Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung Over at ipickmynose, Adrian Bischoff is consistently producing superb, original local music coverage including this garden tour today with local resident John Vanderslice; in it, the two discuss, among other
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DANCE: Liz Roman and Dancers, who were recently featured in SFist's Photo Du Jour, present their newest building romp At Play. Roman and her dancers/collaborators will move audiences through the halls, stairwells,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Guest curator Pete Gowdy and Oddball Films present Slapstick Follies (and Other Fine Messes). The line-up will features shorts and a few silent films, including the rarely seen or screened Down Memory
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Portland's Pierced Arrows brings their cult, raw, scratchy, "high-desert country gunslinging" sound to Bottom of the Hill. The Sermon and Burnt House will provide '60s garage rock and maxed-out rhythm and blues.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Richard Edwards of Margot and the Nuclear So & So's Epic Records' epic, eight-member, chamber, folk-pop band Margot and the Nuclear So & So's will be headlining the Great American Music Hall on Saturday night, with Telekinesis and Everything Now opening. Margot has
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: The Vaselines @ Bimbo's by Moses Namkung After the end of "Come As You Are" on Nirvana's MTV Unplugged in New York, Kurt Cobain introduces the next song by saying, "This was written by the Vaselines." Yep.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SCIENCE: At the monthly Ask a Scientist series, Dreamworks engineers will walk the audience through the building blocks of a CG animated project, explaining the science and math behind the transformation of tiny
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung No, Radiohead's not coming back to SF anytime soon. Sorry. However, we just came across a mother lode. Maybe we're a few weeks or months late in discovering this or
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: Glen Park's Bird & Beckett Books & Records are having an 11-Hour Charlie Parker Jam Session to help Bird & Beckett "beat the banks." It's going on as we speak with a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Iron & Wine @ Swedish American Hall by Moses Namkung Damn, last night's show was delicious. Iron & Wine's mini-tour plugging the release of Around the Well, an album of b-sides and home recordings, was "designed to let fans have
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung The curse of Nelly's "Hot in Herre": since that summer in 2002 when the song came out, every time somebody says, "man, it's hot in here", there's a decent chance
Arts & Entertainment Loquat Residency Starts Thursday at Cafe Du Nord Loquat "Harder Hit" from Evan Lane on Vimeo. San Francisco's favorite dreamy, poppy band Loquat will be hitting Cafe Du Nord every Thursday this May with a great line-up of opening acts. This
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Thao with the Get Down Stay Down @ the Independent by Moses Namkung There are bands that look like they're having a blast on stage and there are bands that turn into dried fecal matter once they hit the floorboards. We remember the
SF News Update on Alcholic Beverage Control's Threat to Shut Down SF All-Ages Clubs A couple of weeks ago, SFist reported that all-ages clubs The Fillmore, Great American Music Hall, Slims, Bottom of the Hill, Cafe Du Nord, and DNA Lounge, were all under threat of being
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Vivian Girls @ the Independent by Moses Namkung A couple minutes into the Vivian Girls' set at the Independent on Friday, your friendly SFist correspondent realized that he wasn't really listening to the music. Cassie Ramone kept leaning
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung Busy-ish week last week: Glass Candy, Dan Deacon, Vivian Girls... this week, we'll see Thao Nguyen on Thursday and Van the Man on Saturday (by the way, we wonder who
Arts & Entertainment Laurie Anderson Comes to City Arts & Lectures on Monday On Monday at 8PM, renowned musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson will be at City Arts & Lectures "in conversation with" Michael Azerrad. Anderson made a name for herself in the arts scene
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Dan Deacon @ Great American Music Hall by Moses Namkung Right arm clad in a sling ("I dislocated my shoulder today while sweeping oil off the steps of the bus"), Dan Deacon brought his trippy green skull, table full of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: Attention Cougars! It's the 7th Annual Firefighter Bachelor Auction tonight! Proceeds will benefit the Allison Ann Ruch Burn Foundation. Ladies who win their bids will go on "very luxurious and memorable dates
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Be sure to check out the Cartoon Art Museum's fifth annual "Comix for Comics," a pee-your-pants night of hilarity featuring stand-up comedy by Carlos Alazraqui of Reno 911, Mike Meehan, Harmon Leon,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Italians Do It Better Showcase - Glass Candy, Desire + Twisted Wires @ Mezzanine by Moses Namkung Sweaty, throbbing dance party until past 1:30am on a Monday night!? Maybe Italians do indeed do it better. Last night at Mezzanine was a showcase of musical acts on
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung "What does it look like when the concert industry exhales in relief? Tens of thousands of illuminated cellphones, swaying in the night." ... you know those times at big concerts when
SF News Moz Cancels Paramount Show According to SF Weekly music scribe Gordie Young, an increasingly plump Morrissey canceled Saturday's show at the Paramount Theatre "due to illness." And his fans, who are already known for teetering on the
Arts & Entertainment Attention Audiophiles: Record Store Day Tomorrow We just got this scoop from Eyes on Blogs, who got it from ipickmynose. Visit participating record stores tomorrow for international Record Store Day and be privy to over 100 limited edition vinyl
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Fleet Foxes and Blitzen Trapper @ the Fillmore by Moses Namkung When discussing West Coast locales with the audience, Fleet Foxes frontman and Seattleite Robin Pecknold jokingly said, "... everybody from Seattle hates us". Excuse me? Baking powder? Your humble SFist correspondent,
