Arts & Entertainment Win Free Passes To The Frameline Opening Night Screening And Party! Look! Just like we promised -- to celebrate the Frameline GLBT film fest, we're giving away free passes throughout the festival (running June 14-24). Your first giveaway, for you and a guest? To
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today You've still got the Berkeley World Music Festival today, and Indiefest's Hole in the Head fantasy/sci-fi/horror film fest is in full swing! Your other options include: The songbook of Fields of
Arts & Entertainment Swords & Sorcery Anthology: Homage, Send-up, And Wonderful Surprise Please allow us to let our geek flag fly for a few moments. If you've never read a comic book, never participated in a pen-and-paper role playing game, or if you don't know
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Can you still remember how to roller skate backwards? How about shoot the duck? For $2 skate rentals, you can give it your best shot at Mighty to the tune of really bad
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Other events: --Belly dancers, including local troupe Fat Chance Belly Dance, perform at the Mighty tonight with dancer Ansuya. 8:30 p.m., 119 Utah (x 15th), $15. --Buy Mom an orchid at
SF News Elie Wiesel's Return To San Francisco You may remember when Wiesel was in San Francisco earlier this year for a peace conference, a delusional New Jersey Holocaust denier attacked him in a hotel elevator. So we're making extra efforts
Arts & Entertainment APE Escape 2007 Part 3: The Storytellers--Traditional, With A Twist The last of our slightly less-than-timely coverage of the Alternative Press Expo, which took place last weekend, focuses on folks telling their sequential art stories in a longer form. Ted Naifeh, a Western
Arts & Entertainment Conan the Conquerer Did you get your tickets? We are speaking, of course, about free tickets to "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" which will be taping a week of shows at the Orpheum Theater starting on
Arts & Entertainment Let's All Go to the Movies Also, a major highlight in the local wisdom section: The Ken Anger Restorations. That will be one wicked great screening! LOCAL WISDOM Artist Television Access (922 Valencia St.) has the SF Premiere of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight 3.... 2.... 1.... blast off! Yuri's Night at NASA's Ames Research Center is a science-sound-music-art shindig that sounds fun and interesting. Hosed by Keynote Speaker (and hottie!) Anoushe Ansari, the first privately funded
Arts & Entertainment SFWFF: Opening Night (LGBTQ Short Films) Yesterday was the opening night party of the Women’s Film Festival ! The night kicked off with LGBTQ films and included acoustic band Trusting Lucy performing before the show, trailers for movies on
Arts & Entertainment Conan O'Brien Coming to San Francisco, Hopes For Appearance By Horny Manatee Rise What kind of San Francisco-centric guests would you like to see on the show, aside from the obvious Gavin and Jen pairing? When Letterman came to town way back in 1996 we were
Arts & Entertainment Workin' for the Weekend Friday, March 2, 2007 Earlybird Special: Fukwerk Fridays @ 111 Minna Roll up your sleeves and loosen your tie with loungy beats and discounted booze -- and hey, check out the art of Brazilian
SF News Now Here's a Strange Story The man who accosted Wiesel took credit for it on an anti-Zionist web site using the name Eric Hunt. In the posting, he said that he decided to go after Wiesel only after
Arts & Entertainment SFist Christopher's Best From The Past 365 Days * Album Of The Year: Mogwai -- "Mr. Beast" The mostly-instrumental music of Glasgow's Mogwai has been described as big instrumental rock music for a soundtrack. The soundtrack of your whatever-you're-doing. If whatever-you're-doing really
SF News SFist Leanne's 2006 Best Of Best Live Shows This might be one of the best shows I've ever been to. The place was jam-packed with testosterone, walls of speakers and pot smoke. I felt like I was trippin'
Arts & Entertainment Not-So-Silent Night on YouTube One of the glories of GooTube is that if you miss a show for whatever reason, there's a good chance it'll pop up on soon enough on the site. Like Live 105's "Not
SF News Tonight's The Night We actually owe the federal government thanks for bringing us "spare the night" nights as it appears in a fit of insanity in which they actually did something to help the environment, they
SF News Newsweek Calls Us Loony It's kind of a fun article too in that it's not often you see Bevan, the Bay Guardian, and Tommi Avicolli Mecca quoted in a national newsmagazine. But why, once again, are we
Arts & Entertainment SNL on "San Francisco Values" We're going to post this now before the evil lawers at NBC demand it to be pulled down. What we're posting is the opening skit of last night's "Saturday Night Live" (which was
Arts & Entertainment Podcasting Frankenstein As part of SF's Free Night(s) Of Theater (details are still being finalized), on Monday, October 30, Black Box Theatre is performing , a new adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, before a live
Arts & Entertainment The Character-Driven Adventures of the Superfisters Perhaps it's golden-silly dialogue like "I've sworn many oaths in my day, to every being from Hoggath to Watoomb... but the first oath I swore was the Hippocratic." It's all just so freaking
Arts & Entertainment Musicians, Literature and Little Cable Cars When: Friday, October 6, 2006, 8pm Where: The Regency Center, 1290 Sutter St (Van Ness at Sutter) Call: (415) 673-5716 Admission: $25.00 Purchase Tickets Here SFist Mary Ladd, contributing, is on the
SF News North Beach is Italian For Even Less Fun After cracking down on the North Beach Street Festival and the Jazz Fest, it looks like the Powers that Be are all set to crack down on North Beach itself. At issue is
SF News SF Symphony Gala By The Numbers Total number of people pictured in the Chron's Symphony Opening Night article: 23. Number of people pictured whom we recognize: 6 (Gavin, Brittanie Mountz, Billy and Vanessa Getty, Yurie Pascarella (the hostess in
