Arts & Entertainment Indie Rock <em>Believer</em> The June music issue of The Believer will come packaged with a CD compilation of pure indie rock gold. We hear that local do-gooder and author extraordinaire Dave Eggers is behind the compilation,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: The Truth This Week "Britney and Kevin: Chaotic" premieres Tuesday May 17th at 9 p.m. on UPN and man, we can hardly wait. Be sure to visit the show site and watch the preview. If the
Arts & Entertainment Still Independent After All These Years One of the mothers of all intellectual crack dens - Kepler's Bookstore - turns 50 this year. Fifty years of social consciousness (Roy Kepler was an anti-violence activist) and social unconsciousness (this is,
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Go Ask Alice So Coldplay tickets apparently sold out in less than one minute on Sunday, huh? And there was tons of borderline-illicit craigslist bartering for wristbands, right? But -- come on, Gavin Newsom calling into
Arts & Entertainment SFist Rants: We Are Beautiful, No Matter What You Say SFist has lived in San Francisco for a long time and has been to our fair share of parties. We've been to hoity toity parties, arty parties, everyone tripping their balls off parties,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: An Imposter This Week The movie in question is Murder at the Presidio, which premieres on USA Monday, May 2nd, at 9 p.m. Lou Diamond Phillips stars as a member of the "Criminal Investigation Division" investigating
SF News Badlands's Bad The San Francisco Human Rights Commission has finished its investigation into the Castro bar Badlands, and concludes that yup, Badlands really was discriminating against African-Americans (.pdf) at the door. The HRC found that
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <em>Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off Screen</em> If this review were an Edgar G. Ulmer movie, it would be covered in fog, have a sweeping orchestral score (public domain of course), and SFist would be a nihilistic outsider desperate for
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV This Week, While Wishing We Could Watch Ourselves We can't really explain why we get such a thrill out of seeing our beautiful town show up on prime time television, but we do. Maybe we're hoping to see someone we know
Arts & Entertainment On The Road with Electric Six Electric Six are a rock band from Detroit who want you to enjoy yourself, whether that's through the guitar-heavy dance grooves they deliver, or through their laugh-out-loud lyrics. Don't get them wrong; they
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Mad Libs Hey kids! Are you looking for a quick and easy entry into San Francisco District 6 civic participation? Do you long to get an angry email response from Chris Daly like this lady
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: The End SFist needs to reveal some scary news to you all. We hope you're prepared. We can't say when this will happen, exactly, but all signs point to it. Yup. The end is near.
Arts & Entertainment The Alternative Press Expo (APE) Kicks Our Ass And Takes Names At the Alternative Press Expo (or APE), overstimulation is an understatement. There is a ton going on here. Held yearly in San Francisco, heretofore in February, APE took place this past weekend, April
SF News San Francisco Golden Gloves: Friday, April 1 When we heard that the Golden Gloves were moving back up to San Francisco from the Cow Palace, we were all "sure, that sounds cool", but we didn't really get how awesome it
Arts & Entertainment On The Road with The Ditty Bops The Ditty Bops are Amanda Barrett and Abby DeWald, two modern LA twenty-somethings celebrating yesteryear with their self-titled debut album [listen here]. Both their record and their live show are a must-hear, featuring
Arts & Entertainment Tools With Tools If last night's show inspired you to pick up a power tool, then head on down to Home Depot this Saturday (there are two in Colma! Just a BART ride away!) to partake
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Let's Get Ready to Rumble! Thursday Thursday Thursday!!!! The grudge match! In the "Bloggers Are Such Bitches" SFist.com t-shirt, the dodgin' and weavin' Big Bad Chris "The Left Hook" Daly! And in the "Michael Bolton Is My
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Eggcellent TV This Week Ahhh...Puppetoons. Well, fear not egg hunters. Easter is not without its own share of spooky animated specials, and thanks to the folks at the Family Channel, you can catch two this Sunday!
Arts & Entertainment SXSW Music Wrap Up For those of you who aren't familiar, SXSW is the biggest music festival in the U.S., happening over five days and four nights each year in gorgeous Austin, Texas. More than 1,
Arts & Entertainment Kimberly Guilfoyle Bolton? So as it rains so hard, we stare out the window and we wonder, with a little sigh in the heart -- what is our plucky broken-hearted former first lady Kimberly Guilfoyle doing
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Flutastic We're not being dramatic or anything, but we've had the flu for a week now, with massive pain behind our eyeballs and pretty much zero appetite. But you can't all come over and
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Cutie Honey</i> For those of you not familiar with 70s comic book turned TV show turned movie , imagine a completely non-ironic present-day Wonder Woman film, and you'll be pretty close. (tangentially, we noted that is
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: </i>Chinese Restaurants: Three Continents</i> The scene at the Kabuki for the last night of the Asian-American Film Festival was jam-packed, with three movies all starting at the same time, and people dressed to the nines for the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Springy TV This Week What? Did we hear someone say "Boo! Bad segue!"? Fine. How's this? On Sunday on CBS at 9 p.m. you can catch the awesomely titled made-for-TV movie Spring Break Shark Attack. We
Arts & Entertainment Solarize This Hey, a fight in the Tenderloin that doesn't involve Supervisor Chris Daly? Singer and Angry British Man Ian Brown, the former lead singer of the Stone Roses ("I Wanna Be Adored" -- yeah,
