Arts & Entertainment The Legend Of DJ Purple, A Karaoke Phenomenon For Ten Years When Steve Hays was voted "Best DJ" in SF Weekly's 2011 readers poll, it caused a minor uproar among local entertainers. How could Hays, who performs as DJ Purple, beat out the city's
Arts & Entertainment Etiquette Week: How To Do Karaoke It's Etiquette Week at SFist, in which SFist's editors dole out some prescriptive advice for how to behave in this city we all share in order not to overly annoy, offend, or otherwise
Arts & Entertainment Top 6 Karaoke Spots In San Francisco Whether you want to rock the hell out of Journey or croon the hell out of Journey (there's more to karaoke than Journey, San Francisco!), here are our favorite spots in San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Tonight: Living Wage Karaoke Night After filing your taxes and getting off on a free vibrator, head over to El Rio for karaoke. Best yet, tonight's amateur crooning session will help the San Francisco Living Wage Coalition (a
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Trippy "I love you! I need you!" shot at American Tripps at Z Space by Ariel Dovas.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Joe Staley & Vernon Davis Sing Adele Pause what you're doing and please enjoy as honey-throated 49ers O-lineman Joe Staley and soft-handed tight end Vernon Davis serenade you with their take on Adele's "Someone Like You". (The U.K.'s
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Master trumpet player Herb Alpert, of the delightfully cheesy Sergio Mendes and Tijuana Brass fame, and his wife, singer Lani Hall will perform an intimate night of American and Brazilian jazz featuring
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight / SFist Cares: Help Hollis Heal Herself. Holler Horribly Here. Local bicycle dancer and Burning Man veteran Hollis Hawthorne fell off a motorcycle while traveling in India. She hit her head and went into a coma. More coverage: * Hollis' friends' blog = http://friendsofhollis.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight KARAOKE: Sure, there are loads of literary things going on tonight. Be we here at SFist would prefer you get drunk and sing your heart out. Preferably to a Gershwin or Arlen tune.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight *CLUB: Check out Rock Out Karaoke over at Amnesia. What is Rock Out Karaoke? Well, it mean that you will hear neither a Righteous Brothers cover nor a note from everyone's least favorite
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- "Punk Rock Karaoke": Damnit all to hell. We can't believe that we have to miss this: members of the Adolescents, Bad Religion, and NOFX perform live while "singers" drunkenly slur along, karaoke-style.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Audiofly: Euroduo (England's Anthony Middleton and Italy's Luca Saporito) throw down here in the states. Expect lots of basslines, techno-ness, and Italian-pop. Music starts at 9 p.m. Mighty,119 Utah (at
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, the Bay Guardian: You know we love Tim Redmond, but we had kind of a hard time following his non-market-based argument about the SF housing market. Can't we get the Freakonomics
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight --Audacia Ray, the editor of the sex worker zine $pread and a Fleshbot [nsfw] contributor, talks at Modern Times about the commodification of sex on the Internet. 7:30 p.m., 888 Valencia
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Other events, for the non-baseball inclined: --It's the Zeitgeist Int'l Film Festival! Short films in the backyard. $5, 199 Valencia (x Duboce), doors at 8, movies at 9. --We know, we always give
SF News Treasure Hunt: Claymate of the Month Tucked away in the Yerba Buena Gardens, the multimedia arts and technology museum with the sweet name of Zeum (pronounced "Zee-uhm") is a heaven of creativity and fun. Its digital studio, music production
misc SFisting: Your 'Fisty Valentine For instance, this Friday you could meet legendary "Happy Hooker" Xaviera Hollander at the Center for Sex and Culture, where she'll be answering questions and telling us all about the happy hooking. On
Arts & Entertainment SFisting: Reefer Madness On Demand The week between Xmas and New Year's always makes us into shut-ins. Plus, it's raining, like, all the time. We're broke. We're pervs. And there's nothing on TV. But wait: there is. Something
