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MUSIC: Obscure Canadian metal band Anvil, whose comeback warmed the hearts of America (and Japan), in Anvil! The Story of Anvil!, will be turning it up to 11 at the Fillmore tonight. more ›

We, the chosen ones, remember bar & bat mitzvah season clearly. There would be this six-month period where fat, shiny envelopes arrived in your mailbox by the pound, inviting you to share in the newfound adulthood of someone who probably ignored you in Hebrew School. So, you'd sack up, buy them a neon bubble chair, don your most impressive mini-skirt and dance all afternoon with the hired backup dancers while "Cotton Eyed Joe" blared in the background... more ›

DANCE: Returning for six encore performances after a sold out run in April 2009, The Illustrated Book of Invisible Stories. Presented by Janice Garrett and Charles Moulton... more ›

by Amy Crocker THEATER: Celebrating the New Year, the international troupe Shen Yun performs classical Chinese dance at the War Memorial Opera House. Evolved over five thousand years, classical Chinese dance includes both graceful twirls and acrobatic leaps. Fun stuff, folks. 7:30 p.m. // San Francisco War Memorial Opera House // $40 - $160 more ›

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DANCE: It's the last night of the 11th Annual Hip Hop Dance Fest, which has was the first event of its kind and has played host to dance companies throughout the world. The festival offers professional Hip Hop dance companies a high level of production, exposure, and acknowledgment, nurtures emerging artists, and contributes to the evolution of both Hip Hop and dance. more ›

ART: Women's Art Movement (W.A.M.) explores the scary and sweet sides of pop-surrealism in their latest group show, Dollhouse Monsters invade Polk Gulch. The participating artists of W.A.M. will be disguised in pre-Halloween costumes for the festivities, and encourage attendees to dress in costume as well. Everyone who stops by the gallery will be entered in a costume contest to win an iPod. The exhibition runs through November 7. more ›

DANCE: The all-female Chitresh Das Dance Company presents the world premiere of Sita Haran, a dramatic staging of one of the most popular stories from India's great text, "The Râmâyana," told in the Kathak style of dynamic movement, drama, rhythm, and music. There will be a pre-show discussion and an after-show reception. more ›

MUSIC: It's a night of geographically diverse rock at Cafe Du Nord, featuring Australia's The Drones (dark/bluesy/psychedelic), Los Angeles' Model/Actress (noisy/high-energy indie rock), and SF's The Spyrals (ethereal/shoegaze/Brit-popesque). The Duke of Windsor will spin tunes between sets. more ›

DANCE: Come learn the polka at the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival's open-air dance party at Jessie Square with Big Lou’s Polka Casserole, who are devoted to reminding audiences that polka was once rock 'n roll for Eastern European immigrants and their descendants. more ›

FILM: It's $3 Movie Night, featuring A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil, an inspirational documentary about environmental innovations that transformed Curitiba, Brazil, into one of the most livable cities in the world, and The Story of Stuff, which examines the underside of our production and consumption patterns and compels us to create a more sustainable world. more ›

It's been a busy day for the Nā Lei Hulu I Ka Wēkiu Dancers, who started their Hit and Run Hula at Pier 39 this morning, bused over to the Ferry Building, made their way to the stage at Union Square, stopped at the Apple Store, the Cable Car Turnaround, were kicked out of the Westfield Mall food court by security (figures), and quickly ambushed the BART station instead. They spent this afternoon at Dolores Park, the Castro, Academy of Sciences, and should be on their way to Ocean Beach for a picnic right about now. more ›

Wow, there's a lot of day-time events happening this weekend. We are fried from putting this all together. Time to get outside! more ›

PERFORMANCE: Joe Goode Performance Group presents Traveling Light, an installation combining dance, language, irony and reflection, which will take the audience on a journey through the vaults and chambers of the oldest stone building in San Francisco. Production and lighting design by Jack Carpenter, and music and sonic landscape by Jay Cloidt. more ›

ART: San Francisco artist Brian Barneclo, whose colorful, retro-esque murals adorn high-profile locales, such as the SF Bay Guardian building, Kilowatt, and NoPa, will be showing his new body of paintings at the District wine bar now through October. They're all for sale, so get there soon to nab one.... more ›

It's another weekend with lots of fun daytime events. Here are a few big ones. Bonus: all of them are free! ALL WEEKEND Renegade Craft Fair Over 200 DIY artists from across the country and abroad will be selling their handmade goods at this second annual event. From clothing and accessories, to stationary and concert posters, with everything from bath products and ceramics in between. Fort Mason, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., free. more ›

