Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Dinosaur Jr. Oh, it was loud. Righteously so. Loud enough to make you feel like your body was getting sand blasted to the back of the Fillmore. Which is how we like it. We pretty
SF News SchwarzenWatcher: The Feature Because there's so much going on with Herr Governator, we thought we'd need to turn it into a weekly feature. Yay? First last week's big story about the mistress and payment and the
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Roll Witcha They should just lease the space below the fold on the front page of the Chron's Bay Area section to Supervisor Chris, no? (At rent-controlled rates, we'd hope!) We'll get to a Television
Arts & Entertainment Not-So-Guilty Pleasure: <i>The Aristocrats</i> It's here, it's finally, really here! We've been waiting for to publish our review of The Aristocrats since catching a preview screener. Drumroll please... If you like to laugh until it hurts, go
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Niffer Desmond How did you get into puppet making? Actually that’s an odd story. When living in Santa Cruz I used to come up to SF with my friend Caitlyn for good times. Occasionally
SF News SchwarzenWatcher: Rock 'n Roll Edition Hey, want to spend an evening with an aging former drug abuser watching four other aging former (?) drug abusers shake their wrinkled heines on stage? For $100,000 and the cost of some
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink K to Zed Try and think of somewhere, in the heart of San Francisco, that you can dine on South Indian specialities like Dosa and Uttapam. Not such an easy question, is it? Ok, just to
Arts & Entertainment What's this, Another Charo Article? Geez. Several years ago, there appeared a Charo-themed article in the fabulous (and now sadly defunct) local cynicism-zine Bringdown. Writer Jay Owens travelled to Reno for Charo, and described a geriatric-crowd-pleasing first act of
SF News Stephen Robinson: Rockin' Rocketman Chris Lopez over at the Contra Costa Times pointed out that NASA Astronaut Stephen Robinson is from nearby Moraga, and is currently on the Discovery waiting for the weather to clear so that
Arts & Entertainment Much Ado About Green Day You might have heard that after a long relationship with Oakland's Lookout! Records, Green Day recently decided to take back their pre-Dookie releases due to concerns over unpaid royalties. If you want to
Arts & Entertainment Happy Birthday, Jerry This is the third year of the event and is celebrated in honor of Jerry's birthday, which was August 1st. Why the party in the Excelsior is because it's where Jerry grew up
Arts & Entertainment Charo-Guitar is Whatever You Say During the week of August first, fans of Charo -- and who on earth isn't her fan -- are in for a treat: the board of supes has designated it Charo Week in
Arts & Entertainment Femi Kuti at the Fillmore Okay, when we suggested that the Femi Kuti show was sold out, it's because these evil ticket websites won't let you buy tix day-of-show. What's up with that? Anyway, we'll hold off on
SF News Homeland Insecurity: Photo Ban at One Bush Plaza? Oh boy, here we go again. Friend of SFist Thomas Hawk was happily snapping away yesterday when he was accosted by a security guard. His heinous crime? Taking pictures of the building at
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>Odessa . . . Odessa!</i> (with <i>Yelena's Story</i>) is a beautiful piece of film -- it takes you to places that are haunting, joyful, and wistful. Mostly, though, this journey from Odessa, Ukraine to Brighton Beach, N.Y. to Ashdod, Israel
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Nathalie Roland Gallery you'd most like to show in? There are so many interesting galleries in the city that I enjoy visiting like Tinhorn Press, Low Gallery, Receiver and pretty much any one on this
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About... Let's get the girl some teeth During practice a couple of months ago, Bay Area Derby Girl (and Varla model) Mad Maxine, slammed into a wall and knocked out her front teeth. Damn! That's hardcore stuff (don't look if
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: The Go! Team We headed over to Bimbo's last night with some degree of trepidation, since our favorite rock critic in the whole world, Kelefa Sanneh, had just described headliners the Go! Team as "a British
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Sufjan Stevens "What? This isn't the Beck show?" we heard a guy ahead of us in line cry out in the Great American ticket line last night. Nope, the sold-out show was for quirky folkster
Arts & Entertainment Movie Review: <em>Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus</em> Seeing Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus is like watching a documentary, attending a concert, seeing a feature film and reading a short story all at the same time. Beautifully shot and featuring gorgeous
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Esthero Esthero hit the stage with a fantastic, albeit gigantic, backing band (horn section, drums, guitar, percussion, keyboards, two backup singers and a flute player). She was decked out in a black bustier, black
SF News iTunes Prudery: The iTipper Fast forward to the 21st century: We finally resurrected our PowerBook from beyond the grave (thanks for not putting in the motion protection for hard drives in the 12" model, Apple -- we
Arts & Entertainment Oh Fun, Tsunami Jokes The San Jose Mercury News is reporting that local hip-hop station Wild 94.9's hired a new radio producer for their morning show, Rick Delgado. Who's Delgado? Well, he's the guy who produced
Arts & Entertainment We Built This City On Rock n' Roll We personally think the whole "Top Whatever" lists thing to be totally overdone and usually laughably wrong. On the other hand, they are darn fun to ruminate over. Especially a particularly juicy one
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: SF Mime Troupe Right before the first scene of the San Francisco Mime Troupe's which opened on the Fourth of July weekend in Dolores Park, a trouper walks onstage holding a sign up for the audience:
