Chinese New Year Parade and Festival: Festival-goers might actually enjoy a dry Chinese New Year extravaganza this year. Leave those umbrellas and ponchos as home! more ›

A wayward teenaged Jesus heads East, lovelorn bike enthusiasts pair up, and an award-winning quarterly magazine showcases the best work by world-renowned photojournalists. more ›

Super Bowl, Schmuper Bowl, here's some other stuff that's going on — 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' at the Castro, experimental surf/garage rock at the Hemlock, and a solo theater performance at Stage Werx. more ›

Adam Savage, Whil Wheaton, and Paul and Storm honor geek culture, the stage adaptation of Cory Doctorow's 'Little Brother' predicts the near future, and record swap at the Knockout. more ›

COMEDY: SF Sketchfest presents a rare Stella reunion, in which the crew pays homage to their early "Nightclub" days, when they hosted a weekly showcase for alternative and mainstream comedy. The event features special surprise guest comedians and live music by Release the Sunbird featuring Zach Rogue. (Get there early to score some door tickets.) (7 p.m., Mezzanine, 444 Jessie Street) more ›

We like Jonathan Moscone, and have admired his directing talents often at CalShakes and A.C.T., and this week a play that is very close to his heart and life premiered at Berkeley Rep. Ghost Light, which was written by longtime Berkeley Rep artistic director Tony Taccone and co-conceived by Moscone, who serves both as director and as the central character — Taccone insists this is a "character" based on Jonathan who happens to be named Jonathan, but you get the point — is a play about a son struggling with the death of his famous father many years after that father was assassinated and made national headlines. And that father was slain San Francisco mayor George Moscone. more ›

MUSIC: Alcoholocaust presents a stellar night of veteran Bay Area Alternative Tentacles bands, including Victims Family, Fleshies, and Pins Of Light. (9 p.m., Elbo Room, 947 Valencia 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 ›

It's an old-timey theme here at SFist Tonight. See a Buster Keaton classic in Berkeley, hear some gritty blues at Cafe Du Nord, or experience spellbinding theater at the Old Mint. more ›

Tomorrow marks the first preview of Ghost Light, a new play co-conceived and directed by Jonathan Moscone about the life and death of his father, slain San Francisco mayor George Moscone. Moscone is a regular on the theater scene in the Bay Area, serving currently as artistic director of the California Shakespeare Theater and occasional director at both A.C.T. and Berkeley rep, and he says he was inspired to create this piece after watching the film Milk, and realizing his father's role as a gay rights advocate has been overshadowed by Harvey Milk, alongside whom he was killed, and thus has not made it into the history books. more ›

FILM: The Castro presents a screening of Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, which is centered around a rare interview that director and friend Tamra Davis shot with Basquiat over twenty years ago, chronicling the meteoric rise and fall of the artist, as part of a double-feature screening with Bill Cunningham, New York. (5 and 8:05 p.m., Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street) more ›

MUSIC: Spend your New Year's shaking that a$$ to witty, high-energy hip hop by Kreayshawn (who now lives in Los Angeles), and smart/quirky electronic indie by Wallpaper, along with Roach Gigz, Starting Six, DJ Amen, and DJ Fatboy. (8 p.m., The Regency Ballroom, 1290 Sutter Street) more ›

COMEDY: You have a few days left to catch the tenth-year run of the acclaimed Santaland Diaries, Joe Mantello's stage adaptation of David Sedaris' instant Christmas classic told through the eyes of a Macy's elf who "confronts the screaming children, bossy parents, flaky elves, and apathetic Santas with hilarious results." (8 p.m., Eureka Theater, 215 Jackson Street) more ›

FILM: The documentary Eames: The Architect and the Painter takes a look at the personal lives of the revolutionary husband and wife design team, along with their influence on significant events in American life — from the development of modernism to the rise of the computer age. (6:45 p.m., Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street) more ›

The current production in The Shotgun Players' 20th anniversary season is God's Plot, a world premiere by Bay Area playwright and director Mark Jackson. It takes as its subject the first play ever performed in America, a colonial satire called Ye Barre & Ye Cubbe, and tells the story of the ever-theatrical Puritan settlers in a village a day's journey from Jamestown who staged it. According to a new review in the East Bay Express (we're letting them pinch-hit on this one since it's kind of a busy week), the play is "well crafted, comprehensible, and wildly entertaining," and there's music in it too. more ›

After the America's Cup pushed Teatro ZinZanni out of its current Embarcadero home, Mayor Lee announced today that the dinner-theater show's new spot will be located at a triangular parcel, located where Broadway and Davis meet the Embarcadero. "I am delighted that Teatro ZinZanni, one of San Francisco’s valued organizations, is staying on our beautiful waterfront where they will continue to keep hundreds of jobs here locally and serve thousands of residents and visitors," said Mayor Lee. more ›

