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

Finding your resolutions slipping away? No worries, the LINES Dance Center folks will kick your lazy butt into gear with their All You Can Dance For $5 event on Saturday afternoon from 1 to 5 pm. Whether you're a beginner — their invite cleverly states, "Absolute Beginners are Especially Welcome" — or intermediate, lean toward the classical or modern, they have you covered. more ›

DANCE: Smuin Ballet hosts a special LGBT Show Pre-Party prior to their annual Christmas Ballet in the upstairs theater lobby tonight, featuring complimentary appetizers, cocktails and entertainment. $5 of every ticket sold will be donated to a local LGBT charity. (6:30 to 9:30 p.m., Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 700 Howard Street) 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 ›

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 ›

MUSIC: Pianist/M.C./producer/band-director Kev Choice premieres excerpts from his new hip-hopera: The Chosen One in a special "The Art of Composition" performance, which will also feature other work Kev Choice has written over the years, along with some of his favorite cover titles. (8 p.m., Yoshi's Oakland, 510 Embarcadero West, Jack London Square, Oakland) more ›

HIP-HOP: Hip-hop collaborators Shwayze & Cisco Adler will be at the Independent in support of their new album, Island in the Sun, which is a "tribute to the life of deceptive leisure the pair is known for," featuring some tracks that stray from the traditional hip-hop setting. Also featuring guests Mod Sun and G-Eazy. (7:30 p.m., The Independent, 628 Divisadero Street) more ›

DANCE: The 13th Annual SF Hip Hop Dancefest concludes tonight with its Program B performances, featuring local, national, and international acts. (6 p.m., Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, 3301 Lyon Street) more ›

IMPROV: Tickets might still be available at the door for the opening of BATS Improv's 25th Anniversary Season, featuring a special presentation of the first Theatresports show, followed by a champagne and dessert reception with the cast, company, and BATS Community. (8 p.m., B350 Fort Mason Center, Buchanan and Marina) more ›

DANCE: It's your last night to catch French dancer, choreographer, writer and director Maïmouna Coulibaly's Shake That Sin, featuring seven female dancers exploring the seven capital vices: the lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride, each with a touch of humor. (6 p.m., Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th Street) more ›

FILM: Actress Patty McCormack will be live in-person at Marc Huestis' tribute and screening of The Bad Seed, starring McCormack as "one of the most evil child characters ever to grace the screen." The night includes the first ever "Miss Bad Seed" contest judged by Kathy Garver ("Cissy" from Family Affair), performances by favorite local entertainers, and "The Baddest, Seediest Brats of Hollywood" stage processional. (7:30 p.m., Castro Theater, 429 Castro Street) more ›

ART: The SFAC Gallery and PhotoAlliance present You Look Familiar, an exhibition that depicts groups of people who share activities, identities, locations or some form of common ground -- "[f]rom fashionistas to sports fans, and from mountain climbers to rockabilly swing dancers, how do we identify people who look familiar to each other?" (5:30 to 7:30 p.m., San Francisco City Hall, ground floor, San Francisco City Hall, ground floor) more ›

PERFORMANCE: YBCA presents New York-based performance troupe Big Art Group's The People: San Francisco, a site specific, outdoor extravaganza that combines live theater with large scale, real time video projection, focusing on the local community's thoughts about democracy, war, terrorism and justice. (8 p.m., Z Space, 450 Florida Street) more ›

MUSIC: SFJazz presents Carmen Souza, a Lisbon-born "jazz-tinged chanteuse" of Cape Verdean descent, who performs a seductive combination of traditional rhythms and songs with jazz and Brazilian influences. (7:30 p.m., Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, 3200 California Street) more ›

Rords of the Froor, a Seattle-based dance-battle event that requires all participants to do a shot before performing one-minute routines, came to Oakland for the first time on Sunday, at the New Parish. Oakland North was there. As were many an Oakland hipster, to be sure. Organizers say the alcohol is meant to loosen up people and get more to join in. Says one, "I don’t want to say alcohol is good so everybody go drink and poison yourselves, but the big thing is to get people to dance. And alcohol gets people to dance." more ›

MUSIC: Memphis singer-songwriter, upright bass player, and actress, Amy LaVere, brings her classic country, gypsy jazz, and southern soul-tinged Americana to Cafe Du Nord, along with guests, Emily Bonn & The Vivants. (8:30 p.m., Cafe Du Nord, 2170 Market Street) more ›

