misc This Week in Le Rock: Feb 11 - 17 Friday, the local music scene takes us by storm with MiGGs over at Red Devil Lounge and Maldroid at Bottom of the Hill. Both bands are from Oakland, though technically Don Miggs just
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight The Battle of Algiers (La Battaglia di Algeri) (1966): We were going to start throwing shade at the overall ineffectiveness of political satire -- which, by the way, The Battle of Algiers is
misc SFist Interview: The Peanut Gallery Emily: Most of what I listen to are pretty niche. The branded ones are the worst. It’s not something that’s going to serve all purposes. More on podcasting, plus burritos, after
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink $20,000 Coffee at Blue Bottle Cafe In addition to finding such high-end breakfast items as "pancetta souffle ($9.50), porcini flan ($11), egg and potato torte with warm bread ($5.50) and morel poached eggs ($8)" on Blue Bottle
SF News RIP: Heath Ledger Found Dead Australia-born actor Heath Ledger was found dead in his NYC apartment today. It is reported that he allegedly died of either a drug overdose or hanging at Mary-Kate Olsen's apartment. More details as
misc A Steve Job in 60 Seconds Easy and compact, check out Apple CEO Steve Jobs' 90-minute keynote speech in 60 seconds. It's like the Golden Globes, only not as pretty or deadly important. And as you all know--waking up
Arts & Entertainment New Tunes Tuesday #14 STANDOUTS: 1. Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street - Complete Edition Soundtrack: Though we aren't completely sold on the musical itself (we have only seen the new John Doyle production and
misc SFist Reviews... Vampire Weekend The incredibly crowded space was crawling with an audience that was brimming with excitement. Their excitement had been curtailed while Grand Ole' Party and San Francisco's own, Still Flyin' opened for this seemingly
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Entree Is Dead; Long Live the Hors D'oeuvre Three square meals a day is finished. Heartiness plunged to its death from the Golden Gate Bridge. The entree, sadly, is dead. At least according Kim Severson of the New York Times it
Arts & Entertainment At Long Last Glove Oh this is a smashing idea. Jennifer Gooch's site One Cold Hand reunites missing single gloves with their owners. Yay! Since her site opened in March of this year, her finds have spiked
SF News Yahoo to Jailed Journalist's Mom: "Um, Sorry" House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos threw down some serious shade today. "While technologically and financially you are giants, morally you are pygmies," he cried, shaming two senior Yahoo officials. Why? Because
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Where Will You Go This No-Halloween? The hallow'ed New York Times seems to think that no souls, not even "costumeless outsiders", will show up for "Nightmare on Castro Street." Mmmm. Well then, where else is there to go? The
misc What-ever: Hyphens Pulled Earlier this month, the newest (and truncated) version of the OED got rid of many cherished hyphens. The editor, Angus Stevenson, "eliminated some 16,000 hyphens from the sixth edition," according to a
Arts & Entertainment Win a Pair of Tickets to See <em>Thin Air</em> ODC Theater welcomes Guggenheim Fellow Donna Uchizono and her New York-based dance company with its west coast debut,Thin Air. Hailed by the almighty New York Times as "brilliantly imaginative," Uchizono draws inspiration
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Evil Dead 2 (1987): Sam Raimi's exquisite sequel to the equally-exquisite Evil Dead, minus any tree-rape. Screens at 7:15p.m., 9:15 at The Red Vic, 1727 Haight (at Cole). --
Arts & Entertainment Bring The Musicologist Back! Ghuman is a British citizen born in India, and an Oxford and Berkeley graduate who's working on a book about the influence of India on English music. She was coming back from England
Arts & Entertainment JT Leroy/Laura Albert, Back In The News Okay, there's a very troubling article in today's New York Times about a road trip with Laura Albert (reg. req'd.). Laura Albert is, of course, the 41-year-old mother and local literary scenester who
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, the SF Weekly: Matt Smith mocking the frivolity of San Francisco political concerns. The nudist mayoral candidate (sorry, Spotswood, not Gavin). Cover article: something's not quite right about the City Attorney's
Arts & Entertainment <del>Western Addition</del> NOPA in the Gray Old Lady Awesome last name recipient and New York Times contributor Nicole Spiridakis covered NOPA (AKA, "North of the Panhandle" -- of course) in this past weekend's travel section of the NYT, "Colonizing an Urban
Arts & Entertainment The Photo Of The Taxi Beast Bless you and may the Lord keep you, SFist readers! Look what turned up in the SFist Flickr stream (tag your pictures too!): a picture of the cursed 666 taxi medallion!!! Thank you,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Marke B judges a damp jockstrap contest come midnight at ‘70s/‘80s retro dance club “The Rod.” Damn perverts. All of them. Goes from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. at
SF News San Francisco's Mayoral Pick Via the Old Gray Lady Here we have le Gav looking lover-ly while kicking it with some tired Ethel Merman tranny (excuse me, fabulous "Ethel Merman impersonator") in Jesse McKinley's stellar New York Times article about our personality-littered
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City "Scratch your name into the fabric of this world before you go." - Noisettes Let Noisettes show you the future tonight at 7pm for free when they perform at Amoeba. Singer Shingai Shoniwa's
