Arts & Entertainment Rock and Sol: Phono del Sol Turns Seven, Stays Awesome by Nicole Gluckstern Ahhhh, summer in the city, at last. And while there’s no end of street fairs and festivals to while away the extra daytime hours, the flipside to the experience
Arts & Entertainment Cleve Jones Talks About The 'Surreal Experience' Of Seeing His Youth Reenacted In 'When We Rise' Local activist and author Cleve Jones first attended an eight-hour premiere screening of the Dustin Lance Black-penned miniseries When We Rise at the Castro Theatre last week. This week he's fielding reactions from
Arts & Entertainment 20 Questions With SFist: Artist Peter Cochrane If you've ever gotten coffee at Andytown or picked up a print at Three Fish Studios, you've already taken in Peter Cochrane's work: He does the weird and wonderful floral arrangements you see
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Jane Lynch Declares It Christmas, Talks Holiday Album, SF Performance, And McDonald's Fries At the absolute earliest, the Christmas season typically starts toward the middle of dessert at Thanksgiving. But Jane Lynch, three-time Emmy and Golden Globe winner, declares that the holiday season starts now, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Barman And Booze Scribe Duggan McDonnell On SF's Cocktail Legacy And <i>Drinking the Devil's Acre</i> Bar owner, spirits writer, pisco brand owner, and longtime friend of SFist Duggan McDonnell has just published his first book, which is titled Drinking the Devil's Acre: A Love Letter from San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Jeff Goldblum On Jazz, Amy Winehouse, And Visits From Aliens If this can be said of anyone, Jeff Goldblum's voice is jazz. His impromptu cadences, his vocal dynamics: They're unexpected delights no written interview — apologies! — could do justice. Fortunately, Goldblum hopes to do
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo Du Jour: Michael Bauer, Incognito Arguably anonymous Chronicle food critic Michael Bauer took another step toward non-anonymity with an on-camera interview recently. This interview with The New West's Will Hearst appears to have been posted last month, but
Arts & Entertainment 20 Questions With SFist: Project Runway Star/Local Designer Emily Payne If you watched the most recent season of Project Runway, you're likely familiar with Emily Payne, the 80s/Space Oddity-influenced talent who was often the voice of compassionate reason on the show, even
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 20 Questions With SFist: Blogger/Restaurateur Sarah Bacon You know who Sarah Bacon is (even if you don't know that you do): She's the woman behind The Richmond District Blog of San Francisco, a long-running site that tirelessly chronicles the goings-on,
Arts & Entertainment 20 Questions With SFist: SF Public Defender Jeff Adachi In every other city in California, their Public Defender is an appointee. Not so in San Francisco! Here, we elect the Public Defender of the City and County of San Francisco, and since
Arts & Entertainment Richard Loren, Manager Of The Doors And The Grateful Dead, Talks Egypt, Bailing Out Jim Morrison, And His New Memoir Richard Loren has just arrived back in the Bay Area where he resided from 1970 to 1986. In fact, it was none other than Jerry Garcia, whom Loren would come to manage, that
Arts & Entertainment 20 Questions With SFist: Funcheap SF Founder Johnny Funcheap From 2004 to 2008 or so, SFist made a habit of hitting interesting locals with a list of 20-or-so questions, for the edification and enjoyment of our readers. Now in our tenth year,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Exit Interview: Jonathan Groff We don't get too steady a stream of celebrities here in the Bay Area, but we do get some gracing our theater stages here and there. And with that in mind we'll be
Arts & Entertainment Andrew Bird Still Doesn't Think He's 'Nailed It' As A Singer Andrew Bird, a sublimely gifted multi-instrumentalist from Chicago who favors violin, hollow body electric guitar, and exultant whistling, recently went through one of his regular periods of reinvention, setting aside his long-running touring
Arts & Entertainment Exclusive: SFist Talks With Heklina About The Rebranding Of Trannyshack This week, the S.F. nightlife community was rocked by the news that legendary nightclub Trannyshack was going to rebrand itself, in the interest of not offending the trans community. Yesterday I spoke
Arts & Entertainment Lebowski Fest Is Coming: 5 Questions For The Dude In Charge Ah, The Big Lebowski. It's clocked miles of quotable moments, inspired a new generation of ironic bowling teams, and spawned a festival that's now over a decade old and rolling. With the Lebowski
Arts & Entertainment Talking Music, Saget and Losing Your Virginity With John Stamos When we first heard that John Stamos has a new web series called Losing It, in which celebrities discuss their first time having sex, we had to know more. This morning, from his
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Rob Crow of Pinback When word broke that Pinback was releasing a new album — the band's first in five years — the relief amongst fans was palpable. We had credible reason for anxiety, given that their last album
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Interviews: Renowned Swedish Chef Magnus Nilsson and S.F.'s Daniel Patterson This past Saturday, internationally acclaimed San Francisco chef Daniel Patterson (who today had his two stars for his restaurant Coi re-upped by the Michelin Guide) welcomed another internationally renowned chef, 29-year-old Magnus Nilsson
Arts & Entertainment SFist Memoirs: Alive In Albany This week's SFist Memoirs takes us to the East Bay in the early 1990s, as contributor Rene Becker shares some coming-of-age stories from her time spent as a teenager throwing spaghetti at Blatz
SF News Jaycee Dugard Speaks to Diane Sawyer, UC Berkeley Cop Who Helped Save Her Reacts Now that Phillip and Nancy Garrido's trial is over and they both pleaded guilty to kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard and holding her captive for eighteen years, Jaycee was finally free to give her
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Adam Carolla by Daniel Phifer Adam Carolla first gained national attention as the much needed comic relief to Dr. Drew Pinsky’s clinical straight man on the Los Angeles based radio show Loveline. Since then
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Dave Wakeling of The English Beat by Daniel Phifer SFist sat down to talk with Dave Wakeling of The English Beat shortly before their show at Bimbos 365 in San Francisco on Friday night. The show was exactly what
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Julie Michelle, I Live Here:SF by Naomi Kirsten Back in March 2009, San Francisco photographer Julie Michelle launched I Live Here:SF, an ever-growing collection of beautiful, lush portraits shot in various San Francisco locales and paired with
misc Brilliant Blur/Oasis Live 105 Interview From 1994 Unearthed The rad Rad Report gave us a heads-up about this incredible interview that a wet-behind-the-ears Aaron Axelsen did for Live 105 back in 1994 at the height of Brit Pop. Rival bands Blur
