Arts & Entertainment L'Orchestra Di Piazza Vittorio -- Movie And Performance We love it when events combine movies and music! So check out The Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio, a documentary about the creation of a multi-ethnic world music orchestra from Italy. Diverse residents of
SF News Tree-huggers and Van-burners? And by "van-burners," we don't mean the variety that park by Ocean Beach in their VW van toking while watching the sunset. Or maybe we do… Authorities think a UC Berkeley campus security
SF News Rotten Neighbor's Naming-Names Hilarity As we mentioned before, we love us some Rotten Neighbor. And we recently found a couple of brief but choice testimonials on it. Behold: But we would love to see SF's section explode,
misc Ask SFist -- Bay Area Gay Blogs? A reader would like your help: Can you recommend any popular blogs in San Francisco with a queer voice? thanks, [presumed homosexual's name withheld] Well, we can't recommend any "popular" Bay Area blogs
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Even More Wednesday Fall TV Premieres Tonight's big premiere is the quirky comedy "Pushing Daisies" which premieres at 8 p.m. on ABC. There are a lot of big names associated with this dramedy, including executive producer Bryan Fuller,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: An SUV for San Francisco Sidewalks How would you pilot six kids down Russian Hill? One foot on the brake, the other hopping like a kangaroo trying to keep up? Sounds like fun.
SF News Baskets Are the New Minimalism It’s a classic example of fixie bike lust: the carefully accented color coordination, expensive but mismatched wheels, improbably narrow handlebars, and, of course, lack of any unsightly “extras” such as gears and
Arts & Entertainment New Tunes Tuesday #3 Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. 2. Marjorie de Muynck - In The Key of Earth: Within four epic musical movements named: Pulse, Light,
SF News Love Fest Shooting We had a feeling that all this "love" business would get people in trouble. Late afternoon on Saturday, two people were shot around Love Fest action on Market Street (at Sixth and Seventh
Arts & Entertainment Groovy Scavenger Hunt This Weekend You might think "potatoes" when you hear this street. Something big and red, there you might meet. If figuring out rhyming, city-themed clues is your kind of fun (and why wouldn't it be)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Magic Bullets: Along with Bonde do Role and JuiceBoxxx, this local outfit (heavy on the bass lines, rhythmic keyboards, and melancholic vocals) performs tonight at 9 p.m. at The Independent, 628
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Friday's Fall TV Premieres There's only one new show premiering tonight and we're going to pull out an old chestnut because we just can't resist, and when you're dealing with a show that's as stale as this
Arts & Entertainment It's Time For DocFest! We love documentaries -- they're like reality TV, with a popcorn stand! So you know we're totally psyched for SF Indiefest's sixth annual Docfest, which starts up tomorrow and goes through next week!
misc We Read The Weeklies Last week's winner, the San Jose Metro. Alas! They haven't updated their site for this week yet, and we didn't manage to snag a hard copy of the paper, so they'll have to
SF News And the Fog Came Rolling In Don't you just love autumn in the city? Today's highs will be in the low 70s.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zagat '08 Survey The 2008 edition is out: your nice alphabetical list of restaurants with a grade for food, decor and service, as rated by the users of Zagat. This year, it is going 2.0,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Monday's Fall TV Premieres Following "Stars" at 9:30 p.m. is yet another season of "The Bachelor" and horror or horrors joy of joys, there is actually another Bay Area gal vying for her 15 minutes
Arts & Entertainment Philip Glass Is Coming, An Interview With Cellist Wendy Sutter By David Famiano Happy Belated Birthday, Mr. Glass! It’s an exciting time in San Francisco. All the burners are back from you know where feeling either pissed off or bummed out. All
misc Week Around the -Ists LAist saw national headlines soar this week with news about the Jena 6 in Louisiana and of a police taser incident at a John Kerry event. Locally, Hollywood protesters marched in support of
misc Thanks to This Week's Advertisers Drum roll please...here's a list of advertisers this week on SFist. Sarah Silverman Program, who has new episodes starting in October. Cazadores, because we want some right now. AMEX San Francisco Dish,
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 -- Evil Dead 2 (1987): Sam Raimi's exquisite sequel to the equally-exquisite Evil Dead, minus any tree-rape. Screens at 7:15p.m., 9:15 at The Red Vic, 1727 Haight (at Cole). --
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Bans Rich, Smooth, Satisfying Smoking In Public Spaces Today, the Oakland City Council voted to ban smoking in "ATM lines, parks and other public places," which is smurfy, health-conscious, makes the bitch behind you at the ATM line stops her self-righteous
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After We totally missed this, but yesterday was the 10-year anniversary of probably the most famous home run in Giants history since "the Giants Win the Pennant! The Giants Win the Pennant" home run,
