Business & Tech AI Flub May Be Behind Mattel’s ‘Wicked’ Dolls Promoting Porn Website on Packaging Something bad happened that made Mattel’s new line of dolls for the upcoming film “Wicked” accidentally promote a link to a porn website. Funny, this happened just months after Mattel started designing its packaging with an AI tool from San Jose-based Adobe.
Arts & Entertainment 'Wicked' Returns To SF, Is Still A Lot Of Fun Wicked, the 10th longest-running musical on Broadway, has returned to San Francisco for the first time since 2013. But Wicked and San Francisco have a long history, as it was here that the
Arts & Entertainment Bye, Bye, 'Wicked' After a blockbusting, 20-month reign at the Orpheum Theatre, Wicked has left the building. SFist was at the Heart of the City farmers' market yesterday and spotted the set being transported out of
Arts & Entertainment <em>Wicked</em> to Close, Finally, in September The reign of tourist terror at 8th and Market will finally end, or at least ebb, come September as SHN announces the closing date of Wicked. The musical, centered on the friendship between
SF News Tornado Almost Hits Merced A tornado (or whatever it's called before it hits the ground) was reported around 11:25 a.m. on Monday in the far off land of Merced. According to the Merced Sun-Star, even
Arts & Entertainment SF Turns Out the Verdigris for 'Wicked' Why have Coit Tower, the Ferry Building, and City Hall literally turned green? According to SF Citizen, it's in honor of the third return of the popular Stephen Schwartz musical Wicked. The "untold
misc New Tunes Tuesday #17 Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. 2. Shelby Lynne - Just A Little Lovin': If you are looking for some music to accompany your
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Avenue Q: This tee hee-inducing musical features un-Seaseme Street-like puppets (e.g., a closeted homosexual republican, for starters) and an ode to racism. What's more, the indie production won a surprise Tony
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews Paul Mooney at Cobb's Pub Paul Mooney is an Evil Comic Genius. He's evil, because he can coax out hysterical giggles from people who, outside of his presence, would never even think to laugh about the subjects he
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Who Says SF Isn't a Theater Town? at Orpehum Theatre We never thought mainstream theater would consider goths a strong potential audience, but we've already seen Wicked, Lestat (well, we'll try to forget about that one) and now Edward Scissorhands.
Arts & Entertainment Love in the Time of Cleveland Steamers Call us bitter, but we simply don't have any words in us to express love beyond "I'd hit it." It is therefore astounding to us that Lee Lessack deftly assembled seventeen swoony-croony ballads
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: In with the New and Old at the Curran Theatre Goths everywhere, rejoice! They finally made a musical based on Anne Rice's vampire novels. Now, our gut feeling is that this will either totally rock or totally suck, so
misc Happy Holidays From SFist: Win A Puzzling Prize Pack The first is a set of Tangoes, the story of which you can find here. Our set of Tangoes comes to us from local game maker Rex Games, which also makes several other
SF News Farewell Joseph Owades Okay, one could argue that he didn't invent the computer or some new fangled gadget that changed the world. And he didn't come up with the cure for AIDS or polio or acid
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog the Musical at the Orpheum Theatre Based on the best-selling book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, Wicked makes its triumphant return to San Francisco, where
Arts & Entertainment Squatters' Rights The ongoing landlord-tenant dispute known as the Rent movie negotiations flared up once again, with Chris Columbus's production team claiming they were promised free use of the facilities on Treasure Island, and the
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Come for Dinner, Stay for the Hell We know, you've got a lot of pulls on your time these days, what with company holiday parties and SFist's first Bay Blotto tonight, but you really should know about a couple of
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: It's Not Who You Know To paraphrase Norm, it's not who you know, it's who know. With that, this week's live theater recommendations consist of shows featuring friends of ours. Pretty good deal, being SFist's friend, isn't it?
