The Hypnodrome's demise were greatly exaggerated--or, the Thrillpeddlers got a stay of execution (aka "the landlord is selling the building"). That's good news for us,
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Dunk Tank! The Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Center is sponsoring their 16th Annual Celebrity Pool Toss this Tuesday (tomorrow the 17th) from 6-10 p.m., where brave local celebrities volunteer to be tossed into the swimming
Arts & Entertainment It's the Great Pumpkin Festival, Charlie Brown! The 36th annual Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival kicked off Saturday morning to much fanfare and a crapload of pumpkins and pumpkin paraphenalia. Several blocks of the fog-shrouded farming community-cum-tourist giftshop's Main Street
Arts & Entertainment Spem in Alium: There is Hope in Our Soul. You had to stay in your squeaky pew last night, at the performance of the same 40 part motet by actual live human beings, the singers of the Schola Cantorum and of the
Arts & Entertainment Local Loses Colbert's Green Screen Challenge For those of you who don't watch the "Colbert Report", Stephen has been running a green screen challenge where he asked members of the Colbert Nation to add all sorts of computer effects
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: We’re Back! at Thick House Just in time to coincide with current events in North Korea (ahem) comes the world premiere of Gadget, a multimedia theatrical event based on images of and interviews with the
Arts & Entertainment Bad Reporter! Down! So we immediately snapped up his very first book when we saw it on the shelf at Stacey's the other day: Dog v. Cat, an expose of the 2004 pet election that tore
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews <em>9/11: Press for Truth</em> We all know the anger of extremist Muslim fundamentalists, but what we don't know and what the White House keeps conveniently hidden from the American public is how we let them get so
Arts & Entertainment What Else is Going on For Litquake Well, if you want to check the schedule of events, go here. There's plenty to choose from and it seems like something is going on everywhere at all hours. Everyone's favorite event is
Arts & Entertainment Debates Around The Districts So we're trying to compile a handy-dandy list of all the forums we can find, arranged by district and by date -- but we can barely find anything out there! So we're posting
Arts & Entertainment Tristan and Isolde So it was no surprise that last night’s performance of Tristan and Isolde turned out as a magistral musical display: from the prelude to the final curtain drop, Runnicles coaxed a splendid
Arts & Entertainment Opera at City Hall. For all info, go here. The first simulcast of Madame Butterfly was a blast and looked nothing like the photo-montage which illustrates this post. Rigoletto is an opera to make opera skeptics love
Arts & Entertainment Rigoletto: The Killer, The Jester, His Daughter, Her Lover. We were going to make a snarky comment about the crimson theme of the set: it is the only color, the rest is black and white; and the interiors are only red: walls,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Amandeep Jawa, Flashdance Boss Dust off your dancing shoes, San Francisco! You DO have dancing shoes, don't you? No, your galoshes don't count. Wait, have you been wearing those since Folsom? Eww. Aaaaaaaaanyway, this Saturday, at 8pm
Arts & Entertainment Up With Peoples' There'll be speakers, lunch, live jazz, and breakout discussion groups on anti-gentrification, violence prevention, and elections/campaigns. Look how much fun they had last year! $7 if you buy tickets in advance, and
Arts & Entertainment Opening Day At The Mall We're thinking there is no one in the Chronicle offices this afternoon, as they all seem to have raced over to the grand opening of the Westfield San Francisco Centre mall. Check out
Arts & Entertainment Big Ass Book Sale! So, when we hear statistics like "400 volunteers, 7,000 boxes of books, 300 tables and 200,000 books in over 50 categories", we might ordinarily have to reach for the NoDoz, but,
Arts & Entertainment Musicians, Literature and Little Cable Cars When: Friday, October 6, 2006, 8pm Where: The Regency Center, 1290 Sutter St (Van Ness at Sutter) Call: (415) 673-5716 Admission: $25.00 Purchase Tickets Here SFist Mary Ladd, contributing, is on the
Arts & Entertainment Not Our Usual Type Of Bar Last week we attended the premiere of Lunafest, a festival of films “by, for, about women” at the Herbst Theater. Lunafest proceeds went to the Breast Cancer Fund. The nine shorts were a
Arts & Entertainment ...Oh, and also, Bring a Change of Clothes When we reviewed issue one of "HtS," we blushed so hard we got a sunburn. The new issue promises a continuation of a story of lusty pirates, as well as SOMA hookups and
Arts & Entertainment The Blah Adventures of the Superfisters is a collection of three stories, told simultaneously and finishing with an unexpected cross-pollination: one is a cute retelling of Journey to the East (with some slightly distracting Christian imagery sprinkled in), another
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Opposites Attract at San Jose Center for the Performing Arts Hell yeah, we'd trek all the way to San Jose to see Molly Ringwald! What self-respecting John Hughes-fanatic/thirty-something would pass that one up? Well,
Arts & Entertainment Are You SURE You Don't Call It "Frisco"? "A fabulous party bringing together native San Franciscans who share the common bond of being born or raised in the most beautiful city in the world," we're perversely hoping that SFist Commenter Kevin
Arts & Entertainment Baby, You Can Buy My Art As of this writing, looking at their catalog tells us that some lovely items can be gotten for as little as 90 bucks. And if you're not in the market for an actual
