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
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Fil Lorenz & the Collective West Jazz Orchestra: Check out this choice 12-piece jazz band tonight at 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. at Jazz at Pearl's, 256 Columbus; $10-$15.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Marcus Shelby Trio and Faye Carol (and those nails!): Popular, local jazz and blues greats perform two sets together at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m at Jazz at Pearl's, 256
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Other events: --Jennifer Granick and Annalee Newitz are co-hosting a Nerd Salon at 111 Minna (x Mission/2nd). There'll be a demonstration of GNU Radio and a challenging puzzle to solve. 6-9 p.
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 arson. [Merc
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 the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Hey, remember that interview that SFist Rain did with Mystery Science Theater 3000's Mike Nelson last week, about his new project, Rifftrax? Download an .mp3 of the MST3K folks and play it while
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Don't forget it's still Carnaval! But you can check out the following events today too. --Free opera in Dolores Park! 2 p.m., with a number of singers singing various operatic greatest hits.
misc Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we've all had, we feel like
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Jazz 100 Warriors 87- Stop us if you've heard this before, but after a back-and-forth game, the Warriors lost the game in the closing minutes as their offense was unable to score. Actually,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight --Salsa and swing dance lessons at Julie's Supper Club, with burlesque performers on the hour. 8-11 p.m., $6 after 8 p.m. (half hour lesson), $10 by 7 (with an hour-long lesson)
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Jazz 115 Warriors 101- Oh Noes. In what had to be considered a must-win game, the Dubs once again played a nip-and-tuck basketball game against the Jazz only to disappear in the final
SF News The Warriors: The Delicious Taste of Home Cooking Bust out the Thin Lizzy Warrior Nation, because the boys are back in town. Thursday night in the vaunted O-rena, the Warriors rebounded from back-to-back shoulda-coulda-wouldas in Salt Lake City to dominate the
SF News The Warriors: Sluggish in Salt Lake We were pretty much wrong about everything. Last night in Salt Lake City, in game 1 of their Western Conference semifinal series, it was the Utah Jazz who had the energy and it
SF News The Warriors: The Dream Continues, Tonight Improbably, almost impossibly, the Golden State Warriors' dream season continues tonight with game 1 of their Western Conference semifinal matchup with the Utah Jazz. The Warriors are into the semis by virtue of
Arts & Entertainment No Fun Tomorrow at 7, the Democratic County Central Committee is going to vote on a resolution in support of fun. It's far for sure that this resolution is going to pass, so everyone is
SF News The Warriors: Golden State Rising A good NBA season is like a good acid trip: it's all about peaking at the right time. Just ask last year's champions, the Miami Heat, about that one (the NBA season, not
SF News The Warriors: Count It Even after last night's unsatisfying loss to the Utah Jazz in the SLC, we're calling it right now -- cancel your reservations at the midtown Manhattan Day's Inn, cuz' ain't gonna' be no
SF News The Warriors: Thank you Spurs, May We Have Another What a stinking dog of a putrid rotting corpse of a disgusting disgrace of an abomination of a disgrace of a debacle of a sham of a fraud of a spectacle of a
SF News The Warriors: Now we're cooking with gas! Memo to David Stern: Start the playoffs right now, baby, the Warriors are ready to make a run! What is it with this team? Just when Warrior nation was about to write them
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Gary Carr Gary’s interview does an excellent job of reminding us that we’re all in it together in this town, no matter what we do in our free time. Homelessness is an enduring
SF News North Beach is Italian For Even Less Fun After cracking down on the North Beach Street Festival and the Jazz Fest, it looks like the Powers that Be are all set to crack down on North Beach itself. At issue is
Arts & Entertainment The North Beach Festival: Now With More Beer Basically, what this will mean is that part of Washington Square Park will be open for everyone and parts of it will be fenced off for all the alcoholics to roam free. The
SF News Not Dead Yet Over the weekend, a compromise was reached in that people who wanted to drink booze inside Washington Square Park, where the music could be heard, can. It's just that they'll be cordoned off
SF News How Dry We Are The decision was at the behest of the neighborhood types who complained about the drunken hordes of riff-raff acting all riff-raff-y. They were opposed by neighborhood businesses and organizers of the festival who
