Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews Kasper Hauser/Elephant Larry Now, before tomatoes get thrown at us, we don't mean it in a negative way. It's not like we didn't enjoy Kasper Hauser-- we very much did-- it's just that we liked Elephant
Arts & Entertainment Happy Friday A reader sent this in to us with the line "Holy Crap! This has got it all." Which is true. It's a video of Oaktown 357's" Juicy Gotcha Crazy," a song we can
SF News Is a Bar More than the Sum of Its Customers? We got there early and noticed that the place had the same sort of feel as the previous bars-- long bar with tables in the center in front of couches but that it
Arts & Entertainment Instant Cama Not Going To Get You We have mixed feelings about Cama closing. On the one hand, they made a yummy chocolate drink with Toblerone that we liked. They also had couches and booths and we like any place
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To <i>Punching At The Sun</i>'s Screening AND After-Party! We've been told that "South Asian immigrant culture, post 9/11 politics, interracial relationships, violent streets, and the American firestorm of hip-hop culture all mix into a fierce concoction" in . Winners will see
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings, this Time with Feeling Submissions go to yvesdroppings at gmail dot com. Girl 1: "Wow, I've never been up this high!" Girl 2: "I've never even been in this building before. Well, I've been to the bar
SF News SFist checks out the 510: The One City, One Book Edition Or maybe we'll just head back into the bookstore for a copy of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The Mistress of Spices. It's the inaugural selection for Oakland's "One City, One Book" campaign. Oakland Library
misc Please Hammer, Do Hire Us Tuesday, November 22nd between 7pm - 9 pm Film Arts Foundation 145 Ninth Street #102 San Francisco, CA We are holding an audition for two Hammer music videos, which will have national distribution.
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Something for Everyone What do Holocaust dramas, hip hop and weddings have to do with each other? Nothing, but we've got all of them crammed into a mere weekend. and Brundibar at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Just
SF News Muni Wifi at Minna So Media Alliance managed to score Lawrence Lessig for a prezzo at the venerable tech-art speakeasy at 111 Minna. We bought soda and took it seriously, and checked out some of the phantasmagoric
SF News SFist Raves: So You Think You Can Dance How good is this TV show? How good is this TV show!!! We love it! So you think you can DANCEdancendancedancedance...... (Any show with an echo effect in its theme song title has
SF News Kepler's Bookstore Closes This is really just awful. Kepler's, the Menlo Park independent bookstore and jewel of the South Bay, suddenly announced that it was closing today -- for good. Kepler's has apparently been having problems
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
SF News Fat Tone Killed in Possible Retaliation So far, the most popular post here on SFist has been, by far, our coverage of Mac Dre's funeral. Fans and well-wishers have left dozens and dozens of comments full of praise and
SF News Davey D Makes Passionate Plea In a fantastic speech at the National Conference on Media Reform in St. Louis, Bay Area hip-hop historian and KPFA radio personality Davey D gave a keynote address (which he shared with folks
Arts & Entertainment 81 Albums of Jessica Simpson On The Wall You probably remember that brouhaha about the CD price-fixing antitrust case, where that judge was going to give everyone who'd ever bought a CD from 1995 to 2002 around $14.99 if they
Arts & Entertainment SFist Rants: Why No Top 40? You know.... why we have a top 40 radio station?? Ever since the death of the beloved Z 95.7 (for a classic rock format, which was then later changed to country), there's
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Tomas Palermo What’s it take to become the editor of a music and culture magazine based in San Francisco? Well in the case of Mountain View native, and XLR8R editor, Tomas Palermo, freelancing and
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Music Video Asia So we have a cousin. No, this is not some coy way of referring to the newest -ist site, Austinist(welcome!), we're talking about our actual cousin. Anyways, our cousin plays this game
SF News Interview: Jeff Chang Tell us all about your new book It's a 500+ page love letter to hip-hop and an alternative cultural and political history of the last three decades. Um, it's actually a lot more
Arts & Entertainment <i>Straight Outta Hunters Point</i> DVD Release Party SFist literally stumbled (we were a bit tipsy) into Artist Television Access Studios last Friday night. We were looking for an entirely different event, but once we got inside, we stuck around. Why?
Arts & Entertainment Bob Wills Is Still the King "I just hope whoever put the halftime together, they're getting their resume ready. Hey, this is a hip-hop weekend. Y'all think this is a NASCAR race? This ain't no NASCAR race." Now, we
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 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 Dance Review: Facing Mekka [] In restless anticipation we sat staring at the stage, waiting to see the dance performance acclaimed by so many. Yerba Buena Center for rhe Arts Theater was hosting the first of three performances
