Arts & Entertainment Nic Dillon from Casados Best show you've played and what made it great? Heather and I have played a lot of shows. Our favorite shows are the ones where we can tell people are really listening and
Arts & Entertainment Real Estate Crunch More Evil Than Napster: Metallica Guitarist Reduces Mansion Price Playing the role of Shawn Fanning, minus the curls, the real estate retraction appears to be stealing theoretical dollars from the pockets of a member of Metallica. According to The Wall Street Journal
Arts & Entertainment Bald Britney's (Maybe) Coming To Town You gossip mavens probably already know that Ms. Spears performed lip-synced a brief but dance-intensive 15 minute set in San Diego and LA earlier this week, under the name "the M+Ms." Well,
SF News Nice Leather Seats For Your 11-Hour Wait SFist will throw in your lunch for the plane ride over if you go dressed as either Gothamists Jen or Jake and you send us your picture! --- Those of you who want
SF News Apples Now Slightly Less Sinful Our friends to the south have come under some uncomfortable scrutiny lately for all the toxic junk they dump into landfills. Greenpeace in particular has been pretty critical of Apple's use of mercury
Arts & Entertainment It's Make It Work Time, People! Everybody's favorite Project Runway mentor is in the area on Friday and Saturday to promote his new book , which covers topics like: how to shop (broken down into designer, chain, and vintage), creating
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Fog City Mavericks</i> -- Can You Feel The Love Tonight? Sunday night, the SF International screened the world premiere of the film Fog City Mavericks at the Castro Theater. There were shades of Sundance as many of the films featured filmmakers and actors,
SF News Maze Update: Faster Than The Chron Expected! Is anyone else deeply enjoying the tonal shift from hysteria to sulky that the Chron's bumper-to-bumper traffic coverage of the MacArthur Maze collapse has taken? From the "Monday Morning Commute Will Be Terrible!
Arts & Entertainment Don't Blame Us, We Voted For... John Kerry! The former presidential candidate was in town the other day -- and how things have changed. Before, he was greeted by Bruce Springsteen, roaring crowds representing about 48% of the voting
SF News Barkley vs. the Bay Area We somehow missed this, or more like didn't care, but Charles Barkley has now become Public Enemy #1 here in the Bay Area. This is because during the NBA Playoffs, Barkley has said
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>A Few Days Later...</i> Okay, we're not going to lie. When we read the description of the Iranian movie in the SF Int'l Film Fest guide as "a gorgeous minimalist portrait of a woman crushed by indecision,
Arts & Entertainment Fill Your Belly at Full House Café To tell you the truth, we were hesitant to share this restaurant review with you, because we were worried that you would swarm our favorite neighborhood breakfast place and extend our wait for
Arts & Entertainment Sloan's Patrick Pentland Best show you've played and what made it great?: Osaka, Japan, 1998. Playing our first show, so far from home, not knowing what to expect, and having the crowd go from sitting politely
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Stories From The SF Film Frontiers</i> The SF Int'l Film Festival isn't just about great national and international movies -- they've got music events, gala events, talks about the state of cinema, an online presence through SF360.com, and
SF News Why Everyone Hates Critical Mass -- And Why They're Wrong Whether you love Critical Mass or hate it, the folks on the other side of the debate must seem totally baffling, if not downright evil. Its detractors wonder, "how can anyone support an
Arts & Entertainment Conan the Conquerer Did you get your tickets? We are speaking, of course, about free tickets to "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" which will be taping a week of shows at the Orpheum Theater starting on
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork: Helping You Waste Your Time While we should have been writing this post we spent a little too much time getting lost in the fabulousness that is Naughty Secretary Club. We suggest you head on over there and
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Win Tickets To Jonathan Richman's <i>The Phantom Carriage</i>! So -- how lucky are you, valued readers?? SFist has two tickets to give away to one lucky winner, for a screening of , a spooky silent movie showing at the Castro for the
SF News Massing for Mass This is all in response to last month's Mass which saw two stories of supposed bike mayhem, that being the poor, scared soccer mom trapped in her mini-van and the angry limo driver
Arts & Entertainment The SFIFF's Here (and Contests Are Coming)! Tonight's the opening night for the San Francisco International Film Festival! It's two weeks of everything in the world you can think of that's related to film: new indie favorites, an old (remastered)
Arts & Entertainment The Opening of the Bay Bridge Because we love all things historical, here's one of those old newsreels from 1937 about the opening of the Bay Bridge. We love the photos of the cars driving on the bridge.
SF News What to do About the Angels Blue? But surely you jest, said supporters, those things never crash! Oh, but they do. Over the weekend, a Blue Angel crashed at an air show in South Carolina, killing the pilot. An investigation
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Kevin Robinson Photo by Joey Bellville Best Show ever and what made it great? The last one we played - because it WAS great. Every show trumps the one before it. Best venue? Tie between
Arts & Entertainment VicTraina Strikes Again Our most sincere thank-yous to Socialite Rank for posting this photo of Victoria Traina. The first word that comes to mind is something our good friend passed along to us, from the New
SF News We Are Family In his speech, Gavin added that he understands why people would feel the need to leave the city as his mother did the same when Gavin was just a wee little lad. Have
