Arts & Entertainment Lech Wierzynski Of Bay Area Band The California Honeydrops, On Tour With Bonnie Raitt, Misses Playing In BART Stations The California Honeydrops are a good-time band with an unmistakably Californian style, despite drawing on influences like Delta blues, gospel, and Motown. While frontman and trumpet player Lech Wierzynski sings and plays trumpet,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Ana Matronic Of Scissor Sisters In case you weren't aware, years before the formation of the band Scissor Sisters in New York, Ana Matronic (b. Ana Lynch) was a young fixture in the S.F. nightlife scene and
Arts & Entertainment Drag Star Juanita MORE! Moves Her Pride Party to Dogpatch Knowing that Bambuddha Lounge was closing (you've heard, right?), drag queen and party promoter Juanita MORE! had to find another place for gays of all stripes to congregate after the Sunday Gay Pride
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Memory Tapes' Dayve Hawk While you really can't go wrong with just about any of the Noise Pop weekend options, we are particularly looking forward to catching Memory Tapes as Bottom of the Hill tomorrow night. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Deerhoof Drummer Greg Saunier The 18th annual Noise Pop Festival begins with a bang tonight, with local legends Deerhoof opening for the star-studded Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band at The Fox Theater. We had a chance to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: L.A. Electronic Star Nosaj Thing by Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce As we discussed last Monday, Mighty lined up one of LA's rising electronic stars over the weekend, Nosaj Thing. We had a chance to catch up with the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Lymbyc Systym by Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce Prior to their show at Café du Nord a couple weeks back, we had a chance to catch up with sibling duo Lymbyc Systym's Jared Bell via phone,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: The Rural Alberta Advantage This interview comes to us via Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce. As previously discussed, we are eagerly anticipating The Rural Alberta Advantage's return to San Francisco tomorrow night. We recently had the chance to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Vic Chesnutt, Performing Tonight at the Great American by Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce 2009 has been quite the year for Vic Chesnutt. The prolific singer-songwriter released two albums (At the Cut and the Jonathan Richman produced Skitter on Take-Off), appeared on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: John Ortved, Author of <em>The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History</em> Looking for a gift idea for the Simpsons fan in your life? Reporter John Ortved has written an unauthorized, uncensored history of the still popular, still witty, longest running prime time TV series
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Photographer Joe Budd San Francisco photographer Joe Budd is debuting a new collection of photographs from his travels across the world as a commercial photographer, featuring people and landscapes in exotic locales such as Brazil, Thailand,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: David Eagleman, Author of <i>Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives</i> Neuroscientist David Eagleman's new book Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives is a series of fictional explorations of the afterlife that range from downloading one's consciousness to a computer to meeting God (both
