Tonight, Neon Indian brings his acid trip to the Fillmore, author Hanne Blank discusses the short history of the term "heterosexual" at the Valencia Street Good Vibrations, and artists create, then sell their work on the spot at 111 Minna. more ›

Tonight, Amsterdam's Le Le hits Mighty SF during SFMOMA's free party, Chronicle Books hosts AIGA’s 50 Books/50 Covers exhibition, and Ben Fong-Torres interviews blues-folk legend Maria Muldaur live and onstage at JCCSF. more ›

Tonight, Jane Lynch makes a last-minute appearance at JCCSF, beloved Broadway performers Faith Prince and Jason Graae perform their most requested numbers, and Corvid College gives prospective students a taste of cutting edge, radical education. more ›

FILM: The "fascinating and even-handed documentary," Cleanflix, explores the world of the backroom entrepreneurs in Utah who clean-up racy Hollywood films to suit the puritanical Mormon community, resulting in "twists, turns and a sex scandal that surely would disqualify it from rental shelves around Salt Lake City." (7pm and 9p.m., Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street) more ›

THEATER: You still have a couple of weeks to catch Britain's Kneehigh Theater Group's The Wild Bride at Berkeley Rep, which was extended through the 22nd. SFist Jay enjoyed the production, which he says takes "a particularly dark (and arguably feminist) fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm called 'The Girl Without Hands,' and views it through a Southern Gothic lens, complete with banjo-and-bass bluegrass songs, and a lot of dancing." (8 p.m., Berkeley Repertory Theatre, 2025 Addison Street) more ›

FILM: Delight in some yuletide noir classics at Castro Theatre's 2nd annual Noir City XMas 2011, featuring a double feature screening of Lady on a Train and Christmas Holiday. Additionally, the full schedule for the 10th anniversary edition of the Castro's Noir City X, which happens January 20-29, 2012, will be revealed. (7:30 to 11 p.m., Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street) more ›

TALK: Ben Fong-Torres will be interviewing composer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Taj Mahal, one of the most prominent and influential figures in contemporary blues and roots music, with accompaniment by live musical interludes. (8 p.m., Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, 3200 California Street) more ›

MUSIC: New Zealand's The Renderers will fill the Hemlock with their psychedelic noise rock, which they've been making since before the 90s, along with folk psych-rockers Sore Eros from Northampton, Massachusetts and the Bay Area's Christine Shields. (9 p.m., Hemlock Tavern, 1131 Polk Street) more ›

ART: Berkeley Center for New Media presents a lecture entitled, Fear and Fun, by San Francisco based artist Kal Spelletich, who builds interactive machines, robots and installations, putting people in touch with intense real life experiences in order to empower them. (7:30 p.m., Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley) more ›

MUSIC: SF Bay Area Django Rheinhardtophiles unite at tonight's Django by the Bay celebration, featuring Le Jazz Hot (the quartet of the Hot Club of SF), Doug Martin's Avatar Ensemble, and Vic & Nick performing a whole lot of stringed instruments in the gypsy jazz tradition. (8 p.m., Yoshi's San Francisco, 1330 Fillmore Street) more ›

Get wooed tonight at the Rickshaw by the sounds of bands who are named after an Asian fruit and a Japanese dog, respectively, peruse the works of artists who utilize city services to thrive here, and learn about an artist who grew up in Nazi-era Berlin. more ›

MUSIC: San Francisco's Veronica Klaus is performing two encore performances of her new show with the Tammy Hall Trio, featuring some of her favorite Peggy Lee songs, both well-known and more obscure. Get your tickets now before the show sells out! (8 p.m., The Razz Room, 222 Mason Street) more ›

TALK: Wired's Steven Levy speaks in conversation with journalist John Battelle at Inside Google: The Myths, the Culture and the Secret Sauce, about his book In the Plex, in which Levy dives deep into Google management, its products and its company culture, uncovering untold stories and unpacking the mythology behind Google. more ›

MUSIC: "Rollicking" garage jazz quartet, Bait & Switch, featuring bassist Lisa Mezzacappa, performs original music inspired by adventurous jazz masters like Ornette Coleman, Henry Threadgill, the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Eric Dolphy, funneling "improvisational collectivity into finely honed compositions steeped in free jazz abandon, avant-Caribbean groove and garage rock attitude." more ›

