See how sad the man is? Help him find his way back home. The two pieces at right by Barry McGee and Clare Rojas were stolen from the RVCA gallery last week. (We hear this isn't the first time McGee's art has been stolen -- lame!) The two pieces are from permanent/private collections, and anyone with information is asked to call the RVCA staff at (415) 701-7822 or email art@unaesthetic.net. No questions will be asked,......

Tonight at The Lab, audience-interactive EnviroSonic kicks off season three of the critically acclaimed Soundwave>Series, a two-month long exploration of sonic art. Homeland Security put a little wrinkle in tonight's event by not letting Canadian artists Sam McKinlay and Christian Nicolay into the country. Therefore, their stellar installation of movement-triggered sound environments created by a live-amplified skateboard railing will be screened live at the event from Canada. The rest of the show will consist of......

What with all of the media attention this summertime concert has received as of late, you would assume Miley Cyrus (the Madeleine Elster/Judy Barton narrative of our time) was booked to "sing" at Golden Gate Park. Alas, she is not. Your consolation prize? Radiohead, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, and Jack Johnson are lined up for the debut of the Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival, happening August 22-24. Ticket prices, activities, other performers,......

Rainbow Skate: As if rollerskating couldn't get any gayer, Redwood Roller Rink has made Wednesday nights exclusive queer. So tonight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and even a smattering of straight folks come together to whirl around the rink. Starts at 8 p.m.; $7 covers both admission and skate rental.Benefit for the Metropolitan Arts and Technology's Drama Program: Help the kids won't you? Metropolitan High -- you know, that large school on Treat Street, targeting......

We will get to hear the microphone between the tits! Anna Netrebko, who kicked off her career in the US here in '96 (in Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila) will be back in La Traviata, the SF Opera announced today when unveiling their 2008-09 season. You'll want to see other, um, microphones too, as the darn sexy Angela Gheorghiu, who we were so smitten with in La Rondine, comes back for more Puccini with La Boheme. It's the 150th anniversary of the birth of Puccini this year, so you get two operas by him, Tosca being the other one. That's a bit lame, we say, since you typically get two operas by Puccini in any season. Say, La Rondine and Madama Butterfly, for instance. A true anniversary celebration would be to have all operas by Puccini, or even better, eleven different productions of Butterfly. That would rock....

Class and Power in Queer San Francisco: Come hear poets Meliza Bañales and Solidad de Costa, circus performer Keith Hennessy, and writer Michelle Tea push forth the homosexual agenda. Mwa ha ha. They will also touch upon the "schisms between different classes" among the queer community. That is to say, being poor and gay, like, really sucks. Starts at 7:30 p.m. at CounterPULSE; free. Secret Sunshine (2007): South Korea's official Oscar entry is a......

Oh, those nifty New Yorkers; it's all about them. As usual. Why? Because David Gockley, General Director of the SF Opera, announced that the company will start producing HD broadcasts of performances for theaters all across the states. Lovely, right? But the NYT then turns it into some kind of pissing contest because they did it first. Hrumph. Dude, why can't we all just get along. It's not like people in Chico are saturated with......

SFist interviews Kenneth Ryan, Prop Master of the San Francisco Ballet...

New York Times, in their weekly Critic's Choice: New CDs column, introduced us to four different musicians we have never heard of: Lupe Fiasco, Jaheim, Birdman and Steve Lehman. We think that it has nothing to do with the "critic's choice", but rather there is nothing significant to write about this week - seems like a repeat of last week. We're patiently waiting for the January releases of: Radiohead (the actual CD), Kate Nash, Sia,......

-- The 2007 'Stache Bash: The regular world now knows what bears have known for a long time: mustaches are kinda cool. This even will show you just how cool they, in fact, are. Burlesque troupe Kitty Kitty Bang Bang and DJ Ross Hogg's hip hop, dancehall, roots reggae, and dub sounds intertwine with a night of 'stache championing. Tonight's bash will feature a mustache pageant, a beer foam retention test, a mustache haiku......

Oh, wait, that's parol, not parole. Apparently a parol is some kind of Xmas ornament. Cute. Well, anyway, as far as we can make out, there's going to be some ornament-making arts and crafts, and then a SOMA procession honoring them on Saturday. That doesn't sound too objectionable. Also: a football game, or whatever sport the 49ers are. Full details after the jump.......

San Francisco's musical offerings were bountiful Wednesday night ranging from Film School to Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings to The Thermals. It seems, though, that most of you made the correct choice: Vampire Weekend. Now we don't doubt that the other shows weren't amazing -- we were pretty miffed that there were so many choices on one night -- but clearly if you are anybody then you were wearing a blue pin-striped shirt, dark......

By Dianne de Guzman Although it took awhile, we've finally recovered from the Yelp holiday extravaganza at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. As to be expected Yelpers know how to throw a party! There was an open bar, plenty of food to go around and lots of dancers, hula hoopers (hula hoopists?) and girls running around in Yelp underwear. More pictures after the jump.......

While the pairing seems unlikely (despite San Francisco being the "Paris of the West"), the Legion of Honor has received the, uh, honor of hosting the Marie-Antoinette exhibit. The show specifically focuses on Petit Trianon—Marie-Antoinette's personal retreat in Versailles—as well as the life and times of the lady herself. Paintings, furniture and anything else not bolted down in her house have been flown over here for display while the "cottage" (ahem) is being renovated.......

-- Aimee Mann's Second Annual Christmas Show: Paul F. Tompkins, Sean Hayes, Chuck Prophet, and Morgan Murphy join the delightfully blond songstress for a night of holiday warm fuzzies. Because X-Mas is coming and there's no way around it, come catch this wonderful singer/songwriter during the, um, recording-a-holiday-album period of her career. Show starts at 8 p.m. at Bimbo's 365; $35.50. -- Margot at the Wedding: Fantastic movie. Just great. And whatever. It totally......

