Arts & Entertainment Poems By Jodie Foster Those wacky comedic troupe kids over at SPF7 honor two-time Oscar-winning Yalie and secretly Sapphic actress/director Jodie Foster with "poetic poetry poems" as performed by a spot-on Foster look-alike. (Good Lord, that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Salute Day of the Dead: Before tomorrow's Dia de los Muertos celebration and march, be sure to check out this pre-party featuring music from Steve Taylor-Ramírez, Theresa Perez, and Drew Harrison. Begins
Arts & Entertainment BREAKING NEWS: Some Disabled People Have Sex A warning: Let's just assume that all of the links in this post are gloriously NSFW. We're told that the upcoming Berkeley-area show is "hot activism," which sounds awesome, except that it's what,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Laura Gibson: We'd hate to genre-ize her lovely sounds, but neo-folk songstress Gibson -- who uses such tools as trumpet, viola, and musical saw in addition to her sublime vocal cords-- sings
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Augie March: Australia band, crooners of the catchy "One Crowded Hour," will be playing at 8:30 p.m. at Slim's; $15. -- The Go-Go's: Saccharine '80s LA girl rock. Gravy Train!
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- End of Summer Slam Jam for Teens: Are there words prettier than "back to school"? Maybe. But when we start seeing back-to-school commercials and such, we get ever so giddy. And although
SF News Day Around The Bay -- 756. [SFist for links] -- Bonds' ball chasers. [Chron, The Snitch] -- Steve Jobs' pretty new iMacs and more. [eWEEK, Chron] -- Schwarzenegger forces the fuzz to patrol more Oakland streets. [Chron]
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Blur, "Transgender & Gender Variant" Support Group: Pretty much what it says right there; a good place to go for 18- to 25-year-olds looking for support or just to chat with other
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City If we made those stupid charts that indicate what's "in" and what's "out", we'd fill in one of the lines thusly: OUT - filling the set list with your greatest hits and obscure
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 Today Other events: --The workers united -- have a whole month to celebrate! July is Laborfest month, and you can celebrate today at a poetry reading about growing up working-class at City Lights (5
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City There are a bunch of great shows to see this week, but frankly the pickins are a little slim compared to the embarrassment of riches that we're used to here in SF. Tonight
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Panhandle Bandshell - It's On! It's on! Find out more after the jump.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today --CounterPULSE is hosting Paint Out!, a breast cancer fundraiser with comedians, slam poetry, and women getting their chests painted ($50 mininum donation to get painted). 3:30-7:30, $25, 1310 Mission St. (x
misc Week Around The -Ists Seattlest has a talk with the photographer from last week's "Segway Mom" and then experiences some dissension in the ranks over the question of wine vs. beer. It's not West Side Story, but
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Other events: --Bowling for Rhinos! It's like the name of some kind of ska band, but it's actually a benefit for the zoo. $25 gets you two hours of bowling and pizza at
Arts & Entertainment David and Edie Ichioka, Makers of <em>Murch</em> What was the most surprising thing to you about Walter Murch Walter is a true renaissance man. His areas of expertise are varied and surprising. Not only is he an Oscar winning editor
SF News Cycling: Elevation Profile like an EKG in Stage 3 It was poetry in motion out there in Stage 3 of the Amgen Tour of California, like a ragged stream of consciousness. Hills, . . . hills-hills mark the stage most crucial to date, elevation profile
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Get Mortified's Scott Lifton What's the most mortifying thing you've encountered in this project? My mother reading my diary entry about me almost stalking a girl in high school How many years must pass before people can
SF News GooTube vs. Viacom the Sequel First Viacom didn't want its stuff on YouTube. Then it did. Now, once again, it doesn't. So some poor schmos at YouTube are looking at missing the Super Bowl as they have to
Arts & Entertainment The Morbidly Morbid Adventures of the Superfisters "Amerikan Freak," by John Leekley, Ahmet Zappa (yes, him), and Brendan Smith is not about to embrace comedy of any sort. It is serious, serious, serious, serious. But on the other hand, "Polyglot
SF News It's Monday-- Do You Know Where Your Sports Team Is Called? But there's also some techy news to this story too as Cisco, the company which owns the property the proposed stadium will be built, plans to go all Cypberpunk on the stadium, turning
Arts & Entertainment Not Our Usual Type Of Bar Last week we attended the premiere of Lunafest, a festival of films “by, for, about women” at the Herbst Theater. Lunafest proceeds went to the Breast Cancer Fund. The nine shorts were a
SF News The SFist NFL Preview: We Break the Season Down a Day Late And a Dollar Short There's usually two ways we go about doing this. One of them is to compare something in sports to something in pop culture. Like "What Member of the 2006 Yankees is Like a
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Old Lit, New School at Magic Theatre When our dreams of home ownership conjures visions of $1 million fixer-uppers and our futures are laden with credit card debt, the story of the American Dream seems about as
