Arts & Entertainment Roving Jazz Concerts Bebopping Around City In Bay Area Jazz Mobile The “guerrilla jazz” van known as the Bay Area Jazz Mobile is popping up in parks and parking lots, and giving paid gigs to local jazz musicians.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Black Cat, A New Restaurant And Lounge, Will Jazz Up The Tenderloin This Summer The Tenderloin, already purring with swanky bar and restaurant openings, will receive another place to carouse this summer in Black Cat, a restaurant and lounge with a touch of jazz. The bill at
SF News Video: The Church Of Coltrane's (Possibly) Last Service In The Fillmore “Any special offerings today?” Archbishop Franzo King asked his congregation when passing the collection basket at Sunday’s service. “Did somebody come and bring $10,000?” The Archbishop’s congregation is that of
Arts & Entertainment Someone Recorded a Live Album At SF County Jail SF County Jail No. 2 Pod E serves as the music venue for a new live album by jazz and soul artist Naima Shalhoub, and it's titled Live in San Francisco County Jail.
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
Arts & Entertainment Jeff Goldblum Is Bringing His Jazz Band To San Francisco If you were unaware of this fact, your life is about to improve upon learning it: Jeff Goldblum is in a jazz band (he's the pianist). The noted actor from such films as
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This: Monday Night Band At SFJAZZ When is the last time you classed it up, even the tiniest smidge ... lost the post-work sweatpants, took a shower, maybe went to a museum or read a book? Yeah, neither have we.
Arts & Entertainment A Joyful Noise: SFJAZZ Center Opens To Raves Though often viewed as a dead form of music, jazz had a breath of fresh life pumped into it when the wildly anticipated SFJAZZ Center opened on Wednesday in Hayes Valley. The $64
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/25: Rupa and The April Fishes, 'Tommy,' Clarinetist David Krakauer MUSIC I: SF Jazz presents Rupa & the April Fishes, who will perform their "intoxicating blend of music that echoes with influences of French chanson, Argentinean tango, Gypsy swing, American folk, Latin cumbias,
Arts & Entertainment Emily Greene at Hotel Utah This Sunday by Taryn Harrington About halfway through her act, with hands performing gymnastics in the air, Emily Greene admits to loving coffee houses and the time she ran around naked as a teenager and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yoshi's SF Now Making Money After Yoshi's SF received two bailouts (a $1.5 million emergency loan from taxpayers, which came after $1.3 million loan care of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency), the jazz club/restaurant, according
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC I: Fulfill your dream of embodying your favorite punk legends live and onstage at American Idle: Live Band Karaoke. The event's house band, the HeeBeeGeeBees, will also perform, along with some surprise
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATRE: In Stale Magnolias, presented by Foul Play, you will meet the ladies of Texas’ Last Chance Salon, inspired by the kind of women found in such ’80s films as Steel Magnolias, Crimes
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Check out the original Inglorious Bastards by Italian director Enzo Castellari, which inspired the partial premise of Tarantino's upcoming version. Incidentally, Tarantino is a very bad speller. The original remains perhaps the
SF News Troubled Venues Ask City for Bailouts Four jazz venues that serve grub - 1300 On Fillmore, Yoshi's, Rasselas and Sheba Lounge - are asking the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency "for additional loans and to restructure debt to survive." These
SF News Jazz at Pearl's <del>Opens</del> <del>Closes</del> <del>Opens</del> Closes Again After opening and closing several times over - well, what seems like several times over, that is - latest word on the struggling jazz club is that it's shutting its door. Again. For
Arts & Entertainment Jazz At Pearl's: NOT Closing When we last reported on the fate of North Beach's Jazz at Pearl's, blues chanteuse Kim Nally's bee-bop joint, it was shuttering its doors. for good. Again. Now, according to Tablehopper, whose words
SF News Jazz at Pearl's Sings the Blues We see that Jazz at Pearl's--singer Kim Nalley's nightclub devoted to the dead sound of jazz, noted by both the Chron and the New York Times as one the best blues venues--is closing.
misc It's Got to be the Morning After Warriors 110 Trail Blazers104 - Okay, let's rattle off some numbers now. The Warriors were 4-1 on their just finished homestand and have won seven out of their last nine games. Since Jan
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ROCK: Over at Edinburgh Castle, the aptly-titled indie-punk band Cupids headlines tonight along with Levator (Seattle) and Dazzling Strangers. *FILM: The film you all had to sit through in English Lit class goes
SF News What Becomes a Yoshi's Most? If you didn't know, San Francisco has the most cheery pockmark on its record: the "Negro removal" period. During this time historic buildings were torn down and black Western Addition residents were shooed
SF News The Warriors: 2007-2008 Season Preview, Part Two Yesterday we got caught up on the Warriors' offseason moves; today we look at what those moves will mean for the 2007-2008 season and beyond (in 300 words or less). There is no
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Jazz 117 Warriors 96- Overture/curtain, lights/This is it, the night of nights/No more rehearsing and hearsing our parts/We know every part by heart/Overture, curtain, lights /This is it,
Arts & Entertainment Interview Glenn Kotche The SF Jazz fest is in full swing (sorry, we couldn't help the pun). Thursday and Friday the Herbst Theater will hose the world premiere of Anomaly, a new piece by Glenn Kotche
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- "Kim Nalley Sings Nina Simone": Local legend/songstress pays tribute to Dr. Nina Simone's brilliance, goddamn. Nalley blesses us with two sets at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. at Jazz
