Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Cut Copy at Popscene Cut Copy's CD Bright Like Neon Love makes us smile and dance like no other CD we own. We haven't taken a shine to an upbeat electro-pop band like this since Tahiti 80.
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Ambulance Ltd. Our interview adventure began as we tracked down the tour handler, Freekshow (that’s not a typo, really, that’s what he likes to be called and how he spells it). Freekshow proceeded
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: Dr. Atomic The opera focuses on the last days leading to the explosion of the first atomic test bomb, in June and July 1945. It is centered about J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), the scientific director
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass How amazing is Dolly Parton? From "9 To 5" to "I Will Always Love You" and beyond, the woman has written a zillion classic songs and has sung them in a voice sweeter
SF News Ski Exhaustion Man, we're running out of pictures and titles for the ongoing ski jump saga in Pac Heights. So the big day's tomorrow! Skip work and watch Jonny Moseley zip by multi-million dollar homes
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Green Day Now, we're not (too) ashamed to admit that we've loved Green Day ever since their first (no longer on Lookout) album from 1990. But.... come on, they're playing SBC Park? Who's the American
Arts & Entertainment Back to School Night at Popscene Every time SFist hits Popscene we are struck with an overwhelming urge to cut our bangs. Last night we were mercifully spared this urge, which is a good thing, since soon our head
Arts & Entertainment Wednesdays, the New Apocalypse Wednesday: Get all in the Wednesday SFist Reads mood with a cavalcade of options: Barbara Ehrenreich at Clean Well-Lighted (7:00), a Dr. Atomic discussion at City Lights (7 p.m.), Caroline Kennedy
misc Win Passes to Cinema Electronica at ResFest! You already know that ResFest opens tomorrow at the Palace of Fine Arts. But, did you know that SFist, in conjunction with Larsen Associates (thanks, Chris!), will be giving away passes to the
Arts & Entertainment Artificial Hip Over 150 shorts, a restropective of the bizarre Tractor group's work, a Beck music video compilation, Jackson and His Computer Band, a Mike Mills (director of keynote, and tours of the very few
Arts & Entertainment A Mighty Ruckus at Islais Creek If you haven't bothered to click on the banner ad we've had running all this month for A Mighty Ruckus at Islais Creek, we will happily bring the scoop you you! Brought to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: The Italian Girl in Algiers. The San Francisco Opera opened its season last Saturday and picked up right where it left off last time we visited. , just like Cosi fan Tutti, is another joyful and energetic opera, another
Arts & Entertainment Happy Birthday, Picador! In case you missed our passing mention in yesterday's interview with Andrew Sean Greer, Picador, the publishers of such SFist faves as and A Death in Brazil, is celebrating its 10th birthday with
SF News Interview: Andrew Sean Greer Who is that charming young man riding his scooter up Divis for the early-bird special at the Metro Cafe? It's Andrew Sean Greer, California Book Award winner for , San Franciscan, and one of
Arts & Entertainment Note To Editor: Have One of the Interns Come Up With a Strained, Jackassy Joke About Russian Monks For This Headline
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Fringe Festival Review #1: <I>Show Me Where it Hurts</I> Thursday night was night number two of the San Francisco Fringe Festival. The Exit Café, Fringe headquarters, wasn't very busy, but they had the beer and free pretzels ready (you can eat and
misc SFist Raves: Kronos Quartet and Asha Bhosle Put a brimful of Asha on your iPod ride! The Asha Bhosle who's name-checked by the Brit band Cornershop and is renown as the voice of Bollywood, has released a CD with San
Arts & Entertainment Fall Classical Music Preview Tomorrow, the symphony kicks it off with a gala, celebrating three anniversaries: Michael Tilson Thomas's, aka MTT, 10th anniversary at the baton, Shostakovich's 100th birthday next year, and the 25th anniversary for Davies
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>The Overcoat</i> Nope. It's all done by with dance-like movements, set to the music of Dmitri Shostakovich. The result is that it's kind of like a silent film, kind of mime-y, and kind of a
SF News Interview: Lila Yomtoob Lila happens to be two things SFist holds near and dear: film maker and blogger-- A dreamy, dreamy combination when it comes right down to it. When Lila isn’t racking up credit
SF News Kepler's Bookstore Closes This is really just awful. Kepler's, the Menlo Park independent bookstore and jewel of the South Bay, suddenly announced that it was closing today -- for good. Kepler's has apparently been having problems
Arts & Entertainment Ha Ha, MTV Bet you're sorry now that you didn't pick San Francisco for the Video Music Awards, MTV! Apparently all pre-VMA parties for Sunday's VMAs in Miami have been cancelled in the wake of Hurricane
SF News SchwarzenWatcher Goes to the Stones Concert So you get a bunch of free Stones tickets and a luxury box to see them opening night at Fenway handed over to you by some company out of the kindness of their
Arts & Entertainment Interview: John Vanderslice The best things in life really are free. Free shows at Amoeba fall into the category of one of the reasons that living in San Francisco is totally awesome. Tomorrow (Tues.) the day