MUSIC: Bay Area faves, Papercuts, whose latest album, Fading Parade, is described as "[i]magine Belle & Sebastian teaming up with Slowdive and recording with Phil Spector back when he was killing it in the studio rather than, well, you know," will be at the Rickshaw tonight, along with Dominant Legs and Tim Cohen's Magic Trick. (9 p.m., Rickshaw Stop, 155 Fell Street) more ›

Local 4AD duo Tune-Yards performs, the Actors Theatre of San Francisco presents Savage in Limbo, and Kitty Von Quim, Kiss Me Kate, Sheba Queen of the Night and host Dottie Lux shake for your pleasure. more ›

COMEDY: Club Chuckles presents its 8-year anniversary show, featuring "a not-to-be-missed lineup" of heavy-hitters, including Neil Hamburger (Drag CIty), Natasha Leggero, Tim Heidecker (Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job), Duncan Trussell, and The Kenny “K-Strass” Strasser Yo-Yo Extravaganza. All-ages, seated show. (8 to 11 p.m., Verdi Club, 2424 Mariposa) more ›

FILM: Girls in Tech presents a screening of Jennifer Seibel's acclaimed documentary, Miss Representation, which "exposes how American youth are being sold the concept that women and girls’ value lies in their youth, beauty and sexuality," aiming to "break that cycle of mistruths." (6:30 to 9:30 p.m., Parisoma Innovation Loft, 169 11th Street) more ›

FILM: Bad Movie Night kicks off its "Belated '80s Sequels" series with Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, A.V. Club notes, "The first time around, Wall Street felt like a warning about the perils of excess just as excess started to exact its toll. This one’s little more than a reminder that we all got, and remain, screwed. " (8 p.m., Dark Room Theater, 2263 Mission Street) more ›

THEATER: Kularts presents You Will Gonna Go Crazy, "a hilariously sad and lyrical semi-autobiographical multimedia dance-theatre play" and coming-of-age story exploring the traumatic impacts of racist history on the Filipino American family, based on interviews, unpublished diaries, memoirs, and personal archives. (8 p.m., Bayanihan Community Center, 1010 Mission Street) more ›

It's amazing how the 1960s, which much of the culture has grown tired of making reference to over the years, have managed to become way more relevant in recent weeks than they felt during the anti-war protests of 2003. Even as we watched the Public Theater's revival of Hair in its premiere run at Shakespeare in the Park three years ago, directed by Diane Paulus, we thought to ourselves, "Huh. The new generation of twentysomethings can probably relate to this in a way that Gen X really couldn't, at least when we were in our 20s." more ›

ART: Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts presents a sneak preview of its 34th Annual Day of the Dead exhibition, Death in Parallel, featuring stories, photos, home video and personal artifacts remembering and honoring the dead. (6 p.m., Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, 2868 Mission Street) more ›

Kevin Spacey makes a great villain. We were remembering this recently when some basic cable channel was playing Se7en, and he of course won his first Oscar for playing Keyser Söze in The Usual Suspects. And holy shit were we reminded again last night at the U.S. premiere of Richard III at the Curran Theater — as directed by Sam Mendes originally for the Old Vic in London. We haven't seen enough of Spacey in recent years, and it's because he's been holed up across the pond working on projects like this, and we can tell you right now he hasn't lost an ounce of his signature creepiness, or his acting chops. more ›

Some plays are more beguiling and moving than you expect them to be, at least upon hearing the basic outline, and that's definitely the case with Bill Cain's How to Write a New Book for the Bible, which just had its world premiere last night at Berkeley Rep. It's a taut and at moments incredibly sad play, which takes as its subject a son caring for his dying mother in her final months. The play is pure autobiography -- the main character's name is Bill, and Cain has named the other characters after his family as well, mother Mary, brother Paul, and his father Pete -- but Cain has suffused the action with enough subtle, simple theatrical magic to keep it from feeling self-indulgent. more ›

If you want to catch Teatro ZinZanni's final show at Pier 29, called On the Air, you'll need to get on it quick. The new production itself--about a local radio station in need of funding to stay on the air--mirrors ZinZanni's own plight about being forced out, if you will, by the America's Cup. ZinZanni announced the news on their site, saying: 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's Girls, who are said by the New York Times to have an "Elvis Costello, Buddy Holly, and The Beach Boys" sort of vibe take the stage with SF's Sonny and the Sunsets performing "doo-wop laden, beach-ready tunes." Also featuring guest Carletta Sue Kay. (8 p.m., Great American Music Hall, 859 O'Farrell Street) more ›