SF News Interview: Vinnie Esparza There are however awards that DJ's can win. Lots of papers, like the SF Weekly and The Guardian have a Best DJ category (we can already hear you shouting, when will SFist have
Arts & Entertainment Interview: David Paul Like many of us, the first hip-hop song David heard was Rapper's delight. Unlike most of us, this led David to begin DJ'ing in 1985. In 1991 he founded Bomb Hip-Hop. With everything
Arts & Entertainment Bush Street Nervous Breakdown Who knew there was so much money in tribute bands? Local Mick Jagger impersonator Rudy Columbini (he does kind of look like Mick, doesn't he?) has announced that he hopes to buy out
misc Fun with Buns So, let's say that you've decided that your image needs an overhaul. Maybe your current look is wearing thin; it's just not you, the crowd is tired, the music sucks. And there's that
Arts & Entertainment Believe in Von Iva SFist was blown away by Von Iva when they opened for Metric at the Great American Music Hall in late October. This all-female Bay area-based band doesn't need no stinkin' guitars -- just
SF News The Condition of the Working Class in Redwood City -- Update And the saga continues. Electronic Arts seems to have pissed off one too many geeks, and now that this story has gone public details are beginning to emerge that don't look good for
Arts & Entertainment R.I.P., Mac Dre Mac Dre, the Vallejo rapper shot in Kansas City last week, was laid to rest yesterday at the Mountain View cemetary in Oakland. Unfortunately, the funeral home, which only seats 100, was not
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Karen Dere Karen shares a love of one SFist's favorite websites, fecal face, which you should visit right now if you don't already have it bookmarked. Karen's ties with The Giant Peach mean that this
Arts & Entertainment SFist Is Giving It Away For Free It's come to this. We don't know if it's a failure of the imagination or simply a lack of inspiration, but we're just not getting enough questions to fuel the acerbic wit machine
Arts & Entertainment GTA: San Andreas Review - San Fierro Edition [Be sure to check out the coverage of Los Santos on LAist!] We loved the last Grand Theft Auto, Vice City. The eighties music and cars, the neon glow of faux deco, the
Arts & Entertainment New Release Tuesday Sure, there are new releases this week by Britney, Eminem and Shania, but what love have they ever shown to San Francisco? "Talkin' in the Mission / Over coffee, this is my utopia," sings
Arts & Entertainment 9th Circuit to Beasties: "You Have The Right to Party" In a victory for the Beastie Boys, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today declined to review an earlier decision which upheld a lower-court dismissal of a case brought by James
SF News Introducing SFist Listens This week SFist Mary Lynn recommends the following as a means of coping if you haven’t yet fled to Canada and are down about four more years of W: "Tragedy" by the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New York Has Great Mexican Food. Psych! New York is such a big city full of bright lights and superstars, and you can get anything (and we do mean anything) you want delivered to your door at almost any time
Arts & Entertainment "Frankly, My Dear, I Don't Give a Damn"- This Week in DVDs So in light of this week's being another crappy week in DVD releases (wait til next week! We're talking Buffy, Spike, Will Ferrell and David Brent -- could it BE any better?). We'd
SF News Political Junkie: RCV results (background music of tapping telegraphs).... this just in -- the RCV results, with computer glitches fixed, for the contested districts. Mirkarimi wins Dist 5 with 50.3% of the vote, with Haaland in
Arts & Entertainment Get It On /Bang A Can Philip Glass is the ensemble music crowd's bad a**, as he’s collaborated with popular artists such as David Byrne and adapted works by Brian Eno and David Bowie. He's scored films as
Arts & Entertainment Comedy that Puts the "Mock" in Democracy Based on Wonkette's early numbers, it looks like it could be party-time in the Bay Area. But things have a way of changing at the last minute, so who knows. Either way, you're
Arts & Entertainment VHS OR BETA? If that question doesn't make you nostalgic, then VHS OR BETA's music will. "We're definitely not a band who's afraid to admit we have influences," says member Craig Pfunder, influences which include Duran
Arts & Entertainment Swan Dress-Up Time The Dave Eggers publishing venture McSweeney's, their Icelandic printer, and the Eggers family house band are sponsoring America's first Icelandic film festival this week (on Friday and Saturday) at the Castro. Bjork will
Arts & Entertainment Telebrate Good Times, C’mon [] True San Francisco hipsters and locals with the finest taste in indie rock will convene for a Tiny Telebration this Friday at Café du Nord and the Swedish American Hall. What’s a
Arts & Entertainment All You Need Are Yellow and Green Earbuds for the Burning Spear Edition [] Yesterday afternoon, Apple introduced a special edition iPod - we figured Steve Jobs might have iPod news hiding up his sleeve. The black and red U2 Special Edition comes with a poster and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Meets a Hero! If you don't know, Afrika Bambaataa basically blessed the world with hip-hop - along with fellow angels Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and the people of the South Bronx (we're so jealous you have
misc The Essefficist Fills More Recycling Containers Than You Can Imagine Once again, the Essefficist is back, a day late and at least a dollar short. We could go on all night about what a piece of junk this column is -- she may
Arts & Entertainment Reno Blue The League of Pissed Off Voters continues with their 40 Parties in 40 Days voter awareness campaign (though we're now only at a fortnight more of parties) with a big Thursday-night bash. The
