Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews Bjork + Calling All Madwebcarpenters We would've gotten this up sooner, but we've been busy playing nursemaid all week! We parked in the hay last Saturday evening and were told by one of Shoreline Amphitheater's parking attendants, "Watch
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City Our second offering of prizes comes from two great bands playing on Tuesday night at the Independent: Great Northern and Loney, Dear. For a long time we had an irrational aversion to the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Michael J. Nelson of RiffTrax and MST3K RiffTrax is Mike Nelson's clever venture which allows him (and frequent contributors Murphy and Corbett) to make fun of more current films (and TV shows) without having to deal with annoying copyright issues.
Arts & Entertainment San Franciscan Tries Out For The Boston Pops Meet local boy Aaron Drake, who's trying out for the Boston Pops' American Idol-style PopSearch singing contest that we told you about last week, trying out on Edwin McCain's "I'll Be." In hard-hearted
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City The Mission Creek Music Festival is still going strong and shows continue through Sunday. Although MCMF's press folks hadn't ever heard of SFist ("Is this a radio station? We're only giving tickets to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Well, all of San Francisco politics is trivial, isn't it? Get that confirmed at tonight's 4th Annual Political Trivia Contest, featuring Chris "Whiskers" Daly, Ross Mirkarimi, and Jake McGoldrick, at a benefit for
SF News Get To Work (And Get There Sweaty) Muni's put together an info page, but their halfhearted map is in loathsome PDF. We went ahead and converted it to a format that you can actually use; you're welcome. (Or you can
misc SFist Contest: David Gordon's Pick Up Performance- Dancing Henry Five Anyways, enter away if you want to go-- we'll announce winners on Thursday. Good luck!
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: Halou and Greenworld Part 1 of 2 of SFist Wendy's hard-partying midweek SFIFF musical adventures! At the SFIFF, we waited out the line on Wednesday to “go green” with local bands Halou (video above) and Tarentel
Arts & Entertainment Alexandra Lipsitz, Director of Air Guitar Nation If you’re hoping to get into the competitive side of air guitar, or just prove to your partner that your moves really are totally solid, you should check out “Air Guitar Nation”
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To The SwapSF Book Swap! SwapSF is one of those freecycle groups that encourages people to trade cool things amongst themselves -- and what's cooler than books? So bring $5 and some books you want to trade for
misc SFist Give-Away: 86 Recipe Cards The San Francisco world of restaurant gossip columnists went head over heels when Grace-Ann Walden retired from the Chronicle and the Inside Scoop column. She had all the info, friends in all dining
Arts & Entertainment Mo' Money, Mo' Young Lawyers, Mo' Problems For Their Firms? It's good to be a lawyer at a big firm these days. Cal Law reports that a number of prominent, large, local firms keep raising salaries for starting associates, leading to peers to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'I'm Really Enjoying This So-Called 'Iced Cream'' Oakland-based Dreyer's (Edy's to our friends on the right coast) seems to want to bring you closer to your neighbors . . . by making you enter a contest to win an ice cream party. Strange.
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Cold Prey</i> We’ll start off this review by saying we love Stella Artois…or more specifically the free Stellas we had at the mini-beer garden before the midnight horror movie screening of at the
SF News Nice Leather Seats For Your 11-Hour Wait SFist will throw in your lunch for the plane ride over if you go dressed as either Gothamists Jen or Jake and you send us your picture! --- Those of you who want
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Win Tickets To <i>Notes From The Toon Underground!</i> If the lines outside the Kabuki this weekend are any indication, everyone and their cousin knows that the SF Int'l Film Festival is the place to BE for the latest and greatest in
SF News Barkley vs. the Bay Area We somehow missed this, or more like didn't care, but Charles Barkley has now become Public Enemy #1 here in the Bay Area. This is because during the NBA Playoffs, Barkley has said
Arts & Entertainment 'Bad Reporter' Is Best Of The West Most of the news about print journalism is a little depressing -- circulation is down, money is tight, etc, etc. So it gives us immense pleasure when we can share a little positive
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Win Tickets To <i>The Unforeseen</i>! Want to check out some film this Sunday afternoon? , a documentary set in one of our sister -ist cities, Austin, Texas, is about the battle between developers and environmentalists as a sweet-sounding but
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Win Tickets to <i>The Old Weird America</i>! This one's for a Saturday screening (6:15 p.m. at the Kabuki) of , an uplifting music performance documentary featuring performances by Elvis Costello, Beck, Beth Orton, Sonic Youth, and Philip Glass (and
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Win Tickets To Jonathan Richman's <i>The Phantom Carriage</i>! So -- how lucky are you, valued readers?? SFist has two tickets to give away to one lucky winner, for a screening of , a spooky silent movie showing at the Castro for the
