Janeane Garofalo

Janeane Garofalo and Mary Lynn Rajskub at Cobbs: Today’s Calendar Pick

The Weekend Hitlist: Mountain Goats, Exotic Erotics and A Big Benefit

The State Reunion and Tribute to Headline 2009 Sketchfest

SF's annual Sketchfest never fails to please the comedy nerds. After months of wondering how they could possibly outdo last year's Kids in the Hall tribute, the annual festival of hilarity recently announced the reunion of the seminal comedy troupe, The State. Their early-90s television show on MTV ... More >>

Last Night: The State Reunion at SF Sketchfest

  (Photos courtesy Tommy Lau)The State Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 24 and 25, 2009 Eureka Theatre and Herbst Theatre Better than: the Beatles, Jesus, and Pamela Anderson I'm going to jump to the conclusion that you're just like me -- a productive member of society in their mid-to-late 20s, raised ... More >>

Unknown facts about Noise Pop performers

  (Photos courtesy Tommy Lau)The State Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 24 and 25, 2009 Eureka Theatre and Herbst Theatre Better than: the Beatles, Jesus, and Pamela Anderson I'm going to jump to the conclusion that you're just like me -- a productive member of society in their mid-to-late 20s, raised ... More >>

Millennium Albatross

The Force is weak with the long-delayed Fanboys.

Here Come the Funny People

The Force is weak with the long-delayed Fanboys.

Here Come the Funny People

The Force is weak with the long-delayed Fanboys.

The Mouth on This Woman

The Force is weak with the long-delayed Fanboys.

Is It Hot Out Here?

The Force is weak with the long-delayed Fanboys.

Incredible, Edible

Brad Bird does it again; health inspectors everywhere shaken to their core

Coming Soon

The summer season always brings out the worst in Hollywood, but there are also gems to be found

Misc. Reviews

If it's kinda, sorta music-related, we'll review it. This Week: The Dick Cavett Show -- Rock Icons DVD.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

If it's kinda, sorta music-related, we'll review it. This Week: The Dick Cavett Show -- Rock Icons DVD.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

If it's kinda, sorta music-related, we'll review it. This Week: The Dick Cavett Show -- Rock Icons DVD.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

If it's kinda, sorta music-related, we'll review it. This Week: The Dick Cavett Show -- Rock Icons DVD.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

If it's kinda, sorta music-related, we'll review it. This Week: The Dick Cavett Show -- Rock Icons DVD.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

If it's kinda, sorta music-related, we'll review it. This Week: The Dick Cavett Show -- Rock Icons DVD.

New Sneers' Eve

Comics skewer our weird year

Kiss Me, Sons of God

Gigantic nearly deifies They Might Be Giants -- and why not?

Wigging Out

Amy Sedaris finds a seething cesspool of lucre, lust, and lunacy in Wigfield

Get Over It

Celebs tell it like it is

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Celebs tell it like it is

Richter's Scale

Andy Richter deserves to control the universe, if only Fox would let him

The Bitch of Kitsch

Terry Zwigoff and Daniel Clowes trap us with a raptor in Ghost World

The Rules of Comedy

A week of funny women on stage, from Janeane Garofalo to local favorite Marga Gomez

Crash of the Titan

Don Bluth's Titan A.E.

Y1981

Don Bluth's Titan A.E.

Hollywood Babble On

Don Bluth's Titan A.E.

Travels With Mikey

Don Bluth's Titan A.E.

Year of the Elephant

Dead guys, psychedelic pop, and no sober opinions at South by Southwest 1998

The House of Tudor

Dead guys, psychedelic pop, and no sober opinions at South by Southwest 1998

Slap Shots

Dead guys, psychedelic pop, and no sober opinions at South by Southwest 1998

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Dead guys, psychedelic pop, and no sober opinions at South by Southwest 1998

Slap Shots

Dead guys, psychedelic pop, and no sober opinions at South by Southwest 1998

Night+Day

Dead guys, psychedelic pop, and no sober opinions at South by Southwest 1998

Two-Pronged Attack

Dead guys, psychedelic pop, and no sober opinions at South by Southwest 1998

Sketchfest Q&As Pt 1: Jamie Kilstein

​Their backgrounds are as different as their comedy styles, but Jamie Kilstein and Reggie Watts should give dynamic, thought-provoking, and hilarious performances this week when they hit the Punch Line with Mary Van Note as part of Sketchfest. Kilstein is a subversive political comic who addresse ... More >>

All Day

​Their backgrounds are as different as their comedy styles, but Jamie Kilstein and Reggie Watts should give dynamic, thought-provoking, and hilarious performances this week when they hit the Punch Line with Mary Van Note as part of Sketchfest. Kilstein is a subversive political comic who addresse ... More >>

What To Do? Nellie McKay @ Great American Music Hall

​Nellie McKay @ Great American Music Hall Our love of Nellie McKay knows few bounds, because she's the female Rufus Wainwright, she's Lucille Ball plus Janeane Garofalo, and most of all she's a mad, cracked master of lyrics. But why should this feminist be interested in Doris Day, the musician wh ... More >>

How to Be

​Nellie McKay @ Great American Music Hall Our love of Nellie McKay knows few bounds, because she's the female Rufus Wainwright, she's Lucille Ball plus Janeane Garofalo, and most of all she's a mad, cracked master of lyrics. But why should this feminist be interested in Doris Day, the musician wh ... More >>

What To Do? Thursday's Pick: Daniel Handler, Larry Doyle, Marc Maron, and Eugene Mirman

Eugene Mirman​Daniel Handler, Larry Doyle, Marc Maron, and Eugene Mirman on You're a Horrible Person, But I Like You: The Believer Book of Advice @ The Jewish Community Center A book with the title You're a Horrible Person, But I Like You: The Believer Book of Advice implies certain things. Namel ... More >>

We Go Together

Eugene Mirman​Daniel Handler, Larry Doyle, Marc Maron, and Eugene Mirman on You're a Horrible Person, But I Like You: The Believer Book of Advice @ The Jewish Community Center A book with the title You're a Horrible Person, But I Like You: The Believer Book of Advice implies certain things. Namel ... More >>

BG and MB off the DL at WTF; Not NPR

Eugene Mirman​Daniel Handler, Larry Doyle, Marc Maron, and Eugene Mirman on You're a Horrible Person, But I Like You: The Believer Book of Advice @ The Jewish Community Center A book with the title You're a Horrible Person, But I Like You: The Believer Book of Advice implies certain things. Namel ... More >>