Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Arcade Fire: LCD Soundsystem and Wild Light open for this white-hot -- that's right, white-hot, or so we hear -- Canadian indie-rock band. Music starts tonight at 7 p.m. at
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Avenue Q: This tee hee-inducing musical features un-Seaseme Street-like puppets (e.g., a closeted homosexual republican, for starters) and an ode to racism. What's more, the indie production won a surprise Tony
SF News We Knew Raiders Fans Were Hard Core, But Not This Hard Core So why do we bring up this story? Because Comer's last words upon being executed were "go Raiders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Comer's actually not the only death row inmate to show their allegiance to their favorite
Arts & Entertainment 'Wait. I've Got It. <i>This</i> Time The Lawyer's A Prophet!' There was that one a few years ago by David Kelly with the three nice looking young ladies, "Girls Club." Lasted for very few episodes in 2002. Well, there's a new pilot that
Arts & Entertainment The SFIFF's Here (and Contests Are Coming)! Tonight's the opening night for the San Francisco International Film Festival! It's two weeks of everything in the world you can think of that's related to film: new indie favorites, an old (remastered)
misc Lung Cancer! We meet that idea with skepticism; it is with vivid detail that we recall the extensive anti-smoking education of our youth, and our impression of smokers (both juvenile and adult) is that they've
Arts & Entertainment A Day After the First Day of Spring Yesterday was the first day of spring so we decided to celebrate a day late with a YouTube clip of Tchaikovsky's Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" from Disney's Fantasia. Then we realized that's
misc Juno Baby Is More Than Just Cute: Children's 'Edu-tainment' With A Bit More Soul The Bay Area is home to many intriguing small businesses. Still, color us surprised that we've found in Juno Baby a local purveyor of high-quality children's educational products that manages to encapsulate what
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Girl Who Leapt Through Time</i> This is why we go to film festivals. Once in a while you get to see a movie that you probably would have missed if it weren't for film festivals, but has made
Arts & Entertainment Bloggers 1, KSFO 0 It's looking like Spocko the Blogger's little stunt he pulled on KSFO is working. Both Bank of America and MasterCard pulled either all of their advertising or some of their advertising from KSFO.
SF News Macworld SF 2007: Steve Jobs Is A Mother----ing <i>Gangsta</i>. Look, the long-desired iPhone. How does Steve Jobs choose to showcase the new phone's music technology? By playing The Beatles' "Lovely Rita, Meter Maid." That's so . Why? This staged moment is Steve's announcement/
Arts & Entertainment Netroots Powers, Activate! Now that Netroots have slowed down on the Tauscher hating, they've moved onto another subject to which their ire is drawn, KSFO. One of the diarists on Daily Kos is telling the story
SF News Ganging Up on GooTube So here's how the story goes: plucky, fresh-faced tech geeks put together some new web gizmo that quickly becomes one of those things everyone loves. Plucky, fresh-faced tech geeks quickly make a lot
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Movies Up first is the movie that's the talk of everything, Apocalypto. You know, we actually kind of want to see this movie. And yeah, we are fully aware of the fact Mel has
misc Get Ur Geek On: Don't Call it a Comeback It's been a while since we published a tech roundup. But the Internet turned 15 last Sunday, we got a new laptop from an entrepreneur and friend who'll be enabling this 'Fister's addiction
SF News North Beach Is Italian For No Booze Oh wait, there's going to be no booze allowed this year? Nevermind. Apparently, some people have been complaining about the drunken hordes of frat boys, Marina girls, and aging alcoholics who have descended
misc SFist Tech Rant/Roundup: Finger-Pointing Leander Kahney of Wired News got some flak for his commentary about the relative merits of Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates. He says that the popular perception of Gates as evil monopolistic robber
Arts & Entertainment The Ambitious Adventures of the Superfisters In a collaboration with (appropriately) Slave Labor Graphics, Disney has started releasing a series of comics inspired by the Haunted Mansion attraction, and the result is, what a relief, none too shabby. Each
SF News SFist Raves: Goodbye and Thanks Rand McNally Store Recently, we read in P.J. Corkery's always entertaining column that a few San Francisco stores are closing. They include the Disney Store (good riddance), Torrefazione Italia (yay! More Starbucks!) and the Rand
Arts & Entertainment <strike>Marin County's</strike> San Francisco's Robin Williams Harshes on Disney -- Loves Pixar In the "d'oh, we totally forgot" department (we've been sharing a blunt with Al Gore), yesterday evening our snarker-in-arms down south Defamer (who we swear is actually Thomas Pynchon drinking away his career
Arts & Entertainment Toy Story 3 Will Probably Be Really Crappy In another blow to an already failed relationship, Disney has begun ramping up production for Toy Story 3 at their new digital production facilities in Glendale -- meaning that it isn't likely Pixar
Arts & Entertainment Nothing Ever Happens in San Jose The San Jose Museum of Art plays host to the first major solo U.S. exhibit of work by Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara. Citing influences such as Disney and Punk Rock, Nara is
Arts & Entertainment 22 Fillmore SFist has fond memories of waking up early on Saturdays to eat oversugared cereals and watch cartoons. SFist also deeply enjoys watching vaguely formulaic cop shows. With these two criteria in mind, plus
