Arts & Entertainment Zany French Pop Dance Soiree 'Bardot A Go Go' Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary Bastille Day Party This Saturday It’s the silver anniversary faire la fête of the French discotheque Bardot A Go Go’s annual Bastille Day Party this Saturday, and its co-founder looks back on 25 years of crepes, cigarettes, and 1960s period apparel.
Arts & Entertainment B2B Pit Stop: Rickshaw Stop Bay to Breakers Pre-Party While SFist Brock compiles the Bay to Breakers Energizer Station data, check out this perfect pit stop event! Bay to Breakers participants, before trudging up the infamous Hayes Street Hill, fuel up at
Arts & Entertainment The Pains of Being Pure At Heart: Giveaway! Your afternoon palate cleanser today -- "Everything With You" by The Pains of Being Pure at Heart -- comes along with a GIVEAWAY!! Yes, these spunky kids with an ear for late 80s
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.
misc We Give Good Music Wanna go? Great, as per SFist giveaway protocol leave us a Haiku (relating to the band, the season, or the recession) in the comments. We'll choose our favorite and give you a pair
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Le Rock: Mar 10 - 16 Don't forget to check out Persephone's Bees, The Duke Spirit, The Tings Tings and Hot Tub, tonight at Rickshaw Stop. It's going to be an awesome night of music. The concert starts at
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews... Wallpaper Wallpaper has brought back the 90's and in the best possible way. We imagined the crowd to be in a head-bopping frenzy but, in the short thirty minute set, Rickshaw Stop became a
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop 2008: Tales from the Merch Booth Tuesday: Our first Noise Pop night was on Opening Night at the Rickshaw Stop, which was available to badge-holders, staff, and volunteers. We got there right when the doors opened and went straight
Arts & Entertainment Getting to Know: Wallpaper Full given name: Eric Frederic Hometown: Pinole, CA MAC or PC? MAC for music makin. PC for email checkin. Favorite post-show meal: Mexican food/champagne/taking off sunglasses Pre-show rituals: Mexican food/champange/
misc SFist Tonight *MUSIC: We've got two tastes for you tonight. First, aging rockers Queensrÿche perform at the Fillmore. They use an umlaut in their name, so you know they're hardcore. Too much? Then, how about
misc This Week in Le Rock: Feb 11 - 17 Friday, the local music scene takes us by storm with MiGGs over at Red Devil Lounge and Maldroid at Bottom of the Hill. Both bands are from Oakland, though technically Don Miggs just
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Lucas (1986), Say Anything (1989), My Bloody Valentine (1981): The first film has socially-retarded Corey Haim falling head over heels in love with a sensitive football player, Charlie Sheen, or something like that;
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Rainbow Skate: As if rollerskating couldn't get any gayer, Redwood Roller Rink has made Wednesday nights exclusive queer. So tonight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and even a smattering of straight folks come together
misc The SFBC's "Love on Wheels" Dating Game Happens Friday Doors open at 6:00 PM and the dating game fun starts at 7:00 PM. The cost is $10, but admission is $0 for SFBC members. And of course there's free valet
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Rocket, Wisely, and the Fits: It's an all-pop night, kids. Rocket, an LA-based band that mixes sexy '60s barely-legal innocence with "'70s decibel-damaging boulevard beat, combined with '80s glam wham swagger," headlines tonight.
misc San Francisco Hipsters Falling Behind We were in Seattle this weekend, and came across this Volvo in Wallingford. While we may not be hip enough to know what the kids at the Rickshaw Stop are going to be
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Beatropolis: Oh joy! Beatropolis has returned! (Not that they really went anywhere, but it always feels like forever when they're not around.) Anyway, Beatropolis' special brand of dance rock, live drum 'n' bass,
misc This Week in Le Rock: January 21 - 27 Wednesday, there is the sold-out Ingrid Michaelson show that had to be moved from Cafe du Nord to Slim's because apparently everyone is into "librarian chic" right now. Though it's sold-out, you can
misc SFist Tonight Paul Auster: Sure, metafictionist Auster wrote the screenplays to Smoke, Blue in the Face, and The Brooklyn Follies, but he also penned the phenomenal collection of PoMo detective-fiction tales, The New York Trilogy,
misc SFist Tonight Class and Power in Queer San Francisco: Come hear poets Meliza Bañales and Solidad de Costa, circus performer Keith Hennessy, and writer Michelle Tea push forth the homosexual agenda. Mwa ha ha. They
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The 2007 'Stache Bash: The regular world now knows what bears have known for a long time: mustaches are kinda cool. This even will show you just how cool they, in fact,
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 -- The Misfits: a little post-Halloween chillingness -- sexy, bare-chested, punk chillingness, that is -- for you tonight. Behold: the Misfits play a few ditties along with the Hellbillys and the Memphis Murder
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Social Studies Last week’s Pipette’s show was, as predicted, fantastic. The surprise highlight was one of the openers—Social Studies. When we found out they were local we fell in love with the
