Arts & Entertainment Philistine: Joe Goode Performance Group. The music he wrote is actually the opposite of the work he conducted the night before: it is pretty minimalist, with very simple melodic lines, underscored with a few bass notes here and
misc Craigslist Encounters: Free Stuff! Buy your own store! Or an Airplane Hanger! Right now there are over a dozen free pianos on Craigslist. It seems that budget cuts to state sponsored art programs are finally having an effect on music appreciation! There are also over
Arts & Entertainment Free We Are Scientists! You might already know that their debut album, With Love & Squalor, will drive you to do strange, angular dances to the stop-start rhythms, alarm clock guitars and addictive melodies. The 'Scientists may
Arts & Entertainment Mission Creek Music Fest: Night Of Electronica They should really have more shows in art galleries -- as we walked into the Lab on Sunday night for the Mission Creek Music Fest ambient noise show Sunday night show, we saw
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>The Future of Pinball</i>/<i>Buffet</i> Our usual movie companion loves pinball with a burning passion. A burning passion! So all week, it's been like, "When do we get to see the pinball movie? When do we get to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: More Beard Awards Beard Papa does not serve twinkies, but their cream puffs are driving San Franciscans to insanity all the same. Oh, no one with vanilla cream on their lips has lunged at Chris Daly
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Crossing Genres at the Magic Theatre Christmas, in May? Well, yeah. The Magic Theatre rearranged its season a bit. But The Long Christmas Ride Home may be worth the wait. Penned by Paula Vogel as
Arts & Entertainment 10th Annual Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival Sunday kicked off the 10th annual Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival featuring over 170 music acts, most of them local but some of them national (Vincent Gallo) and international (Ane Brun). The
SF News Today In The Law The Susan Polk trial was in recess today, but it was still a pretty busy day for the local courts, which decided: *that kids who failed the state high school exit exam can
Arts & Entertainment Harmon Juices Us Up That's right, Harmon and OJ, sharing the screen. In Harmon's words: Some (let’s call them the sane) would be apprehensive to work with OJ. But I couldn’t pass up the gig.
SF News Meanwhile, in San Jose... We're going to talk about something we rarely talk about-- hockey. Why? Because the San Jose Sharks are now up 2-0 against the Edmonton Oilers in the second round of the playoffs, after
SF News Sympathy for the Devil's Sliders Apparently, Caltrans is gearing up to begin repair work on the disheveled Devil's Slide this week, but they're not offering any estimates as to when the road might once again be open to
SF News Political JunkiEE If you think the Ma v. Ja race is content-free, you should try the State Senate District 8 race between Leland Yee and Mike Nevin. Yawn, unless you like trying to figure out
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Play</i> Here's a brief summary of the plot, so you can follow our dialogue: Lonely Cristina finds depressed Tristan's stolen briefcase at the beginning of the movie, takes his cool cigarette lighter and iPod,
SF News Down Goes Barry, Down Goes Barry It looks like Bud Selig's Barry Bonds voodoo doll is working as last night, before the Giants 2-0 victory over the Brewers, Barry was bonked on the head by a foul ball in
SF News A's Fight! SFist A's fans' loss is our personal gain, as SFist Jake's brief hiatus gives us leave to post on yesterday's sixth-inning infield brawl at Anaheim! We love a good baseball fight. That's because
SF News It's a Municipal Horn of Plenty If it's the Board of Supes you're looking to subscribe to, you've got to navigate through "Video on Demand" (even if you're seeking audio, not video), then click "Board of Supervisors," and then
Arts & Entertainment Are We Too Old To Be Part Of The Digital Generation? Find Out Tomorrow Night. A panel including New Jewish Filmmaking Project's Sam Ball and Klaira Markenzon, Youth Sounds' Erica Eng, and TILT's Tina Bartolome (TILT) will discuss how "media, culture, and education influence the way youth tell
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Cockbyte: Masters of Machinima</i> Sorry to be crude. "Red vs Blue," if you're not familiar, is sort of sketch-comedy series made by dubbing dialogue on top of pre-scripted game footage. We'd estimate that Sunday night's screening was
SF News SFist Tech Labs: The Revolution Will Be Podcasted The MacBook Pro has a new 17" model with a faster SuperDrive, an additional USB port, and the FireWire 800 port that's missing from the 15" version. So if you were holding off
Arts & Entertainment The San Francisco International Film Festival: SFist Has Got You Covered From tonight's opening night gala and screening of , to a projection of Cartography of Ashes against the firefighter's training tower at the SFFD Fire Station #7, we'll be reporting back to you with
SF News Your Commute: Bad Day A lot going on: *A pedestrian by the old US Mint on Fifth and Mission was hit and killed by a 26 Valencia bus shortly after 9 a.m. today. Footage from the
misc We're the Tops! Who'd have thunk it -- l'il old us, San Francisco, the gayest city in the country? That's according to a new study, which pegs (hee hee) our fair metropolis as having an adult
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Solo Shows at The Marsh Baloney is usually something to be avoided at all costs--unless Dan Piraro is involved. Yep, that Bizarro cartoonist has his own solo show, and he's thrown in just about every
misc Animal Roundup: Stephen Jr. Yay San Francisco Zoo! Not only did it win back its accreditation, but it also vaulted into Comedy Central gold with an inspired intern's (possibly unauthorized?) email to the Colbert Report asking if
