Arts & Entertainment Eyes Wide Open If you made it by Civic Center in the last few days, you probably noticed a very somber art installation occupying the plaza. Row upon row of boots and shoes stood at quiet
Arts & Entertainment Adaptive Path's Fourth Anniversary Party It had certainly been a while since we made the walk from Market to Brannan. Why, it seemed like just yesterday we were working at Wineshopper.com on their brand-new website and eating
Arts & Entertainment On The Road with The Ditty Bops The Ditty Bops are Amanda Barrett and Abby DeWald, two modern LA twenty-somethings celebrating yesteryear with their self-titled debut album [listen here]. Both their record and their live show are a must-hear, featuring
Arts & Entertainment Tools With Tools If last night's show inspired you to pick up a power tool, then head on down to Home Depot this Saturday (there are two in Colma! Just a BART ride away!) to partake
Arts & Entertainment Weirdest. Conference. Evar. That said, for $25 in advance or $30 at the door (space is limited, though) you can listen to folks with masters degrees help you come to grips with your soul and your
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Eggcellent TV This Week Ahhh...Puppetoons. Well, fear not egg hunters. Easter is not without its own share of spooky animated specials, and thanks to the folks at the Family Channel, you can catch two this Sunday!
Arts & Entertainment Comedy Equals Time Plus Haircuts Tomorrow night, Bell hosts his second show, "The Kamau Bell Gets a Haircut Show". We don’t know for sure, but maybe this will mean that part of the act is him getting
Arts & Entertainment They, Robots Why watch the cartoons when you can see the real thing? SF State is hosting the second annual RoboGames this Saturday and Sunday. Robots will set things on fire, sumo-wrestle, bartend, and open
Arts & Entertainment Get Your Knit On Hark! Do you hear the hosannas of angels wearing roomy striped ponchos and the clicking of bamboo sticks? That's right -- the hipster goddess of knitting, Debbie Stoller, is in town promoting her
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo Essay: East Bay Rats At It Again All photos copyright Bayete Ross-Smith.
Arts & Entertainment First Third Friday At Ross's Office The refreshements? Uh, free. SFist would like to suggest that if you want to score the wine and snacks, show up early -- they were all gone in a little over an hour.
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Flutastic We're not being dramatic or anything, but we've had the flu for a week now, with massive pain behind our eyeballs and pretty much zero appetite. But you can't all come over and
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Cutie Honey</i> For those of you not familiar with 70s comic book turned TV show turned movie , imagine a completely non-ironic present-day Wonder Woman film, and you'll be pretty close. (tangentially, we noted that is
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: </i>Chinese Restaurants: Three Continents</i> The scene at the Kabuki for the last night of the Asian-American Film Festival was jam-packed, with three movies all starting at the same time, and people dressed to the nines for the
Arts & Entertainment Pass the Mic Billed as a battle for $300 and Bay Area "supremecy," the battle features Subverse (Dubphonics), Infinite (Felonious), Won Way (Thinkbeat), Orukusaki (Forensic Science), Radio Active (Spearhead), Franco, Shush, and Thesaurus. SFist can say
Arts & Entertainment Drinking or Reading -- You Decide You think it was rough to live up to your parent's expectations? What if your mom was acclaimed author Anne Rice, and your pop was not quite as famous but still critically lauded
Arts & Entertainment What? There Are SF Supes <i>Besides</i> Daly? It's no Smash The State, but friend of SFist Windy Chien (isn't that the best name ever?) tipped us off that our boy Matty G (and before you ask, we DO have a
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: 62 Years and 6500 Miles Between First of all, we want to apologize for having to miss the Asian Am Film Fest screening of the Taiwanese comedy on Tuesday -- we got sick. We're totally going to try and
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Oldboy</i> SFist spends more time than is seemly pondering where our beloved action film genre is headed next. We feel like the Matrix thing, beautiful as it is, is long over, and the wisecracking
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Springy TV This Week What? Did we hear someone say "Boo! Bad segue!"? Fine. How's this? On Sunday on CBS at 9 p.m. you can catch the awesomely titled made-for-TV movie Spring Break Shark Attack. We
Arts & Entertainment Solarize This Hey, a fight in the Tenderloin that doesn't involve Supervisor Chris Daly? Singer and Angry British Man Ian Brown, the former lead singer of the Stone Roses ("I Wanna Be Adored" -- yeah,
Arts & Entertainment Not a Good Way to Celebrate St. Pat's: Coronet to Close Thursday We're sorry to bring you the sad news, but SFist has just received confirmation from an inside source at the Coronet Theater that this Thursday, March 17th, will be the last day in
Arts & Entertainment Les Claypool Presents Gabby La La: Hello Kitty Meets Yoko Ono (and it’s Good) Eric McFaden and Wally Ingram/Gabby La La March 12, 2005 12 Galaxies San Francisco They came to see Les Claypool, many oblivious to who the main act was. But what they got
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Music Video Asia So we have a cousin. No, this is not some coy way of referring to the newest -ist site, Austinist(welcome!), we're talking about our actual cousin. Anyways, our cousin plays this game
Arts & Entertainment Star Wars, Nothing But Star Wars With the third and final Star Wars movie mere months away from premiering, we're about to find out the answer to that old zen koan: if Lucas releases a Star Wars movie after
