Arts & Entertainment Apple and the Marina Come Together in Perfect Nerd-Fratboy Harmony This Friday -- Black Friday -- Michaela Alioto-Pier's little neighborhood that thrives on ridicule will become a little more ridicule-less. At 9 a.m., Pacific Standard Time, on the day of November twenty-third,
Arts & Entertainment Ives Got Music, Who Can Ask for Anything More? In the program notes, we see that this violin concerto was written for and created by Ferdinand David, a violinist virtuoso friend of Mendelssohn. SF Symphony Concertmaster Alexander Barantschik happens to play on
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Le Rock: November 19-25 This week, our picks are Travis who are playing with Maximo Park at the Fillmore tomorrow night. Friday night at the Fillmore, The Drones (listen to "Shark Fin Blues" here) are opening for
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews... She Wants Revenge Judging by the audiences' volatile reactions, She Wants Revenge did everything in their power to give the audience what they wanted: a spectacle (with some music). About half-way through their hour and a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Shining (1980): "Honey, I'm home," "Here's Johnny!" etcetera, etcetera, Kubrick, and so forth. (No one wields a baseball bat like Shelley Duvall. So awkward. Also, what ever happened to her?) Screens
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews... Maroon 5's Easy Listening Tunes In the end: Maroon 5 is decent, safe KOIT music. Nothing more, nothing less. Check out more pictures (and two videos) after the break...
Arts & Entertainment A Tale Full of Vile Sounds, Weird Fury So foul and poor a play we haven't seen. At least, not during this San Francisco Opera season. That is, until now: behold, the vile production that is Macbeth. It's easier to count
SF News "Oracle World Wasted My Ambien!" Who knew living in a city would be so noisy? We received a few messages this morning regarding mass sleeplessness due to last night's Oracle Open World finale. Even the enchanting Stevie Nick's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews... Graham Colton With just a short time frame to impress a packed house, (filled with Vanessa Carlton fans) Graham Colton had no easy feat. There weren't bars or booze (or anything else) to distract the
Arts & Entertainment Interview Redux: 'Of Montreal's' Kevin Barnes Of Montreal is known for putting on a great live show. In addition to their infectious indie pop tunes (we know you’ll be singing scraps of lyrics for weeks to come), they
Arts & Entertainment New Tunes Tuesday #9 Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. Standouts: Download: "Tick Tick Boom" and "Try It Again" For more info on other CD releases, take the
Arts & Entertainment Touched by an Angela: La Rondine at SF Opera. Now, Angela has some redeeming qualities: one could excuse her for her behavior; being diva in the truest operatic sense of the word, that's her job after all. Plus, she brings excitement to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Nice package. -- Of Montreal: Someone was talking of this art-rock outfit the other night -- quite controversially, in fact -- and we thought that they were talking about the city in Canada.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews... Eskimo Joe We featured Eskimo Joe in our weekly column a few weeks ago and stated that "Hands down, one of the best CD's of 2007." We still completely agree with that sentiment - even
misc Week Around the -Ists Fun Fun Fun Fest 2007 Recap from Super!Alright! on Vimeo. Austinist attended a town hall meeting about proposed noise ordinances that could undermine the city's future as the Live Music Capital of
Arts & Entertainment Sfist Reviews... The Hives Chris Dangerous (Christian Grahn), the drummer, took the stage first. With his face, but mostly his eyes (Tyra Banks would be proud), Dangerous would look at different spots in the audience and give
Arts & Entertainment "Dirty Country" Sneak Previews at Yerba Buena Tonight Tonight, for one night only, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will be featuring two sneak previews of Dirty Country, a highly entertaining documentary about the underground world of raunchy music, directed by
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco's New Theme Song? From Tony Bennett to the Village People, several musicians have written songs about our beautiful city. What do you think should be our theme song? Over at yelp, they are arguing about Journey
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Comedy, Darling: Sleepover!: Mary Van Note hosts a new monthly underground talk and comedy show, where the stand-up is done in pajamas. Cute! Breaking the hymen of this monthly party is gangbang
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Social Studies Last week’s Pipette’s show was, as predicted, fantastic. The surprise highlight was one of the openers—Social Studies. When we found out they were local we fell in love with the
Arts & Entertainment Labeque and Call We chatted with Marielle Labeque half asleep, as we could only schedule the interview for the morning in New York, where she was performing with her sister Katia, conducted by her husband Semyon
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews... Ingrid Michaelson & Melee Michaelson breezed through "The Way I Am" (the Old Navy sweater commercial) with audience participation. After a few tries, the audience finally clapped correctly (I don't think we impressed Ms. Michaelson with our
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Virgin Spring and Through a Glass Darkly: Ingmar Bergman's rape/revenge flick (oh, we know that it's much more complicated than that, we're sure) The Virgin Spring inspired Wes Craven's Last
Arts & Entertainment New Tunes Tuesday #8 Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. All bands this week featured in our Standout section are from the Bay Area. Arp, the brain-child of
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco International Animation Festival In a city littered with film festivals, few of them stand out. This is one of them. Starting this Thursday (11/6), the San Francisco International Animation Festival will sample a wide array
