Although the neighborhood lost a much-loved gathering spot when the Red Vic's projector flickered for the last time back in July, the neighborhood could be getting another community-focused space to take it's place sometime in 2012. As the ever vigilante Tablehopper reports today, Betsy and Jack Rix, who own the building along with the Alembic next door, are looking to reinvent the former movie house as a food-centric incubator space for budding entrepreneurs and retailers to get their sea legs before moving on to their own commercial kitchens or storefronts. more ›

Although you may never again cozy up in one of the Red Vic's couches to see a movie, you can at least make your own barren, undecorated apartment that much more Red Vic-like at this weekend's Movie Poster and Memorabilia Sale. This Saturday from 1 to 6 p.m, the shuttered movie house will be having one last blowout to help the crew pay off any bills that still remain after the projector went dark last month. From the theater's website: more ›

"In my usual high-minded state, I was wondering what would happen to the leftover candy, but the counter stock already looked depleted. Not so the plastic bottles of popcorn seasoning - Chinese Five Spice, Ground Cumin, New Mexico Chili Pepper and the like - and perhaps most battered of all, Nutritional Yeast, which was to Red Vic popcorn what ketchup is to fries at McDonald's." - From delightful Chronicle columnist Leah Garchik in her writeup of the final screening at the now-closed Red Vic Movie House. [SFGate] more ›

Another locally-owned, neighborhood theater bites the dust today. The Haight-Ashbury's beloved Red Vic is set to close its doors for good after tonight's final screening of the endearingly morbid Hal Ashby classic, Harold and Maude. Naturally, both shows are sold out. more ›

After serving the stoned and extremely tripped out for three decades, Haight Street's Red Vic will officially close forever on July 25, the movie theater's 31st birthday. It was the kind of place people love, despite never going (like bookstores and record shops!), and you can probably trip pretty hard if you lick the right armrest in there. more ›

The Red Vic Movie House will be holding their final screening this summer unless some generous patron of neighborhood theaters steps in to save the venerable Upper Haight institution. KQED reports that recent fundraising attempts and even the strong local film community haven't done enough to keep the theater from going under. As Claudia Lehan, one of operators of the theater, puts it: "We're hoping for a miracle. But it's not looking good... We need George Lucas or Pixar or somebody really big to step in and we haven’t found them yet." more ›

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Brass Tax: DJs Fred Funk, Goldilox, Loosebeats, and Tung throw down house, breaks, and hip hop beats. But douchey and unoriginal said beats ain't! At Amnesia, everything is quirky and creatively beat, so...have at it at the Mission boutique club. Starts at 9:39 p.m. at Amnesia; $5.
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• Rickie Lee Jones: Easy listening-ish jazz and pop/R&B songstress ("Chuck E.'s in Love") sings tonight at 8:30 p.m. at Cafe Du Nord; $30. SOLD OUT
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007): "An action western surrounding the private life and public exploits of America''s most notorious outlaw, Jesse James," starring pretty boys Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck, and the best actress in the entire stratosphere, Mary-Louise Parker. Screens at 8 p.m. at the Red Vic; $5-8.50.
• Tonight's fanboy-littered Macworld parties.

• Information Society: Remember these guys? No? How about now? They perform along with Tell Tale Heartbreakers, Spellbound (a Siouxsie tribute band), DJs Decay (Death Guild), Shindog (New Wave City), and Callum McGowan (Retrowerks). The energy goes from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. at DNA Lounge; $14-20.
• My Kid Could Paint That (2007): Amir Bar-Lev's documentary about artist Marla Olmstead (a four-year-old at the time this was shot) whose work has raked in loads of money while being compared to Kandinsky, Picasso, and Pollock. Lucky bitch, indeed. Screens at 7:15 p.m. and 9:15 at the Red Vic; $5-8.50.
• Get It?! Gameshow: Local comic Joe Klocek headlines tonight's knee-slappingness. Jason Wheeler, Arj Barker, Todd Barry, and Morgan Murphy also perform. Part of SF Sketchfest. Show starts at 8 p.m. at the Punchline; $15.

Screens tonight at 7:15 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. at the Red Vic; $5.50-8.

The music starts at 8 p.m. at Ruby Skye; $50-100.

-- Winged Migration (Le peuple migrateur): Birds! We tend to think nothing of them here in the Bay Area - well, as far as the homely and picked upon poor pigeon goes - but birds are exciting creatures. Colors, flying, migrating, the ability to form perfect V-shapes - just see for yourself tonight at 7:15 p.m. and 9:25 at The Red Vic; $6-8.50. more ›

-- Completely Hollywood (abridged): The Reduced Shakespeare Company's latest stage play skewers "Tinseltown's most lauded stars and starlets" ranging from the silent era to today's most beloved and pretentious independent films. The curtain goes up at 8 p.m. at Marines Memorial Theater; $45-60. more ›

Tonight, for one night only, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will be featuring two sneak previews of Dirty Country, a highly entertaining documentary about the underground world of raunchy music, directed by Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher, founders and hosts of the Found Footage Festival, which sold out four shows at the Red Vic last month. Dirty Country, which won the Audience Award at this year's South By Southwest, is part of Yerba... more ›

-- King Corn (2007): Sounds like a tasty breakfast cereal, doesn't it? But in fact, it's a documentary about two college buddies who "plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most-productive, most-subsidized grain [corn] on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat--and how we farm." Screens tonight at 7:15 p.m. and 9:15 at the Red Vic; $5-8.50. more ›

-- Carmen Jones: Based off of Georges Bizet's famous French opera Carmen, the adaptation was made into a successful Broadway musical, and then a '50s film staring Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, and Pearl Bailey. Now, see it again on stage right here in SF. The curtain goes up tonight at the African-American Art & Culture Complex (762 Fulton); $15. more ›

-- The Pogues: Like most music-taste education, our college roommate got us listening to these guys. And they're one of the few acts that we still dig after all these Britney-influenced years. Kudos, Pogues! Starts tonight at 8 p.m. at the Fillmore; $65. more ›

-- Gay Geeks Saturday Night Social: "Fucking faggots," you scream? Ah, correction: "fucking nerd faggots," is more like it. Queers (not just Marys) who like to "geek out on the arts or science, study old plane crashes,... the myth of the American cowboy or how to make graphs more efficient for displaying data," this is the night for you. Come! Starts at 8 p.m. at Muddy's Coffeehouse, 1304 Valencia; free. more ›

-- The Breasts of Sherry Glaser: The protest-y Miss Glaser's comedy and peace activism show runs the gamut from her unsheathed mammary glands to an interpretation of 9/11 and the Twin Towers falling down. Oh my. (Warning: audience participation will occur!) Starts at 7:30 p.m. at The Marsh; $10-15. more ›

9 p.m. at Bottom of the Hill; $10. more ›