Arts & Entertainment Berlin and Beyond Film Festival - No Terri Nunn, But Still Good Tonight's opening features (watch out for Flash), a film about the German passive resistance movement during World War II. We hear it's pretty good, and the director, Marc Rothemund, is expected to attend
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: the 2006-07 Season Gone is the modern -- tacky, screamed the purists -- feel from the brochures and the web site: Glamour is back, with the "emphasis placed on the singers," said Gockley. The Opera unveiled
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Multigenre Edition Theater isn't just theater anymore. Throw in some dance, circus, puppetry and even a bit of some horror and comic books, and you've come a long way since, say, Neil Simon. Women on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Symphony: Lang Lang Lang Lang is pianist with a vast appeal crossing over to the general audience, not just the classical arena: his official web site biography mentions his playing on Jay Leno's show before his
SF News Goodbye, 104.9 Was that San Jose radio station Channel 104.9 the "new music alternative" because they played alternative new music, or were they the "new music alternative" because they played something other than new
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: In with the New and Old at the Curran Theatre Goths everywhere, rejoice! They finally made a musical based on Anne Rice's vampire novels. Now, our gut feeling is that this will either totally rock or totally suck, so
Arts & Entertainment Ring In The New Year At The Asian Art Museum Tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. they're having their 20th Annual Japanese New Year's Bell Ringing Ceremony, which is free to atttend with paid admission to the museum. "Based on
SF News The Year In Sports That's the thing about this Internet. In a way, it makes it easier to listen to new music but it's also easier to just pull yourself into some sort of musical bubble in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Krissy's Top 12 Albums of 2005 These are my top 12 favorite albums of 2005. That's right, I said "my" not "our." That's because once a year at SFist we get crazy and write a post in the first
misc The 'Fisties: Best San Francisco Celebrity We here at SFist like our celebrities like we like our men: insane, rude, dirty, and fabulous. Oh, wait, that's NOT how we like our men anymore (that's 12 years of therapy finally
Arts & Entertainment SFist Music Coverage = Facts, Opinions <em>and</em> Free Stuff In addition to our show reviews, artist interviews, and weekly concert listings, we added a new dimension to our music coverage this year: giveaways! We know you just love to read us talking
misc Protestors at UC Santa Cruz Kiss-In Hate Our Freedom In response, TC. Dixon Osburn, executive director of Service members Legal Defense Network (SLDN) said: "to suggest that a gay kiss-in is a 'credible threat' is absurd, homophobic and irrational. The Pentagon is
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Mara Sohn How did you get involved with Yerba Buena? I have been in the arts world for the last 5 years. I started out at a large regional theatre planning fundraising events. There was
Arts & Entertainment Review: Los Straitjackets This tour was special since the Straitjackets shared the stage with the retro-burlesque-dance (but not quite naughty) stylings of the Pontani Sisters. The mostly male crowd LOVED these ladies. The teen hipsters behind
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: The Usual Suspects Google bought stock in AOL, after the latter turned down possible deals with Microsoft, and earlier Yahoo and Comcast. Google also made additions to its services by adding GMail access from mobile phones,
Arts & Entertainment Wednesday, The New Wednesday Wednesday... can I get a definition, please? Tonight: Check out work by local emerging choreographers at ODC Theater's ODC School Pilot Program performance. Twelve bucks gets you into the 8 p.m. show
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: the Abduction from the Seraglio. While some of the singers sounded better than others, the leading roles impressed us. The tiny theater does not require the stronger pipes to fill a larger space, the same way we sound
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Ted Weinstein Ted Weinstein is a fierce proponent of the Bay Area’s literature scene. He is also good at getting the authors he represents to finish their manuscripts. His methods are a trade secret,
Arts & Entertainment The 'Fisties: Music Gillian Welch and Victoria Williams sat and watched Emmylou Harris perform, the guys from Los Super Seven hung out with some of the Knitters, and Patty Griffin stood by as Buddy Miller performed.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: an American Tragedy We saw the Met's new production on Monday, and one thought sprung to our mind: there is an East Coast-West Coast divide that would make the gangsta rappers proud. Oh, we are not
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Bad Blood Speaking of bad blood, Yahoo announced it would undercut eBay-owned Skype by adding Voice Over Internet Protocol capability to its Yahoo Messenger at cheaper rates. The National Broadcasting Company joined the Apple revolution
Arts & Entertainment Review: 700 Sundays Throughout, Billy is imitating different stages of himself: as a five year old trying to impress musicians with his tap dancing, as a fifteen year old in the throes of puberty coping with
Arts & Entertainment Bike Likers Unite That climatic consistency, we assume, is one of the reasons bicycle culture is so very strong in San Francisco. Take part in this cultural force at tonight's Winterfest 2005, the San Francisco Bicycle
Arts & Entertainment Come Download Uncle John's Band We would say that something like this is "the death of the 60's" but that corpse has been long dead, ridden with more wounds than Sonny Corleone (speaking of which, has anyone else
misc Please Hammer, Do Hire Us Tuesday, November 22nd between 7pm - 9 pm Film Arts Foundation 145 Ninth Street #102 San Francisco, CA We are holding an audition for two Hammer music videos, which will have national distribution.