ART: Tonight is the start of The Crucible's 9th Annual Fire Arts Festival, an open-air exhibition of interactive fire art, performance and the largest collection of outdoor fire sculpture on the West Coast, which benefits The Crucible’s arts education programs for youth and adults. The fest is at a new venue this year, which is three times larger, and will give attendees much more "bang" for their buck. The festival runs through Saturday, and there will be a free shuttle running between the West Oakland Bart station and the Fire Arts Arena. more ›

For 13 years strong, people have gathered in Golden Gate Park on Sundays to do the Lindy Hop. That is, until two weeks ago when SFPD officers stopped the jazz-swing fun. Why? Well, it seems that these brazen dance kids didn't have a permit for this street-type swing dancing. So, the fuzz gave "people 20 minutes to break down their speakers," forcing some 200 people to beat it. Fortunately, after many, many, many angry people complained by sending letters to City Hall, they were given a permit and the Lindy Hop dances again. (CBS 5 has a full report.) The Lindy happens every Sunday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the south sidewalk area of JFK Drive, between 8th and 10th Avenue. more ›

FILM: This week's feature at Bad Movie Night is Rocky IV. Filmed at the height of the cold war, the statuesque Ivan Drago uses the highest technology to train for the fight of the century against Rocky, who meanwhile runs in the cold Russian snow with an oxbow. Guess who wins? more ›

DANCE: As part of the International Queer Tango Festival going on all weekend, the documentary Tango with a Twist interweaves stories about a group of amateur dancers -- gay, straight and "fluid," who embark on a journey of discovery to the birthplace of tango, Buenos Aires, Argentina, under the protective wing of their Sydney tango teacher, Anne-Maree Therkleson. Then there will be a dinner show at Peña Pachamama, featuring performances by Christy Cote and Darren Lees, Count Glover and Chelsea Eng, plus Christy dancing with Chelsea, with live music by Odile Lavault, bandoneon, and Marco Casasola, piano. more ›

ART: Tyson Ayers, a Bay Area music composer, instrument builder, and multimedia installation and performance artist, presents the Sound Cave, a small room built out of piano parts. When someone crawls inside, the strings on the walls capture any sounds the person creates and echoes them back for long periods of time. "Each sound board is tuned according to various scientific and sound healing principles with the intention of positively affecting a participant's mind, body, and spirit." more ›

DANCE: Get a free beginner salsa lesson at Salsa in the Square, a salsa music and dance festival happening every third Wednesday through October. Immediately following the lesson, test your skill to the live sounds of Anthony Blea y su Charanga. more ›

MUSIC: Master trumpet player Herb Alpert, of the delightfully cheesy Sergio Mendes and Tijuana Brass fame, and his wife, singer Lani Hall will perform an intimate night of American and Brazilian jazz featuring Bill Cantos (piano), Michael Shapiro (drums), and Hussain Jiffrey (bass). more ›

Before growing into the acclaimed DJ and electronic music producer that he is today, Tiga got his first exposure to music touring the Goa region of India with his DJ father in the 80s. Now based in Montreal, he's now released four albums, including 2001's acclaimed Mixed Emotions, and the popular 2006 disc Sexor. He has a new album, Ciao, which bridges the gap between IDM (intelligent dance music) and more heady, heavy electronica (hear some here). more ›

FILM: There's still a few remaining nights of film noir at I Wake Up Dreaming. Tonight's double feature is Women in the Night (8 p.m.), "one of the rarest of 40s B noirs, which tells the grim story of women captured by the Nazis and forced to serve as “hostesses” at the Shanghai Officer’s Club," and Under Age (6:45 and 9 p.m.), "an astonishingly frank B oddity about young wayward girls who are lured into the dangerous world of prostitution by sinister pimps and racketeers." more ›

FILM: In celebration of Harvey Milk's birthday this past Friday, the Castro is screening both Rob Epstein’s Academy Award-winning 1984 documentary, The Times of Harvey Milk and Gus Van Zant's feature film Milk back-to-back through Thursday. more ›

DANCE: Liz Roman and Dancers, who were recently featured in SFist's Photo Du Jour, present their newest building romp At Play. Roman and her dancers/collaborators will move audiences through the halls, stairwells, fire-escapes and doorways of Dance Mission Theater for a site-specific exploration of the venue. (There are also three more showings next weekend, May 22-24.) more ›

Reminiscent of Donna McKechnie's "Tick Tock" number from Stephen Sondheim's Company -- which featured McKechnie power dancing on moving elevators within a 1970s metropolitan landscape of marriage, love, sex, song, and Stritch -- ThinkSketchDesign came across this scene yesterday in Osage Alley. Apparently, "a small crowd gathered to watch dancers practicing a routine on twin fire escapes. Music was playing from somewhere as they danced in and out of their doors, up and down the fire escape stairs and ladders." more ›

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