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
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Sufjan Stevens in Berkeley Who was fortunate enough to see Sufjan Stevens last week? Opener My Brightest Diamond, who SFist Emily interviewed last week, started the show looking like Santa's little helper in a crimson cocktail dress.
SF News Week Around The -Ists Celebrate Ben Franklin's 300th birthday with the Bikini Bandits and Phillyist! (NSFW). Speaking of Mr. Franklin, send in a picture of Ben (or Ed Rendell) with a red tongue and win a free
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop Starts Today We're wishing Noise Pop a happy birthday today, as San Francisco's indie-est music festival kicks off its 14th year. The all-festival badges are sold out, as are tickets to some of the biggest
Arts & Entertainment Combots Finals Last night we took a long bus ride out to Fort Mason to check out the final rounds of the Robot Fighting League's Combots National Championship. SFist Chuck reminded us to make it
SF News Anthony Tashnick Wins at Mavericks SFist has always taken note that it's pretty hard to go wrong taking pictures and film of surfers. It's also nice to watch nature at it's most terrifyingly powerful. Put the two together,
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 When The Lights Go Down In The City We reckon a good percentage of San Franciso music-lovers will be at Great American Music Hall this week, whether it's at one of the three sold out Arcade Fire shows or Saturday's sold
SF News SFist Cheshire Remembers 2004 Like SFist Emily, I'm bad at lists. So I'm just going to relish the chance to write in the first person singular for a moment and break down the highlights and lowlights of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads: Holiday Fun Edition SFist is celebrating the holidays in many ways, as some of us will travel to far-off lands (or just the Midwest), while others of us will remain right here. All of us are
misc The Essefficist Fills More Recycling Containers Than You Can Imagine Once again, the Essefficist is back, a day late and at least a dollar short. We could go on all night about what a piece of junk this column is -- she may
Arts & Entertainment Innerview: Our Favorite Narcissist SFist Emily, our penninsula correspondent and intervista mejor, interviews herself today. We thought only Prince could do that after the surgery to remove his lower ribs, but Emily is one suprisingly talented lady.