Arts & Entertainment Win a Pair of Tickets to See <em>Thin Air</em> ODC Theater welcomes Guggenheim Fellow Donna Uchizono and her New York-based dance company with its west coast debut,Thin Air. Hailed by the almighty New York Times as "brilliantly imaginative," Uchizono draws inspiration
SF News Heh: Stephen Colbert Runs for Prez So...there you have it. Go wild with your self-conscious guffawing, Embarcadero Theater audience types!
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Figurines, Dappled Cities, Union Trade: Rock bands -- with a little easy-listening thrown in there for balance! -- bust it out starting at 9 p.m. at Bottom of the Hill; $10.
Arts & Entertainment Anesthesia: Brain Numbing with Non-Sense Take tonight. There’s a cool concert at Herbst Theater, presented by Other Minds, an organization devoted to new music: Dennis Russell Davies and his partner, Maki Namekawa, playing music for two pianos
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Black Francis: Hefty former lead signer of the Pixies gets the Gen Xers up on their feet tonight, along with Eastern Conference Champions, starting at 9:30 p.m. at Cafe Du
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Lust, Caution (2007): Ang Lee's new espionage flick is rated NC-17 (i.e., the pretentious thinking person's X). Hot. Oh, and it's actually really good -- at least we think so, anyway.
Arts & Entertainment Beirut's Jason Poranski Jason Poranski (he’s in the red t-shirt) plays guitar, ukulele, and mandolin in Beirut and was kind enough to answer some questions for us about the band and tour. Why the name
Arts & Entertainment L'Orchestra Di Piazza Vittorio -- Movie And Performance We love it when events combine movies and music! So check out The Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio, a documentary about the creation of a multi-ethnic world music orchestra from Italy. Diverse residents of
Arts & Entertainment "Absoludicrous" Found Footage Fest Back in Town This Weekend All of you YouTube addicts out there are probably familiar with many of the "absoludicrous"* found video clips from Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett's touring Found Footage Festival (*Mr. T makes an appearance
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Off The Grid: Life On The Mesa</i> SFist Wendy goes off the grid, and then comes back to the land of electricity to tell us all about it! We welcomed the return of DocFest, your local indie documentary festival, last
Arts & Entertainment Our Glass Runneth Over As a prelude to the big event, the world premiere of Appomattox next Friday at the opera house, composer Philip Glass was hosting a night of chamber music at Herbst Theater last night.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Magic Bullets: Along with Bonde do Role and JuiceBoxxx, this local outfit (heavy on the bass lines, rhythmic keyboards, and melancholic vocals) performs tonight at 9 p.m. at The Independent, 628
Arts & Entertainment An Army of Philistines We got word that 27,000 people made a reservation to attend this Friday's Opera at the Ballpark. 27,000! And there are still tickets left! Tonight is the last day to see
misc Contest! Free Tickets To APATure's Film Night! Yay APAture! Tomorrow night is their film night at the Victoria Theater. This screening looks awesome: how can you not want to watch movies titled, among other things, "Since You've Been Ong," "Dick
SF News Day Around The Bay -- Gargantuan steroid sting nabs two Bay Area brothers. [SJ Merc] -- PC World editor's suspected killers could receive death sentences. [Chron] -- Marines banned from filming commercial in SF. [FOX] -- Another
Arts & Entertainment Philip Glass Is Coming, An Interview With Cellist Wendy Sutter By David Famiano Happy Belated Birthday, Mr. Glass! It’s an exciting time in San Francisco. All the burners are back from you know where feeling either pissed off or bummed out. All
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Bachelorette, 34: Oh the manic behavior of being on your 30s and still single. Check out Kara Herold's personal film about mothers, daughters, marriage, and being single. Starts at 8:30 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- New Pornographers: Yay, the New Pornographers! We heart them ever so. Seriously. Heart them yourselves tonight as they perform along with Lavender Diamond and Fancey at 8 p.m. at the Warfield,
Arts & Entertainment SF to Represent at the Emmy Awards Wait, what? The San Francisco cast of Jersey Boys is performing at the Emmys? Whoop-dee-do. How are we supposed to get excited about that? Sorry to be a tease, but we do have
Arts & Entertainment Magic Theater Party Photos We were thinking wistfully just the other day about Drew Altizer's excellent society photos, now that we no longer read the Sunday Styles section to show our support for the dearly-departed Catherine Bigelow
SF News The New Muni Hybrids: Hot or ... Hot? We've ridden Muni's new hybrids along both the 27 and 48 routes for a couple of weeks now, and our experience has been slightly mixed. The good aspects are that the buses are
misc Blocker: 3600 Balboa Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. View the map of all
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: <em>The Bridge</em> We watched the movie on DVD recently, and that was the reaction we had during more than one scene. We also shed a few tears. The movie isn't for the faint of heart,
SF News SFist Blotter Samson Wong, the editor of Asianweek, reports that a local Asian media group has rejected an apology from the San Francisco Neighborhood Theater Foundation for screening in Dolores Park a few weeks ago,