Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Conductor Lionel Bringuier I was shocked when I found out that French conductor Lionel Bringuier, who makes his San Francisco Symphony debut tonight, performed live on French TV as a 14-year-old boy for the Victoires de
Arts & Entertainment Stanley Roberts Saves Christmas, Reunites Carlos Santana With Homeless Former Band Member All because of one of Stanley Roberts' annoying, finger-wagging "People Behaving Badly" segments for KRON 4, Carlos Santana has gotten back in touch with a down-on-his-luck former bandmate, a drummer nicknamed Marcus the
Arts & Entertainment Photos: SoMa Art Installation Boasts 12 One-Ton Pianos Defenestration, Brian Goggin's longstanding "falling furniture" art installation at Sixth and Howard Streets, may be coming down, but the artist is busy raising another new piece of architectural public art. On Feb. 23,
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This: Monday Night Band At SFJAZZ When is the last time you classed it up, even the tiniest smidge ... lost the post-work sweatpants, took a shower, maybe went to a museum or read a book? Yeah, neither have we.
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Best Music Venues In San Francisco While San Francisco's music scene isn't what it once was, it's still a thriving scene for good music, so you should check out a show at one of the city's fine venues. Here
Arts & Entertainment DJ Earworm Unveils The United State Of Pop 2013 San Francisco DJ Earworm released his wildly anticipated "United State of Pop 2013 (Living the Fantasy)" early this year. Lucky us. Lucky you. Among the sundry of assorted crooners, the 2013 year-end mashup
Arts & Entertainment Stop Everything: 96.5 KOIT XMas Barrage Begins At Noon TODAY What's more addictive and more dangerous this time of year than a gram of Tenderloin black tar? "Hey Santa!" by Brian Wilson by proxy. It borders on genius, really. So hooky. So California.
Arts & Entertainment Benefits To Be Held For Alan Forbes, Noted Artist Attacked In The Lower Haight Alan Forbes—a famous poster artist who's created designs for Queens of the Stone Age, AFI, Graveyard, Jello Biafra, just to name a few—was attacked in the Lower Haight on October 21.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Fur Elise' Backwards This one goes out to all the music nerds! A classical guitarist by the name of Jakob XP Brunnbauer plays an arrangement of Beethoven's famous 'Fur Elise' entirely backwards, then he plays the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: SF Symphony Opening Night We expect a good time from an opening gala at the SF Symphony. After all, there's an open bar, fancy (or "fancy," in some cases) attire, and everyone rejoices over the new musical
Arts & Entertainment MC Hammer, Natalie Maines To Play Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2013 Although, contrary to our bubbliest dreams, @taylorswift13 won't grace the stage, the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival announced a choice lineup for 2013. And what a roster it is, riddled with such aural entertainment
Arts & Entertainment Best Dance Clubs In San Francisco Why isn't there a dance club strictly devoted to tap dancing? We'd hit that place every night until our toes fell off into a pool of blood. We'd own that scene. But until
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This: The Breeders Performing 'Last Splash' In Its Entirety This year "Cannonball" turned 20-years-old. Feel old yet? You should. But stand proud of those fine lines and puffy jowls, GenXer. You've earned that wisdom because you came of age in the '90s.
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Well, It's Gabriel, Gabriel... Horn blowing caught by Troy Holden.
Arts & Entertainment Prince's Best Twitter Updates (Thus Far) In addition to a kicky new look, noted crooner Prince has also taken a shine to social media. Delightful. The typically technophobic singer made his Twitter debut Tuesday, tweeting from his band's account,
Arts & Entertainment Watch 'People Behaving Badly' Outside Of Outside Lands "It should be called Outside Craziness," beams Stanley Roberts, jewel in the KRON 4 News crown, reporting on the festivities and tomfoolery happening outside Outside Lands. Roberts found drunks, jaywalkers, angry festival goers
Arts & Entertainment Your Homosexual Saturday: Willam Belli At The Eagle Your gay Saturday this weekend is in SoMa, folks. Before the onetime neighborhood of kink meets its inevitable heterosexual demise, we strongly encourage you to check out what's going on at the Eagle
Arts & Entertainment Official Outside Lands Poster Tips Hat To SF's Groovy, Drug-Addled Past In a choice move, Outside Lands commissioned Peter Max, the German illustrator known for his use of psychedelic shapes, to create the official Outside Lands 2013 poster. And here it is, in all
Arts & Entertainment Party Up: Audio Discotech Opens Aug. 16 In SOMA The team (wonderfully pictured here) behind last year's almost-purchase of the Eagle Tavern will instead open Audio Discotech later this month. The new digs, located at 316 11th Street (at Folsom), will compliment
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Luther Bob Horowitz snapped this show of Luther at Dore Alley. Not content at sporting S&M masks on special occasion, this DC-based duo look like this whenever they perform. Delightful.
Arts & Entertainment A Conversation With John Oates, As Told Through Hall & Oates Album Covers We're not shy to admit it: we love Hall & Oates. The '70s and '80s hitmakers are still going strong, as evidenced by their upcoming appearances at Outside Lands, where we hope they'll
Arts & Entertainment Courtney Love Has Spot-On Things To Say About S.F. There are two kinds of folks in this world. People who admire Courtney Love and people who are made of garbage. (Kidding. Sort of.) We fall into the former, luckily. (Your SFist editor's
Arts & Entertainment 2013 Outside Lands Festival Sells Out Your dreams of eating American Grilled Cheese Kitchen while catching Hall & Oates live in Golden Gate Park come to a crushing end today. Outside Lands announced that it sold all 65,000
SF News Video: Musician Attacked Onstage After Dedicating Song To Trayvon Martin Blues/rock singer Lester Chambers, 73, cofounder of the Chambers Brothers, was attacked onstage at a concert in Hayward on Sunday shortly after dedicating a song to Trayvon Martin. While performing at the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Young [Gay Hipster] Love' By Eli Lieb Openly gay singer/songwriter Eli Lieb is a fan of rolled up pants, stubble, and transcendental meditation. He has a great voice, and has built a major following on YouTube via covers of
