Arts & Entertainment Scenes From The 'Oakland United' Ghost Ship Benefit Concert Featuring Hieroglyphics, Tune-Yards, Primus, And More Fans joined hands, heard from victims' loved ones, and swayed to emotionally resonant music at the Fox Theater last night in a powerful fundraiser concert presented by Another Planet Entertainment and Noise Pop
Arts & Entertainment [Video] Surprise Guests Mac DeMarco, James Blake Join Conan Mockasin Onstage At The Chapel Serious FOMO trigger warning: If you weren't at the Chapel last night for Conan Mockasin's sold-out show, you missed not only that weirdo doing his crazy thing, but also surprise appearances by fellow
Arts & Entertainment Van Morrison Coming To SFJAZZ This Fall While Van Morrison, age 70, is already on the books to play at Davies Symphony Hall on October 17th, SFJAZZ has announced it will be offering a more intimate experience with the "Belfast
Arts & Entertainment Surprise, Again! Dave Chappelle Adds Second Suprise SF Show This Saturday Comedian Dave Chappelle's typically bi-annual "surprise shows" are a little like that surprise party in the office on your birthday. Maybe it's gonna be on Thursday, maybe it's gonna be on Friday, but
Arts & Entertainment Here Are The Official Treasure Island Music Festival Night Shows (So Far) When Treasure Island Music Festival — in some ways the lower-key counterpart to Outside Lands — herds artists from The National to DeadMau5 to the Bay Area for October 17 and 18, some of those
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Best Music Venues In San Francisco While San Francisco's music scene isn't what it once was, it's still a thriving scene for good music, so you should check out a show at one of the city's fine venues. Here
Arts & Entertainment Robin Williams Tickets Go On Sale at 1 PM Today; 2 Shows Only! Jumpy Academy Award-winning comedian Robin Williams will make two rare (?) appearance at the 142 Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley next week, and tickets go on sale at 1 p.m. today. What he
Arts & Entertainment Girl About Town: I Break Horses, The Cult, Questlove, Tycho by Veronica de la Mora Memorial Day approaches! And with that, we have a healthy stew of shows waiting in the wings just before summer strikes. Morrissey, the Cult, Questlove, and Kurt Vile
Arts & Entertainment Girl About Town: The Knocks, Maná, Tennis, Yo La Tengo & More! Let's welcome Veronica de la Mora to SFist, as she shares her concert-going wisdom with us on a regular basis. Veronica attends several shows per week, so keep up to date with the
Arts & Entertainment Sharon Needles Is Coming To San Francisco! Before a winner is crowned next week on RuPaul's Drag Race, we implore you to a) you personally see to it that Sharon Needles wins the pageant, and b) buy tickets now (not
Arts & Entertainment NYE Music Choice: Veronica Klaus You've already read about her. (And if you haven't, you should!) Isn't it time you heard her live? Yes. Yes, it is. We're talking about Veronica Klaus, one of the Bay Area's finest
Arts & Entertainment Conan O'Brien Is Coming! Oh fun. Conan O'Brien is touring and he's bringing his Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour to San Francisco. Described as "a night of music, comedy, hugging, and the occasional awkward
SF News Day Around the Bay This year's Stanford commencement speaker? Oprah Winfrey. [SJ Merc] The Spots goes eHarmony-ish on us. [Spots] screenplay writer Dustin Lance Black looks ten-years-old. We mean that as a compliment. [BAR] A street lamp
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Perverts. [ASD] -- San Francisco to go solar. [Curbed] -- SUV rampage remembered. [SFGate] -- Bernal Heights robbers? Oh noes! [The Snitch] -- The McKesson Corporation sued. Also, SFBG's got the love
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Aimee Mann's Second Annual Christmas Show: Paul F. Tompkins, Sean Hayes, Chuck Prophet, and Morgan Murphy join the delightfully blond songstress for a night of holiday warm fuzzies. Because X-Mas is coming
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Aaah! Rosebud: This re-telling of Citizen Kane involves a "an evil sled, competitive curlers, an aspiring diva, and soul-devouring zombies." See, if Wells had jus incorporated those things into Kane, he might
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Deep Fried Murder: A play about the world of competitive eating, veganism, and breaking up. Curtain rises at 8 p.m. at the Climate Theatre, 285 - 9th Street; $12. -- Altered
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Marga Gomez: Multiaward-wining lesbian/Latina comic makes her Plush Room debut with Joshua Raoul Broday on the ivories, and former Mornings on 2 personality and comedian, Mark Pitta. Show starts at 8
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Double Indemnity (1944) and Clash by Night (1952): Barbara Stanwyck sears the screen tonight in two gems: Billy Wilder's shadow-heavy, film noir hit about adultery and murder, followed by Fritz Lang's fick
SF News SFist Leanne's 2006 Best Of Best Live Shows This might be one of the best shows I've ever been to. The place was jam-packed with testosterone, walls of speakers and pot smoke. I felt like I was trippin'
misc SFist Jon's 2006 Best Of Best TV Show (drama)- "Battlestar Galactica" Why I like this show is because it thinks big-- big themes, big action, big drama, big story, big music, big everything. At times (like the
SF News Was It All Just A Dream? It's so weird, but we could have sworn we heard the CSI half of the late, great CSI: Plumpjack in an interview discussing Gavin in a VERY friendly way. Granted, we missed the
Arts & Entertainment Come Download Uncle John's Band We would say that something like this is "the death of the 60's" but that corpse has been long dead, ridden with more wounds than Sonny Corleone (speaking of which, has anyone else
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV This Week, While Wishing We Could Watch Ourselves We can't really explain why we get such a thrill out of seeing our beautiful town show up on prime time television, but we do. Maybe we're hoping to see someone we know
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
