Arts & Entertainment SF VMAs? The Chron's Matier and Ross get back to the gossip we pay twenty-five cents in the MUNI for and report that Gav Daddy Newsom is aggressively wooing MTV to throw the 2005 Video
Arts & Entertainment Les Claypool Presents Gabby La La: Hello Kitty Meets Yoko Ono (and it’s Good) Eric McFaden and Wally Ingram/Gabby La La March 12, 2005 12 Galaxies San Francisco They came to see Les Claypool, many oblivious to who the main act was. But what they got
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Slow Jam King A friendly crowd greeted Filipino-American filmmaker Steven Mallorca at the San Francisco screening of his labor of love, for the Asian-American Film Fest -- about three rows of seats were reserved for his
Arts & Entertainment Bright, Indeed Unless you're hitting A.C.T. or Berkeley Rep, it's a bit tough to find good theater to go to on a Wednesday night. Right now (and at least through early April), however,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV Monsters This Week Seems the folks at MTV have granted PR exec and maniacal SUV-driving Lizzie Grubman her own show, called "PoweR Girls." ("PowerR"...PR. GEDDIT?) We guess mowing down nightclub goers in the Hamptons is
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: CocoRosie Friday night's show with CocoRosie and Antony and the Johnsons at Great American Music Hall felt like a night at the underground opera. More than a few audience members came dressed in costume,
Arts & Entertainment Cinequest Event: An Afternoon with Sir Ben Kingsley After viewing a sort of Oscar lifetime award nomination-esque series of clips from some of Sir Ben's more notable movies (i.e. Ghandi and House of Sand and Fog included, Rules of Engagement
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The After-the-Oscars Edition Well, the Oscars are over, so you can stop your vain attempt to see all the nominated movies -- a disappointing lot of them blew anyway -- and do something more interesting with
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Robbers on High Street On Friday Noise Pop presented a matinee show with Ringside, Von Iva and Robbers on High Street at Cafe Du Nord. It's quite strange to head to a rock show at a time
Arts & Entertainment The Odd Couple Now you may be wondering why the Christian Coalition is taking such an interest in people downloading illegal Beck mash-ups or musical Buffy goodness, but the reason is fairly obvious in that one
Arts & Entertainment Coming Attractions: Cinequest 2005 The San Jose Film Festival is in its 15th year (The gift for that is crystal by the way. I'm sure they'd appreciate it.) and once again is bringing a jam-packed lineup of
Arts & Entertainment Mavericks! (maybe) I don't want to be caught calling "wolf", but I'm hearing from my friends that the surf contest at Maverick's is going to be held this Wednesday. (This is the second time I've
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 Interview: Earlimart Earlimart may be the nicest band ever to come from Los Angeles. In addition to meeting up with SFist after their crack-of- dawn sound check (10:30 am for you non-rockers), both Aaron
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Joanna Newsom You may not be aware of this, but did you know the Swedish-American Hall is actually a ski lodge? Or did we miss the weather report that it was going to snow this
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Earlimart Afternoon shows at the Bottom of the Hill, like Saturday's Earlimart Noise Pop show, are so excellent -- the buses are running, the sun is out, you don't have to worry the whole
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Making It Up As We Go Along Edition In this week's stage roundup, we'll take "Improvised Game Shows" for $200, Alex: at the Temescal Art Center It's been a while since we saw improv. It's been even longer since we saw
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Christopher Appelgren Although Christopher is way too diplomatic to play favorites with Lookout’s current roster of artists, he does have a few tips to local artists, as well as other ideas about what to
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Kevin Shelley -- Hacked! California politicians are in a state of shock after hearing the news that soon-to-be-former Sec. of State Kevin Shelley's Palm Pilot was stolen from his Glen Park home. "It's crazy! I'm getting emails
Arts & Entertainment Rock That Sexy Bod Got plans for Saturday night? No? How about SFist gets you and three of your friends in the door for Sensual at the Luna Lounge for free? SFist is like your buddy who
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Mission of Burma We headed out to the Noise Pop Mission of Burma show all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at 9:00 p.m., standard concert time, only to turn up at Bimbo's and find out that
Arts & Entertainment Damn, It Feels Good To Be An SFist! Special thanks to Noisepop for their ongoing support of SFist’s coverage of the festival. SFist has a hard time making it to opening bands. General tardiness, and memories of suffering through openers
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: As Hollywood Preps for Their Prom And then there's something called The Academy Awards on this Sunday. Ahh. We kid. (Or pray at the Church of Ironic Detachment, take your pick.) Of COURSE TV is all about the Oscars
Arts & Entertainment More Paris Hilton Sidekick Fallout So we had to go put our tale of "San Francisco Secret Service" callback woe up on Scott Stereogum's post requesting stories of calling the numbers in Paris Hilton's hacked Sidekick. While there,
Arts & Entertainment Snap Crackle Noise Pop Hey, you in the ironic hand-knitted cardigan and your buddy with the horn-rimmed black glasses -- got Noise Pop? San Francisco's premier indie rock festival kicks off its 13th year tonight for a
