Arts & Entertainment Dawes Plays A Little Bit Of Everything At Noise Pop Festival Among the best known ballads by Los Angeles-based folk-rock band Dawes, "A Little Bit of Everything" sets the first of its several gloomy scenes on the Golden Gate Bridge. The opening lines of
Arts & Entertainment 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' At ACT Is Powerful If Painful The Afghanistan of A Thousand Splendid Suns is not one of splendor. The play's title is a reference to brighter, long past moments in Kabul's history — when women were once freer than they
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Bon Iver Shines In Shadow At The Fox To emphasize that I like Bon Iver, I would say that I know all the words to his songs, but that's not possible and nobody does. His lyrics, if they can be called
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Antoinette Closes Right Quick, Bellota Heads To SoMa, And More A lot went down this week in the world of San Francisco's food scene, and we did our part to hip you to the history of brunch, the best places to find soup
Arts & Entertainment 'Fuller House,' Fuller Of Loss, Debuts On Netflix After a day spent frolicking in the Panhandle, posing in Alamo Square Park, and driving aimlessly back and forth over the Golden Gate Bridge in a red convertible, I settled down to watch
Arts & Entertainment 'The Diary Of A Teenage Girl' Is Perfect, Frank, And True The media was having a field day trying to figure out why Alexander Skarsgard showed up in drag at the San Francisco premiere of The Diary of a Teenage Girl at the Castro
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Chef Won't Take Michael Bauer's Criticism Lying Down Every new printing of our menu gets a new fun fact. Today's is a real gem A photo posted by Richie Nakano (@linecook) on Mar 14, 2015 at 6:02pm PDT When some
Arts & Entertainment Yelp Reviews Of The County Jail Are The Only Yelp Reviews We Trust Yelp reviews of the San Francisco county jail (barely holding a 2.5-star ranking) will set your caged heart free and/or enlighten those of you who might have to stay there one
Arts & Entertainment 'Looking' Reviews Very Mixed; But One Writer At 'Esquire' Gets It All Wrong The reviews are in, and HBO's new, indie-film-paced dramedy about contemporary gaydom, Looking, has been declared both a quiet triumph and a bore. Among the adjectives frequently employed on both sides of the
Arts & Entertainment In Which SFist Reviews The Exploratorium's New Tactile Dome Today marks the opening of the Exploratorium's new Tactile Dome, the pitch-black tactile experience where visitors feel their way through a maze-like path. Here to report on the new Dome, and to provide
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: SF Symphony Opening Night We expect a good time from an opening gala at the SF Symphony. After all, there's an open bar, fancy (or "fancy," in some cases) attire, and everyone rejoices over the new musical
SF News Half a Star Can Make a Big Difference on Yelp In a study that gives new meaning to the term "dismal science," a pair of economists have found that a restaurant whose Yelp rating goes up by just half a star is more
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Food Critics Debate Restaurant Stars Two of San Francisco's (increasingly rare) faceless critics, the Chronicle's Michael Bauer and SF Weekly's Jonathan Kauffman, face off today regarding the star system for restaurant reviews. Why? Because the LA Times (who
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Sad Baby Wolf & Mount Moriah At Noise Pop by Micke Tong SFist headed over to Bottom of the Hill last night for the first night of Noise Pop's 20th anniversary edition. Although we missed headliner Craig Finn and opener Ash Reiter,
Arts & Entertainment It's Alive: Scott Greenwalt's Sci-Fi-ish 'The Alchemist' by Micke Tong While observing Bay Area artist Scott Greenwalt's work, we can't help but imagine a real-time transmutation taking place. Humanoid deconstructed body parts, follicles of hair and organs are displayed with
Arts & Entertainment Artist Matt Momchilov's <em>They Really Want You</em> Mimics Fan Art by Micke Tong We were first introduced to Unspeakable Projects, a live/work gallery located in SOMA, at Art Pad SF, which took over the rooms at the Phoenix Hotel in the Tenderloin
Arts & Entertainment 'Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story' Skewered by Amazon Critics Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky stands accused of pedophilia and sexually assaulting several young boys, some as young as 10. Among other graphic accusations, the assistant coach reportedly molested some of the victims
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Google Purchases Entertainment/Dining Review Company Zagat On its site today, Google announced that they purchased dining and entertainment guide Zagat for an undisclosed amount. Thrilled with the company's recent purchase, Google VP Marissa Mayer noted, "Moving forward, Zagat will
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bauer De-stars La Terrasse It's been quite some time since Chronicle food critic of note Michael Bauer yanked the star from a ho-hum restaurant. Updating his initial two-star review of the Presidio-based food joint La Terrasse, Bauer
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Be a Guest on 'Check, Please! Bay Area' The lovely Michele Mandell brings word that noted KQED restaurant-review show Check, Please! Bay Area is looking for a few good reviewers. Might you be one of them? The rules, in addition to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zagat Gets Yelp-ified "Is it too little, too late for Zagat?" That's what TechCrunch asked after Zagat finally - finally! - gave its site a much-needed facelift. The new site boasts Zagat restaurant reviews, new stats,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Attends: Fu Manchu At Bottom Of The Hill Fu Manchu, Dusted Angel, and a bunch of dudes with beers turned Bottom of the Hill into the ultimate party on 1/22 by Erick Pressman Fu Manchu are one of those bands
Arts & Entertainment SFist Attends: Neurosis at Great American Musical Hall A Sun That Never Sets Settled In Over The Tenderloin This Weekend: Neurosis Returned Home For Two Rare Live Performances 1/15 and 1/16 by Erick Pressman Ever purposely leave for a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Attends: 'Kings of Pastry' Screening, Q&A with Michael Recchiuti by Aislinn Fletcher “Eat the highest quality of food you can in small quantities so your brain is happy every day.” -- Pastry Chef Jacquy Pfeiffer Saturday night’s screening of the movie
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Yakuza's 'Of Seismic Consequences' Shatters Speakers Chicago metal band Yakuza will be performing at Slim's supporting Triptykon and 1349 on Saturday night. Here's what Erick Pressman had to say about their new album, Of Seismic Consequences. by Erick Pressman
