Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Almost No TV This Week Don't watch "Big Brother 6". We got sucked into it, and we're afraid we won't be able to break away, and we don't wish this fate on anyone else. This season, the house
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Theater for People Who Hate Theater We met a guy at Thee Parkside after the ill-fated SFist/Wired softball game who asked us, "What's playing now that I should go see?" Now, when we meet people at bars and
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Esthero Esthero hit the stage with a fantastic, albeit gigantic, backing band (horn section, drums, guitar, percussion, keyboards, two backup singers and a flute player). She was decked out in a black bustier, black
Arts & Entertainment Oh Fun, Tsunami Jokes The San Jose Mercury News is reporting that local hip-hop station Wild 94.9's hired a new radio producer for their morning show, Rick Delgado. Who's Delgado? Well, he's the guy who produced
Arts & Entertainment Beth Lisick's In the Pool Everyone seems to describe spoken word artist and writer/poet Beth Lisick as "fizzy" -- but she really is! City Lights was packed to the gills with Missionistas who walked up Columbus from
SF News I Make This Look Good Seriously, is the only good Sucker Free City entertainment gossip coming to us via KRON-courting mayors past and present? When Gavin isn't giving Phil Matier the scoop on , Willie Brown is confiding to
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Diamond Nights Diamond Nights are like The Darkness, without the piercing falsetto, Freddie Mercury unitards and campy excess. The Brooklyn four piece brought the rock to Cafe Du Nord on Sunday night to a full
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: A Little Something for Everyone For the last couple of weeks, Stage Fog has been rather thematic, which makes for a nice, tight column. But sometimes we just want variety. Mix those peas and carrots! Besides, the Shakespeare
Arts & Entertainment They Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To: Trouble in Paradise at the Pacific Film Archive 1. No picture shall be produced that will lower the moral standards of those who see it. Hence the sympathy of the audience should never be thrown to the side of crime, wrongdoing,
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Bring-a-Blanket Edition San Francisco Mime Troupe's at Dolores Park What better way to show your patriotism than with an afternoon with the SF Mime Troupe, which has been skewering the US government for over 40
SF News Supremely Choadly Well, if you're trying to create the next generation of digital content distribution, put down that laptop. Maybe you're an industrial designer working on a piece of hardware that would make it easy
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: The Futureheads Some of you more discerning readers may have noticed SFist's anglophile tendencies, which we indulged last Saturday night by taking in The Futureheads at the Fillmore. The four deliciously British lads did not
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Feist We are big fans of Feist, the Canadian chanteuse with an esteemed indie pedigree and smooth, seductive, award-winning sound. She's quite popular throughout the blogosphere, even though her internationally acclaimed record Let It
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: Queermation The strongest of the bunch: , a hilarious Dutch cartoon about a massive dom and the puny sub who loves him. The Warner-Brothers-ish superstretchy style sets a great wacky tone for the silly, horrifying
Arts & Entertainment Outwit, Outplay, Outlast...Rinse, Repeat Just remember, no one even remotely related to CBS or the show itself is eligible. Nor--and this clause is kind of odd--is anyone hoping to run for public office, as they'll have to
misc SFist Raves: Stern Grove We are so getting ready, we are packing our icebox with cold cuts, pasta salads and a few bottles of chardonnay. We do not enjoy carrying the cooler on muni, even though the
Arts & Entertainment Todd Barry at the Purple Onion One of Gothamist's favorite comedians, Todd Barry, will be performing six shows starting tonight at eight at the Purple Onion and running through Sunday. Who is Todd Barry? Well, find out for yourself
Arts & Entertainment Wayans World According to the plans, the brothers want to build an amusement park adjacent to the studio. The park will be like "Universal Studios in Los Angeles but with a hip, urban atmosphere reflected
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: A Whole Lot of TV...In a Few Weeks So last week we decided to bite the bullet and upgrade our cable TV package to digital cable (mainly so we could watch precious "Amazing Race" season one reruns on the Game Show
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rise To Vote, Sir (With Your Trimethyldioxypurist) Palindromes are fun. From small ones ("Anna") to big ones ("a man, a plan, a canal -- Panama"), something that runs the same from front to back can provide minutes of sheer entertainment.
Arts & Entertainment (Yet) Another Hole in the Head - <em>Satan's Playground</em> We were thinking a lot about that snake during the short "Human No More," mainly because the film tested our nerves after the first eight minutes or so, and our minds began to
Arts & Entertainment Wheeeeeeee3 If E3 is the sort of thing you care about, you've probably already gorged yourself on more coverage than you can even possibly remember. Last week's Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles was
Arts & Entertainment Asian Heritage Street Celebration In the email we received from the organizers, we're told "You'll enjoy...LIVE ENTERTAINMENT...FOOD...VENDORS...ARTS & CRAFTS...MARTIAL ARTS...ANIME...J CAR GATHERING AND MORE!" Hey, it's in all-caps so you
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Citizen Cope When we met Citizen Cope, a.k.a. Clarence Greenwood, back in our New York City days, we thought he was handsome, mysterious and reserved. In other words, a little unnerving. We soon
