Arts & Entertainment New Tunes Tuesday #13 Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. Trying to decide what to feature this week was rough. Our choices were slim to none, ranging from
misc Week Around the -ists The Holiday season is in full swing in NYC, with holiday lights in Brooklyn, a giant snow globe in Bryan Park and Chanukah specials for ham. One citizen decided to go vigilante on
SF News Coming to a Zuni Cafe or Ferry Building Near You: Reese and Vince Oh la la. The reportedly very prickly Reese Witherspoon and rubenesque Vince Vaughn -- whatever, we'd hit it. Hit it hard -- are in town filming their new divorce-themed romcom, Four Christmases. (According
Arts & Entertainment SFist Finds: Oh Yeah, Merry Christmas Today's find was sent to us by SFist reader/commenter Jerry Jarvis, which he found somewhere along Howard Street. We can imagine how much it would suck to come to work and find
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Aimee Mann's Second Annual Christmas Show: Paul F. Tompkins, Sean Hayes, Chuck Prophet, and Morgan Murphy join the delightfully blond songstress for a night of holiday warm fuzzies. Because X-Mas is coming
SF News It's Almost Christmas! Give The Gift Of A...MUNI Pass? We were trolling around on the Interweb the other day and caught notice of this banner ad, which immediately depressed us, given that: 1) Somebody at MUNI thought that monthly passes make an
misc Week Around the -Ists The cold weather - and holiday festivities - descended upon Gothamist. The Rockefeller Christmas tree was lit, Broadway stagehand finally ended their strike, and NASCAR decided to run their victory lap through Times
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Reverend Billy As you walk around and see stores decorated for Christmas before Halloween, it’s hard not to think that consumerism has gone out of control in this country. Unlike other problems, there’s
SF News SFist Blotter Well, we thought your usual SF criminals were getting all Christmas-y into the spirit of the holiday season what with so little crime reported this past week. the festive spirit is not as
Arts & Entertainment Great Scott: Novato Goes Hollywood! Disney & Co. will be setting up shop at Hamilton Landing, where they will convert two aircraft hangars leftover from its Air Force base days. According to the Chron, next year ImageMovers Digital
Arts & Entertainment "Dirty Country" Sneak Previews at Yerba Buena Tonight Tonight, for one night only, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will be featuring two sneak previews of Dirty Country, a highly entertaining documentary about the underground world of raunchy music, directed by
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Why, it seems to be election day. [SFGate] -- The indictment of Ed Jew. [SFExaminer] -- Endorsement orgy. [SFBG -- .pdf-heavy] -- Mos Def? Mos Definitely! Heh. Eh. Yeah. Anyway, last minute
Arts & Entertainment First They Came for the Fire-Juggling Clowns, and I did not Speak Out ... "It was so hard to see busloads of police marching through an empty Castro," says one Castro resident, and another adds, "I was in tears last night." The buzzword for the evening seems
SF News Ceci n'est pas une Halloween So now, in a semiotically treacherous move, they're saying that the disruptions are due to -Halloween. "No Halloween in the Castro. Possible delays and re-routed lines," says the MTA website. "Due to the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Only 102 Shopping Days Until Christmas At least that was how long we all had last week when we saw these Frosty-esque Snow People up for sale in San Francisco. Have you seen any recent evidence of "Christmas Creep"
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After You know, we meant to get into the whole "It's Got to Be the Morning After" thing earlier but forgot to do it in all the sports hurly-burly. So, yes, the title comes
Arts & Entertainment Permit to Engage in Expressive Activity, SFShenanigans! Checking out Laughing Squid, we came across yucksters SFShenanigans' Christmas-In-August calendar item. (Similar to last month's reverse trick-or-treat, which we hear was spooktacular.) Fun! But in the comments section of the Laughing Squid
SF News SFist Blotter Campus tree residency news! At Cal, it turns out those people living in the trees to protest the UC's plan to cut them down themselves did significant damage to the trees in question
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV There were a lot of locals in the world of reality TV this week! "America's Got Talent" included an audition from an East Bay music teacher named Michael Strelo-Smith. He had an OK
Arts & Entertainment McSweeney's Has Good Stuff To Read For Cheaper Than Usual We usually keep things pretty simple around here -- so if you want something a little more literary, there's a plethora of clever, quirky, smart, and wonderful writing at McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and
Arts & Entertainment Why Do We Always Come Here? The excitement begins on June 21 with "Muppets 101," a sort of primer on who and what and how. It's followed over the next two weekends with screenings of "Labyrinth" and "Dark Crystal"
misc That Fake Stanford Student Today's article reveals that Azia Kim's friends from high school all thought she was going to one of those community colleges that feeds into Berkeley, but when she came back at Christmas break
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: A Pot Club The Examiner's on Bobagate! They've now found out Ed Jew, through his father, rents a building to a pot club, at 1545 Ocean. Hope those cannabis users have water. Look at all these
misc SFist Give-Away: 86 Recipe Cards The San Francisco world of restaurant gossip columnists went head over heels when Grace-Ann Walden retired from the Chronicle and the Inside Scoop column. She had all the info, friends in all dining
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>7 Years</i> and <i>Dans Paris</i> This weekend we took in a couple of French dramas at the SFIFF, but because at least one of them is slated for distribution in the near future, we’ve been asked not
