Arts & Entertainment So You Think You Know The Reel San Francisco? 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. DVDs just can't compare! Some of
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To SFist Night at Impact Theatre! Join us on Thursday, April 20 at 8 p.m. as Impact turns all of La Val's Subterranean (1834 Euclid in Berkeley) over to our readers. We hope they know what they're getting
Arts & Entertainment The Sea Otter Does It Again The mud is barely dry on the bikes but already racers and spectators alike are looking forward to next year's Sea Otter Classic (April 12-15, 2007). The acknowledged kick-off to the road and
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Solo Shows at The Marsh Baloney is usually something to be avoided at all costs--unless Dan Piraro is involved. Yep, that Bizarro cartoonist has his own solo show, and he's thrown in just about every
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine: Honi Soit Qui Mahler Pense. This week's performances will instead offer Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka, and both the ballet and the Mahler recordings are related to the program of the week past, which we attended on Friday. That symphony
Arts & Entertainment Alternative Press Expo: Better Than Your Mom's Basement On a day when the sun finally came back to San Francisco, we thought it best to hide from those destructive rays in pursuit of a hobby often associated with living in one's
Arts & Entertainment Auction Off Downtown! As we jockeyed for a place at the bar we were treated to a screening of Marcus Darkraven's . One $2 glass of tap water later (we hope a portion of the drink proceeds
Arts & Entertainment Charting A New Course at the Sea Otter The big news at this year's Sea Otter Classic, besides the weather, is the new MTB cross-country course. The new course is generating a lot of buzz, and those that have ridden it
Arts & Entertainment We Take It All Back, Mick LaSalle. OK, Not Really. The Mission District of San Francisco is the kind of place where transgender bike messengers live chockablock with marketing executives, thrift stores brace for the encroachment of Starbucks, and heroin addicts nod off
Arts & Entertainment You Otter Be There Today through Sunday, the 16th annual Sea Otter Classic (SOC), the self-proclaimed "world's largest cycling festival" is going down at the Laguna Seca raceway in Monterey. This is a big-time cycling throwdown featuring
Arts & Entertainment SF Rising, Part Two Thanks for sending in more earthquake-related events, guys! There's so many that we're doing another post of upcoming events! Keep 'em coming in and we'll keep posting them. Don't forget, the big anniversary
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Rising One hundred years ago this month, San Francisco survived an earthquake. You may have heard of it. Well, despite the odds (and the sky-high earthquake insurance rates), people keep moving here, and San
Arts & Entertainment Not Just Grown -- It's Homegrown! Boyskout, Midnight Serenade, and The F**king Ocean are playing, and SFist's absolute favorite DJ, Ted from BAGel Radio, will be spinning the iPod wheels like there's no tomorrow. Dors open Wednesday night
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Berkeley Edition at Berkeley Repertory Theatre We don't know what's bigger news: the fact that Rita Moreno stars in The Glass Menagerie, one of the greatest plays in the American canon, or the fact that
Arts & Entertainment Thirtysomething not so "Thirtysomething" Fortunately, the essays within soothed the sting of our failures past. From Ashley Warlick's meditation on the significance of a stuffed animal to her daughter, to Flor Morales' tale of her escape from
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Trainwreck Riders You may have seen that we described Friday night's Noise Pop headliner Jason Collett as "rainy Sunday afternoon music." Ironic, then, that on the actual rainy Sunday afternoon, we went to see a
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Jason Collett San Francisco grups were in full effect Friday night, as the hot demographic of 30-something indie-yuppies swept into the Cafe Du Nord Noise Pop event of the evening. For the record, it was
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Noise Pop N' Shop Brought to you by Noise Pop, Feria Urbana, and KUSF, you'll have your pick of clothing, jewelry, and accessories from some of our best local artists and designers. KUSF's Rock 'n' Swap record
Arts & Entertainment Is There Room for Humor in Serious Art? Southern Exposure Seems to Think So The eccentric group of artists in finds humor in their work and in the mundane, whether it’s rearranging the lawn furniture of a neighbor or stealing luggage from an airport carousel. However,
Arts & Entertainment Got Eggs? Tonight at 7:30 the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts ( 701 Mission St. at Third), the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is presenting , a documentary dealing with the many options the present
Arts & Entertainment Chappelle Sightings Continue I just heard from a bunch of my co-workers that they saw Dave at the Sportsclub/LA gym last night around 5:00. He wasn't really working out, just kind of checking out
Arts & Entertainment It's Chappelle's Show, We Just Live In It Subject: Just overheard on the 6th bus heading downtown At 4th and Market, this average young white guy gets on all excited and calls his friend on his cell. He says, "oh my
Arts & Entertainment Authors Go On Tour - Why Can't You? We'll start with SFist Peninsula headquarters in Menlo Park at Kepler's: The kickoff to their travel series comes from Frances Mayes (warning, there's sound at that link), on Saturday, April 1, 7:30
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Something for Everyone, Again at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Who said interactive theater is uncool? One of the coolest things about Culture Clash's production of Zorro in Hell is that you can download your very own Zorro mask
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: John Vanderslice Hopefully you're the lucky winner of the Feist tickets tonight so that you can catch John Vanderslice opening. This interview first ran last August, and SFist is republishing it to enhance your Noisepop
