*SURF EVENT: Surfing has taken an unfair beating over the last few days, so give it up for what is perhaps one of the best sports ever at Roxy Surf Night. Come drink beer, eat light bites, and meet such Roxy Pros as recent World and U.S. Longboard Champ Jennifer Smith, Santa Cruz's Billabong XXL finalist and Mavericks surf star Jenny Useldinger, and top longboarder Julie Cox. At 8:15 p.m. you can also catch......

MUSIC: Mac users, Morrissey followers, "the flock" -- there is no fan as rabid as a Lynda Carter fan. We're not kidding. Tales of their obsessive behavior are stuff of cabaret legend. In fact, we met one once, an LC fan, who kept going on and on about what lovely decor she had in her fabulous home. Which, it seems, he viewed from outside her window night after night. Anyway, Carter--famous for being Wonder......

*MUSIC: John Reis (best known as singer and guitarist for Rocket from the Crypt, who goes by such monikers as Speedo, Slasher, and The Swami) has yet another post-punk project to share with you all: the Night Marchers. They perform in Potrero Hill tonight along with the Muslims and Nowheres. 8:30 p.m. // Bottom of the Hill (1233 - 17th Street) // $12-$14 FILM: SF International Film Festival is going on, and SFist cannot......

*FILM: PT Anderson's There Will Be Blood screens over in the Haight. Come on, this take on Upton Sinclair's Oil! is a fine movie--Daniel Day-Lewis' Academy Award-winning histrionics and all. Sure, it's a wee bit lengthy, but it's also an enjoyable watch from start to finish. Re-visit this tale of an oil tycoon again gone wild, won't you? 8 p.m. // Red Vic (1727 Haight) // $5-$8.50 MUSIC: The Floating Corpses (SF's synth-punk sewer-rock......

EXHIBIT OPENING: Fecal Face Dot Gallery opens its doors tonight with Kottie Paloma's work. According to SFBG, the show features "over 250 5-by-7-foot graphite portraits that San Francisco artist Kottie Paloma produced over the last 2 years (each titled A Daily Stranger), the work forms a survey of the strangers in Kottie's life." Perfect for all of you ADHD diagnosed folk out there. Runs through May 7, (Wed., 3-8 p.m. and Sun., noon-6 p.m.)......

CLUB: Remember techno? It was fun. Even while you were coming down. Tonight at Deco Lounge come relive those late halcyon evenings of the late '80s/early '90s at Club FSLD April : [Faggot Techno] 2.0. DJs Donimo [sic], Mak (W Hotel's "Cosmic Gypsy"), and Lord Kook spin in the TL. 9 p.m.-3 a.m. // Deco Lounge (510 Larkin) // $5 (after 10 p.m.) It's happening this Friday, folks. Not tonight. FILM: The Diving Bell......

FILM: Similar--well, sort of similar--to The Maltese Falcon, tonight's screening of the noirish classic Kiss Me Deadly (1955) involves a manhunt for a precious whatsit. Based off of Mickey Spillane's spectacular novel of the same name, KMD has Mike Hammer encountering a "doomed" hitchhiker who takes him on a whirlwind journey...with sexy results. Also, there's a mad search for the "whereabouts of a mysterious box." And the contents of said box? Are apocalyptic and......

*FILM/OPERA: Continuing with their screenings of exquisitely filmed productions of San Francisco operas, this week the Castro Theatre presents Puccini's Madama Butterfly. You know, the opera where [SPOILER ALERT!] the fragile heroine, geisha Cio-Cio-Sa, kills herself with a dagger at the very end? Over an obsession with some American gent? Yeah, that one. Tonight's production of love gone awry features Zheng Cao and Steven Powell, and is conducted by San Francisco Opera Music Director......

*FILM: Seriously, you must check out "The Effect of Dada and Surrealism on Hollywood Films of the 1930s." Sounds pretentious and grating, yes. But it's not. Not at all. The clips of films they're screening are astoundingly fun. First, you get to see two numbers from Busby Berkeley's surrealistic masterpiece Dames (1934). (Check out the musical numbers above, which feature neon violins, dancing severed heads, dizzying chorus lines, and sheer kaleidoscopic insanity.) Then some......

FILM: The latest incarnation of Fritz Lang's futuristic classic about the working class and city planners, Metropolis (1927), is its most complete. According to LaSalle, this version is a "new incarnation, the work of a consortium of German archives, runs a full two hours long and uses every scrap of available footage, and from the best possible sources." Also, it's beautiful--an early wonder in art direction. In addition to being very entertaining for a......

