-- Bambi Lake-inspired cabaret duo Kiki and Herb perform at ACT. (Also, did you know that they met at Café Flore in the Castro before they became totally famous? It's true.) Show starts at 8 p.m. at American Conservatory Theater, 415 Geary; $20-$60. -- Marke B judges a damp jockstrap contest come midnight at ‘70s/‘80s retro dance club “The Rod.” Damn perverts. All of them. Goes from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. at Deco......

Community Hero: At YBCA (701 Mission @ 3rd) is a screening of the African Film, Sango Malo by Bassek Ba Kobhio, the story of an idealistic new teacher in a rural school whose plans for radical praxis bringing social change to students and villagers is met by strong resistance from the headmaster and the village chief. Co-presented by California Newsreel, the San Francisco Black Film Festival, the Museum of the African Diaspora Present and Yerba......

It's a sad for us at SFist when we see a journalist even lazier than we are, but we've found one in The New York Times' Nathan Lee. In a move that seems almost calculated to make The San Francisco Chronicle entertainment coverage seem less lame, Lee makes himself sound kind of silly in his review of locally produced film Quality of Life. Here's how the piece opens: The Mission District of San Francisco......

The New York Times, and the even more trusted Fangoria magazine, are reporting that Showtime has pulled Takashi Miike's short film "Imprint" from its series "Masters of Horror." Instead the episode will be released direct to DVD, although a release date has not been set. Miike's film Audition was one of the most horrifying things we've ever seen. EVER. So we wonder what the producers of "Masters of Horror" could have possibly been expecting.......

Well, the Chronicle has their watch-thingie to pick on small, local bay area officials about semi-trivial issues like broken signs, graffitti and potholes. Since we're small and local, we'll turn it around and pick on a big official on semi-trivial issues like journalistic ethics, campaign financing ethics and, well, potholes. Seems Skeletor Maria Shriver is kind of back to working on the Today Show, at least in the capacity of vetting guests that have......

We initially passed this press release from the Author's Guild along to Gothamist Jen so that she could get the scoop on Gawker and FishbowlNY. Why? Because it looks like the Author's Guild along with the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981, have come through with an $18 million dollar settlement for copyright infringement by companies like Time, Inc., The New York Times and the Wall......

One of SFist's favorite writers, Michael Pollan, was interviewed in California Monthly magazine. And we have the link!...