Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: U2 The first time we saw U2 it was 1984 at the Spectrum in Philadelphia. Obviously, that was a long time ago: pre-Apple commercials, pre-hanging out with politicians, pre-heavy-handed attempts at irony, pre-blues co-opting,
Arts & Entertainment Film Arts Fest: <i>Women in Love</i> As we waited in line to enter the Roxie for last Friday's screening of , we were very excited to see this film. A documentary on the "sexually radical lesbian community of San Francisco"
Arts & Entertainment A Wedding Cantata You probably haven't been to a vocal concert since your high school crush object sang that solo from in the annual choir festival. What relevance does choral music have to my everyday life?
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: You Voted, Now Go to the Theater at La Val's Subterranean Theater OK, before we get into explaining the crazy title of this play, the disclaimers: SFist editor at large Cheshire Dave is involved with producing company Impact Theatre, and
Arts & Entertainment Prince For A Day The media orgasmatron following Prince Charles and Duchess Camilla through their edge-free trip to San Francisco practically peed itself the other night as the royals on-deck chortled their way through that old chestnut,
Arts & Entertainment Film Arts Fest: Wellstone! KQED listeners and Howard Deaniacs patiently lined up in the on-again off-again drizzly evening outside the Roxie, reading complimentary copies of Mother Jones and blocking the entrance to Dalva, as a sodden and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: Forza La Forza del Destino, the latest production of the SF Opera, opened yesterday in a wonderful new production. The Opera completely reinvented this classic, and came up with a fresh and polemic take
Arts & Entertainment Our New Favorite Thing We love the Gate/Chronicle's Daily Dish, in large part due to the fact that we think it's so freakin' cute that a little glass dish is "rung" when it goes up. While
Arts & Entertainment SFist Makes You A Star It's probably an everyday thing for our pals at LAist -- you open an email and it's a request for folks to come staff a shoot. Well, we don't want to sound like
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes To See: <i>Re-Animator of the Dead: The Tale of Herbert West</i> Going to see a Primitive Screwheads show at the Off-Market Theater is always weird -- you wait in one room, are ushered into an elevator, and eventually enter the theater itself. The theater
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Your Pre-Halloween Party Hey, the party's not till Monday, so check out some crazy characters hitting SF stages this weekend. Sure, go ahead and dress up: They've got bandits, Hollywood stars, a boy that looks like
Arts & Entertainment SFist "Reviews": The Sun/Apollo Sunshine Mondays are a hard night for live music -- crowds are smaller, audiences are distracted, and folks can't really justify going out super early, or staying out super late. We're sorry to admit
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: Norma Norma is the ultimate bel canto opera, this beautiful singing style which places the emphasis on the lyricism and vocal agility of the singer. It is also an extremely powerful story, and yesterday's
Arts & Entertainment A Night of Comedy: Lap-Pop! Across from the homeless shelter on Capp street in the Mission District, at the Space180 venue, there was a cosmic convergence. The first ever (it should be held again) Lap-Pop event from Locus
Arts & Entertainment Take Back The Nap When SFist was a young child, we'd always get sent home from preschool with a note that said, "Did not nap today." Man, we didn't know how good we had it! Nowadays, what
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Cat on a Hot Tin Roof</em> For those who, like SFist, are Cat on a Hot Tin Roof virgins, the play is a laugh-filled, light-hearted family romp about an imploding, highly dysfunctional marriage set against the backdrop of an
Arts & Entertainment Don't Worry.....Don't panic Assuming you aren't going to the SF Weekly Music awards tonight, and that you have "$30, $50, $100 or whatever you can afford", and you feel like drinkin', you should head out to
Arts & Entertainment Win Tickets to See Negativland The concept of mash-ups is all the rage with marketers and music bloggers these days, but Negativland has been appropriating sounds, images and text and re-arranging them into new works of art since
Arts & Entertainment A Statement of Hope and Courage Tomorrow night sees the kick off of the the eighth annual United Nations Association Film Festival at Stanford University. With screenings in several buildings across campus (we love college campus maps, it makes
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Dance and Theater Stage Fog doesn't have anything against dancers, and to prove it we're featuring some of our favorite companies this week, letting them mix it up with theater. After all, San Francisco is a
Arts & Entertainment Look Where Your Prom Footage Might Have Ended Up Have you ever been in the 9th Street Independent Film Center? We feel arty just walking in there, even before we visit the offices of the many local independent film organizations housed there.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: The Second Annual Bush Going Away Party The Second Annual George Bush Going Away Party comedy event on Saturday showed the difficulties in political humor. Especially political humor in San Franciso, where saying "Bush sucks" is greeted with the same
Arts & Entertainment Interview: The Primitive Screwheads Oh, how we adore the Primitive Screwheads. Our first experience with them was at the final (sob) performance of their most glorious Evil Dead: Live, in which the guerilla (to wit: they rehearse
Arts & Entertainment Ray Brown Tribute: Happy Bass Day. Yesterday's early show was particularly moving, as Ray's widow Cecilia was in the audience and went up on stage while the band was singing "Happy Birthday." Ray Brown's picture on the side wall
Arts & Entertainment Getting Schooled in Punk Rock What do Billy Idol, The Clash, The Ramones, Lynrd Skynrd, Queen and the Everly Brothers have in common? Rock fundamentals you say? That too, but we’re referring to the epic (yes epic)
