Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City - R.I.P. R.I.P. When The Lights Go Down In The City November 2004 - September 2007 It was SFist's first editor Jackson West who asked me to write a music column back in
Arts & Entertainment SPF 7 at the Purple Onion Sure, local funny-guy comedy troupe busts out great live shows, but they're also getting a well-deserved reputation for their video-produced comic stylings. Check out Alex Aschinger, Bob Brindley, Chris Yule, Jay Starr, Justin
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 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
Arts & Entertainment Revisiting 1997: Win Tickets To See The Crystal Method Another one of our favorites (though in a completely different genre,) The Crystal Method dropped their first album in August 1997. Ten years and four studio albums later, we have been inundated with
misc Week Around the -Ists LAist saw national headlines soar this week with news about the Jena 6 in Louisiana and of a police taser incident at a John Kerry event. Locally, Hollywood protesters marched in support of
SF News Bye Bye Barry, Goodbye Well, what was one of the biggest rumors in sports is now official-- Marcia did indeed get it on with Jan. No, wait, not that. In a matter of minutes, the Giants will
SF News Day Around The Bay -- Norman Nsu to return to Redwood City. [ABC7] -- Beth Spotswood writes in real-time about this year's Macy's Passport, with SFist aluma Eve Batey as the Virgil to her Dante. [Chron] --
Arts & Entertainment Bluepulse CEO Ben Keighran Brings Us Out Of The Stone Age Bluepulse, which recently acquired $6 million in funding, is all about mobility: it's a phone-based social network of more than 2 million people in 150 countries. It's accessed via software on your phone
misc Thanks to This Week's Advertisers Got a second? Good! Because we want to thank the advertisers on SFist this week: CNN.com, who has a surprising amount of video on their site (including one of a couple with
SF News Day Around The Bay -- RIP: Chronicle cartoonist Phil Frank dies. [Chron] -- Busted water pipe downtown = Bay Bridge entrance difficulties. [ABC 7] -- What a good idea! MUNI cop ride-alongs. (Oh, you know you also love
Arts & Entertainment VIDEO OVERLOAD: 9/11 Memorial At SF State Goes Awry Readers, sorry about the video overload today -- but suddenly there's a lot of interesting stuff out there! Here's a video posted on YouTube by the San Francisco State College Republicans. Boo, hiss,
Arts & Entertainment Get Inside The SFFD With 'The Battalion' There's been much ado about SFFD screw-ups from the top (Mr. h. brown over at sfbulldog.com has actually provided some really interesting insight . . . not that he'll see this hat tip, since he
Arts & Entertainment In Case Your Parents Wouldn't Let You Go Sept. 11, 2007 -- Megadeth at the Warfield. Enjoy.
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After You know, we meant to get into the whole "It's Got to Be the Morning After" thing earlier but forgot to do it in all the sports hurly-burly. So, yes, the title comes
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Patterson Hood: Co-founder of the très hip Athens, Georgia rock/alt-country/cowpunk band Drive-By Truckers performs solo tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Swedish American Hall, 2170 Market (as Sanchez); $15.
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City This week's show recommendations: Hurry up and head over to Amoeba at 6pm for a chance to see Okkervil River perform for free and then get a free, limited edition CD sampler when
Arts & Entertainment Barry Bonds: The Music Video Via Say Hey, here's the video for the Kanye West song "Barry Bonds." The video seems more about Kanye's ginormous ego than Barry's ginormous head, but what else would you expect?
Arts & Entertainment News Flash: Bay Area Rents on the Rise When we began our daunting, three-month-long apartment hunt this past June, we soon discovered that the competition for affordable one-bedrooms suitable for two people was fierce. We needed to find an abode before
misc Happy Birfday, Juanita MORE! Happy birthday, Juanita! We would come visit you tonight, but our crippling agoraphobia unfurled just in time for the holiday weekend. Drats! But that doesn't mean that you, dear readers, can't visit her
Arts & Entertainment Luke Skywalker's Original Lightsaber at Oakland Airport, Ready for Destruction Well, it won't be destroyed so much as it will be sent into space. And then vaporized, or zapped, or something. Anyway, someone sporting a Chewbacca outfit handed over Luke Skywalker's original lightsaber
Arts & Entertainment Thar Be Sea Monsters? We were flipping through the channels over the weekend and caught a few minutes of a National Geographic show on Sea Monsters. So we stopped to watch-- we're big fans of Nessie. Towards
SF News Tenderloin Housing Clinic: A Gang Member was General-Managing our Hotel, Extorting and Assaulting our Clients Defendant is ... the former general manager of the Mission Hotel ... THC discovered defendant had been involved in criminal activity, including extortion, assaults, and threats of violence ... The conduct is ongoing. Yikes. Turns out,
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City On to this week's show recommendations: Tonight see Built Like Alaska at Bottom of the Hill with Audio Out Send and The Parish. At Cafe Du Nord, hear Earlimart featuring the String Dream
