Arts & Entertainment Arcade Fire Show, 6/1/07 Good God, it was cold out last night. On our trek up to the Greek Theater in Berkeley to see Arcade Fire in the first of their two gigs in the area, we
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies And next up, the SF Weekly. Know why? Because SFist was voted READERS' CHOICE BEST BLOG!!!!! Yay! We're so excited! Thank you, SF Weekly readers! There's no link for the Best-Of readers' choice
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight --Salsa and swing dance lessons at Julie's Supper Club, with burlesque performers on the hour. 8-11 p.m., $6 after 8 p.m. (half hour lesson), $10 by 7 (with an hour-long lesson)
SF News It's All Right Now Looks like the Stanford Men's Basketball team (and the women too) will have some support out there in Tourney land as the Stanford band were cleared of allegations for breaking all sorts of
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Kevin Arnold Noise Pop is here again! Rainy days working for the man mean nothing knowing you are going to be seeing so many awesome bands. This year’s line up includes Cake, Lyrics Born,
Arts & Entertainment It's Only Rock n' Roll The Stones play Oakland Coliseum tonight having had to move it from last night's show due to Mick having a bad throat. Now granted, most people don't really care about the Stones anymore
Arts & Entertainment Dick Valentine of Electric Six Best venue in the world? Glasgow Barrowlands. Best fans in the world? The Scottish. You’ve said that the greatest fans are in Scotland, yet you named your album SWITZERLAND. Please explain. Doesn’
Arts & Entertainment Shara Worden from My Brightest Diamond Shara has completed the arduous SFist interview process and, among other things will inspire you to go to Coney Island, if not the rest of NYC. If you haven’t managed to secure
misc SFist Contest: Win Tickets To Litquake’s Opening Night! Lineup includes: Dave Eggers and END OF SUFFERING, Mark Eitzel (American Music Club), Jay Farrar (Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt), Dan Hicks, Penelope Houston (The Avengers), Ray Manzarek (The Doors), Dan "The Automator" Nakamura
SF News Pelosi Gets Hip Or maybe she's trying to get in with the hipster crowd here in ole SF, the kind of crowd who'd probably be more into congressional representatives who dance to Taiko drums than congressional
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Take A Balanced Approach to Life Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. And! If you think you might forget your Yvesdropping, you can just call our special new Yvesdroppings voicemail hotline and leave
Arts & Entertainment Mountain Biking: Freewheeling it Festival-Style in Fairfax It's hot. No, it's freakin' hot. So what goes well with scorching heat? If you answered bands, bikes, beer, and bitchin' trail riding, then you might want to wheel yourself out to Fairfax
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews Radiohead at the Greek Theater Why they are still the only 90's band still standing (Pearl Jam doesn't count as people stopped caring about Pearl Jam around the same time they stopped writing decent songs) and one of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: The Air Guitar Championship Last Thursday night we went to go check out the San Francisco Regional of the U.S. Air Guitar Championship. And it was awesome. The competition worked like this-- the first round consisted
Arts & Entertainment Mike Taylor from The Court and Spark One word to describe The Court & Spark: Affable. One word to describe your music: Shady. What's it take to get a gig in this town anyway? Other than the belief that what
SF News Mr. Bush Goes to Palo Alto SFist loves a good protest as much as the next person. Especially when it’s on a sunny Friday afternoon. Accordingly, we headed out to see W’s reception at Stanford. Although Stanford
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Trainwreck Riders You may have seen that we described Friday night's Noise Pop headliner Jason Collett as "rainy Sunday afternoon music." Ironic, then, that on the actual rainy Sunday afternoon, we went to see a
SF News Why We Love College Basketball It's March, and that means all eyes are upon the sport of college basketball. And why not? College basketball is primal, peppy, loud, fun, historic, goofy, social, exciting, unpredictable, decisive, brave, clean, and
Arts & Entertainment The 'Fisties: Music Gillian Welch and Victoria Williams sat and watched Emmylou Harris perform, the guys from Los Super Seven hung out with some of the Knitters, and Patty Griffin stood by as Buddy Miller performed.
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Metallica and The Rolling Stones We got an email from a Noe Valley resident who confirmed they too could "hear every note several miles away in Noe Valley with all [their] windows closed." They called the SFPD who
Arts & Entertainment As Open Night As A Three Dollar Bill The Three Dollar Bill Cafe is such an excellent name for the restaurant inside the SF LGBT Community Center. If you've got the time and inclination, stop by the cafe and check out
Arts & Entertainment Artificial Hip Over 150 shorts, a restropective of the bizarre Tractor group's work, a Beck music video compilation, Jackson and His Computer Band, a Mike Mills (director of keynote, and tours of the very few
Arts & Entertainment Go Nuts This Weekend Have we ever mentioned how much we love the Primitive Screwheads? Our infatuation began when we attended their final performance of , and we've been slavering to see what they'd do next. They'd mentioned
SF News SchwarzenWatcher Goes to the Stones Concert So you get a bunch of free Stones tickets and a luxury box to see them opening night at Fenway handed over to you by some company out of the kindness of their
Arts & Entertainment Les Claypool Presents Gabby La La: Hello Kitty Meets Yoko Ono (and it’s Good) Eric McFaden and Wally Ingram/Gabby La La March 12, 2005 12 Galaxies San Francisco They came to see Les Claypool, many oblivious to who the main act was. But what they got
