SFist Tonight

Droll NPR commentator (who was previously fired for cursing) Sandra Tsing Loh brings her one-woman show, "Mother On Fire," to the Women's Building tonight! For a 9 night run!

The show's about her travails trying to find an appropriate school for her kindergarten age daughter in the California school system and ran for 7 months in LA. Here's the one-liner. "I looked at public schools, private schools, parochial schools -- even Baptist school. It turns out tuition-wise, Creationism is cheap." Yay! It's a benefit for Mission High and for the Women's Building, so tickets are $20 ($5 off per child if you have kids in the public schools, $10 for teachers). 8 p.m. at the Women's Building (3543 18th, btw Valencia and Guerrero).

Other events tonight:

--Clients of The Arc of San Francisco, an advocacy group for the developmentally disabled, are putting on an adapted production of Grease. 7 p.m., 1500 Howard Street (x 11th), suggested donation $5.

--The SF Symphony's performing the music from 2001: A Space Odyssey (Also Sprach Zarathustra -- interpreted by trombones, here). 8 p.m., Symphony Hall (Van Ness and Grove), $25-114.

--Punk rock knitting at Booksmith in the Haight. 7 p.m., 1644 Haight (x Cole), free.

--Hipster fave Ritual Roasters is hosting an art opening tonight for painter Rachel Major -- paintings of cakes and knives! 7-9 p.m.,1026 Valencia (between 21st and 22nd), and free (though you might as well get some coffee too while you're there.)

--Full-bodied contemporary dance from the peck peck dance ensemble at CounterPulse. $15-25, 8 p.m., 1310 Mission (x 9th).

--Arists' Television Access is screening Baccanale, a surrealistic 1970s porn with music rescored by 50 audio artists. Wicky-wicky-baugh-baugh! Part of the Mission Creek Film Fest. $6, 8 p.m., 992 Valencia (x 21st).