Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Patterson Hood: Co-founder of the très hip Athens, Georgia rock/alt-country/cowpunk band Drive-By Truckers performs solo tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Swedish American Hall, 2170 Market (as Sanchez); $15.
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Same-sex marriage bill OK'd, ready to be TKO'd by Arnold. [Chron] -- Obama in SF! [Examiner, via BCN] -- Boom! Bomb threat forces Southwest Airlines jet back to Oakland Airport. [CBS5] --
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Brazilian Independence Day Celebration: Help celebrate Brazil's independence from Portugal by getting drunk, listening to master drummer Jorge Alabe, maybe doing a forbidden dance or two, and much more. The festivities start
Arts & Entertainment A Civil War Bridges the Two Americas. Inequality might be rising, but who’s to complain? There’s opera for everybody. Actually, aside from tonight’s opening gala, there are affordable tickets for all performances (and if history is our
SF News American Football Spectacular: Your Complete 2007 NFL Regular Season Guesstimate For just a little while, there there be kickoffs and touchdowns and the illusion of a level playing field. Tonight, it's time for the National Football League's 2007 regular season to begin. ful.
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City This week's show recommendations: Hurry up and head over to Amoeba at 6pm for a chance to see Okkervil River perform for free and then get a free, limited edition CD sampler when
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies And next up, the Bay Guardian: Tim Redmond and the Guardian editorial board go in with both fists swinging about Newsom's latest two begging-from-the-rich schemes. Yeah! We love it!! Guess that banner about
SF News iPhone! Cheap! Gimme! Now! Steve Jobs -- who still boasts a decent shelf butt (see image) while doing God's work -- has cut the price of the iPhone. Now "the 8-gigabyte iPhone will be $399 -- $200
Arts & Entertainment Sara Bareilles Concert Review Let's make this short and sweet: Sara Bareilles is incredible. Not only do we love her rich yet effortless voice, but her clever music is indeed what pop music needs right now. We
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Exorcist: Linda Blair, pea soup, 360-degree head turn, Satan, "the power of Christ compels you...," blah, blah -- whatever, it's still a great movie. And besides, it stars Ellen Burstyn, who
Arts & Entertainment Reviewing Summer of Love Anniversary Reviews Seeing as how the Summer of Love was the single most important event in the history of time and space, we thought it would be delightful of us to review a smattering of
Arts & Entertainment UPDATE: Sara Bareilles at GAMH Tonight, Virgin Megastore Tomorrow Sara Bareilles (Bar - rell - is) -- summer's hottest, as they say, new singer/songwriter -- has gained a broad fan base throughout the U.S. via her extensive touring and #1
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City This week's show recommendations: Tonight Popscene presents the live world premiere of Blaqk Audio, the new collaboration between Davey Havok and Jade Puget of AFI. At Make-Out Room see a trio of local
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers: Not only does this "Basie-esque" outfit perform lush jazz and blues tunes, but the chanteuse is pretty funny in between songs. Check them out
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- "Hold Yr Horses": Vowel dismissive DJ Rchrd Oh?! spins electro, no wave, '80s, '90s, hip hop, disco punk, synth pop, and more tonight at this TL dive bar's gipster club night. Music
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Barefoot Nellies: "The Bay Area's finest all-gal bluegrass band" headline at one of the Bay Area's finest bars, Amnesia, starting at 8:30 p.m., 853 Valencia; free. -- Killer of Sheep
Arts & Entertainment 826 Valencia's Five-Year Anniversary Fair With their usual whimsy, those folks from 826 Valenicia celebrated their five-year anniversary on 8/26. They did so with a community festival at Mission Playground, which is right near the store. Entry
Arts & Entertainment SF Tonight -- Metropolis (1927): Set in 2027, "the thinkers" and "the workers" overlap, shooting off a million theses and dissertations for years to come. Fritz Lang's gorgeous, science-fiction masterpiece. Oh, and there's a sexy
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Macy Gray: Crazy-ass and beautifully baby-voiced chanteuse sings tonight. The Brand New Heavies open. Music starts at 9 p.m. at the Fillmore; $50. -- "Overlap '07": Blasthaus and the titular Overlap
SF News 'Roid Rave: Celebrating Bonds At Justin Herman Plaza If there's a widespread contingent of San Franciscans that feel Bonds is a cheater unworthy of praise, that sure wasn't reflected in the celebration down at Justin Herman Plaza today. Music, tons of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Giants vs. Brewers: Shouldn't beer be half-priced when we play Milwaukee? Alas. Game starts at 7:15 p.m., AT&T Park, King and Third Streets; $20-$98. -- Graphic Content
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City On to this week's show recommendations: Tonight see Built Like Alaska at Bottom of the Hill with Audio Out Send and The Parish. At Cafe Du Nord, hear Earlimart featuring the String Dream
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Aaah! Rosebud: This re-telling of Citizen Kane involves a "an evil sled, competitive curlers, an aspiring diva, and soul-devouring zombies." See, if Wells had jus incorporated those things into Kane, he might
Arts & Entertainment Downtown Symphony What's better than picking up a Beard Papa cream puff across from the Metreon over your lunch break? Eating that Beard Papa cream puff while catching the free symphony concert at Yerba Buena
