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 Much Ado About Green Day You might have heard that after a long relationship with Oakland's Lookout! Records, Green Day recently decided to take back their pre-Dookie releases due to concerns over unpaid royalties. If you want to
Arts & Entertainment Movie Review: <em>Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus</em> Seeing Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus is like watching a documentary, attending a concert, seeing a feature film and reading a short story all at the same time. Beautifully shot and featuring gorgeous
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Esthero Esthero hit the stage with a fantastic, albeit gigantic, backing band (horn section, drums, guitar, percussion, keyboards, two backup singers and a flute player). She was decked out in a black bustier, black
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 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 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 Review: Los Hombres Calientes So did the seven piece band live up to its name? Well, consider this. It was a lovely San Francisco late spring day, in the low to mid 60s and seriously breezy. But
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Citizen Cope When we met Citizen Cope, a.k.a. Clarence Greenwood, back in our New York City days, we thought he was handsome, mysterious and reserved. In other words, a little unnerving. We soon
Arts & Entertainment Indie Rock <em>Believer</em> The June music issue of The Believer will come packaged with a CD compilation of pure indie rock gold. We hear that local do-gooder and author extraordinaire Dave Eggers is behind the compilation,
Arts & Entertainment On The Road with Electric Six Electric Six are a rock band from Detroit who want you to enjoy yourself, whether that's through the guitar-heavy dance grooves they deliver, or through their laugh-out-loud lyrics. Don't get them wrong; they
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 Bloc Party Cancels Popscene Popscene has some disappointing news to share with San Francisco: Bloc Party vocalist Kele lost his voice today recording an iTunes studio session and subsequently, Bloc Party have to cancel the next few
Arts & Entertainment SXSW Music Wrap Up For those of you who aren't familiar, SXSW is the biggest music festival in the U.S., happening over five days and four nights each year in gorgeous Austin, Texas. More than 1,
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: CocoRosie Friday night's show with CocoRosie and Antony and the Johnsons at Great American Music Hall felt like a night at the underground opera. More than a few audience members came dressed in costume,
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Robbers on High Street On Friday Noise Pop presented a matinee show with Ringside, Von Iva and Robbers on High Street at Cafe Du Nord. It's quite strange to head to a rock show at a time
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Amon Tobin A review by special show correspondent Ginevra. If you'd been listening on Friday night, you'd have heard the sounds of two drum kits, funky bass, plenty of moogs and DJ's to scramble the
Arts & Entertainment GRAMMY Report: Green Day's Still Blowin' Up We went through the pains of watching Sunday night's GRAMMY Awards telecast so you didn't have to. Ray Charles was unsurprisingly the top winner, but our Bay area homeboys in Green Day made
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City We reckon a good percentage of San Franciso music-lovers will be at Great American Music Hall this week, whether it's at one of the three sold out Arcade Fire shows or Saturday's sold
Arts & Entertainment <em>The Darwin Awards</em> Having never been to a movie set before, we were entertained by watching the multitude of techs and runners standing around drinking coffee and communicating via walkie talkies. Apparently there is a lot
SF News Krissy's year end list 10 things that 2004 brought into my life, in random order Rhythm & Motion Dance Center: Their dance workout program is both fun and exhausting, and they don't laugh at you when you
Arts & Entertainment Get Drawn By An Ape Looking for a unique gift for your favorite music lover? Send a photo of them to local label Birdman Records to "Get Drawn By An Ape". If you're lucky enough to get chosen,
Arts & Entertainment Green Day's GRAMMY Noms The nominees for the 47th Annual GRAMMY Awards were announced yesterday in Hollywood, with homeboys Green Day earning an impressive six nominations. That's four less than Kanye West, two less than Alicia Keys
Arts & Entertainment FunCheapSF How many times have you faced Friday wondering what you're going to do with your weekend that's fun and cheap, or better yet, free? If you were to consult the funcheapSF list, you
Arts & Entertainment Believe in Von Iva SFist was blown away by Von Iva when they opened for Metric at the Great American Music Hall in late October. This all-female Bay area-based band doesn't need no stinkin' guitars -- just
