SF News Statewide Amber Alert for 4-Year-Old Boy, Man, Possibly Headed to San Jose A statewide Amber alert is in effect for Jose Esteban Rodriguez, 27, who allegedly abducted four-year-old Juliani Cardenas in Stanislaus County at 4:12 p.m. this afternoon and is believed to be
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Any animal-lover is sure to shed a tear at My Dog Tulip, an animated, bittersweet retrospective account of author J. R. Ackerley’s 16-year relationship with his adopted Alsatian bitch, Tulip. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Dave Wakeling of The English Beat by Daniel Phifer SFist sat down to talk with Dave Wakeling of The English Beat shortly before their show at Bimbos 365 in San Francisco on Friday night. The show was exactly what
Arts & Entertainment SFist Attends: Neurosis at Great American Musical Hall A Sun That Never Sets Settled In Over The Tenderloin This Weekend: Neurosis Returned Home For Two Rare Live Performances 1/15 and 1/16 by Erick Pressman Ever purposely leave for a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: The SF Sketchfest 10-Year Reunion brings together the festival's original six groups that took the stage of the tiny Shelton theater a decade ago, featuring Colin Mahan and Mike Spiegelman of The
Arts & Entertainment Tuesday: Moldy Peaches Frontwoman/<em>Juno</em> Soundtrack Superstar Graces Thee Parkside Kimya Dawson, Defiance, Ohio, and Songs For Moms play Thee Parkside tomorrow night. by Erick Pressman Back in college, we got a mixtape that featured a song called “Who’s Got The Crack?
Arts & Entertainment Today: 2011 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Celebration Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Yerba Buena Gardens hosts "Sustaining the Dream: Through Community and Service" today in celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday. The Contemporary Jewish Museum
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Moby, Martha Plimpton, and Thao Nguyen of Thao and the Get Down Stay Down will make guest appearances at SF Sketchfest's The Dave Hill Explosion, a variety show in which Dave talks,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Japantown Peace Plaza Outdoor Cinema & Karaoke presents a free screening of Hong Kong comedy classic, Shaolin Soccer. The film stars Stephen Chow as a young shaolin follower who forms a soccer
Arts & Entertainment SF Sketchfest on a Budget FunCheapSF, the site that's always got your back in terms of monetary concerns, is hooking you up with a handy list of sweet half-price ticket deals for a variety of SF Sketchfest shows
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Tickets are still available for "indie-rock supergroup' sideshow" Sweet Apple, featuring J. Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.), Tim Parnin and John Petkovic (Cobra Verde), and Dave Sweetapple (Witch). Dead Meadow and Carlton Melton are
misc Poll: Bars With A Skyline View? Where do you take out-of-towners for a cocktail and some great views? Take the handy poll! We usually go for The View, since it's the most central, and heck, it's called The View,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Clue, "a play based on a movie based on a board game," has been adapted for the stage. The audience watches from six feet in the air as six guests and a
Arts & Entertainment Navigating SF Sketchfest This Weekend The biggest comedy festival of the year kicks off tonight with The Upright Citizens Brigade's ASSSSCAT, based on the troupe's popular weekly long-form improv show. Tonight's show will feature founders Matt Besser, Matt
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: "My Life in a Day" My Life in a Day; San Francisco from Scott Hammel on Vimeo. The Tender points us to this hypnotic film by artist and filmmaker Scott Hammel, featuring time-lapse footage of 24 hours in
Arts & Entertainment Show Of The Week: The English Beat, 1/14/11 by Daniel Phifer Last week we presented you with a bargain show at the Hemlock assuming that you spent all your money trying to impress some two bit floozy on New Years Eve.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: Bob Dylan's foremost interpreter, Greil Marcus, will read from his eponymous collection, Writings 1968-2010, compiled of dozens of pieces that are "the result of a more than forty-year engagement between an unparalleled
Arts & Entertainment SFist Radar This Weekend As SFist noted last week, SF Sketchfest starts on Thursday! The list of performers is endless. Let us name just a few: Candice Bergen, Dan Aykroyd, Michael Ian Black, Thomas Lennon,
SF News Man Helps Self to SFFD Clothes, TV, Exercise Facilities The Chronicle writes that 29-year-old burglary suspect, Eric Miller, successfully passed himself off as a firefighter for a few hours yesterday morning at Firehouse 19 near Stonestown Galleria. It's suspected that he sneaked
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: FunCheapSF informs us of the folkYEAH! Winter Residency at Slim's, as part of the venue's $5 Concert series. Tonight's show features Sweet Chariot, Sparrows Gate, Montra, and Nico Georis & Matt Baldwin.
SF News Machines Might Replace G.G. Bridge Toll Workers in 2012 KGO reports that district administrators, who are facing an $89 million deficit, will be proposing to the Golden Gate Bridge board of directors on Thursday a plan in which tolls would only be
Arts & Entertainment Volunteer! Attend The Board Match 2011 Tomorrow. Been thinking about volunteering? Have valuable skills to offer? Always wondered what it's like to be on a "board of directors?" Then hit up The Board Match 2011 tomorrow evening and find the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Get a taste of Seattle hip-hop tonight with the gritty yet smooth Champagne Champagne, along with Seattle's Mad Rad, and the Bay Area's C U Next Weekend and Moe Greene. 9 p.
SF News Christmas Skateboard Attack 50th S.F. Homicide in 2010 The Examiner reports that there was an apparent skateboard bashing that happened last month, which the victim died from a few days later. The attack occurred early Christmas morning at 12:45 a.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: It's night two of the Castro's epic Hitchcock Double-Feature Marathon, which runs through Thursday. Tonight's films include the classic Rope, which was Hitchock's first color film, and the "humorless and uncharacteristically noirish"
