Arts & Entertainment Uber CEO Heckled By Cab Drivers On <i>Late Show With Stephen Colbert</i> Uber CEO Travis Kalanick appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night only to be yelled at by an audience member during the taping about how the company is "ruining" the
Arts & Entertainment Nancy Pelosi's Daughter Airing Documentary About The New SF On HBO On September 28, HBO is airing the new documentary San Francisco 2.0, directed by Alexandra Pelosi, and the film was screened last night here in town (SFist wasn't invited). As the Business
SF News First Week Of Colbert's 'Late Show' Will Feature Elon Musk And Travis Kalanick by Jack Morse Not content to disrupt the way we move from Point A to Point B, tech CEO's Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick will be disrupting our late-night comedy in the coming
Arts & Entertainment Trans Women Of Asia SF To Star In New Reality Series 'Transcendent' In the era of Laverne Cox and Caitlyn Jenner, Asia SF may seems kind of exploitative, anachronistic, and a little uncomfortable. But the proud, very pretty performers at the trans nightclub/dinner theater
Arts & Entertainment Chinatown Gets Sick When Highbrow/Gross Medical Drama 'The Knick' Comes To SF Hey, did you guys watch The Knick? The first season of the Clive-Owen-starring, Steven-Soderbergh-directed Cinemax series about how much it sucked to be in a 1900-era New York hospital got awards recognition and
Arts & Entertainment HBO Cancels <i>Looking</i>, Will Conclude With One Final Special Not shockingly, the cast of HBO's Looking was informed yesterday that the cable network would not be renewing the show for a third season, and this morning HBO confirmed the news in a
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Opera House Prepares For <i>Game Of Thrones</i> Premiere We warned you last week that the Game of Thrones cast was descending on Civic Center tonight for the Season 5 red carpet premiere. The whole event will be streamed live on Facebook
Arts & Entertainment Jessica Lange Will Not Be On Next Season Of <i>American Horror Story</i> We've learned recently that Lady Gaga will star on the fifth season of American Horror Story this time themed Hotel and that Matt Bomer and Cheyenne Jackson have been added to the repertory
Arts & Entertainment Next Season's <i>American Horror Story: Hotel</i> Will Star Lady Gaga Creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk gave first-announcement honors for American Horror Story's fifth season theme to Lady Gaga today, along with the news that the singer will be one of the new
Arts & Entertainment Report: French Porn Star To Play Robin Williams In British Docu-Series 'Autopsy: The Last Hours' You might know British TV show Autopsy: The Final Hours for its deconstructions of the deaths of stars like Elvis, Michael Jackson, and Whitney Houston. But now they're taking on hometown hero Robin
SF News Comcast Changes Customer's Name To 'A**hole,' Now Says They're Sorry Someone inside the evil empire that is Comcast at least a sense of humor. A story's emerged via Wired that a Spokane, Washington man's Comcast bill arrived with his first name changed to
Arts & Entertainment There Was A Mini <i>Full House</i> Reunion Over The Weekend "Wake Up, San Francisco!" This morning we got word that much of the Full House cast reunited over the weekend for show creator Jeff Franklin's birthday. People magazine was all over it, with
Arts & Entertainment First SF Episode Of <i>The Mindy Project</i> Airs, Includes Jokes About WIRED, Tech Billionaires The first Bay Area-located episode of The Mindy Project aired last week, but last night was the first one in actual SF, titled "San Francisco Bae," and in it Mindy Kaling's character reconnects
Arts & Entertainment <i>Looking</i> Creators Discuss How The Russian River Got Gay, And Why They Shot The First Episode Of Season Two There As I mentioned yesterday in my recap/review of the opening of Looking's second season, the new episodes get off to a fun start with a trip up north to the Russian River
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Parks & Rec' As An 8-Bit Video Game (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=
Arts & Entertainment 'Looking' Season Two Opens With Fantastic Party In The Woods, Quickly Slows Back Down To Snail's Pace Looking began its sophomore season on HBO last night, and the first episode is a rollicking, sexy good time set amongst the redwoods. But having watched five of the new episodes, I'll just
Arts & Entertainment Video: Ladies of 'Downton Abbey' Play Cards Against Humanity Brilliantly, the folks at Entertainment Weekly decided to have three of the actresses from Downtown Abbey Laura Carmichael (Lady Edith), Lesley Nicol (Mrs. Patmore), and Phyllis Logan (Mrs. Hughes) play a round of
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Jane Krakowski Auditions For 'Peter Pan' Leaked 'Peter Pan Live!' Audition Tape with Jane Krakowski from Jane Krakowski You know the network television event (and possible biggest debacle) of the season, Peter Pan: Live, airs on Thursday on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Exit Interview: Jonathan Groff We don't get too steady a stream of celebrities here in the Bay Area, but we do get some gracing our theater stages here and there. And with that in mind we'll be
Arts & Entertainment Mindy Kaling Arrives In S.F. To Shoot For 'The Mindy Project,' Instagrams It Looking is wrapping up their three-month shoot for Season 2 this week, and meanwhile The Mindy Project just arrived here to shoot an episode that airs in January. It looks like Mindy Kaling
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: American Horror Toy Story This little gem comes from humorist animator Only Leigh, a.k.a. Leigh Lahav, and Oren Mendez, mashing up Buzz Lightyear and Woodie with a certain horrifying murderous clown. [h/t: Laughing Squid]
Arts & Entertainment Giants Mascot Lou Seal To Get National Glory On Hulu's <i>Behind the Mask</i> Hulu has just announced that beloved Giants mascot Lou Seal, as played under that seal suit by Joel Zimei, will be part of the second season of their mascot-focused documentary series Behind the
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch Madison Bumgarner On Fallon At least one of our Giants is making the TV rounds now that the World Series is over and WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS, and that would be MVP Madison Bumgarner. MadBum went on
Arts & Entertainment Lyft, Uber Mocked On <i>South Park</i> It was only a matter of time before the ride-sharing craze made it onto South Park, and now it has. Watch as Timmy starts a company called Handicar, which quickly expands into more
Arts & Entertainment Legless 'American Horror Story: Freak Show' Actress Discusses Her Role As Legless Suzy You must watch this interview with badass actress Rose Siggins who portrays Legless Suzy on American Horror Story: Freak Show, which premieres next Wednesday. Siggins, like her character, had both her legs amputated
