Arts & Entertainment Contest: Sia @ Fillmore 10/25/07 If you fell in love with Sia when you were bawling your eyes out about the Fisher family then Thursday's night concert is for you. Sia, our favorite Australian pop singer,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Pogues: Like most music-taste education, our college roommate got us listening to these guys. And they're one of the few acts that we still dig after all these Britney-
Arts & Entertainment Mini-View with Charlie M. from the Happy Hollows Do you have any Bay Area ties? Yes, our singer Sarah is from here. And she went to SF State. Actually, none of us are from LA. Chris and I are from DC.
Arts & Entertainment L'Orchestra Di Piazza Vittorio -- Movie And Performance We love it when events combine movies and music! So check out The Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio, a documentary about the creation of a multi-ethnic world music orchestra from Italy. Diverse residents
Arts & Entertainment Morrissey Bans Meat At The Fillmore Morrissey is coming. And you know what that means? Clever lyrics, melancholia, and no tender morsels of tasty beef. Or chicken. Or even a Hot Pocket. Last month Leah Garchik mentioned that, "
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- New Pornographers: Yay, the New Pornographers! We heart them ever so. Seriously. Heart them yourselves tonight as they perform along with Lavender Diamond and Fancey at 8 p.m. at the Warfield, 982
Arts & Entertainment Brandi Carlile Plays the Fillmore Singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile came through town over the weekend to entertain a sold out house at the Fillmore. A little bit country/folky, a little bit rock and roll - something for both
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Benefit Show Honoring Erno "Tattoo" Szabady: Local rock bands Slowfinger, DickDusters, and the Walker Brothers get together to raise money for a burial "niche" for well-known, recently deceased
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers: Not only does this "Basie-esque" outfit perform lush jazz and blues tunes, but the chanteuse is pretty funny in between songs. Check
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Macy Gray: Crazy-ass and beautifully baby-voiced chanteuse sings tonight. The Brand New Heavies open. Music starts at 9 p.m. at the Fillmore; $50. -- "Overlap '07": Blasthaus and
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Paranoia, feeding faux stories, and NYT's Laura Albert (AKA Miss Leroy) article. Depressing is right, Rita. [CultureBlog] -- Newsom defends Halloween shutdown. [BAR] -- San Francisco's other (but not nearly as
Arts & Entertainment This Crow's Gotta Fly -- A Plan For Burning Man Hannah Watson's really into crows. In June 2000, surrounded by family, her mother passed away. Hannah tells us that right outside, just after her mom died, "the crows cawed, hollered
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Drift!: Soothing yet stirring indie rock-dub-ambient band performs tonight. CJ Boyd, Balmorhea open. Show starts at 9:30 p.m. at Hemlock Tavern, 1131 Polk; $6. -- Peter Case: Roots songwriter-
SF News Bus Shelter Makes A Funny From the 22 shelter on Haight near Fillmore. We're not sure how we stand on anthropomorphizing your beverages, but that ad is pretty funny.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Trannyshack's Siouxsie and the Banshees Night: Trannyshack icon and Scissor Sisters [NSFW] star Ana Matronic returns home to help Heklina host tonight's Siouxsie tribute. Also, we heard a rumor
SF News Attacks in the Marina District We called Michela Alioto-Pier's office, and they confirmed the report of the attacks. (If you want to contact her office for more information, call: 415-554-7752.) Much of the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- "Chilidog": Italo, "nu/no wave," (?) and disco sounds abound at the Transfer's Tuesday weekly dance party named after a most vile, vile act. (We’re sorry, but
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Jesse Jackson "Keeps Hope Alive" "Jobs/ and schools/ not drugs/ and guns." Repeat x2 "Hope/ alive/ keep hope/ alive. Let me hear your scream!" CLAER Project representative and SFSU student Kevin Bard was on
SF News Day Around The Bay --We're up to 130 Galaxies now. [picture from the Fillmore Jazz Fest this weekend by megac0rp, from the SFist Flickr stream.] --Huge fire on University Avenue in Palo Alto; officials suspect
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Other events: --The Fillmore Jazz Festival continues all day today (10-6) on Fillmore (duh), between Jackson and Eddy. Lots of bands and lots of booths! --The Jim Henson movie festival continues at
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City Our top 5 moments at Feist's Fillmore show on Tuesday, June 26th: 5. Hearing a cash register clang at the back of the venue in the middle of the set, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight If you can't score tickets to the show, head over to Bottom of the Hill and check out NOMO, an Afro-beat band from Detroit for $10. 1233 17th St, SF.
SF News Our Kingdom For a Bus We stumbled out of the park around 2 in the afternoon, full of that dread that comes from being tired, sun fried, and a little drunk and knowing that there was no easy
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City The Mission Creek Music Festival is still going strong and shows continue through Sunday. Although MCMF's press folks hadn't ever heard of SFist ("Is this a radio station?
Arts & Entertainment Going Smashing With the Pumpkins So we're not sure what to think of the announcement today that the Pumpkins 2.0 are going to play eight shows at the Fillmore from July 22 to August 1.
