misc SFist Cares ... About Getting Your Ride Clean The AIDS/LifeCycle is coming up and one of the locals riding it sent us a message about a bike/moped/scooter wash this Sunday 11am-4pm on Market & Sanchez to raise money
misc SFist Rants: Cum on Feel the Noise We were not amused. There's actually a lot of space between our place and the courtyard. In fact, we're not directly connected to it. In between us is an alleyway and then, after
Arts & Entertainment Mission Creek Music Fest: Night Of Electronica They should really have more shows in art galleries -- as we walked into the Lab on Sunday night for the Mission Creek Music Fest ambient noise show Sunday night show, we saw
Arts & Entertainment 10th Annual Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival Sunday kicked off the 10th annual Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival featuring over 170 music acts, most of them local but some of them national (Vincent Gallo) and international (Ane Brun). The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: The Air Guitar Championship Last Thursday night we went to go check out the San Francisco Regional of the U.S. Air Guitar Championship. And it was awesome. The competition worked like this-- the first round consisted
Arts & Entertainment Mike Taylor from The Court and Spark One word to describe The Court & Spark: Affable. One word to describe your music: Shady. What's it take to get a gig in this town anyway? Other than the belief that what
Arts & Entertainment There He Is, Mr. Hyphen Magazine We are totally fascinated by the phenomenon of the Asian-American fashion show. In college, the various Asian-American student groups would always throw some kind of runway-themed benefit, featuring the clothing of Armani Exchange,
Arts & Entertainment Harmon Juices Us Up That's right, Harmon and OJ, sharing the screen. In Harmon's words: Some (let’s call them the sane) would be apprehensive to work with OJ. But I couldn’t pass up the gig.
SF News To Be Continued... Two stories from last week are still being stories this week, so we thought we'd update everyone on what the latest has been. First up, North Beach, where yet another big, fun festival
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Play</i> Here's a brief summary of the plot, so you can follow our dialogue: Lonely Cristina finds depressed Tristan's stolen briefcase at the beginning of the movie, takes his cool cigarette lighter and iPod,
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To <i>Frankenstein!!</i> The music, played by the traditional orchestra doubling on a battery of toy instruments, ranges from the deceptively tuneful to the mildly berserk, like a Looney Tune score imagined by Mozart. This is
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the Warfield We wish we had seen them earlier. Not that they didn't put on a good show or the music wasn't great, it's just that what we saw wasn't the raucous, fevered band we
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Favela Rising</i> Arriving at Baycat, the Bayview Hunters Point Center for Arts & Technology, about forty minutes prior to the San Francisco premier of "Favela Rising," we hadn’t banked on the sellout crowd. Fortunately,
Arts & Entertainment Nobody Told Us: Ryan Adams @ 12 Galaxies "Did you guys hear about this? I suppose it's old news by now, but I'm still so thrilled that for $5 the Galaxies packed em in at 12:30am last night, and let
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Last week's winner, the East Bay Express: Vote for SFist in the EBX Readers' Poll! We love the chicken holding a sword with its foot in this week's Dream Comic. A company that
Arts & Entertainment Wednesdays, The New Wednesdays Wednesday, please pack your knives and go. Tonight: We're keeping it bipartisan for once! You can stop by the Democratic County Central Committee monthly meeting at the State Building at 455 Golden Gate
SF News Off To The Village Voice Our secret boyfriend is breaking up with us! The Village Voice media juggernaut has just announced that our WRTW crush Rob Harvilla is taking over the New York flagship alt-paper's music editorship, replacing
Arts & Entertainment The Headlight's Erin Fein's Guide to Champaign-Urbana Erin Fein, keyboardist and singer of Headlights, submitted to the interview process mid tour. If you haven’t heard of Headlights yet, don’t sweat it. They just have one EP out right
SF News Your Commute: Bad Day A lot going on: *A pedestrian by the old US Mint on Fifth and Mission was hit and killed by a 26 Valencia bus shortly after 9 a.m. today. Footage from the
Arts & Entertainment The Small Stake's Jason Munn We first consciously notice Jason Munn in last month’s ReadyMade Magazine where he was featured for the screen printed posters he makes for performances of touring bands at local venues. Then we
Arts & Entertainment Pretty Girls Make Graves - Secret Show! Just show up to Bottom of the Hill tomorrow (Wednesday April 12th) to pick up a ticket. You might want to get there on the early side, since tickets are being given out
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine: Honi Soit Qui Mahler Pense. This week's performances will instead offer Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka, and both the ballet and the Mahler recordings are related to the program of the week past, which we attended on Friday. That symphony
Arts & Entertainment Not Just Grown -- It's Homegrown! Boyskout, Midnight Serenade, and The F**king Ocean are playing, and SFist's absolute favorite DJ, Ted from BAGel Radio, will be spinning the iPod wheels like there's no tomorrow. Dors open Wednesday night
Arts & Entertainment Henry Rosenthal, producer of "The Devil and Daniel Johnston" Enter director Jeff Feuerzeig whose film “The Devil and Daniel Johnston” played at Sundance 2005 and won Feuerzeig the best direction award. SFist was lucky enough to catch the film at the San
