Arts & Entertainment Your Guide to Tonight's State of the Union Address Yes, tonight is the State of the Union speech which means it's a good time to do something that doesn't involve watching TV. But to help you survive tonight, here is the Official
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine Salivates on the Opera's Next Season. Gockley had made changes, some good like moving the subtitles back to the top; some great like the live videocast on the civic center plaza; some so-so, like the redesign of the visual
SF News The Warriors: A Decent Time Out For the past few seasons, the Warriors primary marketing slogan has been, A Great Time Out". Brimming with hope after Tuesday's trade, SFist decided to catch a game at the O-rena to find
misc Week in -Ists Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by
Arts & Entertainment Because We Love Old Footage... Way back in 1905, somebody rode a street car (which was probably late and overcrowded) and filmed what it was like to go down Market Street. A year later, after the Quake, they
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine: the First Emperor. Today’s performance was the First Emperor, a world premiere by Tan Dun, the composer of the music for movie like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon or operas like the peony pavilion. We got
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Andrew from Trainwreck Riders Best show you've ever played and what made it great? Too many great remember-able shows to pick, but the last GREAT show was this past New Year's Eve at Balazo gallery here in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Jennifer Koh. To drive the point home, SF Performances is inviting Jennifer Koh to perform this Saturday at Herbst theater. Jennifer Koh is an outstanding violinist who is totally committed to an exciting, modern, living
SF News SFist Blotter (Wednesday Edition) So many crime stories of note today that we're running an off-cycle SFist Blotter! A casual carpool driver from Hercules was carjacked this morning. She picked up the usual crew of city-bound commuters
SF News Macworld SF 2007: Steve Jobs Is A Mother----ing <i>Gangsta</i>. Look, the long-desired iPhone. How does Steve Jobs choose to showcase the new phone's music technology? By playing The Beatles' "Lovely Rita, Meter Maid." That's so . Why? This staged moment is Steve's announcement/
SF News They Do Chicken Right Don't forget -- your insufficient substitute for Question Time will take place at 10 a.m. this Saturday at the Richmond Recreation Center at 281 18th Avenue, between Geary and Clement. We can't
Arts & Entertainment Congratulations Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame Winners In honor of Van Halen being nominated to the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame, we give you this, a video of prime Van Halen in 1981 playing "Unchained" at the Oakland Arena.
Arts & Entertainment Guess This Is What They Mean By San Francisco Values You can check out all the action in those Flickr photostream (including a picture of a really old and somewhat scary looking picture of Bob Weir) but the big news didn't concern who
Arts & Entertainment SFist Christopher's Best From The Past 365 Days * Album Of The Year: Mogwai -- "Mr. Beast" The mostly-instrumental music of Glasgow's Mogwai has been described as big instrumental rock music for a soundtrack. The soundtrack of your whatever-you're-doing. If whatever-you're-doing really
Arts & Entertainment SFist Krissy's Top 10 Albums of 2006 I'm so used to using the royal "we" when I write for SFist that it feels really strange writing "I" - sort of like driving on the left side of the street. And
SF News SFist Leanne's 2006 Best Of Best Live Shows This might be one of the best shows I've ever been to. The place was jam-packed with testosterone, walls of speakers and pot smoke. I felt like I was trippin'
Arts & Entertainment Your Funny YouTube Clip of the Day In an effort to post something, anything, in these newsless times, we found this video tribute to the old Doggie Diners. Best part of the video? It's all set to the music of
misc SFist Jon's 2006 Best Of Best TV Show (drama)- "Battlestar Galactica" Why I like this show is because it thinks big-- big themes, big action, big drama, big story, big music, big everything. At times (like the
Arts & Entertainment So Long, Godfather of Soul To pay tribute to James Brown, we spent a few minutes looking through YouTube this morning to find a video clip that would do him justice. It wasn't easy. Not only are there
Arts & Entertainment Insert U2-related Pun Here Unfortunately, despite all the fawning attention Ms. Nancy seems to be giving to Bono, Bono didn't leave the meetings happy, saying that the new Democratic leadership weren't very helpful as they were unable
SF News Who Wants To Run For Mayor? We'd have a sad face too if the Chron came out against our position on Question Time, some mayoral pipsqueak in Santa Clara was out to eat our Niners lunch, and our chief
SF News Big Day at Stanford Nevertheless, it is still big news that the Great Female Golf Hope just got accepted into Stanford and is planning on attending. Really. And she's planning on attending and graduating too, unlike Tiger
Arts & Entertainment It's In the Vault Wolfgang's Vault is one of those online stores where you can order your vintage rock t-shirts and other cool stuff. 'Cause you know, nothing says cool like wearing tees for bands you've never
Arts & Entertainment Upper Playground's Andrew Revelli Name Andrew Revelli Introduce yourself in one sentence Retail legend Age and Occupation 29, Vice President, Upper Playground and FIFTY24SF Gallery
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Liz Ross Liz is a former member of Hannah, Lessick, Lines In Analog Sound, and Sun of Mercury. She mostly plays a 1962 Gibson LG 1 acoustic, and she has several vintage electric guitars, her
