Tonight is another epic shindig at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (701 Mission at 3rd), celebrating the opening of R. Crumb’s Underground, a thematically-organized show of collaborative drawings (including work with his wife, Aline), self-portraits, and counter-cultural chronicles, including early and new work, plus rare film screenings of some of the blues, swing and "exotica" bands that inspired Crumb's Cheap Suit Serenaders. The soirée also celebrates the opening of The Black Factory by William......

We like to think of Liz Ross' music as sounding like an electric pillow. Her voice lulls you into sweet, poppy melancholy while her guitar sends a current through your spine, but we like how one of her other fans described her voice better: "as the feeling one gets when the sun finally rises after being up all night with horrible insomnia." Liz is a former member of Hannah, Lessick, Lines In Analog Sound, and......

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Make it an evening of art. Drop by Ross Mirkarimi's office at five and check out art by Mohammed Hourian while drinking some wine on Ross's dime. Then check out the long anticipated (at least here at SFist) release of Pet Noir: An Anthology of Strange But True Pet Crimes at Adobe Books starting at 7. For the bozos who weren't invited to Tim O'Reilly's FooCamp in Sebastopol, you're more than welcome to drop......

Photographer Rob Kunkle spent last week taking pictures of the acts at the Mission Creek Music Festival, which was held at multiple locations across The City last week. Pictured are The Gentlekin. Check out all the pics on Flickr. Events included readings, DJs and live acts. Events were held at spaces as diverse as Artist Television Access, Adobe Books, Cafe Du Nord, 12 Galaxies and the Edinburgh Castle. It was the ninth annual such......