Arts & Entertainment Bring The Musicologist Back! Ghuman is a British citizen born in India, and an Oxford and Berkeley graduate who's working on a book about the influence of India on English music. She was coming back
misc Week Around the -Ists Protest over national vs. regional chains, the never-ending debate over the place of cars and bicycles in our metropolises, professional sports scandals, remembering a solemn day, and being issued a search warrant
Arts & Entertainment MahTlerT In our haste on Tuesday, we forgot to mention that you could hear more MahTlerT (MTT and Mahler have become so imbricated that we had to create a shortcut) here (links to sound
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Madcat Women's International Film Festival -- Frame by Frame: Experimental film festival's night focusing on animation, claymation, and digital shorts all directed by women. Starts at 8:30 p.m.
misc Week Around the -Ists There was very little else for Londonist to be concerned with when the threat of a Tube strike became a very unpleasant reality. The inconvenience was extreme: there aren't many alternatives
misc Week Around the -ists Londonist are starting to think their city is getting just a little bit too expensive, when even Christian Slater can't afford to go out there. And there's no escaping,
misc Week Around The -ists This week ended with the launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter installation. But while the world was consumed with Pottermania, it's important to remember that there were more serious
misc Week Around The -ists Banner week for SFist as the site's new editor introduced himself -- hooray for Brock! While the NY Times weighed in on SF's mayoral race, only SFist had the (insert
Arts & Entertainment And Justice For All Upon arriving at the airport, Hetfield was detained and questioned but after explaining who he was and what he was there for, airport officials let him go. London, of course, has been a
Arts & Entertainment 3 Questions For Another <i>Comic Book Challenge</i> Team We told you a few weeks ago about Platinum Studios' "American Idol"-style contest for comic creators, through which the winners will get a "multimedia development and publishing deal&
misc Week Around The -ists LAist was comped front row seats by the Dodgers due to Malingering being struck by a foul ball last week, and she came back with some great photos, and earlier made fun of
misc Week Around The Ists What with Paris Hilton's release earlier this week and the upcoming celebration of American Independence (sorry, Londonist!), we've been thinking a lot about freedom. Freedom to vote, freedom to
SF News Bus Stop, Bus Go, She Stays, Love Grows Gavin is also proposing that in an order to speed up bus routes, he wants to eliminate some stops. Or, as Beyond Chron would call it, declare "...War on Transit-Dependent Populations.
misc Good Touch The attached image was created in timely response to a two-week-old article on SFGate, in which John King confesses of the proposed Muni shelters, "I've got my favorites,
Arts & Entertainment The Noisette's Dan Smith Best show you've ever played and what made it great? Best show was the first at the Mother Bar in the east end of London- It was the best because it
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Science Catches Up To Common Sense: Sex, Wine, And Chocolate Are Good For You! Sex is good for you. So is wine. Oh, and chocolate. We think most of know this on an instinctual level, but it's nice when experts back these suspicions up. Of
Arts & Entertainment Gorilla Run! Ok, ok -- get this. We know $100 is a lot of dough. And running is a drag for most of us (especially since we turned 30 a few years ago). But come ON!
Arts & Entertainment Topshop: The San Francisco Treat We've never been to London, so we've never shopped at Topshop. Anybody we've met who's ever shopped at Topshop always raves about it. "It&
SF News We'll Show Up For 4th Fake Question Time -- Will Gavin? Don't forget, the next Fake Question Time (or, as we call it around here: FQT4) is this Saturday, April 21 at the Boys and Girls Club in Excelsior (163 London Street,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Food Blog Round Up I Food U Food gets all meaty and even gives us the DL on what exactly Moishe's Pippic really means. Well now isn't that special? Feeding my Enthusiasms takes
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Bay Eats: The Seaman’s Soup Kitchen Okay, it's really NOT a soup kitchen, but if you have a boat docked in Oakland’s Embarcadero Cove Marina (down the highway from Jack London Square and across from Alameda&
SF News It's 4th Fake Question Time! : the mayor's office has announced the fourth installment of his traveling lecture series, or, as he prefers to call it "the town hall open meeting where the public is not
Arts & Entertainment Arthead Group Exhibition at Swarm Gallery (from left to right) John Casey, Gregory Euclide, Micah Lebrun (details of works) Since August 2006, artist Nicole Wintermeyer's blog Arthead SF has been providing a forum for artists throughout the
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop Interview: Lyrics Born Lyrics Born + The Coup-- Thursday March 1 @ The Fillmore... AA, $23, doors 8pm Best show you've ever played There have been so many, that's tough. I always love playing
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Branford Marsalis SFist recently sat down with Marsalis for our first-ever email interview. Q. First off, did you have anything to do with the fact that the top view of the "Braggtgown"
