The good folks over the Curbed SF have -- at last! -- posted on the conservative genius (an oxymoron, we know) that is Twin Peaks Properties in Noe Valley on 24th Street. (Apparently, a reader had never witnessed the monument to Noe Valley conservatism. The poor lamb.) Many of you have seen this storefront for years, and chuckled. But who is he, exactly? It's all too easy to chalk up his flair for window......

The artists in We, Asian Sex Workers want to make it clear that they are not slaves or victims. They don't need to be "saved," but they would like some respect, or at the very least, sensitivity. As part of the fifth annual San Francisco Sex Worker Festival, curator Gennifer Hirano and artists Sarah Mac, Mariko Passion, Reagan Louie, Tracy Quan, Annie Chen, Surgeon Scofflaw, The Girls of Banteay Srei (Oakland, CA), and Ivy from......

its a big weekend folks! here's where to jumpstart your Pridealicious weekend: Still don't have a date to the tomorrow's Dyke March? Find the perfect lady at Fairy Butch! Speed dating at 8pm, followed by an erotic cabaret & dance party. $10-$20 sliding scale entry fee. at the Rickshaw Stop, 155 Fell, SF. Head over the Fat City (used to be Studio Z) for Cockblock, queer dance party. Shake it like a polaroid picture......

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......

It's Sunset Magazine's Celebration Weekend! (For some reason, Sunset Magazine sent this event to our sister site Phillyist instead of us, and Phillyist was kind enough to forward it along.) Stop by their "publishing grounds" at 80 Willow Road in Menlo Park from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for a smorsgasbord of Western-lifestyle events, like live music, cooking events with celeb chefs like Paul Bertolli, a home tour, and -- the main reason why we're......

SFist interviews Alexandra Lipsitz, Director of Air Guitar Nation...

Oh, what's become of our good old-fashioned hard-hearted conservative Republicans? Performance art?!?! What's next, long hair? Berets? Drapes and doilies? Irish cuisine? The Davis College Republicans are sponsoring some sort of symbolic art-game today (Tuesday) at 12:30 out on the quad, wherever the hell that is. They're calling it "Illegal Immigration Capture the Flag," and here's the ingenious twist that'll earn 'em an A in their semiotics seminar: "Illegal Immigrants team will vastly outnumber......

SFist Jessie braves the aftereffects of sun and booze to check out local performance art! We knew very little about the art space & resource center, CounterPULSE, before attending their Second Anniversary Show on Sunday night (yes, we mistakenly kept calling it "Compulse"). This is their second year in a new location at Mission between 9th and 10th. We might’ve missed the modest front, except for the large artsy crowd milling out front (trying to......

So a bunch of bloggers had a few drinks last night, or as someone on the Wall and SF Junto put it "some lame meeting of whiney bloggers at a hipster bar” when Alex and Maggie of the strangely peculiar blog, The Mayor and the Hair, came by and asked if one of them was Dean of Gavin Sucks. It was. And so, they dumped their alcohol on poor Dean, who had to spend the rest of the night wearing a wine and beer soaked shirt....

Butoh dance is a post WWII form of modern Japanese performance art seen as a combination of dance, traditional Japanese theater, and mime, and which is described as provocative and shocking. Sounds like fun! The local Japanese dance group Theater of Yugen presents an evening of Butoh dance tonight, featuring nature-themed performances, along with music by new music ensemble the Nanos Operetta. 2840 Mariposa (between Florida and Alabama, near Project Artaud), 8 p.m., $15. Other......

--Sofia Milos is back in town. --Maria Shriver admires Gavin's partying skills. (And yes! He did have a pair of ceremonial scissors!) --Rob Anderson tells his side of the Matt Smith story about his lawyer and his bikes in SF plan. --The SFPartyParty notes the irony in Gavin Newsom donating his parking space to make a performance art park last week, when he keeps insisting on making an actual park into a parking space on......

Theater about technology about theater, sexy performance art with a message and more theater about theater....

Public art is often the butt of jokes and viewed with contempt, along with performance art and washed up aging rockers on the county fair circuit. Whatever your feelings are about the role of government in the arts, many people support public art in theory, and its civic impact is meager compared to contracts for garbage disposal, cable television, and towing. Public art controversies are noteworthy in that one sees people get twisted knickers......

Who saw Pearl Jam this week? With three sold out shows at Bill Graham Civic Center, at least a few of you must have been there. We braved the packed, sweaty, drunken crowd on Sunday night to remind ourselves why we’re really no fan of large venues. It was hard to see from any vantage point on the floor if you weren’t over six feet tall, and even if you found yourself a decent sight......