*BAR/EARTH: Throw a few back for a good cause at this pre-Earth Day party: Friends of the Urban Forest Fundraiser. Come learn about pretty trees, talk to other like-minded souls about being green, order a few rounds of booze, and feel free to donate to this most worthy foundation. FUF asks that you RSVP to reed[at]fuf[dot]net, so that Elixir knows how many to expect. 7 p.m. // Elixir (3200 - 16th Street) // donations......

*FILM: Academy Award winner Emil Jannings (The Blue Angel, The Last Command) stars as Mephisto in F.W. Murnau's (Nosferatu) Faust (1926). this film was considered a special effects breakthrough in its time. Check out Murnau's last silent German film before he moved to glorious Hollywood. 7 p.m. // Goethe-Institut (530 Bush) // $5 (donation) MUSIC: Chanteuse Tift Merritt and songstress/fiddler Sara Watkins perform at the GAMH tonight. Both the the alt weeklies seem to......

COMEDY/CABARET: Beth Lisick and Arline Klatte invite a few chosen ones--NPR commentator Dayvid Figler, filmmaker and Webbies founder Tiffany Shlain, Rabbi Alan Lew, Emily Richmond, Nomy Lamm, and Lawrence Bogad--to their monthly storytelling series, Porchlight to tell hilarious, through-provoking, and brief (10 minutes max!) tales of Jews and food. Also, each guest will receive family recipes from each storyteller at the end of the night. Top-notch entertainment and recipes? Now that's a bargain! 8......

THEATER: The Keanu Reeves/Patrick Swayze xtreme-sports/surfer/heist film, Point Break, gets the stage treatment via the LA-based theatrical spectacular, Point Break Live! Yes, you read right, it has been adapted for the floorboards. What's more--in between lavishing praise on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger the Highway 80 overpass and punking his subject--Mayor Gavin Newsom has christened today, April 11, 2008, Point Break LIVE! Day. Anyway, the mood is "10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife,"......

*FILM: Angela Lansbury plays one of the cruelest mother's in film history, Elanor Iselin, in John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate (1962). Re-made a few years ago with Meryl Streep during the Gulf War era, the re-make lacked Frankenheimer's Cold War paranoia that infuses this classic political thriller about a Korean War POW brainwashed by Communists into becoming a political assassin. (Really, it's a sublime watch. Even if the political thriller genre isn't your bag.)......

MUSIC: San Francisco band, Halou, will be headlining tonight at Cafe Du Nord to help celebrate the release of their latest 6-track EP, Sawtooth. The hypnotic lounge sound of Halou will be causing entranced head-bobbing starting at 9 p.m. Michael Zapruder will be opening. 9 p.m. // Cafe Du Nord (2170 Market) // $12 LITERARY: It's National Poetry Month (everyone knew that, right?) and Opium Magazine is holding Literary Death Match tonight at Rickshaw......

CLUB/MAGAZINE LAUNCH: DJ Vin Sol and LL Cool DJ man the decks at tonight's launch of Just One Entertainment's website, the Versus Net SF blog, and Versus Magazine SF online. We didn't receive any info as the the URLs for the aforementioned online sites--we assume you'll have to wait until it goes live, or something--but failing that, tonight's party is the perfect excuse to grab some vodka on the cheap; meet some of your......

Photo: Elbo Room *MUSIC: Head over to Valencia Street to hear some rockabilly beats. Perfecting the tricky fusion of Goth, surf, and garage rock sounds, Arizona's the Mission Creeps headline tonight in the Mission. Lil Esther & Her Tinstars, dropping in from all the way over in Amsterdam, and Al Foul open this night of luscious rock. 9 p.m. // Elbo Room (647 Valencia) // $6 LECTURE: Check out Abe Foxman, director of the......

Photo credit by Wathana Lim for LAist/Flickr MUSIC: Adorning Bottom of the Hill with their much-loved pop "music with no pretense," we have the Magic Bullets. Both Spin and 7x7 both lavished praised on this San Francisco-based band. But don't let that stop you from heading over to Potrero tonight; they're actually a phenomenal band. Le Loup and the Ruby Suns open. 10 p.m. // Bottom of the Hill (1233 - 17th Street) //......

*DINNER/DRAG: Over at supperclub, they having a festive party. "Supper Vision," a pajama party where, according to SF Weekly, is a place where you will find a "Burning Man theme camp, queer art collective, and sexually liberated body pile Comfort & Joy, where local drag shaker BeBe Sweetbriar welcomes guests to the innovative experience of fine dining on dramatically oversized beds."...

