Tonight, there's music, Vivienne Westwood clothes, and film, for ten smackers? Or free if you are a museum member. Oh-la-la! Party with Viv (her work, she will be there in spirit only) at the de Young's exhibition spanning 36 years of her fashions. At 7 p.m., the film South Bank Show will screen. Corset lovers can admire and even try on some get ups created by Art Institute of SF students. de Young Museum,......

Sid Luscious and the Pants play at 11 p.m. at Kimo's on Polk Street, which is dangerously (is it just us?) close to Bob's Donuts, one of SF's best. Get all maximum new wave, like OMG! 1351 Polk Street, SF. Telephone: 415-885-4535, Catch Hal Sparks of E's Talk Soup and Queer As Folk at Cobb's. He has also rocked the VH1 "I Love the 70's, 80's and 90's" shows, 'member? We find him to......

Where better than San Francisco institution Tosca for friend of SFist Harmon Leon, "poet and performer" Bucky Sinister, and one of our favorite local independent bookstores Green Apple Books to come together in one perfect night of literary misbehavior? That's right, Wednedsay at 7:30 it's Green Apple Books at Tosca (242 Columbus Avenue, as if you didn't know), with Harmon and Bucky celebrating the publication of Leon's book Republican Like Me: Infiltrating Red-State, White-Ass,......

Folks -- we want to encourage you to keep the questions coming. The best ones for us to answer are those with specific details. If questions don't hav enough detail, we are forced to simply snark (see question #1); if they are too open-ended, you'll see us blather on and on and on and on (see question #2)....

A weekly hop, skip and jump that turns into a stutter, stammer and fall, from barrespondent Drew. One of the more obvious criteria for a good dive bar is that it can't be stuck right in the middle of a tourist area. No one wants to be drowning their sorrows at one in the afternoon and suddenly be hassled by a family of four from Lincoln wanting to know if you can show them where......