Tonight, Muni Diaries celebrates its fourth year with a free bash, Rupa & The Fishes embark on a bike tour featuring pedal-powered (and transported) tunes, and Mission Loc@l presents its first annual film festival about the Mission and featuring Mission residents. more ›

Tonight, members of Hole will be at the Roxie in celebration of the opening of the new doc, Hit So Hard, talented youth poets duke it out at the Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam, and revelers flock to the Inner Sunset for its second Art Crawl. more ›

Tonight, Southern Exposure throws its annual art auction and fundraiser, former S.F. punkers Shellshag hit the Knockout, and posers unite at 50 Mason Social House. more ›

Writer, performer, and Sister Spit veteran Ben McCoy will present some new work at the monthly Feast of Words: A Literary Potluck, which is themed “I Am Crime.” McCoy's reading will reference "personal experiences, observations from the city’s darkest corners and most sordid bars, and Iceberg Slim’s gripping novel Mama Black Widow. Also tonight... more ›

Although San Singer and Jon Handlery has promised to padlock the place on Saturday, the Gold Dust Lounge will be open this weekend... and possibly beyond. Which: WOO HOO! Gold Dust Lounge breaks the news: "Attorney Joe Cotchett of Cotchett, Pitre & MCarthy is telling the Bovis Brothers and Gold Dust Lounge employees that they’re doors will not be padlocked this weekend (as threatened by San Singer and Jon Handlery) and Sheriff Mikarimi has no court order to evict. Cotchett say’s that as long as the litigation continues, no judge will put the wonderful Bovis brothers on the street and the GOLD DUST LOUNGE Will CONTINUE TO OPERATE AS USUAL." more ›

MUSIC: The Jewish Music Festival presents the world premiere of "Orphic Machine," led by clarinetist and composer Ben Goldberg and accompanied by a renowned ensemble in a song-cycle based on the poetical writings of Allen Grossman. (8 p.m., Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse, 2020 Addison Street) more ›

MUSIC: San Francisco folk/pop gem, Hélène Renaut, who one critic described as, "[i]magine Syd Barret having a musical baby with Francoise Hardy," will take the stage at the intimate Hemlock Tavern tonight, along with guests Karina Denike and Carletta Sue Kay. (6 p.m., Hemlock Tavern, 1131 Polk Street) more ›

Noise Pop presents DC/JV: Photography by Peter Ellenby, featuring fifteen years' worth of portraits of Death Cab for Cutie and John Vanderslice, which document the musicians' storied careers and "serve as beautiful reminders of the shared parts of both Vanderslice and DCFC's journeys," all through the eyes of a photographer who's been there since the beginning... more ›

MUSIC: One of Noise Pop's stellar shows this evening includes headliners The Fresh & Onlys, "psychedelic garage-pop revivalists," who "have a reputation for being weird." Flavorpill notes that "[w]hen asked about the inspiration for their music, the band will tell you that songs just pass through the air and that none of their music resonates quite like the San Francisco fog." Also featuring Disappears, Talkdemonic, and Churches. (8 p.m., Bottom of the Hill, 1233 17th Street) more ›

PARTY: The delightful Lil Miss Hot Mess is hosting a fabulous Roller Skating Birthday: "Get ready to lace up your skates, buckle your blades, and wipe out with style as you spin around the floor to jock jams from the coolest DJs in school, Durt (Ships in the Night) + Pink Lightning (Stay Gold). Don’t miss roller-drag with Landa Lakes, burlesque-on-wheels with La Chica Boom, and of course, a special performance by the birthday girl herself, Lil Miss Hot Mess! All skate!" (3 to 8 p.m., Cellspace, 2050 Bryant) more ›

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 ›