Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: IndieFest presents The Drummond Will, which pays homage to the classic British comedies of the '40s and '50s, featuring brothers who reunite after their father's death and encounter a colorful cast of
Arts & Entertainment Litquake 2010: Winona Ryder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Patti Smith The lineup for this year's Litquake, San Francisco's tribute to the written word, looks like a smashing one. Why? Because it vboasts a special appearance by a very special cinematic legend and infamous
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Milkgap (aka Geoffrey Porter) will be showing some of his new and old ink and watercolor pieces tonight. Grab some beverages at Pirate Cat Cafe and check them out. 8 to
Arts & Entertainment Mrs. Vera's Massive Marvel Comic Book Sale, Saturday, 1/30 From what little your editor knows regarding the sexy world of comic books, we had heard about a divide between Marvel Comics and DC Comics fans similar to that of the Catholics verses
Arts & Entertainment The New Frugality: Public Reading by Rachel Brodsky According to personal finance aficionado and BusinessWeek's economics editor Chris Farrell, frugality is back. And while this isn't anything we didn't already know, no one ever tires of taking in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: David Eagleman, Author of <i>Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives</i> Neuroscientist David Eagleman's new book Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives is a series of fictional explorations of the afterlife that range from downloading one's consciousness to a computer to meeting God (both
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight VARIETY: The Rumpus and Kink.com host a Sex, Music, Comedy Night with Jill Sobule, co-sponsored by The Center for Sex and Culture. The evening includes readings and performances from sex worker authors
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Raunchy rockabilly fave Reverand Horton Heat will heat up the Great American tonight with Danish psychobilly band The Nekromantix, who describe themselves as "Elvis meets the Wolfman." 7 p.m. // Great American
misc Photo du Jour 298 Elijah Wood outside the W Sundance Kabuki theater, the day before receiving the San Francisco Film Festival's the Midnight Award. Also, according to the band on his wrist, he would like you to
SF News SF Ranked 5th Most Literate City San Francisco came in at no. 7 5 (speaking of [il]literate...) when it comes to literate cities, at least according to a research done by Central Connecticut State University. That is to
misc SFist Finds: Vintage Muni Transfer I spent the holidays with my mother in Los Angeles, who collects rare first-edition books. While I was visiting, she opened "The Complete Sherlock Holmes" (circa 1930) and an old San Francisco MUNI
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Evil Dead 2 (1987): Sam Raimi's exquisite sequel to the equally-exquisite Evil Dead, minus any tree-rape. Screens at 7:15p.m., 9:15 at The Red Vic, 1727 Haight (at Cole). --
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight As part of the National Queer Arts Festival, graphic artist and memoirist Alison Bechdel is speaking at Michelle Tea's Radar Reading Series at the SF Public Library tonight! We've been huge fans of
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <em>The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music</em> We're not unique in becoming slightly obsessed with The Anthology, and this film, which combines talking head interviews with live performances from a series of tribute concerts, is proof of that. And yet,
Arts & Entertainment Arthead Group Exhibition at Swarm Gallery (from left to right) John Casey, Gregory Euclide, Micah Lebrun (details of works) Since August 2006, artist Nicole Wintermeyer's blog Arthead SF has been providing a forum for artists throughout the Bay Area
SF News Whither Gavin Matier & Ross today has an interview with Gavin about the upcoming Mayoral election and his future in politics that's getting a lot of play. So what does the future hold for Mayor
misc SFist Rants: Our Poor, Poor Favorite Book Of course, with anything coming out of the White House, we first have to plead skepticism. It would be like this Administration to leak out the names of hefty tomes as a way
misc Craigslist Encounters: Can I Get A Witness? We would be lying if we said that the Craigslist community section is anything but a good-ol' hodgepodge. There are nearly no off-limit topics and much of the free-form discussion is devoid of
misc SFist Whines & Dines: Pop's Bar Witness the explosive growth of SFist Friend and occasional contributor Ted Rheingold's dog-to-dog site dogster.com, a friendster imitation for pet owners over 30, single and childless (or just in an unhappy marriage)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: <i>On Food and Cooking</i> The SFist test kitchen staff has a tiny list of essential food books. At the top you'll find Harold McGee's . Our copy's tattered cover and stained pages broadcast our love for this accessible
Arts & Entertainment <i>San Francisco: The Unknown City</i> Reading a guidebook about your own town is always interesting. What did they forget? What did they get wrong? Not to mention what they found that you still haven't. And we have to
SF News Mouseketeer Gets Married Reading that Daily Dish feed on the 'gate is always such a guilty pleasure. And today is no exception! Top on the Dish is the revelation that Not Britney Spears (i.e., Christina
Arts & Entertainment Sean Penn in Iran; SFist Struggling To Care Look, you've probably noticed lots of other people talking about this, and look, it's not like we don't care about the Middle East or Iran or anything (hey, we read both Persepolises, we'll
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Using Links for Good Marketing is a weird thing. SFist has been known to fall for a good PR game in the past (we're particular suckers for nifty packaging). M.J. Rose is an author and has
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads: Literary Events We first heard of Tayari Jones when we read her novel , which details the coming-of-age experiences of three children under the shadow of the (recently reopened) Atlanta child murders. We've been reading reviews
