Arts & Entertainment SFist Party Crash -- SFMOMA 10th Anniversary The people are beautiful, the music is trendy, the booze is incredibly expensive. If you are an SFMOMA member, you would have received an invite for two in the mail, and you probably
Arts & Entertainment Fair fa' your honest sonsie face, Great Chieftain o' the puddin' race And for a good list of Celtic music events related to Burns Night, go here
SF News The Battle for the Golden State Northern California and Southern California are locked in battle. It's not over the quality of coffee, the issue of transportation, of taxes or water or real estate or celebrity sightings. It's a battle
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Goes Shopping Gah. Crowds. Who can stand them? Oh, sure, we'll wait a few weeks before we make all our holiday returns and exchanges. Oh, yeah, Union Square will be like a walk in the
Arts & Entertainment Hipsters Lend a Helping Hand The tsunami benefit show at 12 Galaxies last night was a huge success, with a packed house and great acts raising over five thousand dollars for the American Red Cross' disaster relief efforts.
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City We reckon a good percentage of San Franciso music-lovers will be at Great American Music Hall this week, whether it's at one of the three sold out Arcade Fire shows or Saturday's sold
Arts & Entertainment Local Band to Tour Libya I mean, when we heard from our musician friends that there weren't enough rehearsal spaces and music venues in the San Francisco area, we had no idea it was this bad. The Heavenly
Arts & Entertainment Creative Commonists It's good to be a nerd. At least that's how SFist feels after hanging out at the Swedish American Hall, taking full advantage of the open bar, nodding our head to the DJ's
Arts & Entertainment Interview: DJ Neta DJ Neta is a Bay Area native who is actually happy to provide guidance on how a non-native might pass as a native. After reading her interview below you'll understand that if we
Arts & Entertainment <em>The Darwin Awards</em> Having never been to a movie set before, we were entertained by watching the multitude of techs and runners standing around drinking coffee and communicating via walkie talkies. Apparently there is a lot
Arts & Entertainment Any Way You Want It Like a lot of these types of sites, we have no idea what the irony level is- most of the people seem awfully sincere. On the other hand, is there anyway to appreciate
SF News SFist Emily Remembers 2004 Everyone seems to have their own form of "year in review" type articles. I have a hard time rank ordering anything, mainly because the thought of having to defend why I rated one
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: The Dead Are Alive? Phil Lesh and Friends December 17, 18 and 19, 2004 The Warfield Theater San Francisco, CA Being a music snob of the first order, I was more than a little nervous when my
SF News SFist Gift Guide: East Bay Cool Andrew Krucoff, who used to be Mr. Intervista at Gothamist, apparently has a fetish for Berkeley punk. Hence he's gone and provided the innerweb with free downloads of this sweet compilation tape [Thanks,
Arts & Entertainment All Is Calm, All Is Bright Well, SantaCon has come and gone, but you still have that urge to make with the merry this holiday season, preferably through participatory art? Well, you're in luck -- San Francisco is hosting
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Lark in the Morning Without a doubt, the coolest place in the Cannery: Lark in the Morning. It's a place where music is serious and music is fun. Classic instruments, like guitars, mandolins, recorders, xylophones, bongos, and
Arts & Entertainment Probing the Depths of the Psyche...and not Getting Very Far So, this past October, a surreal fuss broke out on their message board, somewhat in the vein of The "If He Wants a War, I'll Give Him One" Hiker: some huffy individual (with
Arts & Entertainment Get Drawn By An Ape Looking for a unique gift for your favorite music lover? Send a photo of them to local label Birdman Records to "Get Drawn By An Ape". If you're lucky enough to get chosen,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Listens What are the folks at SFist listening to in anticipation of the BIG party? SFist Krissy has got the following on rotation: Jolie Holland - "escondida" (a.k.a. the recent Guardian covergirl)
Arts & Entertainment Green Day's GRAMMY Noms The nominees for the 47th Annual GRAMMY Awards were announced yesterday in Hollywood, with homeboys Green Day earning an impressive six nominations. That's four less than Kanye West, two less than Alicia Keys
Arts & Entertainment Like Bill Graham, But Alive If you don't know, now ya know. The party is this Thursday, December 9th (we assumed you plugged it into your PDA) at Milk, across the street from Amoeba Records at 1840 Haight.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Culinary Piracy Our idea of being a foodie outlaw is eating ribs in front of a vegetarian or putting chicken on pizza (which we're still not entirely comfortable with). Cheap thrills, we know -- but
SF News Infamous Eastern Span to be Named after Infamous Western Man? And here we thought "Emperor Norton" was just a decent indie music label...SF-based cartoonist Phil Frank (perhaps best known for his Farley series in the Chron) is spearheading a campaign to name
Arts & Entertainment If You Want Something Sung Right... That's why every year we go to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music's Sing it Yourself Messiah. Yup, that's right. The whole damned thing, sung by you and selected soloists. What? You don't
