Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Year (So Far) In Vines You wouldn't think you could do that much with six seconds of video, but the world (and many a college student) is showing us just how versatile the medium is, for comedy anyway.
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'The Daily Show' Is Sick and Tired of LinkedIn Spam The Daily Show's summer anchor John Oliver finally came out and said what we were all thinking: "Leave me alone, LinkedIn!" He then attempted to unsubscribe from LinkedIn's constant barrage of job status
Arts & Entertainment Dave Chappelle Is Back In San Francisco After A 48-Hour Break There was a time when a Dave Chappelle appearance in the Bay Area was thrilling and rare. These days, it's like Dave Chappelle just shows up whenever he's bored. We once heard a
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock Napa Valley: Should You Go? Sandwiched between Booneville Beer Fest (May 4) and Bay to Breakers (May 19) on our already packed May drinking calendar, BottleRock is a festival that fits music, drinking, being out in the sun
Arts & Entertainment Grammy Awards: When Kathy Griffin Met Colin Kaepernick Well, this is one good way of trying to expel homophobia within the 49ers. Noted comedian Kathy Griffin and tattooed Niners QB Colin Kaepernick crossed paths at the Clive Davis Pre-Grammy Gala on
Arts & Entertainment Julie Klausner Talks 'How Was Your Week,' Sketchfest, Bourbon, And More Julie Klausner is a woman of many talents. Trained in improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade in New York, she broke through as an author with 2010's I Don't Care About Your Band,
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Judge John Hodgman Solves All Your Problems For your last-minute, late-night Friday plans, noted erudite funnyman and "Famous Minor Television Personality" John Hodgman will weigh in on your pressing issues in a live edition of his Judge John Hodgman podcast.
Arts & Entertainment A Ron Donald Do: 'Party Down' Reunion At SF Sketchfest Party Down should go down in history as one of the best and briefest shows in television history. Though the show and its characters, so near and dear to our heart, were brutally
Arts & Entertainment Go Do These Things Tonight: Party on SFMOMA's Rooftop, Get To Third Base In The Dogpatch, Laugh It Up In The Mission A trio of events deserve your attention and attendance around town this evening: One celebrating the arts on a rooftop sculpture garden, another celebrating an underrated neighborhood in the Dogpatch and a third
Arts & Entertainment After Skewering Hippie School, Jimmy Kimmel Asked To Be Commencement Speaker In a November 27 Jimmy Kimmel Live episode, the titular host poked fun at the Humboldt Institute for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research at HSU, jesting that to get into the school “you have to
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Ali Wong At Punchline Comedy Club If you're starting to feel a post-holiday depression and Les Miserables just doesn't seem like the right thing to lift your spirits, then tonight's set from (formerly) local comedienne Ali Wong ought to
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Standup Comedy & Beer At Roxie Theatre Ease you pain away, troubled souls worrying about Instagram using your visage in the next Doritos Locos Taco ad, with some top-notch comedy and free PBR at the Roxie Theatre in the Mission.
Arts & Entertainment Robin Williams Tickets Go On Sale at 1 PM Today; 2 Shows Only! Jumpy Academy Award-winning comedian Robin Williams will make two rare (?) appearance at the 142 Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley next week, and tickets go on sale at 1 p.m. today. What he
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Discount Laughs at The Dark Room Worried tonight's presidential debates will leave you feeling sad and depressed? Distract yourself with a trip to the Dark Room's divey theater on Mission Street tonight for The Business — a weekly alternative comedy
Arts & Entertainment Lesbian To Sue Comedian Eddie Griffin For Taunting Her During Stand-up Show San Jose resident Fiona Walshe, 39, is mad. She went to see comedian Eddie Griffin perform in Pleasanton recently, and he wasn't very nice to her. Walshe says that she and her partner,
Arts & Entertainment Dave Chappelle Announces Latest Biannual 'Surprise' Shows At The Independent, July 3rd [Update] In what has become something of a ritual for the borderline reclusive, Bay Area-loving comedian, Dave Chappelle just announced two pre-Fourth of July shows at the Independent on Divisadero. Tickets for Tuesday night's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/1: 'The Connection' FILM: Director Shirley Clarke's groundbreaking 1962 film based on Jack Gelber's play, The Connection, features a group of eight anxious junkies awaiting the arrival of their connection, a topic that still rings true
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/20: Will Durst At The Commonwealth Club COMEDY: Famed political satirist, Will Durst, who once ran for mayor of San Francisco, will give an "undoubtedly entertaining" account of his life and work in a talk titled, "The Truth, The Whole
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/12: Uptown Almanac's Comedy Night COMEDY: Back by popular demand, Uptown Almanac presents their third installment of Locally-Sourced Pop-Up Comedy Night hosted by Sean Keane and featuring eight stellar Bay Area comics and 8,640 ounces of cold
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/25: Offside Jazz Festival MUSIC: Tonight's installment of the inaugural three-day Offside Festival will take a decidedly contemporary look at straight-ahead jazz, presenting three Bay Area composers and their respective trios—bassist Marcus Shelby, trumpeter Erik Jekabson,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/14: Herman Düne MUSIC I: Folk Yeah presents another great rock show, featuring John Peel darlings, Herman Düne, who are promoting their latest album, Strange Moosic, put out by their label of the same name. Tonight's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/8: Ferlinghetti Reading & Film Screening POETRY/FILM: Peter Coyote will be at Meridian Gallery tonight reading poetry by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, followed by a screening of Ferlinghetti, the 2009 documentary by Christopher Felver, which is "an incisive, sharply wrought
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/4: 'FAX' At SFAC Gallery ART: As part of FAX, an evolving exhibition from the Independent Curators International that began in New York in 2009, 22 Bay Area artists were invited to reconceive the fax machine as a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 4/29: 'Diana Vreeland - The Eye Has to Travel' FILM: Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel explores the life of a "preeminent 20th-century aesthete" and style-spotter, who is mostly remembered as the "rip-roaring" editor at Harper’s Bazaar, then Vogue, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 4/15: Elvis Costello & The Imposters MUSIC: There are still some tickets available to see Elvis Costello & The Imposters at the Warfield tonight. Attend, and you might get invited up on stage to spin the "Spectacular Spinning Songbook,
