Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Joan Rivers and Louis C.K. Have Sex RIP, Joan. You were the most biting of all biting comedians, and as the New York Times put it in their just-published obit, you "evolved from a sassy, self-deprecating performer early in [your]
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Joan Rivers Smokes Pot On TV! We can hardly believe the awesomeness of today's palate cleanser, which comes to us straight from the airwaves via Buzzfeed. On the latest episode of the reality show Joan & Melissa, Joan Rivers
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV First up is "Survivor," because nothing much happened in regards to Yau-Man this week. His team won the immunity challenge, and they went off to be their super-favorite selves for most of the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Shining (1980): "Honey, I'm home," "Here's Johnny!" etcetera, etcetera, Kubrick, and so forth. (No one wields a baseball bat like Shelley Duvall. So awkward. Also, what ever happened to her?) Screens
Arts & Entertainment Magic Theater Party Photos We were thinking wistfully just the other day about Drew Altizer's excellent society photos, now that we no longer read the Sunday Styles section to show our support for the dearly-departed Catherine Bigelow
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 them out
SF News Day Around the Bay -- The al fresco SF Mayoral race debate, featuring full frontal. Gosh. What madcap wackiness will they unload on us next? [SFBG] -- "Not guilty," says Ed Jew. [Examiner] -- CW Nevius on
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Melting Pot at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts TheatreWorks revives its 1992 production of David Henry Hwang's deconstruction of Puccini's Madame Butterfly--even bringing back some of its stars. Francis Jue (recently on Broadway
Arts & Entertainment Kathy Griffin: Dishing and Swishing Last Friday night, Kathy Griffin, star of the Bravo reality show "My Life on the D-List" and heir apparent to the Sandra Bernhard/Joan Rivers style of snark and dish comedy -- without
Arts & Entertainment What's this, Another Charo Article? Geez. Several years ago, there appeared a Charo-themed article in the fabulous (and now sadly defunct) local cynicism-zine Bringdown. Writer Jay Owens travelled to Reno for Charo, and described a geriatric-crowd-pleasing first act of
