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"
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Gallery Hijinks presents As It Was Before an exhibition of new works by Martin Machado and Todd Freeman with installations by Aleksandra Zee, who use "nature and science to reinterpret memories, fables
SF News Two Convicted of Posing as San Bruno Fire Victims Speaking of recent San Bruno fire news, 42-year-old Lisa Justin and 44-year-old Sonya Smith were convicted on Tuesday of trying to pass themselves off as victims in an effort to get relief aid.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: sfSound's San Francisco Tape Music Collective kicks off the trippie-sounding San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2011, featuring three nights of classic audio art and new fixed media compositions. Twenty local and international
SF News San Bruno Still Deciding How To Distribute Donations Four months after the San Bruno blast, city officials are still trying to figure out how to best distribute the $395,000 worth of donations to the victims. The issue is pretty complicated
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PHOTOGRAPHY: SF Camerawork presents As Yet Untitled: Artists and Writers in Collaboration, which blurs the boundaries between photography and writing and suggests possibilities for what exists beyond the confines of each, featuring works
SF News Teen Joy Rides Through Downtown S.F. With Dachshund SF Appeal has details on quite a thrilling story that came up on the wire yesterday afternoon involving a 15-year-old girl who was pulled over on Wednesday for driving recklessly through downtown. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ROAST: Start your new year right by bidding Sayonara to the supervisor everybody loves to hate at The Roast of Chris Daly, hosted by the lovely Beth Spotswood and Melissa Griffin. Proceeds benefit
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Revel in all things dark with a night of goth/punk/psychobilly, featuring Switchblade Riot, Plan 9 (Misfits tribute act), and Blasfemme. 9 p.m. // Bottom of the Hill (1233 17th St)
SF News CA Supreme Court Allows Cell Phone Searches Without Warrant The California Supreme Court made a controversial 5-2 ruling yesterday allowing police to search arrestees' cell phones without a warrant. This finding is said to be in line with decisions made in the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Based on a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go features the coming of age of three friends who leave the shelter of their idyllic English boarding school and discover a
SF News Giants' World Series Trophy at City Hall This Week In case you missed the Giants' World Series Trophy's brief stop at City Hall a couple of weeks ago, it will be back for a stint this Tuesday and Wednesday from 4 to
SF News 48 Displaced After North Beach Fire Early New Year's Day A two-alarm fire broke out in a North Beach apartment building early New Year's Day, displacing 48 residents, two-thirds of whom only speak Cantonese and many of them low-income. The fire was reported
SF News It's Official: America's Cup 2013 To Be Held in S.F. Suck it, Newport, Rhode Island. San Francisco has been chosen to host the next America's Cup. Our fair city was chosen much in part due to our "natural amphitheater" in which spectators can
SF News New Year's Eve Fatalities Up, DUIs Down The CHP made 64 DUI-related arrests in the Bay Area during New Year's Eve this year, as opposed to 92 last year. Four fatal collisions occurred in the Bay Area between 6 p.
SF News S.F.'s First Homicide of 2011 Yesterday San Francisco's first homicide of 2011 occurred on Saturday afternoon in the Tenderloin at Turk and Taylor Streets. The victim has been identified as Larry Lacy, aged 20, who was sitting with a
