Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The San Francisco Fringe Festival Edition Get your running shoes, because it's time for the San Francisco Fringe Festival: 42 theater companies, 12 days and 7 venues. Started 14 years ago by the Exit Theatre, the San Francisco Fringe
Arts & Entertainment Go Nuts This Weekend Have we ever mentioned how much we love the Primitive Screwheads? Our infatuation began when we attended their final performance of , and we've been slavering to see what they'd do next. They'd mentioned
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The "I'm Not Going to Burning Man" Edition at Impact Theatre Yes, as in Nicky Hilton. You know, the one that's always upstaged by her big sister Paris? Well, this time she takes center stage in Elizabeth Meriwether's comedy. A hit
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Fashion Week: Friday Night Being a blogger by day and fashion correspondent by night is freakin' tiring. While we didn’t make it out to the Palace of Fine Arts Thursday night, we were back and ready
Arts & Entertainment SF Fashion Week Boutique As we sat secretly praying that we hadn't made a grave mistake, Kimberly gently talked us through her process which began with powdering our skin before applying wax. The wax removal felt like
Arts & Entertainment Are You a VIP? Well, if you are, or just want to be, do we have the Craigslist job listing for you! Fashionistas, Style Mavens, Upper East Side transplants Do you know the difference between a Balenciaga
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Fashion Week: Opening Night The Beautiful People were out in full force at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater Wednesday night. We felt like we had really pulled a fast one as we picked up our media
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Fashion Week: SFist Has You Covered All day long, our colleagues at our day job have been asking why we look so nice today. Ignoring what this implies about our usual appearance, and marvelling at what a difference a
Arts & Entertainment Hope Springs Eternal in the Human Breast The reason? The bar's owners determined that her work, which she describes as "unique mixed media works...[with] tasteful nudity in themand a totally non-sexual context" could not remain because (in the words
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Dinosaur Jr. Oh, it was loud. Righteously so. Loud enough to make you feel like your body was getting sand blasted to the back of the Fillmore. Which is how we like it. We pretty
Arts & Entertainment SFAFF: <i>Arahan</i> You can tell we were excited to see the SFAFF movie Arahan Friday night, because we crossed the Tordesillas Line of Market Street and actually ventured up to the (gasp!) Marina -- where
Arts & Entertainment <em>Graffiti: Urban Scrawl or Artistic Freedom?</em> Discuss Amongst Yourselves. We visited the Commonwealth Club for their most recent session of Inforum, a division of the Club that aims to “inspire debate around civic issues” for people in their 20’s and 30’
Arts & Entertainment Theater Review: <I>Blood Bucket Ballyhoo</I> Producer and director Russell Blackwood is an expert on stage blood. He knows how to make it dribble or spray, or flow from actors' mouths. He also knows how to poke out an
Arts & Entertainment SFAFF: Rice Rhapsody (<i>Hainan Ji Fan</i>) Dang, it was cold waiting outside the Four Star for the doors to open for the San Francisco Asian Film Festival's premiere of ! And can we just say, the movie that screened right
Arts & Entertainment Not-So-Guilty Pleasure: <i>The Aristocrats</i> It's here, it's finally, really here! We've been waiting for to publish our review of The Aristocrats since catching a preview screener. Drumroll please... If you like to laugh until it hurts, go
Arts & Entertainment The Reviews Are In: Nobody Likes Current TV Well, we haven't had a chance to watch Current TV because somehow it ended up in Comcast's "Premier Tier," and we're not about to pay an extra five dollars a month after reading
Arts & Entertainment Asian Film Fanatics Unite! We're so happy to see that the San Francisco Asian Film Festival has returned for yet another year. When we wrote about last year's festival, there was some doubt that the 8 year
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Hot Theater in Small Spaces at Exit Stage Left Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: There’s this mad ruler, his country’s citizens hate him, and he’s totally hell-bent on invading other countries
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Porchlight Third Anniversary Good thing we got to the Swedish-American early for Friday night's Porchlight Third Anniversary storytelling evening -- even 45 minutes before the show, the rush ticket line was snaking all the way down
Arts & Entertainment Happy Birthday, Jerry This is the third year of the event and is celebrated in honor of Jerry's birthday, which was August 1st. Why the party in the Excelsior is because it's where Jerry grew up
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>On the Objection Front</i> The "refuseniks" (a term originally used to describe Jews who were barred from leaving the Soviet Union) had pledged to remain in the IDF and continue to serve "in any mission that serves
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>Campfire</i> What we got instead was the story of an Israeli woman, Rachel (Michaela Eshet), who is somewhat in mourning a year after her husband's death from cancer. Rachel tries to uproot her daughters,
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog the Musical at the Orpheum Theatre Based on the best-selling book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, Wicked makes its triumphant return to San Francisco, where
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Show Goes On It's either true commitment or sheer lunacy that Stage Fog comes to you this week, because we (that's we the contributor, not we SFist) are the sad victims of a major Comcast outage
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Paula Kamen We can say that with some assurance because she's had a headache for over a decade now. For most of us, the idea of suffering from a headache for more time than it
