Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Laura Gibson: We'd hate to genre-ize her lovely sounds, but neo-folk songstress Gibson -- who uses such tools as trumpet, viola, and musical saw in addition to her sublime vocal cords-- sings
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Lights Out SF Aftermath, Let's Do the Math So Lights Out San Francisco is now in the history books. Some were disappointed but it was all for a good cause. Or for a crackpot idea, depending on how you look at
SF News Our Nightly Festival of Lights Remains Undisrupted Many residents didn't participate, and in fact most of the people we talked to had never heard of it. Inconceivable! How could they have avoided Lights Out's bombardment of enviromessaging? The event had
misc Week Around the -Ists Gothamist learned about the craziest urban nightmare come true: A huge python found in the bathroom pipes. It was also a nightmare for some Yankees fans, as manger Joe Torre declined to come
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Gay Geeks Saturday Night Social: "Fucking faggots," you scream? Ah, correction: "fucking nerd faggots," is more like it. Queers (not just Marys) who like to "geek out on the arts or science,
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Plumpjack caves in to Lights Out SF. [CurbedSF] -- Oh snap! "...if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Oh noes: local homes sales are in the crapper. [SJ Merc] -- Sex assault charged against Sacto Kings player Justin Williams. [CBS5] -- More lighted landmarks to shutdown during Saturday's Lights Out
Arts & Entertainment Lights Out SF This Saturday On this night, we invite the entire city of San Francisco to install one compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL) and turn off all non-essential lighting for one hour. No. No! We cannot condone
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Have you seen this man? (Also, we think that we have that same shirt in our closet. Yipes!) [Chron] -- Meet Jose Alfredo and Olga Contreras, parents teetering on the brink of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Even More Friday Fall TV Premieres Secondly, there's just way too much football in it. No, not all of us are football fans. In fact, some of us loathe football. And yes, the human drama surrounding the town and
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City - R.I.P. R.I.P. When The Lights Go Down In The City November 2004 - September 2007 It was SFist's first editor Jackson West who asked me to write a music column back in
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City Last Thursday night we went to Bimbo's to see Stereo Total at the behest of a good friend. We'd never seen the duo before but they charmed us with their energy, humor, zesty
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City This week's show recommendations: Hurry up and head over to Amoeba at 6pm for a chance to see Okkervil River perform for free and then get a free, limited edition CD sampler when
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City This week's show recommendations: Tonight Popscene presents the live world premiere of Blaqk Audio, the new collaboration between Davey Havok and Jade Puget of AFI. At Make-Out Room see a trio of local
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City On to this week's show recommendations: Tonight see Built Like Alaska at Bottom of the Hill with Audio Out Send and The Parish. At Cafe Du Nord, hear Earlimart featuring the String Dream
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City There are no less than three fantastic music festivals all taking place over the weekend of September 14-16. What gives? And how do we choose? Since we live in the bay area, perhaps
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City Last week was a great week for live music, and we managed to see three fantastic shows. Last Friday we started off seeing Rufus Wainwright at Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium. Having (somehow) never
SF News Day Around The Bay -- 756. [SFist for links] -- Bonds' ball chasers. [Chron, The Snitch] -- Steve Jobs' pretty new iMacs and more. [eWEEK, Chron] -- Schwarzenegger forces the fuzz to patrol more Oakland streets. [Chron]
SF News SFist Blotter Sorry we missed this story the first time around -- the cops are still looking for the assailants in a stabbing on 19th and Castro back in June. Two gay men were walking
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City The shows coming to San Francisco this week give us an excuse to talk about some of our favorite music of 2007. Perhaps the best album we've heard this year comes from a
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City How 'bout them Cardinals? Ryan Adams was in town this week, and he evidently brought two very different moods to the San Francisco and Berkeley shows. We were at the Herbst Theatre show
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City If we made those stupid charts that indicate what's "in" and what's "out", we'd fill in one of the lines thusly: OUT - filling the set list with your greatest hits and obscure
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City Tonight catch brazen British siren Carina Round at Cafe Du Nord, who will be a hard act for headliner Cary Brothers to follow. On Friday, singer songwriter Rocky Votolato plays songs from his
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Other events: --The workers united -- have a whole month to celebrate! July is Laborfest month, and you can celebrate today at a poetry reading about growing up working-class at City Lights (5
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City Our top 5 moments at Feist's Fillmore show on Tuesday, June 26th: 5. Hearing a cash register clang at the back of the venue in the middle of the set, and realizing that
