-- Doug Benson: How he didn't win the last season of Last Comic Standing is above and beyond all logic. Then again, competitive reality TV makes little sense at times. (See: Banks, Tyra) Benson managed to make it on LCS not once, but twice. And with good reason: he's downright hilarious. Nikki Glaser and Mo Mandel open for the Benson. Show starts at 8 p.m. (and continues until Saturday) at the Punch Line; $15.......

What happens when nearly 30 local artists create works of art made entirely from reclaimed and recycled materials? Head over tonight (or sometime this month) to find out at the Market Street Gallery for ReArt: The Art of Reuse. till 5pm, 1554 Market Street,SF. More art for the month of June - local artist David Benzler had been all over the thriving Mission district art scene for the last several years. His latest work......

Everybody dance now! Take in a "thought provoking" dance/theater performance with CounterPULSE's Under the Radar tiny caberet featuring an international cast of disabled and non-disabled performers. Consider what it means to be normal. Jess Curtis directs, and the performance takes place at 1310 Mission (at 9th Street). Since it's the first week, tickets are only $10 - 15. Reservations and info, call 415-435-7552 or email info@counterpulse.org . Spot Francis Ford Coppola, maybe. We'll take......

The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium of Berkeley's Center for New Media presents The Re-Dematerialization of the Art Object with guest speakers Matmos, the SF musical collab of M C Schmidt and Drew Daniel. Back in the 1970s, art writer and curator, Lucy Lippard wrote about the rise of conceptual art in an anthology entitled The Dematerialization of the Art Object, charting art's movement from producing things to disseminating ideas. Matmos talks about this in......

In the spirit of New Year's Eve, we present to you the bad idea that is the Art Shell drink....

-Rams 20, Raiders 0- On ESPN's Sports Guy column, they joked about the Raiders' season. The punch line was the title of Art Shell's book: "It Worked So Well In Practice: The Art Shell Story." Which sums up the Raiders season--. comedy gold, Jerry, comedy gold. ...

After reading the harrowing tale of the Kim family and how Mrs. Kim kept her children alive by breastfeeding them, we feel a bit blasé about all these fine food and cocktail party charitable events tonight. But since we are fortunate enough to not be in a life-or-death struggle for survival ... At the Rickshaw Stop (155 Fell between Van Ness & Franklin), Root Division presents Spectacle: A Cocktail Party and Visual Carnival, with......

While the San Francisco Public Library site is up, their search is not! Far be it from us to criticize anyone for the occasional technical bobble. Get well soon, SFPL search! SFist Rita just finished Fantasyland by Sam Walker, a book about how the author (a sportswriter for the Wall Street Journal) did in the most competitive fantasy baseball league in the country, in 2004. It's pretty hilarious even (or especially) if you don't know......

We're drooling after seeing what our fellow 'Fisters are reading this week. We have to admit that food-related are the only books we prefer to buy as opposed to borrow, maybe because we promise ourselves that we will get around to making the mentioned dishes. Not that we ever do. SFist Derrick is reading through the latest issue of The Art of Eating, which always jumps to the head of the reading queue when......

Inspired by this weekend's hijinks, we tracked down Ron English's latest show, Son of Pop, which opens at Varnish Fine Art tonight, June 2, from 7-11 pm. Though fascinated with the same sorts of pop-culture subjects as Andy Warhol, he treats them with a different, more overtly subversive aesthetic. Known as the father of "agit-pop," English juxtaposes a highly critical political sensibility with modern advertising techniques, using his message to alter their meaning. Aided......

All the culture jammers said hey (haaaa-yeeee) on Friday night at the Women's Building, for the first SF DocFest screening of Pop-aganda: The Art and Crimes of Ron English by Pedro Carvala, and the film short Fridge by Brian Perkins and friend of SFist Jason Blalock. Pop-aganda is a profile of the artist Ron English, who's made a specialty of 1) guerrilla billboards and 2) paintings about the commodification of pop culture, and Fridge is about magnetic poetry in San Francisco. Like the films' introducer said, "these films are -- well, I don't want to say pranky....", to a resounding "whoo!!!" in the crowd. What happens when you take a refrigerator into the streets of San Francisco, and ladies with Mickey Mouse boobies, after the jump. Pop-Aganda and Fridge play again on May 21 at 10 p.m. Art by Ron English...