Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef:</i> My God, What The Hell Is Padma Wearing? And, wow, last week's ep. was pretty fun! First comment: how is it we've avoided talking about Padma's strange outfits heretofore? Cuz, dude, she's really smokin', obviously, but we think the ladies from
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Movies Up first is the movie that's the talk of everything, Apocalypto. You know, we actually kind of want to see this movie. And yeah, we are fully aware of the fact Mel has
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight We Write the Book Who Wrote the Book of Tea - free public lecture by Norwood Pratt (we don't know if he has a charming British accent, but with a name like that, he so should) hosted
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Who Says SF Isn't a Theater Town? at Orpehum Theatre We never thought mainstream theater would consider goths a strong potential audience, but we've already seen Wicked, Lestat (well, we'll try to forget about that one) and now Edward Scissorhands.
SF News GooTube: Not Dead Yet It looks like all those Comedy Central videos are back, well most of them, on YouTube as Viacom and Google worked something out. And so ends the battle that led to a thousand
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: A Little Mental at The Marsh We never understood how antidepressants could actually increase suicidal thoughts, especially in teenagers. How messed up is that? Well, Jennifer Berry is happy to tell you. After signing up for
SF News Is This the Beginning of the End For GooTube? Remember back to the giddy days of Napster? Remember how everything could be found online and for free and everyone did nothing at work other than download their favorite songs? Remember how there
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Bay Area Tour at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Sorry, this isn't the same production of Mother Courage starring Meryl Streep, which recently closed in New York. Nor is it Tony Kushner's translation of the great Brecht play,
Arts & Entertainment Negative People: SFist's Bread and Butter The party's happening this Saturday, the 12th, from 7:30pm to 10. It's at the 540 Club, mnemonically located at 540 Clement Street (near 6th Ave). On the agenda are screenings of some
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog Goes to Ashland on the Elizabethan Stage A sort of poor man's As You Like It, Two Gents covers the same terrain as many of the Bard's comedies. A couple of young men travel from Verona
Arts & Entertainment Kathy Griffin: Dishing and Swishing Last Friday night, Kathy Griffin, star of the Bravo reality show "My Life on the D-List" and heir apparent to the Sandra Bernhard/Joan Rivers style of snark and dish comedy -- without
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Sparkling New Plays San Francisco Mime Troupe at Dolores Park A liberal San Franciscan missing the July 4 Mime Troupe performance is like a fire department missing its small-town Independence Day parade. Heck, we've never seen
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Selected Shakespeare San Francisco Shakespeare Festival Free Shakespeare in the Park returns with starring the magnificent Julian Lopez-Morrilas as Prospero. (If you haven't seen this man in action, you're missing out.) Local director Kenneth Kelleher
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Old Lit, New School at Magic Theatre When our dreams of home ownership conjures visions of $1 million fixer-uppers and our futures are laden with credit card debt, the story of the American Dream seems about as
SF News Your San Francisco Giants: Happy Days Are Here Again? Here's what taking two-out-of-three games on the road against the best team in the National League will get you-- Giants bloggers are actually experiencing glee. And why not? They did take two from
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Oh, The Horror at Magic Theatre Killer Joe is one of the best plays so far in 2006. Why haven't you seen it, you wonder? Probably because it played way the hell up in Mill Valley,
Arts & Entertainment There He Is, Mr. Hyphen Magazine We are totally fascinated by the phenomenon of the Asian-American fashion show. In college, the various Asian-American student groups would always throw some kind of runway-themed benefit, featuring the clothing of Armani Exchange,
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai</i> is classified as a "pink" movie in Japan meaning soft porn but it really is so much more. We always enjoy a good comedy—a good political comedy is even better, but a
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Geary Street at the Curran Theatre Spend any amount of time in a Muni or BART station and you'll find that you can't escape the ads for Martin Short's new musical, a pre-Broadway world premiere
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Cockbyte: Masters of Machinima</i> Sorry to be crude. "Red vs Blue," if you're not familiar, is sort of sketch-comedy series made by dubbing dialogue on top of pre-scripted game footage. We'd estimate that Sunday night's screening was
misc Win A Ticket To The High Times Comedy Festival! There are going to be some exceptionally funny comedians playing these shows... the scathing, biting humor of Tom Rhodes, who has been seen on Comedy Central and his own NBC sitcom. Doug Benson
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Solo Shows at The Marsh Baloney is usually something to be avoided at all costs--unless Dan Piraro is involved. Yep, that Bizarro cartoonist has his own solo show, and he's thrown in just about every
misc Animal Roundup: Stephen Jr. Yay San Francisco Zoo! Not only did it win back its accreditation, but it also vaulted into Comedy Central gold with an inspired intern's (possibly unauthorized?) email to the Colbert Report asking if
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Something for Everyone, Again at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Who said interactive theater is uncool? One of the coolest things about Culture Clash's production of Zorro in Hell is that you can download your very own Zorro mask
Arts & Entertainment Suicide Prevention is Serious Business, Except When It's Hilarious We suppose that sometimes you've got to laugh, otherwise you'll cry, when it comes to "Laughs for Life," an evening of comedy benefiting San Francsico Suicide Prevention. The SFSP hotline has run 24/
