Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight If you can't make tonight's reading (7 p.m.), they're in town through Friday, reading at Get Lost in SF tomorrow night and Book Passage in Corte Madera on Friday. They've probably already
SF News Give Them a Low-Down Beat Oh sure, our parents always pushed us to stay in the family business: blogging. But we have dreams -- big dreams -- dreams of And now it's finally time to dust off the
Arts & Entertainment Russian Prokofiev, Russian Preview. There will be a party on Thursday night after the performance to start the Russian festival, which you can join too (ticket info here). We would suggest showing the Big Lebowski on a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Geek out! At Ask a Scientist SF, a monthly lecture slash happy hour with a guest speaker on some sciencey topic. This month's meet-up touches on everything you ever wanted to know about
Arts & Entertainment Der Rosenkavalier If the set-up sounds French to you, don’t worry: it reminds us of La Chartreuse de Parme rewritten by Proust, complete with the blurred genders and the turn of the 20th century
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today --CounterPULSE is hosting Paint Out!, a breast cancer fundraiser with comedians, slam poetry, and women getting their chests painted ($50 mininum donation to get painted). 3:30-7:30, $25, 1310 Mission St. (x
misc Week Around The -Ists Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore, goatses, blumpkins, Matt Damon, and baby art critics! It's been a busy week across the
SF News Day Around The Bay --Gavin Newsom had another Project Homeless Connect event. Reader Elihuh2001 sends along this picture, along with the note that Gavin refused the free coffee provided, in favor of a more corporate flair. --A
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Lotta stuff going on today, a lot of which we've mentioned before: Another Hole In The Head continues and the Black Film Festival gets started! Also, it's the Berkeley Edge Fest. Here's some
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine: The Tyrant. Despite wearing the beret of a dictator, Duykers comes across as pretty innocuous as far as tyrant goes: he anguishes about writing a speech for the 20th anniversary of the coup that put
misc When The Lights Go Down In The City Our friend Will who runs New & Used Records is celebrating a CD release this week for The Passionistas. God's Boat, produced by Kelley Stoltz, may sound lo-fi, but the band isn't afraid
Arts & Entertainment Why Do We Always Come Here? The excitement begins on June 21 with "Muppets 101," a sort of primer on who and what and how. It's followed over the next two weekends with screenings of "Labyrinth" and "Dark Crystal"
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight As part of the National Queer Arts Festival, graphic artist and memoirist Alison Bechdel is speaking at Michelle Tea's Radar Reading Series at the SF Public Library tonight! We've been huge fans of
misc Help Make AT&T Park The Bestest Ever But that's just us. To help the Giants make the experience at AT&T Park better and more fan friendly than ever, we have a new contest, "Help Make AT&T
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight What happens when nearly 30 local artists create works of art made entirely from reclaimed and recycled materials? Head over tonight (or sometime this month) to find out at the Market Street Gallery
Arts & Entertainment Can We Exchange These NetFlix? Los Gatos-based NetFlix has one of the greatest products around, and we give them a lot of leeway despite the company's annoying, ever-present pop-up ads. The company just announced a summer concert series
Arts & Entertainment Opposition To The War At The Berkeley Edge Fest This year, the Edge Fest is featuring a musical theater piece by Paul Dresher called , based on a short story by Italo Calvino, about a king that clings to power for fear of
Arts & Entertainment Interpol Invite You To BFD Live 105's annual BFD Festival this Saturday brings 25 bands (check out the full lineup) to Shoreline Amphitheatre, but Interpol has ponied up two spots on the guest list for one lucky SFist
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine: Don Giovanni Was it, as this Berkely Daily Planet op-ed conjectured, due to the new media suite, which will record every performance on high definition from this Don Giovanni on and thus will put some
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Laura Veirs Best show you've ever played and what made it great? Our last gig in Paris at La Maroquinerie in April 2007. The place was packed with 400 fans who knew all the words
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today You've still got the Berkeley World Music Festival today, and Indiefest's Hole in the Head fantasy/sci-fi/horror film fest is in full swing! Your other options include: The songbook of Fields of
SF News Day Around The Bay --Well, it's official -- Halloween in the Castro is done. We look forward to chaos this October 31 when people show up anyways and no one's expecting them. --No African-Americans in the Bay
Arts & Entertainment Arcade Fire Show, 6/1/07 Good God, it was cold out last night. On our trek up to the Greek Theater in Berkeley to see Arcade Fire in the first of their two gigs in the area, we
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Pick your poison -- it's either flyering for Gavin Newsom or going to the Progressive Convention this afternoon. If politics isn't your game, here's some other options for today and tonight: --Bring a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Ever misplaced a grocery or to-do list? Your lost note could appear in Lost and Found in the Mission, a play based on true stories salvaged from scraps of papers found around the