MUSIC/ART: Experience the Sights and Sounds of Punks in Contemporary Mexico tonight with an artist’s talk by Juan Luna-Avin, who traces the history of punk music in Mexico from the late 1970s to the present in a lecture format, accompanied by lively music samples, DIY videos and interviews of key characters from the scene, followed by a live performance by punk band Desmadre en Krisis. more ›

FILM: Noise Pop presents The Extraordinary Ordinary Life Of José González, which uses a video diary, surveillance camera, concert footage, tour documentation and animation, to convey the inner workings of the life and mind of world renowned musician José González. more ›

ART: Members of the Bay Area Derby Girls are tonight's models at the titillating monthly Dr. Sketchy series. See the work people have done at past shows, and also be sure to check out the Sketch Tuesday series in the adjacent gallery at 111 Minna. more ›

TALK: Head to Berkeley for a refreshing take on life in the 21st century and beyond in An Optimist’s Tour of the Future, in which writer, deep-thinker, and stand-up comedian Mark Stevenson talks about his travels around the globe in pursuit of answers on what the future holds, resulting in surprisingly reassuring discoveries. more ›

COMEDY: SF Sketchfest presents Airplane! Tribute to Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, the film's brilliant writing and directing team. Joining the team onstage will be their leading man Robert Hays ("Ted Striker") and moderator Chris Hardwick (Web Soup) for an evening of funny stories and an audience Q&A. more ›

COMEDY: The refreshingly goofy Kristen Schaal, most notably known as Flight of the Conchords' biggest fan and a regular correspondent on The Daily Show, will be at Cobb's all weekend. Schaal's new book with co-author Rich Blomquist looks like a fun read. more ›

FILM: Fresh celebrates the farmers, thinkers, and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system and confronting the consequences of industrialized agriculture: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity. Runs through Thursday. more ›

TALK: Illustrator, artist, designer, and author Maira Kalman, whose delightful work appeals to adults and kids alike and is currently on exhibit at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, has come out with a new book 13 Words, in collaboration with writer Lemony Snicket, aka Daniel Handler. The two will speak in conversation with Steven Winn, who is the San Francisco Chronicle's Arts and Culture Critic. more ›

MUSIC: Birmingham, Alabama's Dan Sartain, who "sounds as if Jonathan Richman wanted to be Hank Williams instead of Lou Reed or if The Voidoids were fronted by Hasil Adkins," will perform his "beautifully sparse arrangements of eloquent... despair." Leopold & His Fiction and The Twinks will also perform. more ›

ART: Designers and Artists and SF Station present Pop Up Pop Art, featuring a new series of work by artist Oliver Maxwell Kupper, The Beautiful and the Damned, and "pop up" fashions by Serial Cultura, Van Kim Le, and Free Gold Watch. more ›

WORKSHOP: Well, that looks pretty cool. Learn how to make your own cardboard synthesizer at the Outsound New Music Summit's How to Build Your Own Skatchbox Demo. San Francisco veteran instrument builder Tom Nunn and his co-conspirator David Michalak from TD Skatchit will show you how to do it using ordinary household tools. more ›

MUSIC: Correction: Black Crown Stringband will perform "fiddle driven old-time numbers, twisted up bluegrass standards and plain old straight ahead mountain music at Belle Monroe and Her Brewglass Boys bring their clever name and hard-driving bluegrass "infused with positive energy and heartfelt showmanship" to this week's Free Bluegrass Monday at Amnesia. more ›

PHOTOGRAPHY: RayKo Photo Center presents their first exhibition of the summer, featuring the work of Julie Anand and Damon Sauer, collaborative artists based in the Sonoran desert of Phoenix, Arizona, entitled Between, in which the artists shred and reorganize large scale photographs, questioning conventionally-defined boundaries. Also on display is Epigraph, a collection of SF-based Luis Delgado-Qualtrough’s artist books, the content of which ranges from documentary photography to a cinematic approach. more ›

ART: In Amicus Monstrum, long-time gallery artists and friends, Scott C. and Nathan Stapley, will showcase paintings that tall tales of charming monsters and friendly mythological figures. more ›

TALK: Andy Bichlbaum, leading member of The Yes Men will speak with the Chronicle's Joe Garofoli about The Yes Men's latest documentary, The Yes Men Fix the World, which has been hailed as "a riotous reminder that patriotism is often misconstrued as troublemaking." more ›