Arts & Entertainment Queen of Soul? DJ Motion Potion did a nice job warming up the crowd with a 'Soul Sisters' set that ranged from the Jefferson’s theme song to more standard soul fair like Aretha and Diana.
Arts & Entertainment I Want You To Hit Me As Hard As You Can Not up for this kind of activity on a school night? Then how about this oldie-but-goodie Chron article about SF's real-life fight club (though they wear mouthguards, so we question their hard-core cred)
Arts & Entertainment Drinking with the O'Essefficist After soliciting answerable questions from myriad colleagues and cohorts, the Essefficist has some doozies to work with this week. (But don't let that stop you from sending in some of your own.) Having
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Amon Tobin A review by special show correspondent Ginevra. If you'd been listening on Friday night, you'd have heard the sounds of two drum kits, funky bass, plenty of moogs and DJ's to scramble the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Royalty Sometimes, SFist likes to dress up as a pretty, pretty princess. We're so cute afterall. When we're really feeling pathetic we put on our old prom dress, the one we wore when we
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: 2.4 Hours on Craigslist Even by 3:45 on Saturday, the lines were so packed around the Roxie that we had to walk onto 16th Street to try and read the (extremely poor) signage on the box
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Cynthia Lombard SFist always loves interviewing Bay Area natives. We feel that they are giving us the true inside scoop on the city. Cynthia definitely delivers on this count, but we feel her that her
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Byron Brown Byron is a Graphic/Fashion Designer and "GrassRoots" marketing specialist who works in San Francisco under the moniker of VIRGIN69. VIRGIN69 is a boutique and clothing company and SO much more. We're still
Arts & Entertainment Creative Commonists It's good to be a nerd. At least that's how SFist feels after hanging out at the Swedish American Hall, taking full advantage of the open bar, nodding our head to the DJ's
Arts & Entertainment We Wonder, Wonder Why The WonderCon Falls In case there was any doubt, we're all a bunch of dorkus malorkusses over here, which is why we're so giddy about the upcoming WonderCon 2005 at the Moscone in February. (Hipsters too
Arts & Entertainment Interview: DJ Neta DJ Neta is a Bay Area native who is actually happy to provide guidance on how a non-native might pass as a native. After reading her interview below you'll understand that if we
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Ross Hogg Super-hero-DJ creating speculation aside, we know you're dying to know all about these two. This interview, is all about Ross, however (DJ Neta's is forthcoming). Ross Hogg spins hip-hop, reggae, dub, dancehall, soul,
SF News New SFist Contributor: Jon Shurkin Even though Jon comes to us from the tony climes of Philadelphia's Main Line, he has lived in San Francisco long enough to remember a time when the then-embarrassing photo of the Mayor
Arts & Entertainment Any Way You Want It Like a lot of these types of sites, we have no idea what the irony level is- most of the people seem awfully sincere. On the other hand, is there anyway to appreciate
Arts & Entertainment Put On Your Yarmulke, Here Comes Hanukkah The big event happening is the annual lighting of the Bill Graham Menorah at Union Square. The fun starts at 5 p.m. and lasts 'til 6 p.m., so for those who
Arts & Entertainment Interview: TophOne In addition to writing for XLR8R magazine TophOne finds time to read 19th century Japanese literature. Really. We love what TophOne has to say about San Francisco's unique style, and all the stylish
SF News Interview: Vinnie Esparza There are however awards that DJ's can win. Lots of papers, like the SF Weekly and The Guardian have a Best DJ category (we can already hear you shouting, when will SFist have
Arts & Entertainment Interview: David Paul Like many of us, the first hip-hop song David heard was Rapper's delight. Unlike most of us, this led David to begin DJ'ing in 1985. In 1991 he founded Bomb Hip-Hop. With everything
Arts & Entertainment 9th Circuit to Beasties: "You Have The Right to Party" In a victory for the Beastie Boys, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today declined to review an earlier decision which upheld a lower-court dismissal of a case brought by James
SF News Introducing SFist Listens This week SFist Mary Lynn recommends the following as a means of coping if you haven’t yet fled to Canada and are down about four more years of W: "Tragedy" by the
Arts & Entertainment Interview: MontyLuke This week we bring you an interview with Monty Luke, DJ extraordinaire and someone man enough embrace SF despite his ties to LA. In the interview below Monty shares the secret location of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Meets a Hero! If you don't know, Afrika Bambaataa basically blessed the world with hip-hop - along with fellow angels Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and the people of the South Bronx (we're so jealous you have
Arts & Entertainment B-boy Battle in the Blogosphere! Forget Mount St. Helens - there's been an eruption right here in the blogosphere! While checking out 1115.org's debate recap, we kept scrolling to a post on Nelly dissing political MCs (classy
Arts & Entertainment Psych! What better way to celebrate the original date of Britney Spears's nuptials than at feminist pop culture zine Bitch Magazine's release party for its latest issue, on the theme of Fake? The party
Arts & Entertainment SFist First Thursday Tonight at Lisa Dent's gallery at 660 Mission will be a special viewing of the work of Hank Willis Thomas, local photographer and recent California College of the Arts MFA graduate. SFist has
