Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews...<em>22 Eyes</em> at The Artaud Gallery Back in our freshman year at art school, we'd get very upset when our barely-functioning alcoholic drawing instructor referred to photography as a "point and click" form of art making. Even during that
Arts & Entertainment We Built This City On Rock n' Roll We personally think the whole "Top Whatever" lists thing to be totally overdone and usually laughably wrong. On the other hand, they are darn fun to ruminate over. Especially a particularly juicy one
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: SF Mime Troupe Right before the first scene of the San Francisco Mime Troupe's which opened on the Fourth of July weekend in Dolores Park, a trouper walks onstage holding a sign up for the audience:
Arts & Entertainment Beth Lisick's In the Pool Everyone seems to describe spoken word artist and writer/poet Beth Lisick as "fizzy" -- but she really is! City Lights was packed to the gills with Missionistas who walked up Columbus from
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Diamond Nights Diamond Nights are like The Darkness, without the piercing falsetto, Freddie Mercury unitards and campy excess. The Brooklyn four piece brought the rock to Cafe Du Nord on Sunday night to a full
Arts & Entertainment Win Tickets to the SF Opening of <i>Mana: Beyond Belief</i> Enter below to win a pass for two to at the Roxie this Friday, July 8. If you win, we'll send you an email comfirming this and will let the Roxie box office
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: A Little Something for Everyone For the last couple of weeks, Stage Fog has been rather thematic, which makes for a nice, tight column. But sometimes we just want variety. Mix those peas and carrots! Besides, the Shakespeare
Arts & Entertainment Mighty Annie Apparently what Potrero Hill (or is it called SoMissPo now?) has needed all along is a slick Marina-style club that specializes in alterna-lite of the 80s! We were at the club Mighty to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Hangs out In Clarion Alley On our way to work a few weeks ago, we noticed a group of punk kids painting in the alleyway around the corner from Community Thrift on Valencia Street. They were painting bunnies
Arts & Entertainment In the Groove: In your Face! We here at SFist fondly remember the days of our relative youth (past the "kids under 12 eat free days" and before the "SENIOR CLASS OF 2004 SAN DIMAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Bring-a-Blanket Edition San Francisco Mime Troupe's at Dolores Park What better way to show your patriotism than with an afternoon with the SF Mime Troupe, which has been skewering the US government for over 40
Arts & Entertainment Piedmont Bird Callers Do Letterman Piedmont is known for being full of seriously nice houses -- we always joked that the city's raison d'etre is so that rich folks wouldn't have an address in Oakland (okay, we bear
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: Cosi Fan Tutte It only turned out that this production of Cosi had been set into a hotel on the Riviera at the onset of WWI, instead of the traditional foothills of the Vesuvio. The change
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: The Futureheads Some of you more discerning readers may have noticed SFist's anglophile tendencies, which we indulged last Saturday night by taking in The Futureheads at the Fillmore. The four deliciously British lads did not
Arts & Entertainment <em> Inside Out</em> at Low Gallery We've noticed many birds during our travels to and from San Francisco's galleries. They are everywhere—sailing across canvases and tote bags, tattooed onto forearms, pinned onto backpacks, and stitched into shirts. Artist
Arts & Entertainment A Critical Look at Current TV Josh Wolf, a local vlogger, posted the following recently on his "The Revolution Will Be Televised" blog about Current TV's new rights agreement and payment schedule for content submitted to Current: Under the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Infiltrates the Flaunt! Fashion Show Last week's Flaunt! fashion show, presented by f.r.e.s.h. (Fund-Raising Events to Spread Hope) had a lot going for it. First, it's for a great cause: all proceeds went to
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: <i>Ned Rorem: Word and Music</i> Ned Rorem: Word and Music. Ned Rorem certainly was a hottie. It's easy to see how this handsome, talented, literate 25-year-old American slipped comfortably into Parisian artistic and social circles of, shall we
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Ashland's Not the Only Theater Destination, You Know You've heard of tornado chasers, but how about tsunami chasers? Despite numerous aftershocks, this week we're actually heading north to the towns of Arcata and Blue Lake to catch the first-ever Ensemble Theater
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Feist We are big fans of Feist, the Canadian chanteuse with an esteemed indie pedigree and smooth, seductive, award-winning sound. She's quite popular throughout the blogosphere, even though her internationally acclaimed record Let It
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: <i>Blood, Sweat, and Glitter</i> We've been trying to think of something negative to say about Sasha Aickin's since its world premiere last Saturday, but we haven't been able to yet. Even though the film deals with those
Arts & Entertainment The Daily Cho "Everyone who comes to a Margaret Cho show is either gay or Asian," one of our companions said as we fought our way into Symphony Hall on Friday night among the oceans of
Arts & Entertainment Stand Up Guys Okay, we see why Gothamist loves Todd Barry. But local boys Ryan Stout and Jim Short made good last night, too. If you haven't been to the Purple Onion yet, it really is
Arts & Entertainment Outwit, Outplay, Outlast...Rinse, Repeat Just remember, no one even remotely related to CBS or the show itself is eligible. Nor--and this clause is kind of odd--is anyone hoping to run for public office, as they'll have to
