Arts & Entertainment 1973 Social Media Terminal Is A Thing Of Wonder Way before Instagram, before Yelp, before Prodigy, and even before your local BBS (Waveline 4 life!), there was the Community Memory Terminal. Gorgeous, isn't it? You can almost picture Dave Eggers and his
misc Week Around the -Ists Chicagoist knows what it's like to like the Cubs. But naming your kid Wrigley Fields? At least they can breathe a little easier now that Grossman's out and Griese's in. Maybe all that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Jonestown and the Summer of Love The first, and best, is Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple. Through interviews with former members and survivors of the Jim Jones cult, along with loads of archival footage, you get
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>Sidewalk</i> SFist Mihi warns you that this preview clip above may be dull. Sidewalk, the documentary we saw at the Roda Theatre in Berkeley on Sunday for the SF Jewish Film Festival, was billed
Arts & Entertainment Frameline: Win Tickets To <i>El Calentito</i>! Your next prize package? Passes to , which resident cineaste SFist Sara loved! Here's her review: El Calentito is a nostalgic coming of age comedy about punk and fascism in 80’s Madrid. Calentito
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City Last Thursday night we squeezed into 330 Ritch to see Spoon, one of our favorite bands of all time. We'd just helped celebrate former SFist Eve's birthday at Tempest Bar and picked up
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Flying High At Firefly It's a small, intimate restaurant, and it tends to heat up pretty good in there--we shed our layers rather quickly, even when it's cold outside. The staff is always very friendly, and was
Arts & Entertainment It's In the Vault Wolfgang's Vault is one of those online stores where you can order your vintage rock t-shirts and other cool stuff. 'Cause you know, nothing says cool like wearing tees for bands you've never
SF News Going, Going, Sold! Long-standing live music venue, The Ivy Room, in Albany is also closing "as we know it." The current ownership relinquishes the premises in two weeks. Kimberly Chun and the Guardian have the details,
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 30: <i>George Michael: A Different Story</i> In messaging that seems very tightly controlled by the Michael machine, GM and the filmmakers lead us through his initial success with Wham!, his solo career (which emerged nearly concurrently with his realization
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Earth Shaking TV This Week He's gone now, but thoughts of earthquakes still run in our heads, and will soon invade our TV screens. If you're like us, and prefer to partake in disaster nostalgia from the comfort
Arts & Entertainment Henry Rosenthal, producer of "The Devil and Daniel Johnston" Enter director Jeff Feuerzeig whose film “The Devil and Daniel Johnston” played at Sundance 2005 and won Feuerzeig the best direction award. SFist was lucky enough to catch the film at the San
Arts & Entertainment One City, One Book Maybe this is just stemming from a misplaced nostalgia for our fourth grade class, where everyone was required to buy the exact same edition of The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander, but we
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Diamond Nights Diamond Nights are like The Darkness, without the piercing falsetto, Freddie Mercury unitards and campy excess. The Brooklyn four piece brought the rock to Cafe Du Nord on Sunday night to a full
Arts & Entertainment (Yet) Another Hole in the Head: <i>Cold & Dark</i> High school crush and gristly supernatural murder (two great tastes that go great together) after the jump!
Arts & Entertainment Review: Bloc Party @ Slim's First things first: the opening band. SFist is loathe to hate on local acts, trying hard to make it in this town. BUT ... we will say that Oakland’s "The Death of a
Arts & Entertainment Where's Laurel Wellman? Is it too early for San Francisco 1999 nostalgia? The NASDAQ was peaking, IPs were O-ing, and those dark blue button-down shirts were so in? Remember when they said the only way you
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Don't Bother Us, We're In Mourning We knew it was coming, but we're still weren't ready when the news came down. SFist's beloved Coronet Theater is closing its doors forever this Sunday, in preparation for demolition by the owner
Arts & Entertainment Everybody Loves the Circus! We're sorry this is such short notice -- we had asked to be reminded before the show date, and by chance contacted our friend today asking when her event was to be held.
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 Hate Leads To Suffering SFist's had a complicated relationship with George Lucas since 1999. He reminds us of a high-school boyfriend who found us on Google and won't stop calling. Dude, we loved you so much at
