Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City The Mission Creek Music Festival is still going strong and shows continue through Sunday. Although MCMF's press folks hadn't ever heard of SFist ("Is this a radio station? We're only giving tickets to
Arts & Entertainment Cal Performances' Lauded Leader Leaving Under Coles' tenure, ticket sales increased ten-fold and the center has increased its events, now hosting more than 80 per year. Performances have been given by prestigious music, opera, theater, and dance groups
misc SFist Reviews: Awesome Color and Dinosaur Jr. Awesome Color opened last night at Slim’s for Dinosaur Jr and impressed a moderate crowd although they deserved bigger. As a long time fan of Dinosaur Jr and J. Mascis in general,
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies And next up, the SF Weekly. Know why? Because SFist was voted READERS' CHOICE BEST BLOG!!!!! Yay! We're so excited! Thank you, SF Weekly readers! There's no link for the Best-Of readers' choice
Arts & Entertainment 25 Years Of The SF Youth Symphony Well, we can't speak for the behind-the-scenes drama at the SF Symphony Youth Orchestra, but we can pretty much guarantee that these players are a zillion million times better than we were --
Arts & Entertainment Going Smashing With the Pumpkins So we're not sure what to think of the announcement today that the Pumpkins 2.0 are going to play eight shows at the Fillmore from July 22 to August 1. On the
misc SFist Contest: David Gordon's Pick Up Performance- Dancing Henry Five Anyways, enter away if you want to go-- we'll announce winners on Thursday. Good luck!
Arts & Entertainment Try Out For The Boston Pops! (Keep Your Shirt On) We can't stop laughing about the fight at the Boston Pops concert last week! Classical arrangements of popular music make us crazy too! So we're psyched to pass along the news that the
Arts & Entertainment Miniview: David Best So, witty and erudite readers, this one is up to you. We’re pretty sure that you could win commenter of the week by interpreting the cryptic responses below. What is Best not
SF News Gavin Girlfriends Update A very sincere thank you to the reader who forwarded along this picture of former Mrs. Gavin Newsom Kimberly Guilfoyle with her baby boy Ronan Anthony Villency. All together: awwwwwww! And this got
misc Week Around The -Ists The nicer the weather gets, the busier we get across the Ist-A-Verse. But we like being busy. Here's a peek at what we've been up to since last week! Chicagoist had an interview
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Halou and Greenworld Part 1 of 2 of SFist Wendy's hard-partying midweek SFIFF musical adventures! At the SFIFF, we waited out the line on Wednesday to “go green” with local bands Halou (video above) and Tarentel
Arts & Entertainment Must John Barleycorn Die? Hey, tomorrow's Saturday. You were going to have a few stiff ones anyway, right? May as well have them at the John Barleycorn. From 1-5 p.m. tomorrow there will be a free
Arts & Entertainment Do Your Part For The Tubes After the jump: video of The Tubes' appearance at Bimbo's, here in SF in 1976; and another surprising interpretation of "Dancin'."
Arts & Entertainment Alexandra Lipsitz, Director of Air Guitar Nation If you’re hoping to get into the competitive side of air guitar, or just prove to your partner that your moves really are totally solid, you should check out “Air Guitar Nation”
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine Interview: There Has Got To Be A Twist, S'got Such A Supple Wrist. Still, he keeps coming back to his roots here in the Bay, and will perform this Friday, May 11 at 8pm at the Florence Gould theater and the day after, Saturday, May 12
Arts & Entertainment Hooked on the Brothers (the brothers, the brothers, the brothers) It would be so cool if the conductor replaced his baton with a wiimote at Play, a concert of video game music. The event features widely known songs from games in the Final
Arts & Entertainment Can You Loan Me Twenty Bills? A Chance To Bid On Grateful Dead Stuff A bunch of stuff formerly belonging to a longtime road manager of the Grateful Dead's, Lawrence "Ram Rod" Shurtliff, will be up for auction starting today. Rudson Shurtliff is selling his father's guitars,
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Once</i> SFist Wendy's favorite SFIFF film fest movie yet! It doesn’t get any better than this. Really. We headed to the Clay Sunday night, very relaxed and content as it was, having spent
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Private Fears In Public Places</i> We knew very little about the SF Int'l Film Fest's Private Fears in Public Places but were intrigued by the title. Turns out the play is based on an English play by the
Arts & Entertainment Nic Dillon from Casados Best show you've played and what made it great? Heather and I have played a lot of shows. Our favorite shows are the ones where we can tell people are really listening and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight (and Tomorrow. And Sunday) Garden of Deadly Delights Head over to the Conservatory of Flowers to feast your eyes on a greenhouse full of carnivorous plants! Chomp! opens today and runs through Nov 4. The Red Party
Arts & Entertainment Real Estate Crunch More Evil Than Napster: Metallica Guitarist Reduces Mansion Price Playing the role of Shawn Fanning, minus the curls, the real estate retraction appears to be stealing theoretical dollars from the pockets of a member of Metallica. According to The Wall Street Journal
Arts & Entertainment It's Make It Work Time, People! Everybody's favorite Project Runway mentor is in the area on Friday and Saturday to promote his new book , which covers topics like: how to shop (broken down into designer, chain, and vintage), creating
Arts & Entertainment Arrivederci Hans, das war der letzte Tanz. Friday will be a farewell: it is the last "Friday 6.5 show" of the season, a last dance of sorts, if only to make sense of our title. The performance is at
