SFist interviews Artis Mark Mulroney...

Two films about the Middle East involving food: "AnTEAcipation" screens at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (701 Mission St. @ 3rd) as part of the SF World Music Festival. This documentary takes a gradual, personal approach to the role of tea growing on the Laz people of Turkey. The 8pm screening is preceded by a lecture on the Laz that starts at 7pm. "Border Café (Café Transit)" is an Iranian film about a......

We were most impressed by the San Francisco Art Institute’s MFA Vernissage held Friday night in the Herbst Pavilion at Fort Mason, where the show will continue to hang until May 28th. Talk about Pomp and Circumstance! Festooned with regal ceiling banners directing us to each artist’s custom-built exhibition space (the work of MFA graduate Michael Zheng, we found out), the grand hall allowed for ease of movement and a bit of welcome autonomy......

SFist interview artist Casey Jex Smith...

Excuse us for missing the boat last month. We were still in the frozen north, but that doesn't mean we couldn't have cribbed our tips from Fecal Face like we do every week. Our friend Lisa Dent (who gets back to us when we leave her messages, thank you very much -- hence the adoring coverage. Also, like us, she's a young upstart in town) is showing San Francisco Art Institute alum Robin Ward's Otherkin.......

Killer ocean views and Diego Rivera? Sounds like a dreamy vacation in Mexico, no? Well, actually no. Climb up the hill above Bimbo's 365 Club to the San Francisco Art Institute, and you'll find the magic combo. For free. What gives? In 1931 Diego painted a mural in the the building that houses the Art Institute. If you can stop gaping at the mural (which domintates an entire wall of the space) you can also......