SF News Yesterday's Car Explosion Receives Paltry Coverage The Examiner was there, and KGO put up a brief note about the car that spontaneously combusted in downtown S.F. yesterday as well. But as a few commenters noted, it's surprising that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Fishbone Documentary 'Everyday Sunshine' Lives Up to Its Name by Erick Pressman SF Docfest kicks off this Thursday evening with the Bay Area premiere of Every Day Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone, followed by a post-screening Q&A with the filmmakers
SF News Car Explodes Near Montgomery BART Station SFist received news that a car exploded on Montgomery Street near the BART Station around Noon today. Check out some video of the billowing black smoke from the scene. At least two very
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Grant Morrison, who's known as the "Rock Star of Comics," is profiled in Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods. The film features extensive interviews with Morrison, along with never before seen photos and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Capsula, from Spain, bring their mix of "straight-up scuzzy garage punk and like Death Valley 69-era Sonic Youth" sound to the Elbo Room. SF's Blammos and The Angel & Robot Show (a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Local artists Chor Boogie, Jacqueline Norheim, Rose Smith, Kirsten Harkonen, and many others will be selling their work at The Restoration Art & Music & Fundraiser. One hundred percent of art sales,
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Killing My Lobster's 'The Coffee Wars' This gem has been all over the place this week. Local comedy group Killing My Lobster poke some major fun at our fair city's artisan coffee craze with this brilliant spoof on a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: SOMArts presents its annual Day of the Dead exhibit, Honoring Revolution with Visions of Healing, featuring altars and installations that will honor the dead and provide offerings to the living. Tonight's opening
Arts & Entertainment SFist Attends: 'Paris Review' Editor Lorin Stein at City Lights There’s sex, love, and betrayal in the Fall Paris Review. Prepare to be seduced. by Naomi Kirsten A few years into the millennium, we attended a party at the Paris Review. It
misc Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day Via B.K.: "bed bugs in the news suddenly? why? It's not like they materialized a month ago. So why the sudden press? Did the alpha bed bug bring it's vast fortune over
Arts & Entertainment The Decisive Moment: Get a Free Henri Cartier-Bresson Poster at SMOMA Today SFist is super excited to see the upcoming Henri-Cartier Bresson exhibit at SFMOMA, which opens on October 30 and runs through January 30 -- we'll be hitting the museum's First Tuesday next month.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: The refreshingly goofy Kristen Schaal, most notably known as Flight of the Conchords' biggest fan and a regular correspondent on The Daily Show, will be at Cobb's all weekend. Schaal's new book
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Bay Area artist John Belingheri will exhibit his calming and mesmerizing collection of oil and mixed media paintings on canvas, which "express an interrelationship of form, process, contradictions and turmoil". 5:30
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Literary Death Match Co-Creator Todd Zuniga by Naomi Kirsten Litquake’s most riveting event just may be its most violent. At least in theory. Literary Death Match co-creator and Opium magazine founding editor Todd Zuniga reveals why literature could
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The original members of the legendary Guided By Voices (aka, Guided By Beer) will perform GBV's classic songs from 1992 to 1996 off of the albums Propellor, Bee Thousand, Alien Lanes and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Japanese garage punk power trio Guitar Wolf, who coined the phrase "jet rock 'n' roll", which they also use to describe their musical style -- an energetic cross between the Ramones, rockabilly,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Fresh celebrates the farmers, thinkers, and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system and confronting the consequences of industrialized agriculture: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Spirit Games + Ruby Hawk Productions present Spirit Games Vol 4, featuring "unfiltered, deeply-grooved and intense Nigerian Afrobeat -- tribal break beats keeping you dialed in on the dance floor and sweating to
Arts & Entertainment Want to Be Buried Alive With Your S.O. and Make Out With Them While Others Watch Via Webcam? Yes, you read the headline correctly. There's an event happening on Saturday night called The Six Feet Under Club, in which couples can opt to be buried underground in a casket together. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend Hardly Strictly Bluegrass rightfully steals the show this weekend, but here are a few more events. Even more can be found here. Castro Street Fair: Get your dance on, eat, drink, and be
Arts & Entertainment YBCA Celebrates 'Sesame Street' This October Sesame Street recently turned 40, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is having a month-long celebration of the iconic show, featuring different programs each weekend at More Muppet™ Magic: Jim Henson's Legacy.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART/FASHION: Velvet da Vinci presents The Plastic Show, featuring work by 75 jewelry designers employing a variety of plastic materials such as resin, latex, rubber, epoxy, and thermoplastics, many of which are
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: It's opening night of Thrillpeddlers' 11th annual presentation of Shoctober Fest 2010: Kiss of Blood, a series of three one-act Grand Guignol terror plays and titillating farces. Plays include Kiss of Blood,
SF News Tony Curtis Dies at Age 85 Tony Curtis, Oscar-nominated actor and 1950s heartthrob, died on Wednesday evening of cardiac arrest at his home in the Las Vegas-area city of Henderson, Clark County, at age 85. Curtis was probably most
Arts & Entertainment The Baby-ry Coast: Teen Lit Crawl, Tricycle Music Fest, Seesaw Aspiring teen authors should check out Litquake's first ever Teen Crawl next Friday afternoon at the main library. The event features readings and a discussion with a panel of published teen authors, a
