misc SFist Tonight Electric Apricot (2006): Les Claypool's mockumentary along the lines of This Is Spinal Tap. It takes a gentle swipe at the endearing Deadhead/jam band set via fictional band called Electric Apricot. Jam
Arts & Entertainment More Contests! Win Tickets To See Asian American Indie Rock! Update!: We accidentally screwed up our contest-o-meter, so we're embarrassed to say we're going to have to run the contest again! Sorry, sorry, sorry, APAture. Reenter away, and we'll pick a winner by
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- New Pornographers: Yay, the New Pornographers! We heart them ever so. Seriously. Heart them yourselves tonight as they perform along with Lavender Diamond and Fancey at 8 p.m. at the Warfield,
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City This week's show recommendations: Tonight Popscene presents the live world premiere of Blaqk Audio, the new collaboration between Davey Havok and Jade Puget of AFI. At Make-Out Room see a trio of local
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Barefoot Nellies: "The Bay Area's finest all-gal bluegrass band" headline at one of the Bay Area's finest bars, Amnesia, starting at 8:30 p.m., 853 Valencia; free. -- Killer of Sheep
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Deep Fried Murder: A play about the world of competitive eating, veganism, and breaking up. Curtain rises at 8 p.m. at the Climate Theatre, 285 - 9th Street; $12. -- Altered
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight But brace yourselves for tonight's edition: an "honest" look at the (dying? dead? necessary?) state of print publishing. Such inky icons as Ben Fong-Torres (from Rolling Stone), Lynn Peril (publisher of Mystery Date)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight A variety show a chance to help out Killing My Lobster? But of course! The Romane Event, the monthly music/film/comedy/spoken word event at the Make Out Room the last Wednesday
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today --LAist Zach is coming to town as part of the CalArtsf alumni art festival: dance, spoken word, world music, animation, paintings, and lots more artistic expression at Cowell Theater and the Herbst Cafe
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Raul Sanchez of Penny Arcade Tonight, come celebrate Penny Arcade's Two-Year Anniversary at the Make-Out Room with the following stellar line-up: Mumlers, The Dodos, Nathan Moomaw & Raul and more! Penny Arcade Make-Out Room 3225 22nd St, SF
Arts & Entertainment The Finest Kind of Writer Friend of SFist Charlie Anders reminds us that her nifty and unusual spoken-word group, Writers With Drinks, will be experiencing yet another stupendous explosion of literary greatness this Saturday, the 9th, from 7:
SF News SFist Tonight Friend of SFist judy b. is moderating a discussion about San Francisco's criminalization of poverty at the Little Roxie tonight, which is co-sponsored by the People of Color Coalition of the SF Green
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City The Mission Creek Music Festival is still going strong and shows continue through Sunday. Although MCMF's press folks hadn't ever heard of SFist ("Is this a radio station? We're only giving tickets to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight We Write the Book Who Wrote the Book of Tea - free public lecture by Norwood Pratt (we don't know if he has a charming British accent, but with a name like that, he so should) hosted
SF News Sarah Tucker, 1979-2006 We saw the saddest obituary last week in the Chron, for the death of Sarah Tucker, a 26-year-old Mission resident who was killed in a hit-and-run bicycle accident on Polk and Geary Street
Arts & Entertainment All-Star Game Reach a hand across the blogger/print media divide and get your weekly buzz on at the Indie Mag All-Star party this Saturday from 8-10. Locally-published magazines Kitchen Sink, Bitch Magazine, Other Magazine,
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Count Through a labor intensive process, Count creates a collage of sound by layering textures of small noises and sounds. This unique thumbprint has led musicians with a similar aesthetic to work with Count
Arts & Entertainment Crunk Critics, Drunk Didacts and Lush Literates Writers and drinkers go together like Bogie & Bacall, like Brad & Jen, like Hall & Oates. Which is why we, the underpaid and over-inebriated writers at SFist, couldn't be more excited about
SF News Calling All Dems Sfist loves doing things for the good of humankind. We also love to drink. So we plan on attending a MoveOn.org fundraiser, for John Kerry, next week at The Make-Out Room. The