*FILM: Tonight at the Castro it's "Dueling Divas" night. (Men, always pitting women against each other!) Alleged child abuser and MGM drunk, Joan Crawford, goes up against Susan Hayward with a double feature of Harriet Craig (1950)--the tale of a "manipulative housewife whose obsession for cleanliness and need for absolute control of those around her ultimately leads to her own demise"--and Back Street (1961)--a tear jerker with Hayward playing the other woman." Neither film......

Photo of today's St. Stupid's Day Parade SFist reader jnice CLUB: Celebrate (the annoying) April Fool's Day with the 6th Annual After Saint Stupid’s Day Parade Party. All of the sheer zaniness takes place this evening, fresh, more or less, after today's Saint Stupid’s Day Parade. Los Banos will perform their noted "wacky, mariachi inspired, clown entrenched, lyrical interpretations." Also, Fluff Grrl breaks out their patented brand of "post-punk, pre-apocalyptic, art-fag rock." Food, booze,......

*MUSIC: If Bay Guardian calendar/music editors felt it necessary to put an asterisk by the following musical outfits in their music guide, then so do we. That, and we like their sound. All the way from Tehran, Iran, comes 127, throwing down rock-infused jazz gems in the Mission. Griddle and the Lovers open. 9 p.m. // Elbo Room (647 Valencia) // $7 FILM: Need your daily Tibet fix? Of course you do, so check......

*CLUB: Proving that crystal meth has yet to ravage the entire gay population of San Francisco, "Planet Big" shows that the queer heavy-set sect is alive and kicking in the Bay Area. DJs Amadeus and Chub Jim spin for the chubs (and their admirers) until the wee hours of the morning. ...

ROCK MUSIC: Kinks tunes take over SOMA's Eagle Tavern by way of all-female cover band, the Minks. The B Cups, The Yes-Go's, and Facts on File also perform tonight at this gritty bar's weekly rock concert series, Thursday Night Live. 9 p.m. // Eagle Tavern (398 - 12th Street) // $6 DJ MUSIC: Baile, dancehall, tech-funk, and hip-house DJ genius, Diplo, opens up for electro Parisian pair, Justice at this arena-club party in the......

MUSIC: Oy! A Jewish Music Festival? In a goyim neighborhood? Yes! Hayes Valley hosts part of the "23rd Annual Jewish Music Festival," featuring New York City's Golem ("This is not your father's Klezmer band ... unless your father was Sid Vicious," cheers Jewish Week!) and Lord Loves a Working Man ("These men pour their hearts out in songs that make audience members alternately work up a sweat and hold each other very, very close," well-crafts SF Weekly!) Will there be Fanny Brice covers? Find out tonight at the Rickshaw Stop....

Photo credit: Sadisco*/Flickr *MUSIC: Alter Der Ruine, W.A.S.T.E., Syndika:Zero, DJ Intoner, Unit 77, Holy Filament, and Mr. Smith bring on the industrial-electro thrashing over in SOMA tonight. Alter Der Ruine, though, is the big draw for the night. What do they sound like? Well, they're all a wee bit noisy. And seem rather angry. But John Graham over at SF Weekly explains it better. 9 p.m. // DNA Lounge (375 - 11th Street) //......

*MUSIC: At Yoshi's East Bay, there's a star studded benefit for Christopher Rodriguez. The 8 p.m. shows features such jazz notables as Roger Glenn, John Santos, Narada Michael Walden, Kai Eckhardt, Zoe Ellis, Keith Terry, Tina Glenn, Rafael Manriquez, Matt Herskowitz, Alvenson, the Baguette Quartette, the Oakland Jazz Choir, the Fluteville Flute Choir, Carol Alban, Nancy Tyler, and members of the Bay Area Chamber Symphony. The 10 p.m. shows has George Brooks, Kai Eckhardt,......

*CLUB: This hidden gem of a nightclub is hosting some major funk sounds tonight with its aptly titled party, "Funkonnection." Tonight's double bill features Ninja Tune and UK legend Mr. Scruff. Dutch nu-funk masters Kraak & Smaak, and locals superstars Vinnie Esparza (who we can't recommend enough), Motion Potion, and Malarkey also man the decks tonight. A perfect way to preface the Easter Weekend. 10 p.m. // Mighty (119 Utah) // $18-$21 FILM: Perfect......

*FILM: Mothra is playing tonight at the Clay! This 1961 Japanese cult sci-fi classic has a giant moth acting like a big meanie. According to Wikipedia, the B-move is about "[a]n expedition to an irradiated island brings civilization in contact with a primitive native culture. When one sensationalist entrepreneur tries to exploit the islanders, their ancient deity arises in retaliation." And that deity? Is Mothra. 7:30 p.m. // Clay Theater (2261 Fillmore) // $9.50......