The cold weather - and holiday festivities - descended upon Gothamist. The Rockefeller Christmas tree was lit, Broadway stagehand finally ended their strike, and NASCAR decided to run their victory lap through Times Square. There were disturbing photographs revealing the working conditions in which many city manholes are produced and ninjas were also a hot topic, either robbing homes or entering into alibis. But the city was really rocked by how Rudy Giuliani's visits......

-- Girl fight! [KGO] -- Barney's -- like its irritating X-Mas holiday window display this year -- is full of green, self-righteous crap. [Curbed SF] -- Mark Zuckerberg might be the next Bill Gates, but he's not nearly as dreamy as early Microsoft-era Bill Gates. Then again, who is? [ValleyWag] -- Star of India fire kills two. [SFoodie] -- Roundtable Q&A with Lust, Caution (Se, jie) director Ang Lee and star Wei Tang. [Pixel......

-- The Life of Reilly: He starred in Hello, Dolly, won a Tony and an Emmy, a Broadway director, and had one hell of a mother, but Charles Nelson Rilley will always be remembered for his Match Game PM innuendos and Brett Sommers trashing. His one-man show was filmed (thank God) for posterity just before he died, and you have the privilege of seeing a star of such magnitude tonight at 7:30 p.m. and......

The new Maltese Falcon at John's Grill is less "pigeony" (Image: The Colbert Report). Applause to John's Grill owner John Konstin, who decided to put some money into the arts. When the Maltese Falcon replica displayed in the restaurant was stolen earlier this year, Mr. Konstin offered a $25,000 reward for its return. The heartless culprits were never found, however, and Mr. Konstin decided against buying an inexpensive replica or "fake," as the momentarily-panicked......

-- The Shining (1980): "Honey, I'm home," "Here's Johnny!" etcetera, etcetera, Kubrick, and so forth. (No one wields a baseball bat like Shelley Duvall. So awkward. Also, what ever happened to her?) Screens at midnight (okay, 11:55 p.m.) at the Clay. -- Heat: The Endup gets Warholian on you with a club night dedicated to Andrew's Factory and all the wonderful superstars, nuts, and sex symbols it produced. DJ Donimo and DJ6 pump out......

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. Go Eight, a Hanukkah party on December 8th at The Independent. Truly CA, stories about California on KQED. Junkestra, a symphony played on junk and opening today! The California Wellness Foundation, presenting the winners of its 2007 California Peace Prize. Sony Card, because you'll get a free MP3 player if you apply. SF Dish, where AMEX cardmembers can dish about restaurants.......

If you're a fan of "Project Runway" you probably know that season four premieres tonight on Bravo at 10 p.m. (And if you're not a fan, what is wrong with you!) We'd be watching not matter what, but we are doubly excited about this season because there are two--TWO!--designers from San Francisco competing this time around. First off is Chris March who once worked on "Beach Blanket Babylon" as their "wig master," and now works......

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. Go Eight, a Hanukkah party on December 8th at The Independent. Truly CA, stories about California on KQED. Junkestra, a symphony played on junk and opening next Friday. SF Dish, where AMEX cardmembers can dish about restaurants. Wristcutters, which is in theaters now. Stylized Sculpture, at the Asian Art Museum. Busted Tees, where they've thrown their weight behind Hillary in '08.......

Tonight, for one night only, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will be featuring two sneak previews of Dirty Country, a highly entertaining documentary about the underground world of raunchy music, directed by Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher, founders and hosts of the Found Footage Festival, which sold out four shows at the Red Vic last month. Dirty Country, which won the Audience Award at this year's South By Southwest, is part of Yerba......

No not Plushies, you perv. Softies. Who doesn't like watching cute handmade creatures come to life? Created by Andrew Moran and yours truly. Happy Friday.......

By Frances Reade Eugene Robinson has been the leader of S.F.'s most dangerous art-rock band Oxbow since 1989. We don’t mean Oxbow is "dangerous" as in "Tipper-Gore-no-likey." We mean "dangerous" like “Eugene is known to lurch into the crowd mid-set and strangle irritating audience members into unconsciousness." "Dangerous" as in "the man strips down and brandishes his pee-pee in a threatening manner onstage." "Dangerous” as in… "awesome." Besides slinging 18 years of sweet, sludgy......

We were phoning Marielle Labeque, one half of the Labeque sisters piano duo virtuosos, and being our French selves. We said: “We can talk in French, if you are not afraid…” Right away she interrupted: “No, I am not afraid.” We meant: “if you’re not afraid we’ll screw up the translation” but the attitude was fitting: there’s a definitive fearlessness in the Labeque sisters. We can see it from the engaged way they perform, from......

We've always been warm for One Rincon Hill's late-modernist form. For some reason, though, we failed to realize this darling accent of omission, located at the tip on the building's west side, is intentional. What fun! See, we have been wondering just when they planned on sticking in the last panel at the top, because it's been like this for weeks. But after visiting their (annoying, Flash-based) site to see who we could call......

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-- Salute Day of the Dead: Before tomorrow's Dia de los Muertos celebration and march, be sure to check out this pre-party featuring music from Steve Taylor-Ramírez, Theresa Perez, and Drew Harrison. Begins tonight at 9:30 p.m. at RetoxSF; $7. -- Poor White Trash II (AKA Scum of the Earth -- 1974): This Southern Gothic drama is also described as a "claustrophobic sweaty tale of a lost woman trapped by an incestuous, murderous backwoods......