Last Friday, a performance art piece went bad -- and we don't just mean because it failed to critically explore the (mis)/dissemination of the capitalist hegemony: Novato performance artist Joe Canada promised to give $10 away to every homeless person who met him on the plaza in the Civic Center at 4 p.m. in the afternoon on Friday. A similar giveaway on Wednesday and Thursday had gone without incident, and buzz was no doubt building among the community. First of all, Canada was an hour late, and the 500 people in attendance, some of whom had been waiting since noon, were starting to grow a little discontent. Canada then showed up at 5, gave a bunch of rambling speeches about art, religion, and politics, and then after an hour passed, he fled the scene, jumped in his van, and drove away, without giving the attendees the $10 he'd promised. Dude! One attendee said he knew there was going to be trouble as the wind picked up and the sun started to set. "I knew when it got darker, there was less of a chance that the money would come," said attendee Rodney Brown. As Canada drove away, the crowd began yelling and cursing, and the remainder of Canada's staff tried desperately to calm folks down. As one man, Brian Boykin, put it, "This is messed up. That whole time we sat listening to him, thinking we would get money -- and then nothing." You know, that's a great NEA grant proposal, though: "I am requesting $10,000 to fund my project, which will be to promise to give money away to the homeless and then not do it." You know the Bush administration would be all over that! ...

Supervisor Chris Daly takes a break from smashing the state to continue the Matt Gonzalez tradition of Smashing The State through art, as he hosts what looks like his first City Hall art show. (is that right?) Hey, is Ross Mirkarimi still having his art shows, or has he moved onto the ultimate performance art project of compiling a 5 bazillion-page zoning guideline for pot clubs? We can't find any information about Daly's show online -- not even at the Daly Blog -- but sources (and the fine print on the .jpg we got forwarded) tell us it'll be featuring the work of photographer Mark Ellinger, who takes pictures of SROs in the Tenderloin and SoMA. Sounds like Daly's going to be featuring Ellinger's work and talking about SRO mailbox legislation, with free food and drink to boot. The event's next Friday (2/10) and open to the public. We can't wait! The photographs are beautiful, and -- well, all right, we are totally dying to see what Chris Daly's office looks like too. We promise not to start any fights! Okay, and this is not related to anything, but is it a bad sign when a news article entitled: "As Wife Heads To Jail, Daly Shoots 69" is published and two or three people email asking you how SFist will be covering this? (John Daly! The golfer!) The Hotel Project February 10, 2006, 4-7 p.m. Room 273, City Hall, SF. Picture by Mark Ellinger...

Can you smell what Wednesday is cooking? Tonight: Tax breaks! The California Lawyers for the Arts are holding a workshop on how to incorporate as a nonprofit. Give your mom a tax break for supporting your career in theater all these years! The workshop goes from 7-8:30 at their offices in Fort Mason, Building C, Room 255. Thursday: As part of the Contemporary Jewish Museum's new show, Intersections: Reading the Space, they're hosting a three-part salon. Part one of the salon is tonight at the Jewish Community Center, and features a cooking class on making Muslim, Christian, and Jewish foods of India. That's $50 worth of yum ($45 if you're a museum or JCCSF member) -- so if you're looking for something on the other end of the money scale, you could also stop by a free shuttle bus historical tour of the Presidio at 12:50 (meet at the Presidio's Officers Club, reservation required at 415-561-4323.) and Friday: Our very favorite living ex-president, Nobel laureate Jimmy Carter, will be appearing and signing copies of his new book at 5:30 at Cody's SF! President Carter will not be speaking or reading, mysteriously enough, but will pose for pictures (in a separate area) if you ask nicely. Tickets are required, but there's no fee if you buy a copy of the book at Cody's. Don't attack him, killer rabbits! ...

SFist interviews Mark Inglis Taylor, artist and operator of Lobot Gallery in Oakland...

Like we said before, you never really quite know what you’re going to get at the San Francisco Fringe Festival. But last night we did a marathon Fringe, seeing three shows between 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. that ran the spectrum between existential absurdity to full-out hysterical, offensive comedy, and a rock show. We had the perfect Fringe experience. We started out with Go: A Life in Progress, conceived and performed by Gillian Chadsey......

Hey, you like bunnies, right? That is, you aren't some kind of bunny-hating monster, are you? We didn't think so. Well, we've got good news for you, Bugs -- tomorrow night's your big chance to indulge this bunny-preoccupation of yours (which frankly we've never understood). BunnyJam 2005! Loud music, costumes, makeup, performance art, fashion show, shrines and altars, booze, structured activities, and EXTREMELY DELIBERATE WACKINESS -- it all looks to be like a big......

[Ed. Note: Welcome one of our artsiest locals, new SFist Tanya. She goes to experimental performance art so that we don't have to!] Only three chances left to see Circo Zero perform at Dance Mission and it is not to be missed. An amalgam of circus, performance art, political commentary, with juxtapositions between angelic virtuosity and the visceral ugly nature of humanity, it is part comedy and part tragedy; the duality of being an......

[Ed. Note: This is the first post by new SFist Kalia, who will drop by on occasion to review gallery and performance art.] In restless anticipation we sat staring at the stage, waiting to see the dance performance acclaimed by so many. Yerba Buena Center for rhe Arts Theater was hosting the first of three performances by Rennie Harris PureMovement, a dance company renowned for astonishing its audiences with fluid music and motion. Urban......

Aeolian Ride comes to SF!...

Summary of the this week in the Bay Guardian and SF Weekly....