SF News Breaking News: Record-Low Voter Turnout Expected Okay, like, people thousands and thousands of years ago, or whatever, totally died in wars and stuff so you all could have the chance to rock the vote. And like, you know, now
Arts & Entertainment Remember: Tonight Is Guy Fawkes Night In SF Wait, remember ? Well, Guy Fawkes and his part in an attempt to blow up England’s Parliament in 1605. Why? Because Guy was an English Catholic and he wanted to ‘splode the Protestant
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Pipettes: This all-female, British, Phil-Spector-sounding band gains more and more popularity by the day. See them tonight so that by next year when they're too big for SF venues, you can
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Laura Gibson: We'd hate to genre-ize her lovely sounds, but neo-folk songstress Gibson -- who uses such tools as trumpet, viola, and musical saw in addition to her sublime vocal cords-- sings
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Arts & Entertainment <em>The Kite Runner</em>'s Release Delayed Even the book's author, Khaled Hosseini, supports the delay. Plus, the young Afghan actors have also been evacuated from their homes for fear of...I don't know, murder? What's worse than rape --
SF News It's Thursday -- Do You Know Where Your Amusement Park Is? The Niners' attempt to build themselves some spiffy new digs took quite a twist recently as the plans were temporarily kiboshed after neighbors of the purposed new stadium, the Great America theme park,
SF News What Hath Halloween Wrought? According to the BAR, there now exists a need for "the creation of an Office of Special Events" at City Hall, a "'dedicated and separately funded' office to oversee annual events like Halloween.
Arts & Entertainment Our Glass Runneth Over As a prelude to the big event, the world premiere of Appomattox next Friday at the opera house, composer Philip Glass was hosting a night of chamber music at Herbst Theater last night.
Arts & Entertainment East Bay Cheaper: Going Green and Saving Green However, when we found out that a coupon book specifically for East Bay eco-minded businesses, organic food, restaurants, sustainable living services, and entertainment was on its way to our little forgotten corner of
Arts & Entertainment Francis Ford Coppola's <em>Tetro</em> Screenplay Swiped This is startling: Francis Ford Coppola has a Zoetrope Argentina office. What's more, the other night thieves came in and "tied up employees and took computers, cameras and other valuables" including his screenplay
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Monday's Fall TV Premieres Following "Stars" at 9:30 p.m. is yet another season of "The Bachelor" and horror or horrors joy of joys, there is actually another Bay Area gal vying for her 15 minutes
Arts & Entertainment How Did We Let This Happen? "Chris first got on our radar a year ago," Rasha Drachkovitch, president and co-founder of 44 Blue, said in a statement. 44 Blue considers Crocker "a rebel character that people will find interesting.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Fall TV Premieres Tonight Abandoned kids, wannabe models, sitcom groaners, socialite teens, and a screaming Brit. It must be Wednesday! Firstly, we have CBS's "Kid Nation," at 8 p.m., in which a bunch of kids are
Arts & Entertainment Jerry Seinfeld Was In Town? Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course. Jerry Seinfeld was in town the other day, presumably to promote his upcoming film (why on a cable car, though? Is there an SF
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, a completely not soaked with alcohol East Bay Express: Hey, we just picked our issue up with the classifieds side up and you can go to LA on a Price Is
SF News Have You Seen This Fugitive Fundraiser? Fundraiser, five-head sufferer, and possible one-time kidnapping victim Norman Hsu skipped his San Mateo County Superior Court appearance this morning and is now the lam! He is wanted for a 15-year-old felony warrant
Arts & Entertainment Luke Skywalker's Original Lightsaber at Oakland Airport, Ready for Destruction Well, it won't be destroyed so much as it will be sent into space. And then vaporized, or zapped, or something. Anyway, someone sporting a Chewbacca outfit handed over Luke Skywalker's original lightsaber
Arts & Entertainment Take Note, Jan Wahl You can watch the on-air personality -- an exhausting and worrisome job title if ever we've heard one -- here, or catch it after the jump. (Note: Sorry about the commercial before the
Arts & Entertainment Savage Jew On July 5, after Savage predictably asked that students undergoing a weeklong fast for immigration reform (and, bonus, to slim down a few sizes) "fast until they starve to death," Sandoval went into
Arts & Entertainment Is It Music or Just "Human Behavior"? Oh Björk! You quixotic Icelandic vixen, you. You dancer on the tongue-tip of the art vanguard. You lucky multi-million-dollar musician. Unlike mere mortals who don't have the clout or funds to access such
Arts & Entertainment Aloha, San Francisco! San Francisco is a great city for eating, we all know this. But, man, is it great to have a chance to satisfy your urge for Hawaiian food every year at the Aloha
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Blur, "Transgender & Gender Variant" Support Group: Pretty much what it says right there; a good place to go for 18- to 25-year-olds looking for support or just to chat with other
Arts & Entertainment The San Francisco Theater Festival Breaks A Leg This past Sunday, under blazing blue skies in the City's snuggly warm SOMA bosom of Yerba Buena Gardens (YBG), there were no microphones, no stage lights, and no admission fees (and sadly no
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Slint Every tale about the band Slint begins with retrospect. A couple guys who’d known each other a long time got together in Loo--ville, KY, to make a band named after a goldfish.
