SF News Tuesday Morning Updates: Punch Line Comedy Club Gets New Lease A driver was injured in another freeway shooting in Oakland, an impressive water recycling project is going on beneath Powell Street BART, and Walk SF is holding a pedestrian safety rally this morning.
Arts & Entertainment Punch Line Comedy Club Maybe Already Saved, Google Says It Never Wanted The Space There's some confused news coming out that the recently threatened, 41-year-old comedy club The Punch Line was perhaps not under threat from a new tenant named Google after all — although the landlord has yet to speak up to clear up the confusion.
Arts & Entertainment Dave Chappelle Joins Rally At City Hall To Save The Punch Line Comedy Club From Incoming Tenant, Google Supervisor Aaron Peskin, along with comics W. Kamau Bell, Dave Chappelle, and Nato Green, spoke out in favor of City Hall's potential moves to block the Punch Line's landlord from renting to Google instead.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Punch Line Comedy Club To Close, Chapelle To Return This Month Muni has a new chief in Julie Kirschbaum (not replacing Reiskin as SFMTA director), Dave Chapelle is coming to town May 20-22, and Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes dropped a bomb of an op-ed saying Zuckerberg has too much power and Facebook should be broken up.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Doug Benson: How he didn't win the last season of Last Comic Standing is above and beyond all logic. Then again, competitive reality TV makes little sense at times. (See: Banks, Tyra)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Red Meat: God bless the Rickshaw Stop. And if (s)he existed, he totally would. Why? For many reasons. Take, for example, the fact that they often have extraordinary talent gracing the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight What happens when nearly 30 local artists create works of art made entirely from reclaimed and recycled materials? Head over tonight (or sometime this month) to find out at the Market Street Gallery
Arts & Entertainment Chappelle Sightings Continue I just heard from a bunch of my co-workers that they saw Dave at the Sportsclub/LA gym last night around 5:00. He wasn't really working out, just kind of checking out
Arts & Entertainment Wednesday: The New Thursday Arlene Ackerman's BFF Wade Randlett and SFSOS are hosting the "San Francisco Homeownership Summit" [PDF] tonight. Panels include "How to Protect Yourself from the Board of Supervisors," and "Why Thurgood Marshall's Legacy is
Arts & Entertainment Ha Ha Giggle Giggle! SFist is always looking for an excuse to laugh. This being so, we wonder why we don't go to comedy clubs very much! Well, Sarah Silverman is the perfect reason to stop by
