PHOTOGRAPHY: Tonight's installment of the popular 200 Yards is centered around Satellite 66, in which photographers showcase the shots they captured within — you guessed it — 200 yards of the gallery. (6 to 9 p.m., Satellite 66, 66 6th Street) more ›

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: Veteran a capella group The Persuasions bring their legendarily eclectic repertoire, which includes "the heavy influence of gospel, a major measure soul, and a dose of pop," to Yoshi's tonight. (8 p.m., Yoshi's Oakland, 510 Embarcadero West, Jack London Square) 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 ›

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 ›

In fancypants news, a gaggle of tech ilk, public relations birds, and assorted media-ish types attended Fortune Magazine's 2011 "40 Under 40" fete at the Zynga headquarters in SOMA. (Think Out Magazine's OUT 100 list, only gayer and just as relevant.) Mayor Ed Lee, the dirty bottom to the tech industry's aggressive dom top, made a required appearance at the festivities. So did Google VP Marissa Mayer and Gawker's Ryan Tate. more ›

BOOK SIGNING: Artist and author Justin Bua, known for his bestselling collection of fine-art posters, will be at the Booksmith tonight, along with DJ QBert, celebrating the release of The Legends of Hip Hop, featuring portraits of 50 of the greatest names in hip hop history, along with a personal essay that details each individual's impact on cultural history and Bua’s own life and work. (6:30 p.m., The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street) more ›

MUSIC: The prolific Evan Dando takes the stage with the latest incarnation of the Lemonheads, in which they'll be performing It’s a Shame About Ray in its entirety. (7:30 p.m., Independent, 628 Divisadero Street) more ›

ART: Performance artist, musician, and actress Ann Magnuson, who defined 1980s downtown New York, brings her new tribute cabaret to SFMOMA with a nod to Bowie featuring a song cycle of his early 1970s work and incorporating "dreams, Jung, human sacrifice, Aztec shamanism, and all things dark, bloody, and beautiful." Come in your most artful garb and enter SFMOMA's glam costume contest! (6 to 9:45 p.m., SFMOMA, 151 Third Street) more ›

MUSIC: Kenyan-born, San Francisco-based musician-activist Sila headlines the 2011 Afrofunk Festival, which benefits CARE, a humanitarian aid organization working to improve conditions in the horn of Africa. Black Nature, an original member of the Sierra Leone Refugee All-Stars will also take the stage, along with DJ Jeremiah aka “Mr. Afrobeat,” a native of Liberia who began DJing during his time in an Ivory Coast refugee camp. (8 p.m., Brick and Mortar, 1710 Mission) 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 ›

COMEDY: You have two weekends left to catch beloved local comedy troupe Killing My Lobster's latest sketch comedy show, Killing My Lobster Conquers the Galaxy, which includes "the real story of how Dr. Who chooses his time-traveling companions; Space Wizard antics; Italians running a space station and more." (8 p.m., The Jewish Theater San Francisco, 470 Florida Street) more ›

FILM: Homoerotic gem, Top Gun, will screen at the last Film Night in the Park of the season. Be sure to catch that delicious volleyball scene (if the inflatable screen doesn't blow away, that is)! (8 p.m., Dolores Park, Dolores and 19th) more ›

PARTY: Tonight's edition of Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive's L@TE series presents a screening of the gloriously awful Forbidden Zone, along with a celebration of the Create exhibition, which closes this month, featuring films and video projections, a moderated discussion with the artists, a dance party DJ’d by some of the centers’ artists, and other special surprises. (7 p.m., BAM/PFA, 2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley) more ›

BENEFIT: Breakiosaurus, a funky Outside Lands after-party and fundraiser for Elephant Bird Camp, challenges you to adorn yourself with your best breakin'/dinosaur costume ever. The event features live performances by i can dress myself, Sex Pixels, Starbeast II, Kraft Funk, and Breakin from Acrosports All City Bboys. (9 p.m. to 2 a.m., The Blue Macaw, 2565 Mission Street) more ›

All-City photographers Travis Jensen and Brad Evans photo doc book about San Francisco's Tenderloin, aptly christened Tenderloin USA, will have its official launch party on Wednesday night in the 'loin. The bash, featuring good tunes and potent booze, goes down at Ever Gold Gallery (441 O'Farrell). more ›

FILM: Directors Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman will be attending the 7 p.m. screenings all weekend of Between Two Worlds, their new documentary that exposes the polarized debates over tradition and change, loyalty and dissent, inside the American Jewish community today. (7 and 8:40 p.m., Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street) more ›

Ohio University topped this year's list of America's Top Party Schools by Princeton Review. The Athens-based institution of higher learning landed on the the party school list 12 times since 1997. This is the first time it's reached the top. (So... kudos?) While no Bay Area schools made the esteemed list (nerds!), one California college did manage to crack the top 20. Can you guess what it is? The entire depraved list is as follows: more ›

An unidentified 21-year-old female was "critically injured" after being shot in the back while hanging out outside a Misson house party at Folsom and 25th. The incident occurred at around 2:30 a.m. Sunday morning. more ›

Featuring new fiction from Stuart Dybek, as well as Emily Ruskovich and May-Lan Tan making their literary debuts, the summer issue of Zoetrope features a cover designed by Beck. Yes, that Beck. You should help Francis Ford Coppola celebrate the release of one of the city's best (and most underrated!) literary magazines at Cafe Zoetrope in North Beach on Tuesday, July 19 from 6 to 8 pm. There’ll be cocktails flowing, passed plates of light bites, and presumably groovy music. more ›

PARTY: The Pride festivities continue to rage, and the big, annual Juanita More! Pride Party just got going. Head over to Chambers/Phoenix Hotel between now and 2 a.m. for "The Best Queer Party” of the year, which benefits the Gay-Straight Alliance Network. (2 p.m. to 2 a.m., Chambers, 601 Eddy Street) more ›

Tonight, experience the sounds of a one-woman orchestra, peruse art depicting a traveler's spiritual and physical experiences while in Mexico, or celebrate Pride with "lezzies, lovers and friends." more ›

Tonight, Peter Murphy will lure you into the dark underbelly of humanity, Trannyshack's Heklina will kick out the '80s jams, and filmmaker Hong Sang-Soo will have you lol-ing. more ›

BENEFIT: Take advantage of the fact that the Eagle Tavern is open for at least another month and head over to see Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Carletta Sue Kay and The Sandwitches perform a benefit show for KUSF, yet another SF institution whose fate hangs in the balance. more ›

CABARET: Tony Award nominee Justin Vivian Bond, who has been described by the New Yorker as "the greatest cabaret artist of his generation.....an artful truth telling illusionist," celebrates the release of his first full-length solo album, Dendrophile. Bond will perform a selection of songs from Dendrophile (accompanied by a live band), which ranges from early '70s folk-pop variety records to protest songs to jazz standards to original compositions, while spinning "a magical web of spellbinding stories." more ›

Last minute smartypants fun, folks! Former SFist editor Jackson West and local writer/artist Susie Cagle will host a San Francisco Awl Meetup this evening. And, holy smokes, here are the exciting details: more ›

THEATER: It's the opening weekend of Catchy Name Theatre Company's Corned Beef, "a post-modern comedy of art with mistaken identity, triangular love and much popping in and out of doors." more ›

LAUNCH PARTY: Celebrate the re-launch of Fruitflylife.com, which explores the notion of gender and normalcy through the lens of pop culture. Tonight's event will highlight interactive art projects, music, food, and surprises, with the intent of taking what one sees on the Internet and making it tactile and functional in real-time. more ›