Arts & Entertainment Review: Voxtrot Hipster posing, shoegazing indifference, emo angst, and punk anger have taken the joy out of being a rock star. A lot of bands make it seem like they would rather be somewhere else
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Mysterious Origami As for us, we're just confused by the marketing. Early teaser ads (which have since been removed from the internets) showed the predictable groups of young, attractive hipsters exchanging pictures and e-mail and
SF News We're Betting on iTunes We have a lot of the screeners lying on our desk, gazing at us reproachfully as we while away the hours watching Tyra crap out on stripping and . We're pretty dubious that we're
Arts & Entertainment SF Symphony: Dr. Atomic Strikes Back. For the new new stuff, there is a Concerto for Piano by Kevin Volans, and a Concerto for Orchestra by Robin Holloway, two world premieres commissioned by the SF Symphony. We know very
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Symphony: Mostly Schumann. We are not here to solve chicken and egg problems: did Gilbert look this way because the orchestra sounded that way, or the other way around? In any case, the sound threads conductor
misc SFist Whines and Dines: Pier 23 Since this is the Year of the Dog, we decided to try out some Eastern Medicine and try some canine acupuncture. That’s right – acupuncture for dogs and cats, just without the new
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Migraine Throbbing Pain Ars Technica is reporting on a new California bill that would ban the use of toxins in the production of cell phones and other electronic devices. If passed, they claim, the
Arts & Entertainment Santana Row On the bright side, at least matchbox 20's Rob Thomas won't be here: Gavin Newsom took some time out from romancing to regretfully announce that a planned free Santana concert at the Civic
Arts & Entertainment Love in the Time of Cleveland Steamers Call us bitter, but we simply don't have any words in us to express love beyond "I'd hit it." It is therefore astounding to us that Lee Lessack deftly assembled seventeen swoony-croony ballads
Arts & Entertainment Krayg Burton from Film School But we digress. If you haven’t listened to Film School’s latest album, get it here (or maybe here, if you want to be the lucky billionth listener). It’s good. Normally
SF News SFist Tech Labs: One Billion Bucks in Their Pocket The reason why we're passing it along? For one thing, they're offering a full 4-year scholarship to a "world-renowned music school" (of Apple's choosing) in the grand prize-winner's name, which is a nice
Arts & Entertainment SF Indie Fest: <em>Danielson: A Family Movie</em> Danielson: A Family Movie is a must see for any fan of adventurous music or artistic visionaries. You have two more chances to see it on tonight at 4:30pm at the Roxie
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: These Girls We went to the Sunday showing of , a dark, comedic twist on the old "coming of age in a small town" story. The movie was written and directed by John Hazlett, adapted from
Arts & Entertainment BAGeL Radio 3rd Birthday Party Since the movie deal hasn't been done quite yet, we'l have to be distract ourselves with Wednesday's BAGeL Radio 3rd Birthday Partywhich, as part of the The California Homegrown Music Series "features 3
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To First Fridays After Five! This month's event, entitled "Chocolate Caliente!", features "hot salsa music, cool drinks, and gourmet chocolates. Warm up on the dance floor with Orquesta Universal, then travel through time on a gallery tour featuring
Arts & Entertainment 'Of Montreal's' Kevin Barnes Did you catch Of Montreal at BOTH? Tell us about it in the comments.
SF News SchwartzenWatcher's Got Nothing So, this week we're going to operate on the principle of giving people what they want. And what do they want? Skeletons from Arnie's prodigious closet. Like this video of him in a
SF News Sarah Tucker, 1979-2006 We saw the saddest obituary last week in the Chron, for the death of Sarah Tucker, a 26-year-old Mission resident who was killed in a hit-and-run bicycle accident on Polk and Geary Street
SF News Give Now Or We'll Keep Talking While SFist appreciates the need for fund-raising and can certainly understand the desire to raise as much money as possible within a set time frame, we also wonder if there's room for a
Arts & Entertainment Not Rocking a Million People So it's time for bloggers' powers to activate. On the way into work, we were reading the Chron's Peter Hartlaub's highly enjoyable piece on used CDs and how they can reclaim one's cheesy
misc SFist Rants: Obsessing Over the iPod When we first bought it, we spent the entire weekend uploading our CDs on it. When we did that, we spent the better part of the next two weeks doing nothing but downloading
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to a Recital: Stern Grove The occasion was the Schwabacher recital series, which continues on Sunday, January, 29th, with a recital by Ailyn Pérez. If the smaller setting is not intimate enough you, you can even have dinner
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: A Nano In Your Pocket Not everybody has love for Apple in their pants — a new update to iTunes was released and bloggers are outraged. The issue is a new MiniStore panel underneath the library view. As you
Arts & Entertainment Hits From Hell Time on KFOG Welp, tomorrow is Friday the 13th which means it'll be "Hits from Hell" time on Dave Morey's 10 at 10. Or is it? On the KFOG site, Dave is asking for feedback and
