Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Asobi Seksu and Bell at the Independent by Moses Namkung Comedic Bay Area-specific commentary at the Independent on Friday night: "San Francisco!", Bell lead singer Olga Bell said, "You guys have hot buns and quads!"... [one song later] "Is there
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Matt & Kim and Cut Copy at the Fillmore by Moses Namkung When you're dancing at the Fillmore and everybody else is dancing with you, take a moment and stand still for a couple seconds. It's like taking the pulse of the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Elvis Perkins in Dearland at Cafe Du Nord by Moses Namkung Elvis Perkins in Dearland is 3/4 Ivy League but they don't quite look or act the part, unlike say let me see I don't know, XL Recordings counterpart Vampire
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Martha Wainwright at Noise Pop by Moses Namkung Dressed in blue skinny jeans and hot red shoes with high heels, playing in front of an adoring audience at Slim's, Martha Wainwright walked around the stage looking for a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Last Night at Rickshaw Stop by Moses Namkung In case you missed them for free the first time around at the opening night of Noise Pop, Deerhunter was back at Rickshaw Stop last night... for another free concert.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: McCabe & Mrs. Miller by Quinn Miller Unfortunately, we arrived late for "The Fencepost Sessions" at Hotel Utah on Saturday, and didn’t get to see the first act, Mirandaband. Judging from their tracks on MySpace, we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Eats: Il Borgo by Tiffany Maleshefski Mention Il Borgo to most folks in San Francisco and they get all warm/fuzzy inside recalling their evenings spent at this cozy little Italian eatery in Hayes Valley. We'd
SF News Lawsuit Over Negative Yelp Review Settled The lawsuit professional back cracker Steven Biegel filed against Christopher Norberg, all over one measly, negative Yelp review, has been dropped. According to Norberg: "A misunderstanding between both parties led us to act
SF News Bike Plan Environmental Review Revealed, Bike Injunction Doomed After spending over $1 million to prove to a judge, one who ruled over two years ago that we cannot add any new bicycle infrastructure to city streets, San Francisco's massive Draft Environmental
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Eats: Meatball Mondays at Flytrap by Tiffany Maleshefski It’s Monday night. You somehow managed to get yourself through the workday after spending the entire weekend testing the true capacity of your liver. There's a new airing that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Eats: Gitane By Tiffany Maleshefski When you have a menu item named Bacon Bon Bons (prunes stuffed with goat cheese and wrapped in smoked bacon), the intrigue enough should guarantee a full house, at least
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>Russian on the Side</i> By Tiffany Maleshefski Several weeks ago, Robert Lloyd of the Los Angeles Times published a review of the "Rachel Zoe Project," the either-extremely-loved-or-utterly-despised reality show on Bravo, about the trials and tribulations of
Arts & Entertainment SF International LGBT Film Festival: <i>The Kinsey Sicks: Almost Infamous</i> (By SFist MiHi Ahn) The Kinsey Sicks is one of those San Francisco acts we've been hearing about for years, but never managed to see in-person. Alas. But much to our delight, gave
Arts & Entertainment SF International LGBT Film Festival: <i>Eleven Minutes</i> (By SFist MiHi Ahn) Eleven Minutes follows Project Runway--season one winner Jay McCarroll for an entire year as he attempts to become a real fashion designer and not just a reality TV star.
Arts & Entertainment SF International LGBT Film Festival: <i>Ready? OK!</i> (By Joe Kukura) Ready? OK! Hey! Is that Michael Emerson up there on the right, who plays the sinister creep cult leader Ben Linus on LOST? And is that Carrie Preston on the
Arts & Entertainment SF International LGBT Film Festival: <i>XXY</i> & <em>Japan Japan</em> (By SFist MiHi Ahn) XXY We're suckers for coming-of-age movies, so we hunkered down with a cup of coffee and bag of popcorn last night at the Castro Theatre to see back to
misc SFIFF: <i>In The City Of Sylvia</i> Our fellow SFisters weren’t alone in the lyrical department this week. We signed on for the SFIFF's In the City of Sylvia, a film described as “simple” and “classical.” More importantly for
Arts & Entertainment Sam Shepard's <em>Curse of the Starving Class</em> at A.C.T. Curse of the Starving Class, directed by Peter DuBois, is about a dysfunctional family who's constantly wishing for a piece of the "American pie." "Effort" seems to be a foreign concept to this
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <em>Just Like Home</em> That is the central premise of Just Like Home. A man is seen walking around at night nude and the repercussions this man has on the lives of some of the townspeople. A
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <em>1000 Journals</em> SF Int'l Film Fest's screening of 1000 Journals at Kabuki on Saturday was very warmly received by a large audience, and questions abounded at the Q&A with filmmaker Andrea Kreuzhage and
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF Review: <i>A Thousand Years of Good Prayers</i> The film kicked off SFIAAFF's spotlight tribute to Wayne Wang. Wang will be in person at all screenings of his films: Princess of Nebraska--sister film to A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The
misc Close Reading of Yelp We enjoy the following review -- although we're only using part of it for it devolves into anti-Hillary rhetoric, San Francisco's latest form of socially-acceptable sexism -- because a) it turns out that
misc Close Reading of Yelp Sent to us by SFist reader Sean Yamamoto, today's Yelp review was penned by Beth S. (Please excuse the glaring nepotism.) She critiques Owen Bias, i.e., the "old dude with the sign,
misc SFist Plays Professor Layton and the Curious Village Do you remember classic brainteaser puzzles like the one where you have to put wolves and chickens on rafts, but only in certain combinations? Or the one where you have to draw things
misc Meet Our New Boyfriend, the Sunday Drinker Wine Guy Well, this is amusing and slightly erotic. And, yes, kids, it's almost over a year old, but for your entertainment, foodies of the Bay Area, check out the Sunday Drinker Wine Review. Joanne
