Arts & Entertainment Back in the Day... Like, Two Centuries Back We were walking through the Cow Palace the other day -- that giant warehouse-ish building, way south of the Mission, where they have rodeos and exhibitions and stuff -- when who should walk
Arts & Entertainment Review: 700 Sundays Throughout, Billy is imitating different stages of himself: as a five year old trying to impress musicians with his tap dancing, as a fifteen year old in the throes of puberty coping with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Root Division In our continuing search for cool stuff to buy for holiday gifts, we can't wait to hit Root Division's Holiday Art Show and Sale. Head over to Root Division (3175 17th at South
Arts & Entertainment We Love Dirty Laundry Step foot in the place where all the magic happens as the ALIVE @ 9th Street series continues with with “Don’t Ask, Do Tell”, "an examination of taboo cultural secrets that filmmakers both
Arts & Entertainment Shop Early and Often! The Small Business Commission of San Francisco recognizes both the benefits of keeping our spending close to home and our desire to buy cool stuff with its Shop Local First Week. All this
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Take a Break from the Holidays at Magic Theatre Extended to New Year's Eve due to great reviews, The Hopper Collection is a world premiere by one of those young up-and-coming writers that makes the rest of us who
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>The Tribe</i> First off, we have to give Ms. Shlain credit for wracking up the PR as the Herbst was almost sold out. She also managed to turn a fifteen minute movie into almost an
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes to IndieFest's Rock N Roll Horror Show! Doors open at 7, screens at 8, and at 10 musical acts Stolen Babies and The Graves Brothers Deluxe hit the stage, with between sets by Church of Elvis DJs Bishop and Moonshine.
Arts & Entertainment Bike Likers Unite That climatic consistency, we assume, is one of the reasons bicycle culture is so very strong in San Francisco. Take part in this cultural force at tonight's Winterfest 2005, the San Francisco Bicycle
Arts & Entertainment Shhhhh! The loud crass holidays impeding your Oprah-like search for your spirit? Perhaps some time spent without the distraction of dialogue would help you clear your mental palate. Until the gentlemen come along and
Arts & Entertainment Not Literally Shooting Singles We don't know why this bothered us so much -- is it the implication the the person is so recently single that they have no good pictures without their ex that seemed off,
Arts & Entertainment MoAD Opens SoMa's turning into a regular Upper East Side, as another world-class museum opens on Mission and Third: the Museum of the African Diaspora will officially open this Saturday, December 3, but sneak peeks
Arts & Entertainment Open Your Hart (to Hart) This Holiday Season You can take in this "all-star holiday benefit concert" Sunday, December 4 at 7:30, at the Herbst Theater. As for the star power of the event, there's a lot of them, but
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Some Holiday Alternatives Last week we featured some of the more usual holiday fare, but the San Francisco Bay Area is known for its unusual holiday shows as well. with gears and hammers? Clowns and toilet
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads -- Or Listens to Others Read A couple literary events have made their way into our inbox lately, and we want to tell you about them. It's just that simple. Sometimes we like to watch people reading, it's like
Arts & Entertainment An Excuse To Read Some Funnybooks--Al's Comics In The Mission In Trouble Recently Al's Comics has run into a bit of financial trouble, it involves landlords, tax collectors, zap gun wielding lizard men from another dimension, the city; in short, the usual suspects. He could
Arts & Entertainment Truffaut or Not Truffaut? The work can be documentary, narrative or experimental, animated or live action, and can be of any length. The final deadline for submissions is Friday, December 9. To make things interesting, the festival
Arts & Entertainment I Think My Syphilis Is Clearing Right Up This Examiner article hits it on the nose -- with such a large population of people who escaped moved here from elsewhere, a lot of us spend Thanksgiving without the traditional family, stuffing,
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Holiday Shows Whether you observe National Buy Nothing Day or not, take a break this weekend to do some early holiday theatergoing. at the Geary Theater If you find yourself in the same tax bracket
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Volti ....Oh, hello! We were just warming up our voice over here. After we posted about local choral group Volti's world premiere of No More To Hide, a choral work in tribute to same-sex
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Something for Everyone What do Holocaust dramas, hip hop and weddings have to do with each other? Nothing, but we've got all of them crammed into a mere weekend. and Brundibar at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Just
Arts & Entertainment Combots Finals Last night we took a long bus ride out to Fort Mason to check out the final rounds of the Robot Fighting League's Combots National Championship. SFist Chuck reminded us to make it
Arts & Entertainment SF Int'l South Asian Film Festival: <i>It's My Country Too</i> As we settled into our seats at the Castro for the world premiere of documentary , part of the SF Int'l South Asian Film Festival, there was a generalized hubbub as a tall man
Arts & Entertainment As Open Night As A Three Dollar Bill The Three Dollar Bill Cafe is such an excellent name for the restaurant inside the SF LGBT Community Center. If you've got the time and inclination, stop by the cafe and check out
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: Fidelio Photos by Terrence McCarthy/SF Opera. Above, from left to right, Christine Brewer, Greta Feeney and Arthur Woodley
