-- Cabaret for Humanity: Cabaret isn't just about getting drunk while telling self-centered stories about your life. Sometimes they give back. One of the city's best venues is getting all benefitt-y on our asses. This evening (and tomorrow night) they host an all-star lineup of local talent including, Tony Koester Kim Kuzma, Irene Soderberg, Veronica Klaus, Paul Elia, Basic Black & the Rob Evans Quartet, Joe Collins, Meg Mackay, Ethyl Merman, Mark Miller, Mercedez......

-- Judy Butterfield: Gershwin, Porter, Berlin, and more come to life via seventeen-year-old Judy Butterfield. Wait, she's seventeen and headlining at the Plush Room already? We were robo-tripping at that age. Christ, that's amazing. OK then. She sings at 8 p.m. at The Empire Plush Room, 940 Sutter; $25. -- The Devil Came on Horseback: The U.S. isn't the only country that loves a good rape and murder spree on foreign soils. Take, for......

SF Indie's Another Hole In The Head is the film fest we enjoy the most (that's why we sponsor it), and we couldn't be happier to see it back for its third year of blood, guts, and mayhem. Last year, we saw nearly every film at the fest, and have the post traumatic stress disorder to prove it. This year is no different, with SFist's crack film fest team at the Roxie Film Center nearly......

Our friends at The Roxie Film Center love SFist readers! They love them sooooo much, that they want to give a few lucky readers passes for themselves and a guest to any of their screenings of The Outsider between Friday, April 7 and Thursday, April 13. No, no one will be saying "Stay gold, Ponyboy" in this documentary about filmmaker James Toback, writer and director of movies like Black and White, Fingers, and Bugsy.......

The name on everybody's lips is gonna be..... The New College Roxie Film Center! Ending years of nail-biting and speculation, the Roxie Theater on 16th and Valencia has been saved from shuttering by its neighbors the New College. The New College received an anonymous $200,000 donation earmarked to pay off the Roxie's debts and to turn the theater into a nonprofit. Bill Banning, who used to own the Roxie, will stay on as a film programmer, but the day-to-day operations have been turned over to new executive director Allyce Bass and the New College Media and Film Studies department chair Mary Ellen Churchill. The Roxie will continue to screen movies, but will also double as a classroom during the day, and they'll have special events there too. The Roxie Film Center will have its grand opening on April 7. Cineaste Gavin Newsom'll be there, and issued the following statement: "As small independent theaters struggle, New College and the Roxie are keeping the spirit of independent film alive." Truly, the language of cinema -- it's universal! ...