Arts & Entertainment Harupin-Ha: Not Your Parents' Butoh Dance Company Our friends at the Asian Art Museum continue their tradition of cool events with this Thursday's 7pm performance by Butoh legends Koichi and Hiroko Tamano and their dance company, Harupin-Ha. Credited for bringing
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to a Recital: Stern Grove The occasion was the Schwabacher recital series, which continues on Sunday, January, 29th, with a recital by Ailyn Pérez. If the smaller setting is not intimate enough you, you can even have dinner
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Shake It Up From the cultural legacies of black radio and French writers to physical theater and psychology, there's something for just about everyone in this week's offerings by Bay Area theaters. at The Marsh Berkeley
Arts & Entertainment Berlin and Beyond Film Festival: Rhythm Is It. A picture of Rhythm Is It graces the cover of the program, so there is no escaping it: you'll see it's about kids dancing. It is a documentary which follows, amongst others, a
Arts & Entertainment Hits From Hell Time on KFOG Welp, tomorrow is Friday the 13th which means it'll be "Hits from Hell" time on Dave Morey's 10 at 10. Or is it? On the KFOG site, Dave is asking for feedback and
Arts & Entertainment Berlin and Beyond Film Festival - No Terri Nunn, But Still Good Tonight's opening features (watch out for Flash), a film about the German passive resistance movement during World War II. We hear it's pretty good, and the director, Marc Rothemund, is expected to attend
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: the 2006-07 Season Gone is the modern -- tacky, screamed the purists -- feel from the brochures and the web site: Glamour is back, with the "emphasis placed on the singers," said Gockley. The Opera unveiled
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes to the SF IndieFest Benefit Party! Musical acts Potion, Teenage Harlets, Tom Jonesing, and The Sermon will be performing, festival previews will be previewed, advance IndieFest tickets will be sold at a 10% discount, and there'll be drink specials
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Multigenre Edition Theater isn't just theater anymore. Throw in some dance, circus, puppetry and even a bit of some horror and comic books, and you've come a long way since, say, Neil Simon. Women on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Symphony: Lang Lang Lang Lang is pianist with a vast appeal crossing over to the general audience, not just the classical arena: his official web site biography mentions his playing on Jay Leno's show before his
Arts & Entertainment Cube Scouts Someone call ESPN2, because we've found the next new hot nerd-sport craze -- the Exploratorium is hosting the 2006 International Rubik's Cube Competition this next Saturday! As the calendar announcement proudly states, "In
Arts & Entertainment Family Day! Childless curmudgeons, gnash your teeth in anger over another way in which society prefers folks with kids over you! Gavin Newsom and the San Francisco Dept. of Children, Youth, and Families are sponsoring
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: In with the New and Old at the Curran Theatre Goths everywhere, rejoice! They finally made a musical based on Anne Rice's vampire novels. Now, our gut feeling is that this will either totally rock or totally suck, so
Arts & Entertainment Come On And Take A Free (Or Cheap) Ride Driving can be a real pain, as we're expected to retain a level of alcoholic responsibility while everyone else on the road appears to be hammered into oblivion. Taxis can be hard to
Arts & Entertainment Ring In The New Year At The Asian Art Museum Tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. they're having their 20th Annual Japanese New Year's Bell Ringing Ceremony, which is free to atttend with paid admission to the museum. "Based on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Does It Up Right We're not going to list all the awesome folks who came because we know we'll leave someone out and look like jerks. But thank you to all who came, thanks to Otis for
Arts & Entertainment Roxie Saved! -- the New College Roxie Film Center! Ending years of nail-biting and speculation, the Roxie Theater on 16th and Valencia has been saved from shuttering by its neighbors the New College. The New
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Not Quite a Year in Review, Part 2 Ray of Light Theatre No, this isn't some new incarnation of a superhero, or a bio of some lucky kid hanging around Barry Bonds. Ripped from the Weekly World News headlines, this anti-musical
Arts & Entertainment The Lonely Jew at Christmas Unlike most years, Hanukah falls after Christmas. Actually, the first candle lighting will take place the day of. What does this mean? Besides the fact that Jews might be able to save Christmas,
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Not Quite a Year in Review American Conservatory Theater No one sits through Eugene O'Neill unless they like watching gloriously poetic slow-motion train wrecks. Or unless it's their last chance to see American Conservatory Theater core company member Marco
Arts & Entertainment Santarchy Grips San Francisco They respect no law of man or God. They hedonistically pursue pleasure and merriment at all costs. They look fantastic in red and white. They are the legions of Santas who have gathered
Arts & Entertainment From Wessels to Wodka The decommissioned Alameda Naval Air Station isn't just where the nuclear wessels used to be kept -- it's now home to plenty of businesses who are taking advantage of all the space the
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Last Call Save some room on your social calendar, because, like 2005, these cool shows are expiring around January 1. Besides, if you’re feeling a little Grinch-like, there’s nothing like a holiday show
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: the Abduction from the Seraglio. While some of the singers sounded better than others, the leading roles impressed us. The tiny theater does not require the stronger pipes to fill a larger space, the same way we sound
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: an American Tragedy We saw the Met's new production on Monday, and one thought sprung to our mind: there is an East Coast-West Coast divide that would make the gangsta rappers proud. Oh, we are not
