Arts & Entertainment Come To Our Party! So, we're taking over Varnish Fine Art (77 Natoma at 2nd) from 6-9 p.m. on Friday, August 18. There'll be SFist bingo (the perfect icebreaker for the more socially awkward!), music provided
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: Il Matriomonio Segreto We saw James Schwabacher once, at his debut recital series, which he endowed in perpetuity, and where he introduced the singers. He was 86 yo, but still had the quick wit of a
Arts & Entertainment Light Up The Roxie At 7 pm, before the showing of State of Fear (a documentary about Peruvian terrorists), the Roxie is hosting a reception, along with live Peruvian music, with all proceeds going to fix up
Arts & Entertainment Om's Al Cisneros When was your best show ever? The last time we played NY which was a couple of months ago. It felt to us that people were finally seeing this (Om) as its own
Arts & Entertainment But Does BAGel Radio Like Jelly? So, get this: Ted, and his partner, Misty, went to the Flaming Lips show in Berkeley last Saturday, and got invited to dance on stage the entire show. Even better, they were to
Arts & Entertainment Mountain Biking: Freewheeling it Festival-Style in Fairfax It's hot. No, it's freakin' hot. So what goes well with scorching heat? If you answered bands, bikes, beer, and bitchin' trail riding, then you might want to wheel yourself out to Fairfax
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Posturing Poobahs of Positivism We say suburban, because it seems to be the beachhead for second venues of out-of-town restaurants. We've had Patxis opening there from Palo Alto, and a few weeks later, next to Patxis, Cafe
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine: Transformations Conrad Susa, who was in attendance and seemed quite pleased afterwards, wrote Transformations in 1975, on a commission of the Minnesota Opera, based on a libretto of Anne Sexton, itself based on her
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Live on the Edge at Intersection for the Arts Choreographer Erika Chong Shuch is one of the most exciting younger artists San Francisco has to offer, and has blown our mind with her past two shows. This
Arts & Entertainment We Built This City on Air Rock n' Roll SFist would like to give an official SFist Mazel Tov to Alameda's own Craig "Hot Lixx Hulahan" Billmeier who became the Fourth ever US Air Guitar National Champion. Having seen Hot Lixx in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink If You Take The Caffe Out of North Beach, Is It Truly Trieste? So, there's a new Caffe Trieste location, right smack dab on Market Street (1667 Market, at Gough). This represents the company's fourth location, but its second here in the city . . . the other one
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews Radiohead at the Greek Theater Why they are still the only 90's band still standing (Pearl Jam doesn't count as people stopped caring about Pearl Jam around the same time they stopped writing decent songs) and one of
SF News The Second Coming of Crazy Crab In a promotion that worked way beyond anyone could have thought, the Giants held '80s night for last Friday night's game against the A's. They played 80's music, they busted out their old
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: the Marriage of Figaro Now, we all know where we are going with this: the last Figaro on the SF Opera stage was Nathan Gunn, in the Barber, a role he'll take again this Fall. Nathan is
Arts & Entertainment The North Beach Festival: Now With More Beer Basically, what this will mean is that part of Washington Square Park will be open for everyone and parts of it will be fenced off for all the alcoholics to roam free. The
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Old Lit, New School at Magic Theatre When our dreams of home ownership conjures visions of $1 million fixer-uppers and our futures are laden with credit card debt, the story of the American Dream seems about as
Arts & Entertainment Interview: SFist hearts Voxtrot Now that SFist has signed year books, been told to stay “cute ‘n cool” about five thousand times, updated facebook with our new school, and has promised to NEVER change, we’re all
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: Joan of Arc The ghost of former general director Pamela Rosenberg was hovering above when a man dressed in a gray business suit was the first to come on the stage. We feared for a second
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: Joe Goode Performance Group. The music he wrote is actually the opposite of the work he conducted the night before: it is pretty minimalist, with very simple melodic lines, underscored with a few bass notes here and
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand. The 8th Symphony is a monumental work, involving the full orchestra, three choirs and eight soloists, plus the organ and a harmonium. The harmonium was off-stage, supposedly to tmper its sound a bit,
SF News Not Dead Yet Over the weekend, a compromise was reached in that people who wanted to drink booze inside Washington Square Park, where the music could be heard, can. It's just that they'll be cordoned off
misc Craigslist Encounters: Free Stuff! Buy your own store! Or an Airplane Hanger! Right now there are over a dozen free pianos on Craigslist. It seems that budget cuts to state sponsored art programs are finally having an effect on music appreciation! There are also over
Arts & Entertainment For Those About to Rock This year, both Live 105 and 107.7 the Bone busted out their Top 500 lists and that made the weekend even that more exciting. It was a veritable smorgasbord of rock. It
Arts & Entertainment Free We Are Scientists! You might already know that their debut album, With Love & Squalor, will drive you to do strange, angular dances to the stop-start rhythms, alarm clock guitars and addictive melodies. The 'Scientists may
Arts & Entertainment Philistine Believes in Life After Love We said "twin" but the Labeque sisters are not twins, they are two years apart. They just play up the confusion with paired outfits and make-up styles, with Katia's bustier in black and
