Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PARTY: For those who'd love the chance to redo their prom experience, the Mishap Prom is your chance. Musical acts include The Missing Teens, Spandex Tiger, R&B Free Jazz Gospel Supreme
Arts & Entertainment Tom Jones Gives Pre-Outside Lands Interview to SFBG We're not sure if Sean McCourt at the Guardian got old Sex Bomb on the phone, or whether these statements came through a publicist, but there's a brief interview with that legendary piece
Arts & Entertainment Some Quickie Highlights at Outside Lands This Weekend The weather for Outside Lands this weekend is looking downright grand, so for those of you with tickets and those still on the fence, SFist brings you this roundup of highlights. It's been
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Loop Station! Oakland's own Loop Station! comprises the classically trained duo of Sam Bass and Robin Coomer, and their unique mix of cello and raw, lyrical emotion has earned them a gaggle of Bay Area
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Terrorbird and Smile! present a stellar night of disco pop. Hailing from NYC, octet The Phenomenal Handclap Band will get the dancefloor moving and sweating. Bay Area faves Bart Davenport, Tempo No
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Slow Show' by The National Your cleanser du jour comes to us from one of the bands we're most looking forward to seeing this weekend at Outside Lands, Brooklyn's own The National. They'll be playing on Friday at
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Poppy folk band Fruit Bats are promoting their latest Sub Pop album The Ruminant Band with a free show at Amoeba this evening, and they're also at The Independent later tonight, along
Arts & Entertainment Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung Outside Lands has arrived. Remember last year? Substantial Muni fail, Radiohead's sound cutting out, Mr. Clothezoff, and other freshman-year festival growing pains... this year, we have a gaggle of headliners
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Smile! presents an eclectic mix of bands tonight at the Knockout with gothic/dark Chelsea Wolfe, pop/folk Helene Renaut, singer/songwriter J. Irvin Dally, and folk rock/shoegaze Upstairs Downstairs. 9
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight VARIETY: "Backpack Burlesque! Campfire Comedy! Sultry Acts of Nature!," boast the organizers of tonight's Summer Camp-themed Hubba Hubba Revue. Come enjoy a whole line-up of performers at this titillating variety show that won
Arts & Entertainment Rock Make Street Festival on Sunday The Bay Bridged, Noise Pop,Tartufi, and WhizBang Fabrics bring you the 2nd annual Rock Make Street Festival this Sunday. The six-hour party will consist of approximately 60 Bay Area vendors selling their
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: This month's Incredibly Strange Picture Show features the zany Zach Galifianakis: Live at the Purple Onion. Filmed in 2005, Galifianakis' performance at SF's famed Purple Onion is said to still be his
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: It's $3 Movie Night, featuring A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil, an inspirational documentary about environmental innovations that transformed Curitiba, Brazil, into one of the most livable cities in the
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses NamkungThis week, the Bay Area plays host to Third Eye Blind, Green Day and the Warped Tour -- quite the triumvirate of throwback California alternative rock. Just wondering, is anybody out
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Jazz quartet Yellowjackets are promoting, Lifecycles, their first album in 15 years, which was recorded in collaboration with high-energy guitar virtuoso Mike Stern and received a Grammy nomination. The five players will
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The legendary M-E-T-H-O-D Man, aka "Cheese" from The Wire, joins the equally legendary Redman and Ghostface Killah. 8 p.m. // Mezzanine (444 Jessie St) // $35, 21+, buy tickets COMEDY: Experience a night
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend Wow, there's a lot of day-time events happening this weekend. We are fried from putting this all together. Time to get outside! ALL WEEKEND Homo A Go Go A whirlwind of music, art,
misc Film du Jour: Pigeons We love 'em. Some of you hate 'em. Some of you like the taste of 'em. With that in mind, please enjoy Mission and Highland's awesome tribute to flying kittens / rats with wings.
Arts & Entertainment Benefit for SF Music Venues in Oakland Tomorrow Night SonicLiving is ramping up its crusade against the Alcoholic Beverage Control's unreasonable crackdown on San Francisco's all-ages music venues with their first Stop the War on Fun benefit concert at the Uptown Nightclub
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: "Do It In The Dirt" by Enrique Anyone who was around the local music scene in the 90s may remember these guys. Enrique was an SF-based, ironical-satirical pop-rock band in the vein of the B-52s and the Scissor Sisters whose
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Tonight is the first preview night of Cal Shakes' production of Samual Beckett's Happy Days, directed by Jonathan Moscone. Beckett's astounding portrait of a woman buried up to her waist in sand
SF News Depeche Mode Cancels Tonight's Shoreline Show Due to Illness Times seem to be tough for aging rockstars scheduled to play in the Bay Area this summer. Depeche Mode has had to cancel tonight's show at Shoreline Amphitheatre because of doctor's orders that
Arts & Entertainment Tonight Addition: DJ Spinderella at 330 Ritch You remember Salt-N-Pepa's "Let's Talk About Sex", right? Sure you do. It's the GenX ode to safe sex that kicks off thusly: "Spinderella cut it up one time." Anyway, the cutter in question,
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: "San Francisco Polyphony" by György Ligeti Off the tops of our heads, we can't think of too many classical/chamber pieces written in honor of our fair city. This one, 1973's "San Francisco Polyphony," is by Hungarian-born composer György
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Japanese cowboy possessing amazing yodeling skills Toshio Hirano will perform his beloved bluegrass favorites for adoring fans as part of Amnesia's free Bluegrass Mondays. 8:30 p.m. // Amnesia (853 Valencia St)
