Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City There are a bunch of great shows to see this week, but frankly the pickins are a little slim compared to the embarrassment of riches that we're used to here in SF. Tonight
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City "Scratch your name into the fabric of this world before you go." - Noisettes Let Noisettes show you the future tonight at 7pm for free when they perform at Amoeba. Singer Shingai Shoniwa's
misc When The Lights Go Down In The City Our friend Will who runs New & Used Records is celebrating a CD release this week for The Passionistas. God's Boat, produced by Kelley Stoltz, may sound lo-fi, but the band isn't afraid
Arts & Entertainment Interpol Invite You To BFD Live 105's annual BFD Festival this Saturday brings 25 bands (check out the full lineup) to Shoreline Amphitheatre, but Interpol has ponied up two spots on the guest list for one lucky SFist
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City Last Thursday night we squeezed into 330 Ritch to see Spoon, one of our favorite bands of all time. We'd just helped celebrate former SFist Eve's birthday at Tempest Bar and picked up
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City Our second offering of prizes comes from two great bands playing on Tuesday night at the Independent: Great Northern and Loney, Dear. For a long time we had an irrational aversion to the
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City The Mission Creek Music Festival is still going strong and shows continue through Sunday. Although MCMF's press folks hadn't ever heard of SFist ("Is this a radio station? We're only giving tickets to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Artist Paul Madonna In artist Paul Madonna's weekly comic series All Over Coffee, San Francisco architecture—and coffee—seem to be the main characters. Beautifully detailed drawings of SF scenes, combined with disembodied voices that almost
Arts & Entertainment Sad News For Cody's SF We're getting so upset to have to keep writing the same post over and over again -- yet another San Francisco independent bookstore is shutting its doors. This time, it's the not-so-long-ago opened
Arts & Entertainment Our Parting Gift to You As we come into the last weekend of '06 and the last few hours of the holiday week, we give you, our beloved loyal readers, this video: Journey's "When the Lights Go Down
Arts & Entertainment Win a Copy of Amanda Boyden's <i>Pretty Little Dirty</i>! Even if you can't make it to one of these readings, Amanda's publishers want to give the winning SFist readers a copy of this book. Enter below to win a copy of . Good
Arts & Entertainment SFist Krissy's Top 12 Albums of 2005 These are my top 12 favorite albums of 2005. That's right, I said "my" not "our." That's because once a year at SFist we get crazy and write a post in the first
SF News American Football Spectacular: Desperation And Reckoning San Diego Chargers at the Kansas City Chiefs, Saturday, 12/24/2005, 10:00 AM PST Wild Card playoff football is nothing compared to the atmosphere for two teams clawing for that last
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads -- Or Listens to Others Read A couple literary events have made their way into our inbox lately, and we want to tell you about them. It's just that simple. Sometimes we like to watch people reading, it's like
Arts & Entertainment Wednesdays, the New Apocalypse Wednesday: Get all in the Wednesday SFist Reads mood with a cavalcade of options: Barbara Ehrenreich at Clean Well-Lighted (7:00), a Dr. Atomic discussion at City Lights (7 p.m.), Caroline Kennedy
Arts & Entertainment Beth Lisick's In the Pool Everyone seems to describe spoken word artist and writer/poet Beth Lisick as "fizzy" -- but she really is! City Lights was packed to the gills with Missionistas who walked up Columbus from
Arts & Entertainment Still Independent After All These Years One of the mothers of all intellectual crack dens - Kepler's Bookstore - turns 50 this year. Fifty years of social consciousness (Roy Kepler was an anti-violence activist) and social unconsciousness (this is,
Arts & Entertainment Santa Rosa: San Francisco's Best Kept Secret Though SFist can't possibly imagine why, there are in fact human settlements outside the immediate vicinity of the city. Life is rough out on the frontier, but these terraformed colonies all enjoy the
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Christopher Appelgren Although Christopher is way too diplomatic to play favorites with Lookout’s current roster of artists, he does have a few tips to local artists, as well as other ideas about what to
Arts & Entertainment <em>The Darwin Awards</em> Having never been to a movie set before, we were entertained by watching the multitude of techs and runners standing around drinking coffee and communicating via walkie talkies. Apparently there is a lot
Arts & Entertainment SFist Listens What are the folks at SFist listening to in anticipation of the BIG party? SFist Krissy has got the following on rotation: Jolie Holland - "escondida" (a.k.a. the recent Guardian covergirl)
Arts & Entertainment Fell in Love With a Girl- This Week in DVDs Anyhoo, let's see what Santa just might be bringing you this holiday season: The Bourne Supremacy- Matt Damon stars in a sequel to the popular Bourne Identity. Long story short, Jason Bourne is
