Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Bill Callahan, formerly known as Smog for the past 20 years, masterfully combines lo-fi folk/rock arrangements with his signature, smooth baritone. Callahan will play his lullabies for SF audiophiles at Bimbo's
Arts & Entertainment Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Brian WiedenmeierThe week ahead in music is a quiet one, as if the Bay Area needed some time off to nurse it's collective post-Pride hangover. Quiet doesn't mean silent, however, and there
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Gary Hustwit, the director of the hip documentary Helvetica presents his second hip documentary, Objectified, which is about "our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LIT: In the newly released book Smash the Church, Smash the State: the Early Years of Gay Liberation, nearly 40 authors describe their involvement in the radical groups that took the fight for
SF News The Latest on ABC vs. SF All-Ages Music Venues 7 x 7 created this great video featuring Dawn Holliday, co-owner of Slim's, Guy Carson, owner of Cafe Du Nord, and Amy Miller of Sonicliving.com speaking about the Alcoholic Beverage Control's recent
Arts & Entertainment Ticket Giveaway: Air Sex and Air Guitar at The Independent It's Air Week at The Independent, which includes the Air Sex Championships Wednesday night (think air guitar, but with orgasms) and the U.S. Air Guitar Championships on Friday and Saturday. For all
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Music by Moses Namkung Brooklyn-based quartet Grizzly Bear has had the indie music community abuzz with rave reviews of their latest album, , which even cracked the Billboard Top 10 a couple weeks ago, just
Arts & Entertainment Film du Jour: My First Earthquake's "Cool in the Cool Way" Local crooners My First Earthquake shot a video to their new single,"Cool in the Cool Way." More or less, it's a song about hipsters. And, appropriately enough, they filmed it in SF's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: As part of the Frameline Festival, My Buddy Claudia documents the vibrant life of Brazilian trans girl, Claudia Wonder, the first "travesti" to star in '70s mainstream soft-core porn and to pose
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Enjoy a picnic and a concealed beverage while watching Goldfinger at Dolores Park, in which James Bond woos Pussy Galore and battles "a gold-hoarding, power-hungry maniac who plans to detonate a small
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Events: Fairs and Festivals Another weekend full of fun events is soon upon us. FuncheapSF and The Squid List have exhaustive lists, and here are a few highlights. ALL WEEKEND: 59th Annual San Francisco Juneteenth Parade and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Visiting "mirror" artist Daniel Rozin has created a dazzling exhibition, "Reflections," in which guests can "multiply your visage into hundreds of kaleidoscopic views, use computers and mirrors to distort your appearance, experiment
Arts & Entertainment Elvis Costello to Play at Amoeba on Monday at Noon Spend your Monday lunch break at a special, free in-store performance at Amoeba with Elvis Costello in celebration of the release of his new album Secret, Profane & Sugarcane. Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Jim
Arts & Entertainment Score Cheap Shoreline Lawn Tix, Including Depeche Mode, Today, Select Wednesdays If you're planning to purchase lawn tickets for any Shoreline Amphitheatre concerts this summer, be sure to get them via Live Nation on a select No Service Fee Wednesday, including today, for an
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival Single-Day Tickets: June 21 Single-day tickets for Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival go on sale Sunday. Yay, you! On June 21 at 10 a.m., you can buy single-day tickets to see such critically-lavished acts as
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead It's bits-and-pieces of '90s cult alterna-band week in San Francisco, with members of both Ween and Primus (Gene Ween and Les Claypool respectively) gracing the stages of Great American Music Hall and the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: John Cage, who was an American composer and pioneer of chance music, electronic music and non-standard use of musical instruments, is honored in this one-time only screening of The Revenge of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Great American Food and Music Fest Goes Bad? Saturday's Great American Food and Music Festival looked like it had win written all over it: ' Guy Fieri, alpha-male grilling fanboy Bobby Flay! A16's Nate Appleman! Boulevard's Nancy Oakes! LA's Pink’s
Arts & Entertainment Sneak a Peek at SF Rock Memorabilia, the Old Mint This Weekend Through Sunday, Wolfgang's Vault is exhibiting Bill Graham's prolific collection of San Francisco rock memorabilia in Backstage Pass: A Sweeping History of Rock 'n' Roll at the historic Old Mint Building, whose doors
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Camera Obscura @ the Fillmore by Moses Namkung Clad in a black dress with a black bow pinned in her hair, lead singer Tracyanne Campbell exuded melancholy the entire evening. In fact, much of Camera Obscura, with perhaps
misc Happy Birthday, Judy Today, being June 10, would have been Judy Garland's 87th birthday, the second most important person to have been born on that day. Garland, as a handful of you know, was the first
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Award-winning violinist Gil Shaham will perform the Berg Concerto, "part requiem, part showpiece," which he has explored for years and has played often, and Schubert's Mass No. 6, a "glory of the
SF News Pop Star Patrick Wolf Twitters His SF Arrest Patrick Wolf, who is some sort of British pop star singer, was arrested in San Francisco last night. Thankfully, he Twittered the entire thing for your enjoyment. pw_official: "Was arrested by san
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung The Harmony Festival, coming up this weekend in Santa Rosa, will feature Michael Franti & Spearhead, India.Arie, Cake, ALO (Animal Liberation Orchestra), Balkan Beat Box and countless other musical
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Sugary yet melancholic Scottish indie-poppers Camera Obscura, lead by angelic crooner Tracyanne Campbell, will entrance the Fillmore tonight. Lovely, vintage cabaret-inspired, all-female trio Agent Ribbons opens. 9 p.m. // The Fillmore (1805
