misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'San Francisco Rain' by LYS Hey guess what! It's raining! So here's a little palate cleanser today that could be considered the progressive-house antithesis to yesterday's "Storms" by Stevie Nicks. It's called "San Francisco Rain" and it's by
SF News Homophobic Singer at Rockit Room Tonight (Or Not) Lackluster, middling dancehall performer Buju Banto, crooner of such complex songs as "Kill Gays" (AKA "Boom Bye Bye") has plans to play at the Richmond district's Rockit Room tonight. Oh, and he hates
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 10/12 - 10/18 Once again, this week's concert preview is being dutifully provided to you by Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce, on which you should rely for your Bay Area concert listings. Always. All eyes this week
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMICS: Shitty Kitty is still abroad, but Telephone & Soup will be showcasing their latest Shitty Kitty work at Mission: Comics, which was inspired by their recent relocation to Rabat, Morocco. There will
Arts & Entertainment This Weekend in Classical Music A few concerts for the week-end: Stanford Lively Arts presents the West Coast premiere of Uri Caine's The Othello Syndrome, based upon Verdi's opera Othello. We have tried to get into Uri's reinterpretation
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: For their new Echo exhibit, Frey Norris Gallery suggested a painting or sculpture by eight important Surrealists to eight Bay Area artists, asking them to respond or invent a piece around the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Punk at the library? Who would've thought. As part of their ongoing exhibit, Punk Passage: San Francisco First Wave Punk 1977-1981, the SF Public Library will screen three films celebrating San Francisco's
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 9: A Gallery We would have taken some more closups of the artists, but you know what? It was pretty goddamn crowded out there at HSB this year! It was especially crowded come around 5:30
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 10/5 - 10/11 This SFist weekly concert preview is brought to you by Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce. Rely on Epicsauce for concert listing updates, and follow them on Twitter. Excellent week with The Knife's Karin Dreijer
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: It's the bi-monthly Mission Arts and Performance Project (MAPP), in which 100 artists transform garages, cafes, studios, gardens, street corners, and local businesses into makeshift arts and performance spaces. The event occurs
Arts & Entertainment Day One of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass What a great music tradition that brings all walks of [shirtless] fans together. We hope the weather is great for you all in the park today and tomorrow! (See our preview here.)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Foul Play presents The Bride of Frankenstein: Live on Stage as part of their Attack of the Killer B-Movie Series. Performed entirely in black and white, the play will feature the original
SF News Cha Cha Cha, a Mariachi-Free Establishment Mission Mission has come across a jarring display of pure, unadulterated hate. The Mission's favorite place to eat tapas and swig sangria, Cha Cha Cha, is a mariachi-free zone. No! We love the
Arts & Entertainment A Preview of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 9 It's going to be a semi-warm weekend and just possibly (though we can't promise anything) it will be sunny in Golden Gate Park at least on Friday and Sunday, so the ninth annual
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Happy Hour Edition There seem to be some great happy hours going on tonight, so we figured we'd make it a theme! POLK GULCH: Via the Guardian's very handy events newsletter: "Bay Area rock legend and
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts Again this week, our concert preview is being brought to you by Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce, who provides concert listings for Bay Area venues in a neat, easy format each week. Follow Epicsauce
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: <em>House in Bali</em>'s Evan Ziporyn One of the most intriguing musical events of the new season is coming up this Saturday and Sunday: the American premiere of A House In Bali, a new opera by composer Evan Ziporyn
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight TOAST: Guinness turns 250 years old today, and several bars around town will be joining the global toast celebrating Arthur's Day at exactly 5:59 p.m., while tuning into a live simulcast
Arts & Entertainment Treasure Island Treasure Hunt in the Mission on October 1st The Bay Bridged and the Treasure Island Music Festival are gearing up for next month's big event with a really fun-sounding treasure hunt that will take place in the Mission next Thursday, October
Arts & Entertainment What's Going On Here, Panda? This is a (fantastic) shot from Loquat's recent shoot for their "Big Key, Little Door" video. You can watch the video in its entirety, right here.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Witness Dublin-based Rodrigo y Gabriela whale on their acoustic guitars as they perform their Hispano-classical influenced rock, which is inspired by their life-long passion for metal. Rocco DeLuca opens. 8 p.m.
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: "He-Wolf" Spoof of Shakira's "She-Wolf" It looks like we have a new "Single Ladies" when it comes to spoof videos on YouTube (particularly from dance-talented gay men), and it's Shakira's "She-Wolf." While it may not inspire a Kanye
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FOOD: Learn how changing your diet can reduce carbon emissions as effectively as buying a new fuel-efficient car in the new book Cool Cuisine: The Global Warming Diet.. Tonight, Cool Cuisine co-authors Eugene
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts This week's SFist concert preview brought to you by Epicsauce, who keep track of the local music scene every week just for you. by Kevin Meenan Great week for Bay Area live music
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Get your new wave-inspired electropop on with Ming & Ping, who accompany their music with a spectacular multimedia, performance art show. Miss Derringer and Wooden Ponies open. 7:30 p.m. // Slim's
