Arts & Entertainment High Falooting with SFist The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, at 401 Van Ness, is holding Commission 04, its third annual benefit auction and limited edition art collection release party tonight. SFist is going and thinks you
Arts & Entertainment I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings John Donne? William Blake? Jewel? Nope, it's the words and wisdom of everyone's favorite Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfield. This Saturday night, the always rocking Noe Valley Ministry has a performance of "The Poetry
Arts & Entertainment B-boy Battle in the Blogosphere! Forget Mount St. Helens - there's been an eruption right here in the blogosphere! While checking out 1115.org's debate recap, we kept scrolling to a post on Nelly dissing political MCs (classy
Arts & Entertainment Psych! What better way to celebrate the original date of Britney Spears's nuptials than at feminist pop culture zine Bitch Magazine's release party for its latest issue, on the theme of Fake? The party
Arts & Entertainment But Is He Still Just a Rat in a Cage? Those of us wondering just what happened to one-time wunderkind and band leader Billy Corgan can wonder no more- Billy now fancies himself a poet. In fact, he’s gone all-Jewel on us
Arts & Entertainment I Read the Earth Moved Litquake started two years ago when groups of Bay Area writers decided it was high time they put on events like those put on by music, film, and arts groups in the area.
Arts & Entertainment SFist First Thursday Tonight at Lisa Dent's gallery at 660 Mission will be a special viewing of the work of Hank Willis Thomas, local photographer and recent California College of the Arts MFA graduate. SFist has
SF News Interview:Oliver Wang SFist recently went back to school for a Ph.D. (don’t worry, you’ve got at least 4-5 years before we demand to be known as Dr. SFist). As we stare down
Arts & Entertainment Going to the Theater Makes You Feel Smarter, We Promise SFist is not above shilling for our friends - Phil Bronstein does it, why shouldn't we? So we'd like to invite you to visit tonight or tomorrow's performance of , written and directed by
misc Recycling Old Ideas With the Essefficist Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday, again with the weekly column! Ayyyeeeeeesh! Once again back is the incredible, the rhyme animal, the untypeable E, public enemy number one. This week the Essefficist returns with a question
Arts & Entertainment I Love(a)Parade The parades in Europe now bring in 50 truckfuls of musicians and over a million ravers, and the organizers decided to bring the rhythms to San Francisco for the Love Parade's debut. A
Arts & Entertainment You Belong Here Some things just go with certain places: clocks with the Swiss, bagels and New York, Arizona and snowbirds. Occasionally you encounter something that claims to be from one place even though it is
SF News Your Boss is Watching Sipping our coffee and doing the morning blog rounds we stumbled on this short item in Gizmodo - it looks like the boss will finally be able to see through your lame "I'm
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Movies Thie Weekend Pocket-Sized Edition SFist wishes we had more time to tell you about movies this weekend, but our server is going down in 10 minutes! So, we want to encourage anyone out there who loves zombies
SF News You're So Money, Baby SFist is shocked to see that we failed for the 31st year in a row to make the Forbes list of the top 400 richest people in America. Much like those US News
Arts & Entertainment Rockin' Out with the Pixies We were reminded recently how much we love the Pixies while at Trannyshack. The weekly show at The Stud happened to be dedicated to the group, much to our surprise. Imagine a bloody
SF News Caressing the Hand That Feeds You SFist brings you another update on the Governator's bill-signing binge -- and this one will hit you right in the gut if you're an unrepentant file-sharer like we are. It is now a
Arts & Entertainment Hey, Im the one with no soul Let's see -- you're a psychotic, drug-addled rock star just out of rehab and out on bail who has also just recently been hospitalized for some mysterious ailment. So what do you do?
Arts & Entertainment Putomayo, Eat Your Heart Out For those of you who like your ethnomusicology less with the pan flutes and more with the non-Western modalities, the San Francisco World Music Festival is presenting a number of innovative programs for
Arts & Entertainment Rabbit Food Now, SFist is an omnivore, and proud of it (we baa quietly under our breath when we eat lamb). But walking down Valencia Street, we noticed that the venue that formerly housed "the
Arts & Entertainment Party on Valencia Guilt-Free SFist is proud to be a product of public high school. Not only did our sports teams lay waste to the local private schools (well, except for the Catholic schools), we beat them
Arts & Entertainment Sing Like an Egyptian So what are you doing this weekend? SFist is going to catch the Oakland Opera's performance of "Akhnaten" with The Standing Room. Philip Glass writes the minimalist music that drove you crazy in
Arts & Entertainment Manic Moon Day For those of you not fasting next weekend, you , can 20% of the population in San Francisco suggest Zhong Qiu Jie instead? Those of you who don't feel the Mandarin Chinese (or who
Arts & Entertainment Pimp My Ride Those of you longing to start airbrushing flames on or supergluing action figures to the side of your car, it's your weekend! Starting today through Sunday, it's Art Car Fest 2004! Intended to
Arts & Entertainment Dancehall Dustup Reggae in the Park! A fun event sponsored by Global Exchange, where college kids can wear multicolored hats, bob their heads arrhythmically to the beat, and support their favorite anti-gay artists! Well, maybe
