Arts & Entertainment <i>The Wizard of Oz</i> + the San Francisco Symphony = All Kinds of Cheer Well, this sounds like the perfect (and perfectly frightening) holiday entertainment for both kiddies and adults. On December 20, 21, and 22 the San Francisco Symphony will perform the entire Harold Arlen ("Harold,
Arts & Entertainment Guess When the Cosco Busan Departs & Win Win Win! Just leave a comment stating the date and time you think the Cosco Busan will pass 'neath the International Orange Gate Bridge and into the deep briny. Only one entry per commenter. Our
misc Holiday Giveaway: Darlybird Just enter below by noon on Saturday. Read on for Rachel’s interview from last year, and to catch glimpses of some of her other fun wares.
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Le Rock: December 3-8 Now that the bets are in (okay, so no one really cast any bets - how boring is that?), you can go to Cafe du Nord, tonight, to check out San Francisco's unsigned
SF News SFist Blotter (Barry Bonds is on SFGate's Crime page. Ha!) -- A 19-year-old woman was shot -- "in the back today...at 5:39 p.m." Huh?-- during an attempted street robbery in SF's
Arts & Entertainment The Colbertese Falcon Applause to John's Grill owner John Konstin, who decided to put some money into the arts. When the Maltese Falcon replica displayed in the restaurant was stolen earlier this year, Mr. Konstin offered
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Bonds' final, fatal backlash continues. (I wonder how he spent his day today? That would make a good dramatic play.) [SFGate, SF Examiner, FCJ , SFBG, The Snitch, CBS 5, NBC3] -- Kicking
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Seahawks 24 Niners 0 -In light of the news of the death of Dick Nolan, we feel a little icky about being negative and snarky about the Niners. Poor Mike Nolan. So, instead,
misc Top Drawers: SF International Animation Festival Ticket Giveaway The International Animation Festival starts tonight, kids. And speaking of them, don't bring yours to tomorrow night's wonderfully smut-filled orgy of animated shorts, Top Drawers. What's more, one lucky soul will get a
Arts & Entertainment New Tunes Tuesday #8 Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. All bands this week featured in our Standout section are from the Bay Area. Arp, the brain-child of
Arts & Entertainment Contest: Great Northern @ BotH 11/9/07 Back in May, we were introduced to a great indie-pop band called Great Northern. We quickly fell in love with their latest release, Trading Twilight for Daylight and have been trying desperately to
Arts & Entertainment Short End of the Stick Okay, okay, okay. Here is some good news. We are giving away two copies of The Decemberists' The Crane Wife on vinyl. Also, if you haven't already bought their new EP, then do
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight (All Hallow's Eve Edition) So much to do, so much not to do. What's a girl to do? Well, here is just a smattering of what's going on tonight. (An aside, is there any reason to buy
Arts & Entertainment Contest: Trick or Tunng In light of it being Halloween, we thought instead of candy, we would give out two tickets to another concert. This week has been full of giveaways (see here and here), so why
Arts & Entertainment New Tunes Tuesday #7 Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. Win a free copy of Nicole Atkin's debut album release, Neptune City after the jump. Download: "War Torn"
Arts & Entertainment Contest: Minipop @ Rickshaw Stop 11/3/07 Minipop, a San Francisco-based band, is releasing their much anticipated debut album, A New Hope next Tuesday. Lucky for all of us we'll be able to get their new CD this Saturday, a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview: Mike Birbiglia Here at SFist we like to think of ourselves as givers. We give. You take. Again and again. So here you go, we're doing our part. We've got a pair of tickets for
Arts & Entertainment Interview Glenn Kotche The SF Jazz fest is in full swing (sorry, we couldn't help the pun). Thursday and Friday the Herbst Theater will hose the world premiere of Anomaly, a new piece by Glenn Kotche
Arts & Entertainment New Tunes Tuesday #6 Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. Looking at the fact that Serj Tankian's concert at Slim's on October 28th is already sold out, we
Arts & Entertainment Contest: Sia @ Fillmore 10/25/07 If you fell in love with Sia when you were bawling your eyes out about the Fisher family then Thursday's night concert is for you. Sia, our favorite Australian pop singer, is coming
Arts & Entertainment Photo of a Yellow Corvette at Laguna Seca = $1,000 This is strange. And gimmicky. But, hey, it's $1,000! Here's the deal: Jalopnik is offering $1,000 to someone who snaps up and sends them an image of a yellow 2009 Corvette
Arts & Entertainment Win a Pair of Tickets to See <em>Thin Air</em> ODC Theater welcomes Guggenheim Fellow Donna Uchizono and her New York-based dance company with its west coast debut,Thin Air. Hailed by the almighty New York Times as "brilliantly imaginative," Uchizono draws inspiration
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Explanation for last night's brief Bay Bridge light outage. [Oakland Tribune] -- Need a home in the Mission? And you're a web ninja and/or hacker? And a bit of an arsonist?
