Zooey Deschanel

LastNight: The Mountain Goats Record for Daytrotter and a Tour of the Wolfgang Vault

CD Review: She & Him -- Volume One

M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel's She & Him Returns to SF in May

Sunday Dispatch: Oyster Fest at Fort Mason

Top Ten Americana Albums of 2008

By Noah W. Bailey Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen ... More >>

Gigantic

By Noah W. Bailey Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen ... More >>

M. Ward

Hold Time (Merge)

M. Ward: Hold Time (Merge)

Hold Time (Merge)

Just Say No

Yes Man repackages Jim Carrey's greatest hits, which maybe weren't so great to start with.

Von Iva hits the big time with Jim Carrey

Yes Man repackages Jim Carrey's greatest hits, which maybe weren't so great to start with.

Jenny Lewis

Acid Tongue (Warner Bros.)

Summer Grows Up

The season of big budget bangs uses its brain

Noise Pop Preview: Quick Picks

The season of big budget bangs uses its brain

This Time It's Serious

The season of big budget bangs uses its brain

Will in the Way

Winter Passing's father-daughter drama is undermined by Will Ferrell

Oh Grow Up

Failure is McConaughey's perfect movie, and a pretty good one for us

Jokes? What Jokes?

The Hitchhiker's Guide is harmless -- well, mostly harmless

Green Achers

Undertow relishes in the pain and beauty of a reclusive Southern family

Into the Woods

A child's prank goes awry in the riveting drama Mean Creek

Free Will

Another SNL vet may be the next Bill Murray. Seriously.

Persistent Visions

This season's cinema demands attention

Listen to the Movie

Almost Famous rings in your ears -- and heart -- long after it's over

Mr. America

Almost Famous rings in your ears -- and heart -- long after it's over

Summer of Salvation

The film snob's guide to the best cinema the season has to offer.

Fox Searchlight Promotes New Movie '(500) Days of Summer' With Free Street Food

Fox SearchlightZooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in (500) Days of Summer.In a multi-city promotion for the new film (500) Days of Summer, Fox Searchlight has arranged for free street eats to be given out to the first 500 people to arrive at two different San Francisco locations this Sunday, J ... More >>

Movie Promo Brings Out Freebie Seekers to Mission Taco Truck

De La Paz Coffee Co./FlickrThe lure of free tacos brought 'em out to El Tonayense yesterday.El Tonayense truck owner Esquivel Santana told SFoodie that Sunday's taco giveaway stunt brought out a wave of free-food junkies. The truck, which parks at Harrison and 22nd St., was part of a multi-city prom ... More >>

(500) Days of Summer: a love story in a blender

De La Paz Coffee Co./FlickrThe lure of free tacos brought 'em out to El Tonayense yesterday.El Tonayense truck owner Esquivel Santana told SFoodie that Sunday's taco giveaway stunt brought out a wave of free-food junkies. The truck, which parks at Harrison and 22nd St., was part of a multi-city prom ... More >>

Arthouse movie listings for November 18-24, 2009

De La Paz Coffee Co./FlickrThe lure of free tacos brought 'em out to El Tonayense yesterday.El Tonayense truck owner Esquivel Santana told SFoodie that Sunday's taco giveaway stunt brought out a wave of free-food junkies. The truck, which parks at Harrison and 22nd St., was part of a multi-city prom ... More >>

Noah Baumbach on Greenberg, the DIY ethos, and learning to drive

De La Paz Coffee Co./FlickrThe lure of free tacos brought 'em out to El Tonayense yesterday.El Tonayense truck owner Esquivel Santana told SFoodie that Sunday's taco giveaway stunt brought out a wave of free-food junkies. The truck, which parks at Harrison and 22nd St., was part of a multi-city prom ... More >>

Epic Indie Member-Swap Just Waiting to Happen

Take She & Him... Sam Jones​ And Matt & Kim... Franki Chan​ And make Zooey Deschanel Kim (Schifino) = She & Kim Matt (Johnson) M. Ward = Matt & Him I'm sure the musical results would be rather, um, confused.Follow us @SFAllShookDown.

