Arts & Entertainment SFist Gift Guide: 2-Carat Cup This contributor is admittedly gift-buying challenged, but local gift purveyors, Misha SF (1428 Polk), make it super easy for us to make discerning purchases. Their Polk Street storefront is chock-full of quirkily fun
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 12/7: Jonathan Richman MUSIC: Folky-pop icon and S.F. resident Jonathan Richman takes the stage at the gorgeous Great American tonight, along with collaborator Tommy Larkins, in which they'll "continue to wow crowds with handfuls of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 12/6: Katya Holiday Spectacular MUSIC: Russian opera diva, Katya Smirnoff-Sky, will be at the Rrazz Room for one night only performing her Holiday Spectacular, a fun-filled evening of "belting, banter, and ball gowns" sure to make your
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 12/5: Repeal Day Party DRINKING: FunCheapSF has the scoop on 21st Amendment Brewery's annual celebration of Repeal Day with 5-cent beers, a march against Prohibition, a secret speakeasy event (password required!), and the tapping of the cask
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 12/4: Amy Sedaris FILM: There will be a handful of tickets at the door to the Roxie's Evening with Amy Sedaris, which follows the lead of last year’s successful John Waters' Sleighful of Smut. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 12/3: Papercuts MUSIC: Bay Area faves, Papercuts, whose latest album, Fading Parade, is described as "[i]magine Belle & Sebastian teaming up with Slowdive and recording with Phil Spector back when he was killing it
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 12/2: Taj Mahal TALK: Ben Fong-Torres will be interviewing composer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Taj Mahal, one of the most prominent and influential figures in contemporary blues and roots music, with accompaniment by live musical interludes. (8
Arts & Entertainment Notes From An Occupation: Police Infighting Friend of SFist and dedicated Occupy SF participant Scott Rossi was on the scene at last night's big barricade event. Highlights include details about the crowd knocking down the barricades and an eye-witness
Arts & Entertainment Video: Occupy Oakland's Scott Olsen On MSNBC, USA Today Quickly on the road to full recovery, Scott Olsen, the ex retired marine and Iraq War veteran who was critically injured by a police projectile during an Occupy Oakland raid back in October,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 12/1: Too Short, After Dark, 'Chico and Rita' MUSIC: Local gem Too Short has been making the rounds a lot lately. Tonight, he'll be taking the stage at The New Parish with notable players, Kev Choice and Martin Luther, among others.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/30: Kev Choice, Printz Dance Project MUSIC: Pianist/M.C./producer/band-director Kev Choice premieres excerpts from his new hip-hopera: The Chosen One in a special "The Art of Composition" performance, which will also feature other work Kev Choice
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/29: Metal Mother MUSIC: Oakland's Metal Mother, aka Tara Tati, will bring her "fresh bath of melancholic emotion, bubbled with loud tribal drums, futuristic synth leads, and sweetly haunting Celtic-inspired vocals" to Cafe Du Nord, along
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/28: Horrible Bosses, Porchlight Open Door FILM: This week's free Cinema Drafthouse film is Horrible Bosses, which is centered around the questionable plot point involving three people who decide to kill their bosses instead of just quitting their jobs
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/27: Castro Vigil, Sing-Along 'Sound of Music' VIGIL: San Francisco FYI via FunCheapSF tells us about tonight's annual Harvey Milk and Moscone Candlelight March and Vigil, which commemorates the spontaneous candlelight march that occurred on the night of the shootings
Arts & Entertainment Natural Resources Raising Funds To Stay Afloat, Campaign Ends Tomorrow Earlier this month, Natural Resources, which has been providing quality gear, clothing, classes, and support to San Francisco parents for the past 25 years, reached out to its customers for some help, announcing
SF News Revolution Irrelevant To U.S. 'Time' Magazine Readers? The question might be of the "chicken or the egg" variety: Is it censorship, dumbing down, or a little bit of both? As documented in this poignant Imgur post, Time magazine routinely changes
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/26: Sigur Ros' 'Inni,' Suzanne Westenhoefer, Mist and Mast FILM: The Roxie presents Inni, Sigur Rós’s second live film following 2007's hugely-celebrated Heima, which is "artfully and intimately captured by French Canadian director Vincent Morisset (Arcade Fire’s Miroir Noir)," interweaving
Arts & Entertainment Will You Support Small Business Saturday? Although it's sponsored by American Express, and supported by large corporations such as Amazon, Google, Clear Channel and countless others, the 2nd Annual Small Business Saturday will provide the antidote to Black Friday
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/25: Turkey Trot, Haight Fire Benefit, 'Swell Season' MUSIC: Get some heaping helpings of "Southern-fried honky-tonk, creamy country swing, sweet old-time bluegrass, and extra spicy hillbilly-grass" at the 9th Annual Turkey Trot 2011, featuring The Whisky Richards, Windy Hill Bluegrass Band,
Arts & Entertainment It's Alive: Scott Greenwalt's Sci-Fi-ish 'The Alchemist' by Micke Tong While observing Bay Area artist Scott Greenwalt's work, we can't help but imagine a real-time transmutation taking place. Humanoid deconstructed body parts, follicles of hair and organs are displayed with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/23: Tune-Yards, Savage In Limbo, Red Hots Burlesque MUSIC: Local 4AD duo, Tune-Yards bring their acclaimed live show to The Regency Ballroom in support of their latest album, w h o k i l l, which is heavily influenced by frontwoman
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/22: Shwayze & Cisco Adler, Veronica Klaus, Tango Throwdown & Lesson HIP-HOP: Hip-hop collaborators Shwayze & Cisco Adler will be at the Independent in support of their new album, Island in the Sun, which is a "tribute to the life of deceptive leisure the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/21: Annie Leibovitz, Marc Horowitz, <em>Public Speaking</em> PHOTOGRAPHY: Legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz will be Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland signing copies of her new book of photographs, Pilgrimage, which starts at Emily Dickinson’s house in Amherst, Massachussetts, travels to
Arts & Entertainment Artist Matt Momchilov's <em>They Really Want You</em> Mimics Fan Art by Micke Tong We were first introduced to Unspeakable Projects, a live/work gallery located in SOMA, at Art Pad SF, which took over the rooms at the Phoenix Hotel in the Tenderloin