MUSIC: It's sure to be a pleasant evening in Berkeley tonight as Fleet Foxes and The Walkmen take over the Greek Theatre. Be sure to bring layers! (8 p.m., Greek Theatre, UC Berkeley, Gayley Road) more ›

THEATER: Head over to Berkeley's Ashby Theater for the delightful-sounding Toke, DeeDee Kirkwood's madcap play about "Weedee, the black sheep with the heart of gold…the Auntie Mame of marijuana…the woman with the courage to admit - and celebrate - what others have suppressed: 'Yes, I did inhale.'” (5 p.m., Ashby Stage, 1901 Ashby Avenue) more ›

MUSIC: Oakland-based Los Rakas, who hail from Panama, blend "hip-hop, reggae and dancehall music with Spanish and English lyricism creating songs that leaves your head noddin' and body rockin' for more, tag teaming the mic with a "tenacity reminiscent of Old School veterans in the hip-hop game, and the energy and passion of the newer artists on the scene." (8 p.m., The New Parish, 579 18th St, Oakland) more ›

THEATER: You have a little over a week left to catch The Custom Made Theatre Co's production of the Sedaris siblings' The Book of Liz, starring an under-appreciated cheeseball-making nun who encounters "Ukrainians with cockney accents, restaurants run by recovering alcoholics, a certain peanut, and her own self worth." (8 p.m., The Custom Made Theatre Co, 1620 Gough Street more ›

MUSIC: There are still tickets available to fight the power at Public Enemy's 25th Anniversary concert, featuring the return of Chuck D and Flavor Flav, at Regency Ballroom (via the dreaded Ticketmaster, of course). (9 p.m., The Regency Ballroom, 1300 Van Ness Avenue) more ›

READING: Bestselling author Christopher Moore and award-winning screenwriter and director Ian Corson will be at the Booksmith tonight presenting their new collaboration, The Griff: A Graphic Novel, which is about "an alien invasion of Earth and the motley crew of humans who save the world—sort of." (7:30 p.m., The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street) more ›

FILM: Mary Lou, which is screening tonight as part of the ongoing 31st Annual Jewish Film Festival, has been called Israel’s answer to Glee, featuring "infectious pop songs and high-energy choreography," "colorful plot twists, hearty doses of high school ennui and candid explorations of LGBT life in contemporary Israel." Check out the below film clip. (8:30 p.m., Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street) more ›

MUSIC: Yes, you read the headline correctly -- the infamous 2 Live Crew will be performing an exclusive live show at the big Moustache Bash, along with Cosmo Baker, Hottub, and a huge line-up of DJs. Be sure to sport a mustache, real or fake, for a reduced admission. (10 p.m. to 4 a.m., 103 Harriot, 103 Harriot Street) more ›

Tonight, queer women of color grace the screen with sizzling performances, young professionals get their own shindig preceding the new production of one of Shakespeare's oldest plays (old professionals can still see the play), and choreographers Janice Garrett and Charles Moulton defy gravity in their new production. more ›

Tonight, laugh yourself silly at Cobb's while enjoying your two-beverage minimum, attend a one-of-a-kind performance that's "part dance, part video, and part radical social experiment" at Z Space, or check out some funky fashion while gyrating to some live dance-rock and electronica at the First Unitarian Universalist Church. more ›

Carnaval Festival & Grand Parade: Danny Glover is the grand marshal of the 33rd Annual Carnaval Parade. Accompanying him at the helm will be Giants’ mascot Lou Seal and the 2010 World Series trophy. Check out the festival all day on Saturday and Sunday, and the parade starts on Sunday morning at 9:30 a.m. more ›

BENEFIT: Donna Sachet hosts White Diamonds -- Memorial for Elizabeth Taylor, which kicks off at the Castro Theatre with a screening of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, a champagne toast, and a silent auction, followed by a fundraiser at Lookout Bar for the Aids Life Cycle. RSVP on Facebook. Additionally, tonight is the first of five nights of Elizabeth Taylor double features at the Castro to benefit Project Inform. (7 to 11:30 p.m., Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street // Lookout Bar, 3600 16th Street) more ›