Arts & Entertainment Contest! Free Passes To the SwapSF Clothing Swap! SwapSF is a fun freecycling group where people can embrace new things without spending a lot of money to get them -- so bring your gently-used clothes to the Phritzery from 12-3 p.
Arts & Entertainment Opposition To The War At The Berkeley Edge Fest This year, the Edge Fest is featuring a musical theater piece by Paul Dresher called , based on a short story by Italo Calvino, about a king that clings to power for fear of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Other events: --The Stars and Garters Theater is throwing a fundraiser party, complete with trapeze artists, short films, the Robber Bridegroom band, burlesque performances, and a raffle, to raise money for its upcoming
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine: Don Giovanni Was it, as this Berkely Daily Planet op-ed conjectured, due to the new media suite, which will record every performance on high definition from this Don Giovanni on and thus will put some
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today You've still got the Berkeley World Music Festival today, and Indiefest's Hole in the Head fantasy/sci-fi/horror film fest is in full swing! Your other options include: The songbook of Fields of
Arts & Entertainment Arcade Fire Show, 6/1/07 Good God, it was cold out last night. On our trek up to the Greek Theater in Berkeley to see Arcade Fire in the first of their two gigs in the area, we
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Pick your poison -- it's either flyering for Gavin Newsom or going to the Progressive Convention this afternoon. If politics isn't your game, here's some other options for today and tonight: --Bring a
Arts & Entertainment 'Nothing Like the Funk of 200 Liberals': Sherman Alexie Talks 'Flight' Flight was already at the top of our list of books to read. Then we read the New York Times review of it this past Sunday and felt a new urgency to go
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Other events: --Always mean to get out to Orinda to see the summer Shakespeare? This year, it's Richard III, and tonight's preview is the first performance. $32 for tonight, and prices will go
Arts & Entertainment It's Spelling Bee Time! Tomorrow's the finals of the National Spelling Bee! We've already got our TiVo set for the semifinals (which happen while we're at work), we've cancelled all our evening plans for the finals (on
Arts & Entertainment The SF Black Film Festival One of the best things about living in San Francisco is all the film festivals! We thought we were on top of them, and then we just found out this weekend that the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: RiffTrax Live We say almost only because the movie they did, which they kept secret until the night of the show, was the Sylvester Stallone arm-wrestling epic and all the comedic riffing in the world
Arts & Entertainment It's Time For Another Hole In The Head! ....and by "run," we mean, "run to the Roxie and start buying your tickets and passes now" for the Fourth Annual Another Hole In The Head Indiefest fantasy, sci-fi, and horror movie fest!
Arts & Entertainment Let's Go To The Movies: Big Fish The current contribution to the mass spoon-feeding that is the summer blockbuster schedule is . Not as strong as the first film and far stronger than the second (which stunk like dead kraken), World’
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Hey, remember that interview that SFist Rain did with Mystery Science Theater 3000's Mike Nelson last week, about his new project, Rifftrax? Download an .mp3 of the MST3K folks and play it while
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Don't forget it's still Carnaval! But you can check out the following events today too. --Free opera in Dolores Park! 2 p.m., with a number of singers singing various operatic greatest hits.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Well, you could either go to Carnaval this weekend -- or you could go to the State Green Party Convention. Ross Mirkarimi (seen here going into the dunk tank) is giving the keynote
Arts & Entertainment It's Carnaval! It's Memorial Day, so it must be time for Carnaval! The two-day multicultural festival on 17th and Harrison, filled with big headdresses, drums, and tasty-smelling food! (note to self: is our car parked
Arts & Entertainment Let's All Go To The Movies: Local Virtues We are always going to tell you to see Other Cinema. You can set your watch to it, we promise. This week’s Incredibly Strange Music program is packed with punk rock/bad
Arts & Entertainment San Franciscan Tries Out For The Boston Pops Meet local boy Aaron Drake, who's trying out for the Boston Pops' American Idol-style PopSearch singing contest that we told you about last week, trying out on Edwin McCain's "I'll Be." In hard-hearted
Arts & Entertainment SFist Encore: <i>The Prodigy</i> Almost two years ago, an action movie fan who at that point went by the moniker "SFist Eve" gave a rave review to a little indie-noir film called The Prodigy and subsequently managed
Arts & Entertainment Top 5 Comments Of The Week Hi, folks -- as promised, here's our very first "Top 5 Comments Of The Week Audio Podcast." While there's a clear reason we're not in radio, we hope you'll check out this five
Arts & Entertainment The ))<>(( on Miranda July's Book Reading At Modern Times ))<>((? Well, it's from her movie. Author/artist/director/performer/etc Miranda July came by Modern Times Bookstore in The Mission last night to read from her new collection of short stories,
Arts & Entertainment 25 Years Of The SF Youth Symphony Well, we can't speak for the behind-the-scenes drama at the SF Symphony Youth Orchestra, but we can pretty much guarantee that these players are a zillion million times better than we were --
