SF News Suede Nightclub and Lounge Closes After Shooting Death After this weekend's shooting death outside Suede Nightclub and Lounge, which took the life of 20-year-old Lawson Hall, authorities have temporarily suspended the Fisherman's Wharf venue's license. "City officials say an emergency suspension
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Indiefest documentary Oh My God! It's Harrod Blank! about local artist Harrod Blank, creator of interactive art pieces such as the Camera Van and the Flash Suit, showcases twenty years of footage
Arts & Entertainment Tomorrow: Lil Miss Hot Mess' Bat Mitzvah by Rachel Brodsky We, the chosen ones, remember bar & bat mitzvah season clearly. There would be this six-month period where fat, shiny envelopes arrived in your mailbox by the pound, inviting you
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker BOOKS: San Francisco author Jason Myers discusses his second book, The Mission. It's the story of a young man who moves to San Francisco after his brother is killed in
misc Reminder: Fight the "Anti-Fun" People at City Hall Today at 1 p.m. As we all know, San Francisco nightlife has been under fire quite a bit lately. In addition to the ongoing saga of the Alcoholic Beverage Control's enforcement of arbitrary rules they've set for
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts The week kicks off with Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White playing several just-announced all acoustic sets at Yoshi's Oakland. Then on Thursday, jangly French pop band Phoenix is at The Warfield,
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung What do you get when you mix members of the Smashing Pumpkins, Hanson, Fountains of Wayne and Cheap Trick? Apparently... Tinted Windows. Aidan Vaziri at SFGate has an amusing interview
Arts & Entertainment Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung Outside Lands has arrived. Remember last year? Substantial Muni fail, Radiohead's sound cutting out, Mr. Clothezoff, and other freshman-year festival growing pains... this year, we have a gaggle of headliners
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses NamkungThis week, the Bay Area plays host to Third Eye Blind, Green Day and the Warped Tour -- quite the triumvirate of throwback California alternative rock. Just wondering, is anybody out
Arts & Entertainment Benefit for SF Music Venues in Oakland Tomorrow Night SonicLiving is ramping up its crusade against the Alcoholic Beverage Control's unreasonable crackdown on San Francisco's all-ages music venues with their first Stop the War on Fun benefit concert at the Uptown Nightclub
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung Did you miss out on buying tickets to the secret show for Sonic Youth at the Independent tonight? Never fear, they're available for... oh, wait... somebody's asking for the extortionary
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: He might appear rather nerdy to those who haven't been fortunate enough to hear his music, but Jarvis Cocker's titillating voice and songwriting are sure to throw his fans into quite a
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses NamkungThe Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival, the two-week long extravaganza featuring an array of "local independent concert promoters, musicians, artists, filmmakers, dancers and multi-media performance artists", finishes this week with
SF News Two Men Shot Inside North Beach Nightclub Two men were shot inside Impala, a Broadway nightclub frequented by types who still think bottle service is cool, at around 1:15 a.m. this morning. According to , "two men were each
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung We'll be at Bottom of the Hill on Thursday to see headliners the Rural Alberta Advantage, the folksy Canadian band recently signed to Saddle Creek Records. The show will be
Arts & Entertainment Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Brian WiedenmeierThe week ahead in music is a quiet one, as if the Bay Area needed some time off to nurse it's collective post-Pride hangover. Quiet doesn't mean silent, however, and there
SF News The Latest on ABC vs. SF All-Ages Music Venues 7 x 7 created this great video featuring Dawn Holliday, co-owner of Slim's, Guy Carson, owner of Cafe Du Nord, and Amy Miller of Sonicliving.com speaking about the Alcoholic Beverage Control's recent
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Music by Moses Namkung Brooklyn-based quartet Grizzly Bear has had the indie music community abuzz with rave reviews of their latest album, , which even cracked the Billboard Top 10 a couple weeks ago, just
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead It's bits-and-pieces of '90s cult alterna-band week in San Francisco, with members of both Ween and Primus (Gene Ween and Les Claypool respectively) gracing the stages of Great American Music Hall and the
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung The Harmony Festival, coming up this weekend in Santa Rosa, will feature Michael Franti & Spearhead, India.Arie, Cake, ALO (Animal Liberation Orchestra), Balkan Beat Box and countless other musical
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung The last time we saw Jens Lekman, as his set ended he apologized that he had run out of time. The lights went on, he hopped down from the stage
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung Exciting week ahead, yes? Yes. Our favorites? We'll be catching St. Vincent on Wednesday, Jenny Lewis on Friday and the Thermals on Sunday! See you out there. Monday, May 25
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung Over at ipickmynose, Adrian Bischoff is consistently producing superb, original local music coverage including this garden tour today with local resident John Vanderslice; in it, the two discuss, among other
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung No, Radiohead's not coming back to SF anytime soon. Sorry. However, we just came across a mother lode. Maybe we're a few weeks or months late in discovering this or
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: Glen Park's Bird & Beckett Books & Records are having an 11-Hour Charlie Parker Jam Session to help Bird & Beckett "beat the banks." It's going on as we speak with a
