Arts & Entertainment The 10 Best Storytelling Events In The Bay Area Storytelling events where a mix of local luminaries and everyday raconteurs get onstage — and for some reason choose to relive their most embarrassing and awful real-life stories — have become increasingly common on both
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Musicians Telling Stories Over yonder in la Mission, check out Beth Lisick's Porchlight: A Storytelling Series. This week it's "Tales from The Green Room" featuring music and tales from musicians. Which ones, you ask? Well, they've
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/18: Pride Flag Raising PRIDE: Mayor Lee & San Francisco Pride present the San Francisco Pride Flag Raising this afternoon on the City Hall steps, which kicks off the official 2012 pride week. The flag raising will
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/12: Uptown Almanac's Comedy Night COMEDY: Back by popular demand, Uptown Almanac presents their third installment of Locally-Sourced Pop-Up Comedy Night hosted by Sean Keane and featuring eight stellar Bay Area comics and 8,640 ounces of cold
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/9: Queer Women of Color Film Festival FILM: The 8th Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival, which runs all weekend, presents its featured short film screening, I Do And I Don't: From the family values of queer API women
Arts & Entertainment SFist Memoirs: Pat Montandon, Part II - 'I Fixed My Heart In San Francisco' After a three-week hiatus (it's been a busy month), SFist Memoirs returns with the second half of our conversation with the legendary San Francisco party girl, Pat Montandon, about her noteworthy first experiences
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/21: Porchlight's 'I Surrender' STORYTELLING: This month's Porchlight Storytelling Series, which is themed, I Surrender: Stories about Giving In, Giving Up, and Giving Over, features "one of the nation's most successful bounty hunters Mackenzie Green, tech faerie
Arts & Entertainment SFist Memoirs: Pat Montandon, San Francisco's Golden Girl SFist Memoirs is beyond honored to be featuring the magnanimous Pat Montandon this week and next. Fans of San Francisco high society and local history in general are likely already very familiar with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Memoirs: Anthony Gordon, Delinquent Teenager Continuing with SFist Memoirs' tradition of featuring spouses' back-to-back stories, we present Anthony Gordon, Loquat's bass player and husband to Kylee Swenson Gordon. Anthony took our request to hear stories about aspects of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Memoirs: Kylee Swenson Gordon, Small Town Girl This week's SFist Memoirs begins in the early 1990s with Kylee Swenson Gordon, who is one of the founding members of the long-time, S.F. band, Loquat. Kylee's first San Francisco experiences as
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 4/16: Popscene/The Horrors MUSIC: Didn't get tickets to the sold-out SBTRKT and Godspeed You Black Emperor shows tonight? You're in luck. You can still grab some tickets to see The Horrors and The Black Angels perform
Arts & Entertainment SFist Memoirs: San Francisco Light This week's SFist Memoirs features Lt. Dwayne Newton of the San Francisco Fire Department, who's also an S.F. native and veteran photojournalist. Dwayne says he owes his passion for photojournalism to growing
Arts & Entertainment SFist Memoirs: A Baseball Love Story Reader Jayn Pettingill brings us another great piece this week about her Great Aunt Maye and Maye's husband Tony Lazzeri, a major league baseball player — most notably of the New York Yankees. Both
Arts & Entertainment Pop-Up Magazine Issue 6 Tickets On Sale April 3rd OK, time to warm up those fingers, literary fans! Pop-Up Magazine just announced that Issue Number 6 will be taking place on April 25th at Davies Symphony Hall. Tickets for the event will
Arts & Entertainment SFist Memoirs: Dinah Washington This week's SFist Memoirs comes to us from reader Jayn Pettingill, who is a fourth generation San Franciscan as well as an accomplished saxophonist and composer. In this fabulous piece, Jayn introduces us
Arts & Entertainment SFist Memoirs: Alternate Realities, Part II This week, we continue with Eric Becker's stories from the late '80s/early '90s, in which Eric picks a fight with James Hetfield, goes against popular opinion regarding Anton of Brian Jonestown Massacre,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Memoirs: Alive In Albany This week's SFist Memoirs takes us to the East Bay in the early 1990s, as contributor Rene Becker shares some coming-of-age stories from her time spent as a teenager throwing spaghetti at Blatz
Arts & Entertainment SFist Memoirs: Peace On Sixth Street This week's SFist Memoirs contributor is Reynaldo R. Cayetano Jr., a self-taught film photographer whose collective Inks of Truth — a Guardian Best of the Bay 2011 winner — has been engaging and empowering the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/20: Persephone's Bees MUSIC: Oakland-based quartet, Persephone's Bees, who describe themselves as, "an elephant-sized beehive stuffed with Russ Meyers’ Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Double Fantasy, the poetry of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Memoirs: Hardly Strictly Family [Updated] In honor of the big Warren Hellman tribute concert happening on Sunday, the schedule of which you can find over at SF Weekly, we've invited Corie Woods to talk about her experience as
Arts & Entertainment SFist Memoirs: Paid To Party This week's installment of SFist Memoirs comes from Jim Doeppers, the uncle of this contributor. In 1973, Jim drove his hippie van from the Midwest to San Francisco at the tender age of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/1: 'Midnight In Paris'/'The Moderns' FILM: Castro Theatre presents a Paris-themed double feature with screenings of Woody Allen's acclaimed Midnight in Paris starring Owen Wilson who finds himself in his own fantasy, and The Moderns, starring Keith Carradine
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 1/21: Hush, Muni Diaries Live ART: UK-based artist, Hush, will be exhibiting a new collection of mixed-media work that continues the artist’s trademark "focus on geisha-like women set within backgrounds filled with an expressionist’s freedom of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 1/16: Bringing The Noise For MLK TRIBUTE: Youth Speaks presents its 15th Annual Bringing the Noise for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration, a showcase of work by young writers throughout the Bay Area paying tribute to Dr. Martin
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 12/9: Winston Smith Punk Art ART: Punk art surrealist Winston Smith presents his one-night only Annual Studio Show, featuring new and classic originals for sale. Check out his gallery. There's some pretty rad stuff