She and Him offer a second volume of new oldies

Take She & Him... Sam Jones​ And Matt & Kim... Franki Chan​ And make Zooey Deschanel Kim (Schifino) = She & Kim Matt (Johnson) M. Ward = Matt & Him I'm sure the musical results would be rather, um, confused.Follow us @SFAllShookDown.

She & Him for Levi's Pioneer Sessions

There was an ad for the Levi's Go Forth campaign voiced over with a Walt Whitman poem from Leaves of Grass that I could not shake from my brain. It was brilliant marketing: subtle but targeted. Sticking with that pioneer branding, Levi's is doing a web series called the Pioneer Sessions, in which ... More >>

Working Out the Kinks

Is it crazy to try reuniting the legendary British band?

10 Signs the Band You Are About to See is Going to Suck

Fuckthatband.com​Sometimes at a show you have a feeling -- a hunch, a gut instinct, a fucking prejudice -- and the feeling is right. "This show is going to suck," you think, when some greasy waif takes the stage wearing rhinestone-studded shades and a turquoise-sequined cumberbund, then yanks a po ... More >>

Treasure Island Day 2: Belle & Sebastian and the National Turn Wet Misery into Rock-Out Joy

Christopher VictorioBroken Social Scene's Kevin Drew crowd-surfs at the end of his set.​Treasure Island Music Festival, Day TwoOctober 17, 2010Better than: Listening to '90s alt-rock on your Walkman during a damp walk to school.Well, it rained. But other than that wet little nod from Mother N ... More >>

FOX Gives Johannes Mehserle National Spotlight During Giants Game

Free who? ​Locals long ago wrote off the dueling "Free Johannes Mehslerle" and "Justice for Oscar Grant" boats in McCovey Cove as part of what makes San Francisco San Francisco. Yet national audiences watching today's Phillies-Giants contest in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series wer ... More >>

"Your Highness": D&D Nerds Get Their Own Stoner Comedy

Free who? ​Locals long ago wrote off the dueling "Free Johannes Mehslerle" and "Justice for Oscar Grant" boats in McCovey Cove as part of what makes San Francisco San Francisco. Yet national audiences watching today's Phillies-Giants contest in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series wer ... More >>

Tales of Strange Romance: Stories of Single Life in San Francisco

Free who? ​Locals long ago wrote off the dueling "Free Johannes Mehslerle" and "Justice for Oscar Grant" boats in McCovey Cove as part of what makes San Francisco San Francisco. Yet national audiences watching today's Phillies-Giants contest in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series wer ... More >>

Five More Ben Gibbard Benders

Ben Gibbard, now off the sauce.​For more than a decade, Ben Gibbard has been a wildly successful musician. He's fronted for Death Cab for Cutie, was one-half of the iconic indie-electro outfit The Postal Service, and, oh yeah, married Zooey Deschanel. But during all that, he harbored a dark secret ... More >>

Early Summer Movie Guide: What to See, When to See It

Ben Gibbard, now off the sauce.​For more than a decade, Ben Gibbard has been a wildly successful musician. He's fronted for Death Cab for Cutie, was one-half of the iconic indie-electro outfit The Postal Service, and, oh yeah, married Zooey Deschanel. But during all that, he harbored a dark secret ... More >>

Pairing

Ben Gibbard, now off the sauce.​For more than a decade, Ben Gibbard has been a wildly successful musician. He's fronted for Death Cab for Cutie, was one-half of the iconic indie-electro outfit The Postal Service, and, oh yeah, married Zooey Deschanel. But during all that, he harbored a dark secret ... More >>

"Our Idiot Brother": Predictable and Shallow Indie Ensemble Comedy

Ben Gibbard, now off the sauce.​For more than a decade, Ben Gibbard has been a wildly successful musician. He's fronted for Death Cab for Cutie, was one-half of the iconic indie-electro outfit The Postal Service, and, oh yeah, married Zooey Deschanel. But during all that, he harbored a dark secret ... More >>

Divorces Galore: Eight Musical Couples We Wish Were Still Together

Since Monday, media everywhere has been agog at the news that Kim Kardashian and her husband of just 72 days are getting divorced. If you ask us, that union was doomed from the get-go. Anyone who watches Keeping Up With The Kardashians knows that those two barely even knew each other (Not that we wa ... More >>