SF News SF To Allow Outdoor Entertainment Again — But Will Apparently Not Permit 'Singing' or 'Shouting' The city's live music venues have been closed for some six months now, leaving the talent that would fill them without one stream of income. But, finally, live entertainment has found its way into SF's reopening plan, per a new temporary permit program for outdoor performances called "JAM."
Arts & Entertainment 9 Photos Of The New Metreon Makeover After a much-needed (?) $30 million makeover, the Metreon, struggling early aughts mall fortress at Fourth and Mission, will open a new set of "reimagined" restaurants and shops on Saturday. Among the reworked ideas:
Arts & Entertainment Hiya & Heklina At Rebel For Occupy SF Benefit Doing anything on Sunday? No? Yes? Well, even if you are, you should fix your janky calendar and instead head over to Rebel (a gay bar) and have former SF Weekly scribe Hiya
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Penthouse Club To Provide SF With Steak, Naked Breasts In 2012 Penthouse, noted purveyor of labial entertainment, will bring "four-star dining" to San Francisco in early 2012 via the city's very own Penthouse Club & Steakhouse. While the exact space is not yet know,
SF News Like to Stream AND Get Discs Via Netflix? Prepare to Bend Over and Take it in the Wallet Your days of enjoying a combo plan of getting a disc or two via those red envelopes in the mail and streaming content from California-based Netflix are numbered, kids. Starting September 1, the
Arts & Entertainment Wednesday: Smokin' Hot Progressives 2nd Annual Auction Wanna go on a date with an elected progressive? Well, the city's left-of-left-of-center ilk will pimp out their leaders at tomorrow night's Smokin' Hot Progressives 2nd Annual Auction. San Francisco mayoral candidates Dennis
Arts & Entertainment SFist Radar John Waters Live Christmas Show: Those with a hefty holiday budget best be getting their tickets to "John Waters and his sleigh full of smut" now. The event takes place on December 11
misc Check Out These Local Writers' New News Satire Show Beth Spotswood (Eye On Blogs editor) and Melissa Griffin (local politics columnist at SF Examiner) dipped their toes in the sketch comedy pool recently with a delightful new online show, Necessary Conversation. Think
Arts & Entertainment Gold Club Celebrates 6 Years of Shimmy, Shake Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Your SFist editor is titillated (ahem) because he plans on attending his first-ever female strip club spectacular! (OK, we did once attend a strip joint
misc RocketBoat, Where Have You Been All Our Lives? We just noticed the bus ad for RocketBoat at Pier 39 the other day and went home and looked it up right away. How long has this thing been around, and why hadn't
SF News NIMBY Watch: Neighbor Sues The Attic Over Rad DJ Grooves Because 24th Street and Mission exists as a bastion of soft-eject tranquility, living anywhere near the intersection means a peaceful night's sleep, right? Not so. One neighbor near popular dive bar the Attic
Arts & Entertainment California Music and Culture Association, a New Nightclub Coalition, Launches Last night, according to BCN (via SF Appeal) "a trade organization dedicated to serving the interests of nightclubs and other entertainment venues in San Francisco" kicked off their via a launch party. One
SF News Eliminate Entertainment Commission, Says Newsom Just before the city's arguably useless Entertainment Commission voted to close killer nightclub Suede for 30 days -- if you recall, a 20-year-old Richmond man was killed and four wounded in a February
Arts & Entertainment CGI <em>Peter Pan</em> Theatrical Production Coming to Ferry Plaza While it will star neither Mary Martin nor Cathy Rigby, J M Barrie’s Peter Pan, which will be performed at "the world’s first 360-degree CGI theatre," will make its U.S.
SF News Karel Comes Back To SF Radio On Monday Good news, radio listeners. Karel, the single-named, visibly homosexual radio talk show host, plans on coming back to the San Francisco airwaves next Monday. Rich Lieberman has the scoop, reporting that the "late
misc Updated: Fight the "Anti-Fun" People at City Hall on October 26 <strike>at 10 a.m. on Monday</strike> Update: Thanks to Sarafina for the update on the hearing's schedule change from next Monday to the following Monday, October 26th at 1 p.m. at City Hall, Room 263. That gives you
SF News Newsom <s>Spams</s> Raises Money On Twitter With the Help of Chelsea Handler While SFist likes to bitch about Mayor Gavin Newsom, as any self-consciously and affectedly pissed-off San Francisco voter does, we also love us some Chelsea Handler. (If you don't know who she is,
misc Chancellor at "NYC Prep" School Livid About Bravo Reality Show In non-SF news: Did any of you catch NYC Prep last night? If not, let us explain it to you: NYC Prep follows around a group of Dwight School students who will be
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Weekend Events: Festivals Galore As always, funcheapSF has an exhaustive list of great stuff to do this weekend. For those who feel like staying in or getting out of town, there are street festivals and such all
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung No, Radiohead's not coming back to SF anytime soon. Sorry. However, we just came across a mother lode. Maybe we're a few weeks or months late in discovering this or
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung "What does it look like when the concert industry exhales in relief? Tens of thousands of illuminated cellphones, swaying in the night." ... you know those times at big concerts when
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Elvis Perkins in Dearland at Cafe Du Nord by Moses Namkung Elvis Perkins in Dearland is 3/4 Ivy League but they don't quite look or act the part, unlike say let me see I don't know, XL Recordings counterpart Vampire
Arts & Entertainment <em>Skatebook</em> Release Party, New SF Skate Park Grand Opening (By Travis Jensen -- welcome him, won't you? Jensen will be chiming in at SFist now and then, and we're elated to have him aboard.) Skatebook release party Celebrate the release of the
Arts & Entertainment SF International LGBT Film Festival: <i>Ready? OK!</i> (By Joe Kukura) Ready? OK! Hey! Is that Michael Emerson up there on the right, who plays the sinister creep cult leader Ben Linus on LOST? And is that Carrie Preston on the
SF News Halloween In the Castro Cancelled Forevermore? Our sources tell us that Halloween in the Castro as we knew it is now dead. Long live a dull and tedious San Francisco. Although supervisors promised us that Halloween in the Castro
