FOOD: The delectable Mission Minis celebrates its second anniversary by giving away their signature cupcakes along with "libations gratis" while supplies last. The event will also feature mobile food vendors including Brass Knuckle, We Sushi, Mama's Empanadas and Clairesquares. (6 p.m. to Midnight, Mission Minis, 3168 22nd Street) more ›

PHOTOGRAPHY: Tonight's installment of the popular 200 Yards is centered around Satellite 66, in which photographers showcase the shots they captured within — you guessed it — 200 yards of the gallery. (6 to 9 p.m., Satellite 66, 66 6th Street) more ›

MUSIC/FILM: SF IndieFest kicks off tonight with a Spinal Tap Tribute and Opening Night Party, featuring Live Evil performing as Spinal Tap, along with Motley Crue tribute band, Wildside, and hard rock hits cover band, Godz of Rock. (8 p.m., Sub-Mission, 2183 Mission Street) more ›

The Haight-Ashbury Museum of Psychedelic Art and History, a proposed museum that would focus on psychedelic art and Haight-Ashbury during the psychedelia movement of '60s. Supporters are trying to raise funds via IndieGoGo. Here's what it's all about: more ›

A wayward teenaged Jesus heads East, lovelorn bike enthusiasts pair up, and an award-winning quarterly magazine showcases the best work by world-renowned photojournalists. more ›

Yellow Bike Project wants your spare parts and donations, artists explore the concept of "Made in America," and Go Van Gogh play their multi-cultural country music. more ›

MUSIC: A transcendental evening will be had tonight and tomorrow night at Great American Music Hall, as the infectiously (pun intended) charming and poppy with Cambodian pop band Dengue Fever shares the bill with Secret Chiefs 3, an instrumental rock group led by guitarist/composer Trey Spruance (formerly of Mr. Bungle and Faith No More). (7:30 p.m., Great American Music Hall, 859 O'Farrell Street) more ›

San Francisco announced the 20 recipients of the upcoming Rainbow Honor Walk installation — think Hollywood Walk of Fame, only vastly more important — last year. The installation wil stretch from the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy on 19th Street at Diamond down to Castro, continuing up to Market and along 18th Street and over near the LGBT Center at Octavia Boulevard. But they need someone to create a superb design to compliment the honor and people it commemorate. Might that someone be you? more ›

When Facebook stock publicly trades later this year, scads of people will turn into billionaires and millionaires seemingly overnight. One person who stands to gain an estimated $200 million is graffiti artist David Choe, who, in lieu of payment, was given shares of Facebook after his work adorned the walls at the first Facebook headquarters back in 2005. According to Fast Company, "In 2005 Sean Parker commissioned Choe to paint more provocative art, in the form of graphic sexually-themed murals on the walls of Facebook's early Silicon Valley HQ, and in 2008 Mark Zuckerberg asked him to paint more restrained ones on the new HQ's walls." more ›

SF Sketchfest presents Comedy Noir's The XXX Factor: The Ultimate Dirty Joke Competition told via the troupe's trademark "Mockulebrity/ Impersonafacations," followed by... more ›

Kelly Carlin pays tribute to her legendary dad, Mary Lincoln gets some long-overdue recognition, and S.F. State students honor sticker art. more ›

In a shocking orange-rind twist of unadulterated hate, last night's media preview at Macworld iWorld Expo proved a harrowing experience for your gingified SFist editor. Specifically, this piece of art showcasing a horde of redheads—zombie readheads, mind you—chasing a group of frightened non-reds. And if there's one unfair stereotype that the reds press upon the regulars to stop believing, it's this: We are neither flesh-eating nor undead. more ›

MUSIC: It's a night of classic '80s new wave at Mezzanine, featuring Tom Tom Club, which was formed by Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth (of Talking Heads fame) and The Fixx, whose most memorable hit was “One Thing Leads To Another”. (8 p.m., Mezzanine, 444 Jessie Street) more ›

Geishas abound at 941 Geary, Muni fans tell their stories at the Elbo Room, and jazz icons take over the silver screen at JCCSF. more ›

Local bands raise funds to keep girls rockin' in the Bay Area, artists create treasures from trash, and Edwardian enthusiasts celebrate the late, great Edward Gorey. more ›

Prince Paul and his son PForreal talk about "the kind of senseless violence that is so senseless that it's funny", local bands play their favorite covers, and artists explore humankind's love affair with computers. more ›

Devo takes over the Fillmore tonight and tomorrow night in support of their new album, Something for Everybody, which Rolling Stone describes as "wall-to-wall catchy." more ›

FILM: Weekend, Jean-Luc Godard's scathing late-sixties satire that's considered "one of cinema's great anarchic works," features a petit-bourgeois couple who travel across the French countryside to collect an inheritance from a dying relative "while civilization crashes and burns around them." (7 and 9:15 p.m., Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street) more ›

Tonight: Robots take over Gallery 1044, Fishbone performs live and on-screen at the Roxie, and Talib Kweli and Res take the stage with their band Idle Warship at Yoshi's. more ›

Celebrate your successful immersion back into regular post-holiday life with a delightful Pop-Up Lunch Break at SFMOMA (151 Third Street) today. For two hours (11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.), the museum will be transformed into a neighborhood lunch break room, highlighting the final weeks of the Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break exhibition, which contemplates workers' activities during their lunch breaks through film, photography, and writing. more ›

One-of-a-kind gifts at Project One Gallery, Holiday Lights Bike Ride through town and a potluck at a secret locale, and The Mother Hips, Kelley Stoltz, and Acacia at Great American. more ›

All of tonight's events make us wish we were home in San Francisco right now (instead of staying with family in the Midwestern suburbs for Christmas). So, if you go to any of these events, tell us how they were, either in the comments or via email. more ›

In The Jewish Nutcracker, A Maccabee Celebration, Katy Alaniz Rous and World Dance Fusion re-imagines the original Tchaikovsky score as traditional cultural dance, blending dance forms such as Flamenco, Chinese, Persian... more ›

MUSIC: Bay Area Girls Rock Camp presents a showcase featuring four teen bands that were formed during the camp's new Advanced Music Program (AMP), which launched in September, followed by performances by Erase Errata and Grass Widow. Proceeds will support Bay Area Girls Rock Camp. (5 p.m., Gilman Street 924 Gilman, Berkeley) more ›

DANCE: Tickets are still available to tonight's Dance-Along Nutcracker adult gala, featuring Clara's psychedelic '60s-esque journey through the dawning of the Age of Aquarius. The San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band will perform music from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite as the audience "leaps and pirouettes across the dance floor." (7 p.m., Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street) more ›

ART: Punk art surrealist Winston Smith presents his one-night only Annual Stu­dio Show, featuring new and clas­sic orig­i­nals for sale. Check out his gallery. There's some pretty rad stuff in there. (7 to 11 p.m., Grant's Tomb Gallery, 50A Bannam Street) more ›

ART: The Ever Gold Gallery presents Beats by the Bay: SF Artists & Galleries of the Fifties, featuring work by the less publicized Beat visual artists, including artist/writer/educator Fred Martin, gallery ephemera from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Library artist files, vintage photographs by Jerry Burchard, as well as Beat era posters, photographs, publications, mail art and paintings from noted area galleries, private dealers and collectors. (8 to 10 p.m., The Ever Gold Gallery, 441 O'Farrell Street) more ›