-- Barefoot Nellies: "The Bay Area's finest all-gal bluegrass band" headline at one of the Bay Area's finest bars, Amnesia, starting at 8:30 p.m., 853 Valencia; free. -- Killer of Sheep (1977): Charles Burnett's masterwork about a slaughterhouse worker/father and his family living in Watts, LA screens tonight at 7:15 p.m. 9:15 at The Red Vic, 1727 Haight (at Cole). -- Ryan Auffenberg: Local, tender singer-songwriter performs in the Mission. So does Clare Burson.......

Banner week for SFist as the site's new editor introduced himself -- hooray for Brock! While the NY Times weighed in on SF's mayoral race, only SFist had the (insert tongue firmly into cheek) hard-hitting latest on candidate/activist Josh Wolf. Coverage of a protest vs. gentrification spawned a fantastic debate amongst SFist's readers. Finally, from the sublime to the ridiculous: video of a man that confused a Board of Supes meeting with "open mic......

We really love these guys, and you should love them too! The Del Sol Quartet performs works by 20th and 21st century women composers in Berkeley tonight (and one male composer too) in their "Umbilical Chords: Women Composers and the Creative Process" program. And in interesting modern music trivia, one of the women composers (Ruth Crawford) is folk singer Pete Seeger's mother. Del Sol plays at the Ashby Stage (1901 Ashby, x MLK, right across......

Don't let the grind get you down after the holiday weekend! Here are a few ways to keep the party going around the Bay: Thunderdome + amateur hour = guerilla theater at its finest! A survival-of-the-fittest style open mic night, Spass Guerilla! showcases all kinds of local performance art for a night that's guaranteed to be...interesting. 12 Galaxies, 2565 Mission, SF. Part of a monthly series, Tell it on Tuesday, promotes the art of......

Here's a listing for tonight's events...

SFist Jenna goes electric! A science fair with open mic? Awesome! Dorkbot is a monthly meeting of artists, designers, engineers, students and any interested parties who gather to share ideas and projects relating to any form of electronic art. There's usually a DJ and a bar, not to mention it's a good forum for discussions about technology, art and culture. When: Tonight @ 7:30pm Where: Hosted by Scott Arford of 7hz, at 1814 Illinois Street......

Happy 10th birthday, Bitch Magazine! Back in 1996, local writers Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler kicked up a furor with their provocatively-named zine about feminism and pop culture -- and ten years later, the magazine's putting out its 33rd issue (the Hot and Bothered Issue), they've put out a best-of anthology (BitchFest), and Ms. Zeisler's good-naturedly matching wits with Deborah Solomon of the NY Times Magazine (the East Coast's own Aidan Vaziri). Calls for a......

The Three Dollar Bill Cafe is such an excellent name for the restaurant inside the SF LGBT Community Center. If you've got the time and inclination, stop by the cafe and check out queer open mic night tonight. Tonight's performance is hosted by poet Cindy Emch and writer Sherilyn Connelly, and features local Native American writer/activist Jennifer Fox Bennett, bringing her Ojibway and Odawa Band sensibilities to the stage. Tonight's performance is a benefit for feminist zine Bitch Magazine -- and if enough liquor's passed around, the open mic may very well get passed to their editorial board as well. Watch out, Jane Pratt! 8 p.m., at the SF LGBT Community Center (Market and Octavia), 8:00 p.m., 7:30 p.m. signup. $1-5 sliding scale fee, no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Obligatory disclosure: this correspondent is on the Bitch magazine board of directors....