Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Establishment Meets the Hip at the Geary Theater We know, we know: we always lead with an American Conservatory Theater production, if it's opening. Well, we like their photos. OK, we like how easy it is to
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: They, Robots The tech lab crew took a field trip to San Jose last week for the RoboNexus international robotics convention. It's the second year of the convention, and it's the largest robotics convention in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: Dr. Atomic The opera focuses on the last days leading to the explosion of the first atomic test bomb, in June and July 1945. It is centered about J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), the scientific director
SF News Ski Exhaustion Man, we're running out of pictures and titles for the ongoing ski jump saga in Pac Heights. So the big day's tomorrow! Skip work and watch Jonny Moseley zip by multi-million dollar homes
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Ian Lendler Today's victim of the SFist interview has only been in our fair city for a couple of weeks, but that doesn'r mean we're going to take it easy on him! His new book,
Arts & Entertainment Back to School Night at Popscene Every time SFist hits Popscene we are struck with an overwhelming urge to cut our bangs. Last night we were mercifully spared this urge, which is a good thing, since soon our head
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Bigger, Longer and Mostly Uncut at the Curran Theatre Cirque du Soleil isn't the only artsy circus company around, and unfortunately, for all the other companies like Cirque Eloize, they'll all be compared to those commercialized French-Canadians taking
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Hurricane Relief Considering that these past few years haven't been economically kind to the arts, we want to applaud the companies that have stepped up to help the Hurricane Katrina victims. While many events happened
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The "I'm Not Going to Burning Man" Edition at Impact Theatre Yes, as in Nicky Hilton. You know, the one that's always upstaged by her big sister Paris? Well, this time she takes center stage in Elizabeth Meriwether's comedy. A hit
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: As the Fall Season Sneaks Up On Us While Fall doesn't officially begin until the end of September (and those who live in the City know that it doesn't really start until sometime in November), Fox is getting a jump on
Arts & Entertainment Ha Ha, MTV Bet you're sorry now that you didn't pick San Francisco for the Video Music Awards, MTV! Apparently all pre-VMA parties for Sunday's VMAs in Miami have been cancelled in the wake of Hurricane
SF News SchwarzenWatcher Goes to the Stones Concert So you get a bunch of free Stones tickets and a luxury box to see them opening night at Fenway handed over to you by some company out of the kindness of their
Arts & Entertainment Theater Review: <I>Blood Bucket Ballyhoo</I> Producer and director Russell Blackwood is an expert on stage blood. He knows how to make it dribble or spray, or flow from actors' mouths. He also knows how to poke out an
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: As the Fall TV Season Looms Ahead Unfortunately, some networks are screwing that whole concept up royally, not airing the full run of their shows, and more egregiously, running episodes out of order. (Yeah, we're looking at YOU ABC and
Arts & Entertainment The Reviews Are In: Nobody Likes Current TV Well, we haven't had a chance to watch Current TV because somehow it ended up in Comcast's "Premier Tier," and we're not about to pay an extra five dollars a month after reading
Arts & Entertainment Spelling Counts Har! Remember Maria Alquilar, the lady who misspelled the names of the geniuses on the mural she was installing for the Livermore library? (or maybe Albert always spelled his name "Eistein," you never
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Hot Theater in Small Spaces at Exit Stage Left Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: There’s this mad ruler, his country’s citizens hate him, and he’s totally hell-bent on invading other countries
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Porchlight Third Anniversary Good thing we got to the Swedish-American early for Friday night's Porchlight Third Anniversary storytelling evening -- even 45 minutes before the show, the rush ticket line was snaking all the way down
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Post-Vacation Television This Week Yes, we were on vacation last week, and truth be told, we did miss our TiVo a little bit. It was annoying trying to schedule the day around those 4 p.m. "Survivor"
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog the Musical at the Orpheum Theatre Based on the best-selling book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, Wicked makes its triumphant return to San Francisco, where
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Show Goes On It's either true commitment or sheer lunacy that Stage Fog comes to you this week, because we (that's we the contributor, not we SFist) are the sad victims of a major Comcast outage
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Reruns This Week Like 2002's "Firefly." (2002?! Did they even have cars back then?) The Sci-Fi channel is re-running the Joss Whedon series that Fox cancelled before it even got a chance to finish (thus leading
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog 'Round the World From Milwaukee to Israel to Australia, you can visit them all from the comfort of your theater seat right here in SF. We've got three shows and one festival for you this week,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Does the San Diego Comic-Con SFist attended the 36th San Diego Comic-Con International (SDCC) this past weekend. Last year's SDCC drew almost 100,000 attendees; after trying to negotiate the crowds, we can't see how there could have
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Using Links for Good Marketing is a weird thing. SFist has been known to fall for a good PR game in the past (we're particular suckers for nifty packaging). M.J. Rose is an author and has
