Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: There are still some tickets available for the refreshingly inappropriate Sarah Silverman, who's at Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall for one night only, as she performs her trademark stand-up comedy along with a little
SF News Nom Nom Nom: Baby Giraffe Born at SF Zoo Let's not think about that mauling incident or the possibility that one or both of the Dhaliwal brothers pissed into the tiger grotto, prompting the Christmas Day attacks. No, instead let's think about
misc Last Minute New Year's Eve Picks In Your SF Neighborhood So, it's the eleventh hour and you've decided against crushing up a couple of Ambiens into a mug of fume blanc and calling it a year. Instead, you've turned that frown upside down,
Arts & Entertainment <i>The Wizard of Oz</i> + the San Francisco Symphony = All Kinds of Cheer Well, this sounds like the perfect (and perfectly frightening) holiday entertainment for both kiddies and adults. On December 20, 21, and 22 the San Francisco Symphony will perform the entire Harold Arlen ("Harold,
Arts & Entertainment Good Samaritan at 30,000 Feet Not three feet from our chair was a woman lying on the floor, passed out with blood oozing from the back of her head. Janet, who was traveling to Canada, had passed out,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Kelley Stoltz, Jennifer Gentle, the Dodos: Local folk-rock chap Kelley Stoltz performs in the Mission along with Jennifer Gentle and the Dodos. Show starts at 9 p.m. at 12 Galaxies, 2565
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: A Pot Club The Examiner's on Bobagate! They've now found out Ed Jew, through his father, rents a building to a pot club, at 1545 Ocean. Hope those cannabis users have water. Look at all these
SF News Steer for Their Heads Can no force stand up to power of Critical Mass? Willie Brown was no match for the monster .. but Willie didn't have a WALKING HORDE OF UNDEAD. Preliminary reports from local Zomboligists predict
Arts & Entertainment Going Smashing With the Pumpkins So we're not sure what to think of the announcement today that the Pumpkins 2.0 are going to play eight shows at the Fillmore from July 22 to August 1. On the
SF News The Three Face of Giants fans Editor -- Peter McGowan should pass an edict that all vendors at AT&T Park must take a knee when Barry Bonds comes up to bat, as nothing gets my ire up
SF News Not A Girl's Kind Of Girl Here's the full quote from the article: "I shouldn't say this, but there are two sides to every story,'' she said in an exhausted tone. "If people did research into the scandal
SF News How'd Question Time Go? Well, we're sorry to report that everyone's day jobs managed to succeed where Wade Crowfoot did not -- namely, in preventing anyone wearing a chicken suit from gaining access to the city's very
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Coffee Follow-Up: Take A Pill, People (Or Not) Hey, folks, your Trimethyldioxypurist is back with a quick follow-up to the review of Meth Coffee we posted yesterday. We saw something related on the wires this morning. We're tempted to just link
Arts & Entertainment Insert U2-related Pun Here Unfortunately, despite all the fawning attention Ms. Nancy seems to be giving to Bono, Bono didn't leave the meetings happy, saying that the new Democratic leadership weren't very helpful as they were unable
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine Goes To The Movies: Hilary Hahn Plays Symphony Hall It was a night of romantic movie themes and orchestral folk music (and one modern piece described in the program as "an aircraft revving for takeoff"), with violinist Hilary Hahn the main star.
Arts & Entertainment Thibaudet/Bychkov at the Symphony Bychkov opened with Last Round, a two movement piece by Osvaldo Golijov, a 45yo Argentinian composer who now lives in Massachussetts, the first time this piece was played in San Francisco. The piece
SF News Google: Okay, Now Maybe Doing A Little Evil To help them, they've hired as lobbyists two ex-Republican Senators, Dan Coats of Indiana and Connie Mack of Florida. And on Wednesday, Google will take part in their first political fundraiser, for Republican
misc Craigslist Encounters: Craigslist Review Board We were getting ready to write yet another post about using Craigslist as a scapegoat for the evil Internet while blatantly ignoring all the good it serves. So we began the arduous task
SF News Political Junkie: Since We Been Gone We're back from vacation -- and it's to get caught up on two weeks of news! Why didn't anyone tell us San Jose mayor Ron Gonzales got indicted? Over a garbage-services contract, no
misc Philistine: To Catch a Free Butterfly Tomorrow, for the first opera of new director David Gockley's era, the SF Opera will experiment with a live broadcast of the performance playing inside the War Memorial Opera House, outside on the
misc SFist Rants: We Want Our 7th Inning Back And yes, we do hate America, why do you ask? The main reason we don't like it? Hello, overkill. Seriously, we already play the National Anthem. Do we really need to hear two
SF News No Bus Butts Since then, our former roommate has quit smoking, and now Muni has, too, as yesterday the Board of Supervisors approved legislation banning smoking at all public transit stops in the City. Introduced by
SF News SchwartzenWatcher Goes Back to Austria Later, Arnie went on to express disappointment in his fellow countrymen and said that he considered them friends and as friends, he expected them to stand by him when he makes a difficult
Arts & Entertainment The Semimystical Adventures of the Superfisters Okay, we're sorry, but if you're not totally in love with we're going to have to fight you. Recommended highly by the froods at Isotope Comics as well as by us, It's the
SF News Political Junkie: Smother Mother Come here, widdle Andrew, let Mommy bury you in her bosom! San Francisco's current best Freudian drama took another lurch into the Viennese land of cigars and trains steaming into tunnels, as the
