Arts & Entertainment Longtime SF DJ Builds Online Archive Of '80s And '90s Club Mixes From Long-Gone Nightclubs "Somebody just came and dropped off this whole bag of cassettes," Jim Hopkins says, showing me a plastic grocery bag full of hand-labeled tapes sitting in the corner of the DJ booth at
Arts & Entertainment And Now, The Official Black & White Ball Invitation For immediate release: Public relations firms / publicists of the Bay Area, your SFist editor will no longer accept Facebook, Evite, Eventbrite, email, and/or engraved paper invitations*. All invites must now arrive to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/22: Afrofunk Fest, Roller Disco Costume Party, Zombie Bar Crawl MUSIC: Kenyan-born, San Francisco-based musician-activist Sila headlines the 2011 Afrofunk Festival, which benefits CARE, a humanitarian aid organization working to improve conditions in the horn of Africa. Black Nature, an original member of
Arts & Entertainment Harvey Milk Day Events We touched on this in SFist This Weekend, but seeing as how San Francisco beatifies former San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, here's a rundown of Harvey Milk Day events. Really, Harvey Milk Day
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Score some gems by over 350 local artists at Pop Noir, Southern Exposure's Annual Fundraiser + Art Auction. The event features a live and silent art auction, creative projects, delicious food and beverages,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The 2007 'Stache Bash: The regular world now knows what bears have known for a long time: mustaches are kinda cool. This even will show you just how cool they, in fact,
SF News Sorry, Crackheads: Weeklong Crackdown in the TL Wondering why you can't get your dealer on the phone? Well, last week 103 (suspected) drug retailers were pinched in a good old-fashion crackdown in the TL and Mission/Market Street areas. Similar
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City Last Thursday night we went to Bimbo's to see Stereo Total at the behest of a good friend. We'd never seen the duo before but they charmed us with their energy, humor, zesty
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- "Blow-Up": DJ Jefrodisiac and Emily Betty’s "indie-pop-disco-noir" (noir?) monthly dance club brings out hipsters of every ilk. But that doesn’t mean that you still can’t have a good time.
SF News Mike Gravel's Secret San Francisco Hideout Uncovered! If you haven't been following along: Mike Gravel is an Eskimo or whatever who wants to spend the next couple years hooting and hollering at the country. His presidential campaign hasn't been doing
Arts & Entertainment SFist Finds: Funions Send your Bay Area finds to found at sfist.com! We call on you to submit discarded photos, objects, letters, and other items that you plucked from the streets, used books, thrift stores,
Arts & Entertainment Dick Valentine of Electric Six Best venue in the world? Glasgow Barrowlands. Best fans in the world? The Scottish. You’ve said that the greatest fans are in Scotland, yet you named your album SWITZERLAND. Please explain. Doesn’
Arts & Entertainment 10th Annual Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival Sunday kicked off the 10th annual Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival featuring over 170 music acts, most of them local but some of them national (Vincent Gallo) and international (Ane Brun). The
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Rogue Wave tickets! Listen to "Publish My Love" or watch the video. Enter to win two tickets to see Rogue Wave, Aqueduct, Octopus Project, Scrabbel @ Bimbo's on Thursday night. (Contest ends Thursday at 2pm. Winner will
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop Starts Today We're wishing Noise Pop a happy birthday today, as San Francisco's indie-est music festival kicks off its 14th year. The all-festival badges are sold out, as are tickets to some of the biggest
Arts & Entertainment SFisting: Red Hot Cinema at the Red (Hot) Vic We're starting to think that the Haight's Red Vic Movie House, a worker-owned theater with comfy couches and yummy popcorn, is hitting that age (you know that age) when they think about sex
SF News Schwarzenwatcher Watches That 70s Show Why the 70s? Because all of the propositions are in the 70s. Get it? Get it? According to the site, all you need for a far out 70s party is to go to
Arts & Entertainment SF DocFest: SFist Has You Covered Usually, we try as hard as we can to avoid the real world, but we'll make an exception for the fourth San Francisco Documentary Film Festival. There are so many unbelievable films to
