Arts & Entertainment The 2nd Annual George Bush Going Away Party This Saturday night is the 2nd Annual George Bush Going Away Party: An Evening of Political Comedy. The first one was held about this time last year in an attempt to raise money
Arts & Entertainment Zombie Poker 1. Arrive at the Italian Cemetery (540 F Street, Colma, CA 94014, 2 blocks from Colma BART station) on Saturday October 15 between 1:30 PM and 2:00 PM. 2. Look for
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Establishment Meets the Hip at the Geary Theater We know, we know: we always lead with an American Conservatory Theater production, if it's opening. Well, we like their photos. OK, we like how easy it is to
Arts & Entertainment Todd Barry Back in San Francisco Friend of the 'ists Todd Barry is back for another stand up stint here in SF as part of a west coast tour. Last time we saw the show, we fell in love
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: New and Reinvented This week we bring you a crucifixion, ghetto Shakespeare and mean people in love. Because why get vanilla ice cream when you can get, say, caramel ice cream with fudge chunks and cookie
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: Dr. Atomic The opera focuses on the last days leading to the explosion of the first atomic test bomb, in June and July 1945. It is centered about J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), the scientific director
Arts & Entertainment Yay! Kepler's Re-Opening - October 8th! To prepare for the re-opening, and to help Kepler's stay open, volunteers are needed. They do mention they need people to take membership pledges so it seems they'll be going ahead with the
Arts & Entertainment You Gotta Play To Win, Still Remember when we were nagging you to get off the couch and make some damn art, already? Well, we have a couple more shots at the big auteur target in the sky for
Arts & Entertainment There Ain't No Party Like A WebZine/SFist Party We've finally recovered from our hangovers and pulled our underwear off the ceiling fan, but the memories of last Friday's WebZine 2005 party we sponsored remain. Belated and massive thanks to our intrepid
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: A Smorgasbord This week we take you from Orinda to Fort Mason to the Artaud Building for Shakespeare, an Irish story and a reimagined Greek myth. at Bruns Amphitheater It's your last chance to catch
Arts & Entertainment You Gotta Play To Win To live in the Bay Area is (frequently) to be able to count more than one aspiring filmmaker in one's circle of acquaintance. The next time you're at some dinner party/Zeitgeist get-together/
Arts & Entertainment Brimful of Asha Last night SFist went to see the inaugural live collaboration between the Bay Area's own Kronos Quartetand Bollywood legend Asha Bhosle. Competing only with her sister for the title of most prolific singer
Arts & Entertainment Webzine 2005 + SFist We're giving away 10 passes to Webzine 2005! Enter to win below. Contest ends tomorrow at 5pm.
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Bigger, Longer and Mostly Uncut at the Curran Theatre Cirque du Soleil isn't the only artsy circus company around, and unfortunately, for all the other companies like Cirque Eloize, they'll all be compared to those commercialized French-Canadians taking
Arts & Entertainment A Mighty Ruckus at Islais Creek If you haven't bothered to click on the banner ad we've had running all this month for A Mighty Ruckus at Islais Creek, we will happily bring the scoop you you! Brought to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: The Italian Girl in Algiers. The San Francisco Opera opened its season last Saturday and picked up right where it left off last time we visited. , just like Cosi fan Tutti, is another joyful and energetic opera, another
Arts & Entertainment An Evening with The Paris Review It sure is a literary week here at SFist, with our Andrew Sean Greer interview and giveaway on Monday, the Picador Birthday event and book giveaway (you can still enter to win today!
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Hurricane Relief Considering that these past few years haven't been economically kind to the arts, we want to applaud the companies that have stepped up to help the Hurricane Katrina victims. While many events happened
Arts & Entertainment Happy Birthday, Picador! In case you missed our passing mention in yesterday's interview with Andrew Sean Greer, Picador, the publishers of such SFist faves as and A Death in Brazil, is celebrating its 10th birthday with
Arts & Entertainment MadCat Film Festival: SFist Has You Covered Starting tonight and running until September 27 in SF venues including El Rio, Artist's Television Access, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, with two additional programs at Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive, Oct 6
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Fringe Festival Reviews #2-4 Like we said before, you never really quite know what you’re going to get at the San Francisco Fringe Festival. But last night we did a marathon Fringe, seeing three shows between
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Fringe Festival Review #1: <I>Show Me Where it Hurts</I> Thursday night was night number two of the San Francisco Fringe Festival. The Exit Café, Fringe headquarters, wasn't very busy, but they had the beer and free pretzels ready (you can eat and
Arts & Entertainment Fall Arts Action! It’s that time of the year! The galleries are awakening from summer’s slumber and opening a slew of new shows during the next weeks and months. Though by no means comprehensive,
Arts & Entertainment Kepler's Rally Save Kepler's! The Menlo Park community is rallying around the storied independent bookseller, who recently announced that it would have to shut down due to increasing rents. SFist Mary-Lynn was one of the
Arts & Entertainment Fall Classical Music Preview Tomorrow, the symphony kicks it off with a gala, celebrating three anniversaries: Michael Tilson Thomas's, aka MTT, 10th anniversary at the baton, Shostakovich's 100th birthday next year, and the 25th anniversary for Davies
