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 Stage Fog: Melting Pot at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts TheatreWorks revives its 1992 production of David Henry Hwang's deconstruction of Puccini's Madame Butterfly--even bringing back some of its stars. Francis Jue (recently on Broadway
SF News Cycling: Horsing Around with the Barnabe Trail More than 70 percent of this planet is currently covered by water. Between global warming and privatization, the remaining 30 percent is quickly disappearing from public view. So, it's only natural to expect
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: Il Matriomonio Segreto We saw James Schwabacher once, at his debut recital series, which he endowed in perpetuity, and where he introduced the singers. He was 86 yo, but still had the quick wit of a
SF News Muni Makes Us Drink (But This Time It's Free!) First, come out for the Richmond Town Hall Meeting with Mayor Newsom and Supervisor McGoldrick, this Saturday, July 29 from noon to 2 at Presidio Middle School (450 30th Ave between Geary and
Arts & Entertainment Screw It, We're Moving To Busy Town Our pals at Shanghaiist tipped us of to David Friedman's blog, Ironic Sans. We already had an internet crush on David from his site on GameBoy camera photography (a not so secret obsession
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Have Standards to Uphold Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Lesbian visiting from out of town: "I was going to try to kiss 38 women for my 38th birthday, but decided
misc Elsewhere In The Ist-A-Verse LAist is flashing a sad peace out to their editor Carolyn Kellogg with one hand and bumping knuckles with their new head typist L.A. blogger king Tony Pierce with the other. Where
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: Madame Butterfly As for the 3,000 inside, they were treated to a glorious show. Madame Butterfly is a crowd pleaser, as far as tragedies go, and this production came up with a recipe for
Arts & Entertainment The Marginally Engaging Adventures of the Superfisters (While we were visiting our friends at Isotope Comics, we also picked up Issue 5 of the awesome -- God, we can't get enough of swashbuckling youngsters.) New this week: War-Fix, by David
misc Philistine: To Catch a Free Butterfly Tomorrow, for the first opera of new director David Gockley's era, the SF Opera will experiment with a live broadcast of the performance playing inside the War Memorial Opera House, outside on the
SF News What Would You Ask Mr Ford? We're totally afraid that we're gonna jinx ourselves by spilling the beans like this, but we can't hold back any longer: this week, we're actually going to get to ask Muni's Executive Director
Arts & Entertainment The Small Stake's Jason Munn We first consciously notice Jason Munn in last month’s ReadyMade Magazine where he was featured for the screen printed posters he makes for performances of touring bands at local venues. Then we
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Craig Wedren tickets! Anyone else a little worn out from all this running around to rock shows? Nothing a little hot coffee and a fresh giveaway can't fix. We highly recommend trekking out to Bernal Heights,
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Aqueduct White guys rapping! Ganster rap? The most instantly lovable band SFist has encountered is Aqueduct, who do, in fact, mix in a little of the rap into their set. It takes a certain
SF News Holy Freaking Mother of Christ: More Fare Increases and Service Cuts Predicted for Muni Who, you may ask, is responsible for bumping the prices up and quality down? There's a bunch of names indicated by SPUR's report: there's the Geary Blvd Merchants' Association, helmed by David Heller;
SF News Our Freedom of Speech is Freedom or Death In a 3-0 ruling, the court based their decision upon a 1969 ruling by the Supreme Court, which ruled that a 15-year-old girl had the right to wear a black armband to protest
SF News Sofia Milos + Guest Hooray to us! We have now officially flogged the Gavin Newsom & Sofia Milos thing to death. But hey, we got in the paper of record -- thanks, Swells! We'd like to thank
SF News Guess What? Peeing in Public is ILLEGAL It's all rooted in the case of David McDonald, who was arrested and searched by Oakland police while urinating in a Berkeley parking lot. At the time, the office charged McDonald with littering
Arts & Entertainment So Long, Ira We'll miss Miller, as we thought he was one of the best football reads there was. He wrote in a bare-bones style and just stuck to football, shying away from long discussions of
Arts & Entertainment Krayg Burton from Film School But we digress. If you haven’t listened to Film School’s latest album, get it here (or maybe here, if you want to be the lucky billionth listener). It’s good. Normally
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: These Girls We went to the Sunday showing of , a dark, comedic twist on the old "coming of age in a small town" story. The movie was written and directed by John Hazlett, adapted from
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes to <i>Lie With Me</i>! Leila (Lauren Lee Smith) is a sexually voracious young woman who connects with men through brief physical encounters. One night at a crowded house party, Leila meets David (Eric Balfour ) and it's lust
SF News A's Brand Baseball: The Big If Frank Thomas has hit 448 home runs, and has hit .307/.427/.568, over his 16-year career. That's pretty impressive, but in the last 2 seasons, Frank Thomas has been mostly injured: he's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: the 2006-07 Season Gone is the modern -- tacky, screamed the purists -- feel from the brochures and the web site: Glamour is back, with the "emphasis placed on the singers," said Gockley. The Opera unveiled
