SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Cafe in Need is a Cafe Indeed He writes, In the past, we’ve tried comedy, live music, wine events, family nights, and various “get-something-free” promotions. ... In our perfect world, we’d find some sort of evergreen event that is
Arts & Entertainment Win Tickets to <i>Adam's Apples</i>! We're very sad that the SF Int'l Film Festival is over -- but at least we live in a city where you don't have to wait for just once a year to see
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Tom DiCillo’s <i>Delirious</i> " The Centerpiece film at the San Francisco International Film Festival was the satirical romantic comedy Delirious. Steve Buscemi is a down on his luck paparazzo who takes in a homeless wannabe actor played
Arts & Entertainment What the Puck? Another <i>Real World</i> Tryout Coming To San Francisco Hey check THIS out. Tryouts for MTV's are nigh. You guys have until Monday, May 7th to see if you'll be the next to fill the shoes of Pedro, Puck, or Judd . . . and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to Conan O'Brien Now here's the thing we discovered about the filming of a talk show-- there's a lot of standing around. A lot. The show isn't filmed continuously and then edited to make it look
Arts & Entertainment It's Rabbit Season Inspired by Santarchy and Bad Santa, a bunch of people have started up their very-own Easter themed bar crawl, the Bad Bunny Bar Crawl. For those of you who missed it (including ourselves
misc Contest Reminder: An Evening of a Thousand Scowls The show will be Saturday, March 31st at the Nob Hill Masonic Center and we have a pair of tickets to give away to the event. We'll select a winner this Friday.
SF News College Basketball: How Was Your Weekend? The first weekend of the men's and women's NCAA basketball tournaments is in the books -- are you still alive in your office pool? Not if you took the Road to the Final
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Opening Night! On our tightly-packed MUNI ride to the Castro to the opening night festivities for the San Francisco International Asian-American Film Festival, we were squooshed next to three thrilled Asian-American film lovers eagerly listing
Arts & Entertainment Ready For The SFIAAFF? Kwon and Hammer will be kicking off a week and a half of the latest and greatest in Asian and Asian-American film -- a week in SF (at the Castro, 1000 Van Ness,
misc SFist Contest: An Evening of a Thousand Scowls This will be the fifth year Eggers and his peeps have put this show on and Dave promises that unlike previous years, this year will be a "a pretty sordid affair" as a
Arts & Entertainment Dinner First, and then TheaterFIRST in Old Oakland There's a little theater company doing some pretty big plays on 9th Street in downtown Oakland AND offering dining discounts at neighboring restaurants for ticket holders. Part philosophical exploration, part 11th-Century Middle Eastern
Arts & Entertainment Indiefest: Stalking Santa What, you don't believe in Santa Claus? Don't tell that to Dr.Lloyd Darrow, a self-proclaimed 'Santa-ologist', whose life's mission is to uncover the truth about the elusive fat man who visits us
Arts & Entertainment It's Time For the SF Asian-American Film Festival! This is the 25th SF Int'l Asian-American Film Festival, and they're celebrating their silver anniversary this year with a special focus on Chinese-American film, a retrospective of the work of Korean filmmaker Hong
SF News GooTube vs. Viacom the Sequel First Viacom didn't want its stuff on YouTube. Then it did. Now, once again, it doesn't. So some poor schmos at YouTube are looking at missing the Super Bowl as they have to
misc SFist Ticket Giveaway: Closing Night of SF Sketchfest The performers will be the Kids In the Hall's Bruce McCulloch and will feature both music and comedy. Also performing will be Craig Northey, Hard 'n Phirm, and Dragon Boy Suede. Yes, that'll
misc Week in -Ists Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by
Arts & Entertainment Review: Comedy Death-Ray at SketchFest SFist was excited to hit SketchFest’s Comedy Death-Ray act last night at Cobb’s. The line up (full of Mr. Show and I LOVE the ‘80’s alumns) looked promising. After the
Arts & Entertainment The Morbidly Morbid Adventures of the Superfisters "Amerikan Freak," by John Leekley, Ahmet Zappa (yes, him), and Brendan Smith is not about to embrace comedy of any sort. It is serious, serious, serious, serious. But on the other hand, "Polyglot
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your TV! Also, I'm really, really lazy. So, much like I did last year, I will instead offer readers a glimpse at the top ten shows currently on my TiVo Season Pass list. Please feel
Arts & Entertainment A Little San Francisco History On PBS Every now and then, we try to watch the national news so we'll get the jokes on the Daily Show the next day. So, even though Comedy Central's fake news outlets are on
Arts & Entertainment It's Sketchfest Time For those who don't know, San Francisco Sketchfest was started six years ago and is about two weeks of performances by comedians, comedy troupes and improv groups. This year's show includes not just
misc SFist Jon's 2006 Best Of Best TV Show (drama)- "Battlestar Galactica" Why I like this show is because it thinks big-- big themes, big action, big drama, big story, big music, big everything. At times (like the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the 14th Annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy Friday night may have kicked off the 14th Annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy soiree, but it was our first. Though we're clearly members of the target audience for a December night of comedy
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews Kasper Hauser's <em>SkyMaul</em> So what kinds of items have the Hauser gang come up with? Well, how's about Medical Test Results Fortunes Cookies. Or a Transforkshire Terrier ("this incredible kids' toy transforms from a dog to
