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 ›

MUSIC: Tonight's installment of the monthly Communion club, which originated in the U.K. and was founded by Mumford & Sons' Ben Lovett, features a stellar line-up, including The Entrance Band, Tim Cohen, Hot Lunch, Matt Baldwin, and Ready Steady. (7:30 p.m., Cafe Du Nord, 2170 Market) more ›

Super Bowl, Schmuper Bowl, here's some other stuff that's going on — 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' at the Castro, experimental surf/garage rock at the Hemlock, and a solo theater performance at Stage Werx. more ›

As you'd expect, there are lots of Super Bowl festivities happening on Sunday. We've highlighted a couple, along with a few other non-sports items. Enjoy! more ›

See Paris through rose-colored glasses, learn about why Hitler jokes were prevalent even in Nazi Germany, and hear some skilled storytellers tell randomly themed tales without any scripts or notes. more ›

FILM: Harry Belafonte biopic, Sing Your Song, which is an Academy Award Best Documentary Shortlist Contender, takes the viewer on a journey through the life and work of "one of the truly heroic and political figures of the past 60 years," from Harlem to Mississippi to Africa and south Central Los Angeles. (6:45 and 8:45 p.m., Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street) more ›

Avengers play Bottom of the Hill, a former Blair Witch star dishes about the marijuana industry at the Booksmith, and video artists from eight different international cities showcase their work at YBCA. more ›

Ann Magnuson embarks on an end-of-the-world tour, humor takes over the Noir City Film Festival, and leave a book, take a book at Books Inc. Opera Plaza. more ›

FILM: Tonight's Cinema Drafthouse feature is Cameron Crowe's Pearl Jam 20, which marked the band's 20th anniversary last year. (7:30 p.m., The Independent, 628 Divisadero Street) more ›

COMEDY: There are still tickets available for SF Sketchfest's opening night presentation of RiffTrax Presents Night of the Shorts III: The Search for Schlock, featuring hosts Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett and guest riffers David Cross, Bruce McCulloch, Paul F. Tompkins, Cole Stratton, Janet Varney. (8 p.m., Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street) more ›

FILM: The "fascinating and even-handed documentary," Cleanflix, explores the world of the backroom entrepreneurs in Utah who clean-up racy Hollywood films to suit the puritanical Mormon community, resulting in "twists, turns and a sex scandal that surely would disqualify it from rental shelves around Salt Lake City." (7pm and 9p.m., Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street) more ›

ANIMATION: The S.F. Film Society presents the return of The Best of Annecy, showcasing a dynamic and entertaining array of shorts that appeared in Europe's Annecy International Animated Film Festival this year. (5, 7 and 9 p.m., SF Film Society Cinema, 1746 Post Street) 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 ›

Tonight, meet some cutting edge female authors at Not Your Mother's Book Club, watch iconic soul and jazz artists from the '60s and '70s on the big-screen at Oddball Films, or experience the soulful sounds of female Bay Area artists live and on-stage at Yoshi's Oakland. more ›

MUSIC: Toshio Hirano, San Francisco's beloved Japanese cowboy, yodels his way through his monthly honkytonk set featuring, as SFGate notes, "faithful, respectful renditions of heartbreaking country tunes," as part of Amnesia's Monday Night Bluegrass event. Be sure to check out Waiting for a Train, the award-winning short documentary about Hirano. (9 p.m., Amnesia, 853 Valencia Street) more ›

It's an old-timey theme here at SFist Tonight. See a Buster Keaton classic in Berkeley, hear some gritty blues at Cafe Du Nord, or experience spellbinding theater at the Old Mint. 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 ›

FILM: In conjunction with Sharon Lockhart's Lunch Break exhibition, SFMOMA presents two film programs this week and next. Tonight's screening features Pine Flat, which explores the interactions of children with their local surroundings in the Sierra Foothills. (7 p.m., SFMOMA, Phyllis Wattis Theater, 151 Third Street) more ›

FILM: The Castro presents a screening of Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, which is centered around a rare interview that director and friend Tamra Davis shot with Basquiat over twenty years ago, chronicling the meteoric rise and fall of the artist, as part of a double-feature screening with Bill Cunningham, New York. (5 and 8:05 p.m., Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street) more ›

FILM: The filmmakers of the documentary 4th & Goal will be at the Roxie tonight talking about their journey following six young men in their quest to join the NFL, beginning at the famed junior college football program at S.F. City College and ending with their entry into the professional world. (7 and 9 p.m., Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street) more ›

FILM: The delightful documentary, Bill Cunningham, New York, makes a brief stint at the S.F. Film Society, which explores the life of elusive 80-year-old New York Times Style photographer and unlikely man-about-town. (6:30 p.m., SF Film Society Cinema, 1746 Post Street) more ›

MUSIC: It's the last night to catch Maceo Parker, who's described as "the living, breathing pulse which connects the history of Funk in one golden thread" at Yoshi's tonight. (7 and 9 p.m., Yoshi's San Francisco, 1330 Fillmore Street) more ›

MUSIC: Legendary '80s-era LA punk band, X, bring their annual Xmas Rock n Roll Revival show to Slim's for two nights, featuring the four original X band members along with gospel duo, Sean Wheeler and Zander Schloss, and The Black Tibetans. (8 p.m., Slim's, 333 11th Street) more ›

FILM I: In the documentary Children of the Cockettes, filmmaker Mister WA explores the "free-spirited and non-conformist performance torches" carried by the likes of Thrillpeddlers, Trannyshack, and Peaches Christ and investigates the current resurgence of glam gender performances and "theatre of the ridiculous" in contemporary San Francisco. (8 p.m., Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street) more ›

Wow. That was fast. No sooner was Epic Beard Man a modest viral sensation, after beating the crap out of a young African American man aboard an AC Transit bus last year, but some budding screenwriter apparently thought his story needed to immediately turned into a movie. The movie's called Bad Ass, and as Uptown Almanac shows us it stars Danny Trejo as a Vietnam vet who goes around what looks like L.A. kicking peoples' asses. Now, many of the details here are oddly familiar, including the fanny pack and what looks like a t-shirt that says "I Am a Motherf**ker," but we're guessing that poor, homeless Tom Bruso isn't going to see a dime from this straight-to-DVD clunker. more ›

MUSIC: Ever-popular alternative folk/punk veterans Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven will rock the house for fans young and old at the Independent tonight. (8 p.m., The Independent, 628 Divisadero Street) more ›

FILM: The documentary Eames: The Architect and the Painter takes a look at the personal lives of the revolutionary husband and wife design team, along with their influence on significant events in American life — from the development of modernism to the rise of the computer age. (6:45 p.m., Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street) 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 ›

MUSIC: Sunset Promotions and Mezzanine present a night of dubstep and bass with West Londoner Caspa, who was "brought up on a diet of jungle & hiphop," along with guests Antennae and the Ritual Dubstep DJs. (9 p.m., Mezzanine, 444 Jessie Street) more ›