SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Wave Smashes Through Window, Rushes Into Coastal Restaurant It's one thing to hear about this week's dangerously high surf, it's another to see it in action, especially when that action is happening inside a nearby costal restaurant. As previously reported, Monterey
misc Weekend Palate Cleanser: Rogue Wave's "Solitary Gun," Starring BART Rogue Wave - Solitary Gun from Rogue Wave on Vimeo. Bay Area, and beyond, fav, Rogue Wave, have a stunning video out for their new song, "Solitary Gun," off of their recent release,
Arts & Entertainment Contest: Grand Ole Party @ Fillmore This isn't the first time that you've been able to check this band out for free. Back in February, we gave away free tickets plus a prize pack when they were on their
misc SF Sketchfest Review: Fresh Faces of Comedy It was standing room only at the Mezzanine, and the place was already packed to the gills when we arrived fifteen minutes before the show. This made us a little bummed -- standing
misc Bay Area Bands Head to Coachella 2008 We instantly checked to see who was "headlining" the event and the six biggest names are: Jack Johnson, the Verve, Raconteurs, Portishead, Kraftwerk, Death Cab for Cutie, Roger Waters, Love and Rockets and
misc SF Sketchfest Giveaway: Fresh Faces of Comedy We are ecstatic that Tim and Eric will be performing (they really do an awesome show -- great job, guys), along with Bob Odenkirk and Michael Showalter. A comedy-packed night, for sure. Zach
misc SFist Tonight The Sound of Young America Live: Live public radio featuring Jesse Thorn, Morgan Murphy, Merlin Mann, Danny Hoch, and Bucky Sinister perform le stand-up hot. Zach Rogue (of Rogue Wave) provides the music.
misc RIP Evan Farrell Multi-instrumentalist Evan Farrell passed away from smoke inhalation after a space heater in the Oakland apartment he was staying in caught on fire last week. Based in Bloomington, Indiana, Evan had flown to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Shadow Circus Vaudeville Theatre: (In)famous night of underground "circus arts, burlesque, music, and puppetry" begins at 9 p.m. at Fat City; $10. -- Rogue Wave: Oakland indie-rock band performs with
Arts & Entertainment Rogue Wave Ticket Giveaway Want to go see Rogue Wave this Friday, 10/12, at Bimbo's? Yes? You do? Well then, four of you can win a pair of tickets (because going out by oneself is sick
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Last week's winner, the deceptive SF Weekly. Letters abound, either outraged by the fake Barry Bonds story or entertained by the elk. Why don't the negative letters have the names of the authors?
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City Tonight catch brazen British siren Carina Round at Cafe Du Nord, who will be a hard act for headliner Cary Brothers to follow. On Friday, singer songwriter Rocky Votolato plays songs from his
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Elka Karl of Kitchen Sink Magazine Before Kitchen Sink's proverbial well runs dry, they will be producing one last issue. But they need your help to do it! Stop on by Edinburgh Castle this Saturday night for their fundraiser,
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop Happy Hour And hey, check this out! Looking for a light buzz before heading out for the evening's musical guests? Diesel and Fader Magazine++ are sponsoring a three-hour happy hour tonight, tomorrow, and Friday night
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop Review: Rogue Wave But first, SFist was sad that we missed two of the openers: Scrabbel, who we’ve only heard great things about, and THe Octopus Project whose album "One Ten Hundred Thousand" has made
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Aqueduct White guys rapping! Ganster rap? The most instantly lovable band SFist has encountered is Aqueduct, who do, in fact, mix in a little of the rap into their set. It takes a certain
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Rogue Wave tickets! Listen to "Publish My Love" or watch the video. Enter to win two tickets to see Rogue Wave, Aqueduct, Octopus Project, Scrabbel @ Bimbo's on Thursday night. (Contest ends Thursday at 2pm. Winner will
