Put the needle on the racket tonight. OMG, Jonathon Keats has done it again! He's an artist known for improving the metric system, selling parts of his brain and even fifth dimension real estate. (Full disclosure: We proudly have a title for a place in North Beach that we bought from the artist for under twelve bucks. He also did a broom art installation at our apartment that so rocks our Casbah.) Tonight, he gives local Fisters a chance to be geospacial DJs. We're not sure what that means, but it looks like hundreds of vinyl records will be spinning simultaneously tonight starting at 9:56 p.m. Potential tunes may come from the Beatles, Ella Fitzgerald, Madonnna and Mozart, and vinyl records will be given out on random street corners for the next week. How we wish we still had a record player. more ›

We visited the Commonwealth Club for their most recent session of Inforum, a division of the Club that aims to “inspire debate around civic issues” for people in their 20’s and 30’s. Moderated by conceptual artist and local gadfly Jonathon Keats, Graffiti: Urban Scrawl or Artistic Freedom? featured a debate (er, discussion) between the following individuals: APEX is San Francisco native and former street artist; Michaela Hocter is the Deputy City Attorney, San Francisco City Attorney’s Office; Ben Morgan is the director of Quality of Life, a film highlighting the work in SF’s Mission district; Mohammed Nuru is the Director of Operations for San Francisco’s Graffiti Advisory Board; John Doffing is the founder of START SOMA + START MOBILE art galleries. more ›

Actually, rather a lot to choose from this week. Our picks: more ›