Arts & Entertainment Les Claypool Presents Gabby La La: Hello Kitty Meets Yoko Ono (and it’s Good) Eric McFaden and Wally Ingram/Gabby La La March 12, 2005 12 Galaxies San Francisco They came to see Les Claypool, many oblivious to who the main act was. But what they got
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Music Video Asia So we have a cousin. No, this is not some coy way of referring to the newest -ist site, Austinist(welcome!), we're talking about our actual cousin. Anyways, our cousin plays this game
Arts & Entertainment Drink the Haight With Your Trimethyldioxypurist Inside the west-bound 1 California that we rode on Sunday, there's a sign that reads "Shop the Haight." The sign is printed in strange brown tones that make it almost unreadable.We thought
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Sorceress of the New Piano The crowd at the Castro Sunday night, at the Asian-Am film fest's centerpiece presentation for Evans Chan's documentary was about one-third new music aficionados, one-third Asians who'd played piano in the past, and
Arts & Entertainment Cinequest Review: Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley is a sentimental and beautifully crafted portrait of the young man as an artist. Jeff Buckley was a singer-songwriter who started out singing in cafes in New York and recorded and released a
Arts & Entertainment Bright, Indeed Unless you're hitting A.C.T. or Berkeley Rep, it's a bit tough to find good theater to go to on a Wednesday night. Right now (and at least through early April), however,
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: CocoRosie Friday night's show with CocoRosie and Antony and the Johnsons at Great American Music Hall felt like a night at the underground opera. More than a few audience members came dressed in costume,
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Robbers on High Street On Friday Noise Pop presented a matinee show with Ringside, Von Iva and Robbers on High Street at Cafe Du Nord. It's quite strange to head to a rock show at a time
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Amon Tobin A review by special show correspondent Ginevra. If you'd been listening on Friday night, you'd have heard the sounds of two drum kits, funky bass, plenty of moogs and DJ's to scramble the
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Earlimart Earlimart may be the nicest band ever to come from Los Angeles. In addition to meeting up with SFist after their crack-of- dawn sound check (10:30 am for you non-rockers), both Aaron
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Joanna Newsom You may not be aware of this, but did you know the Swedish-American Hall is actually a ski lodge? Or did we miss the weather report that it was going to snow this
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Earlimart Afternoon shows at the Bottom of the Hill, like Saturday's Earlimart Noise Pop show, are so excellent -- the buses are running, the sun is out, you don't have to worry the whole
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Mission of Burma We headed out to the Noise Pop Mission of Burma show all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at 9:00 p.m., standard concert time, only to turn up at Bimbo's and find out that
Arts & Entertainment SF Indie Fest: Born in a Barn We bring this up because, for much the same reason, it's so easy -- even for us permissive, enlightened San Franciscans -- to look askance at an adult who likes to dress up
Arts & Entertainment SF Indie Fest: White Skin But first, a word from local filmie Tom Pankratz, whose short film precedes White Skin. Tom's been making films in the bay area for several years, and we like him -- at a
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: 2.4 Hours on Craigslist Even by 3:45 on Saturday, the lines were so packed around the Roxie that we had to walk onto 16th Street to try and read the (extremely poor) signage on the box
misc The Essefficist! The Essefficist! The Essefficist! So without further adieu, let's hear from Carnal Carl: I hope you can help me with my recent moral quandary. There is a charming young woman who goes to grad school in the
Arts & Entertainment GTA: San Andreas Review - San Fierro Edition [Be sure to check out the coverage of Los Santos on LAist!] We loved the last Grand Theft Auto, Vice City. The eighties music and cars, the neon glow of faux deco, the
Arts & Entertainment Rabbit Food Now, SFist is an omnivore, and proud of it (we baa quietly under our breath when we eat lamb). But walking down Valencia Street, we noticed that the venue that formerly housed "the
Arts & Entertainment The Lion King: Exactly as Expected Therefore it was with some amount of surprise that we walked out of at the Orpheum Saturday night feeling exactly as we'd imagined we'd feel about the show before we'd seen it. Details
Arts & Entertainment Three Guys, a Girl, and Pizza Place Basement... SFist had a great time at , Impact Theater's ninth season opener. If you don't know Impact Theater, they're a Berkeley-based company focused on "producing new plays by emerging playwrights that are relevant, interesting,
Arts & Entertainment Park Party SFist loves us some old-school hip-hop, yo. We've got an entire library of classic movies, records and books on the subject. Which is why we were so excited to attend a park party