The following is a contest from our sponsor, Joe Jackson's Rain. Recorded with the rhythm section that accompanied him on the classics Look Sharp and I’m the Man, Joe Jackson returns with Rain. In classic Jackson style, Rain is full of humor, swing, sophistication, barbed social commentary... and those perfect songs. Rain is already seeing acclaim from everyone from Paste to Stereogum to USA Today. Catch Joe Jackson’s tour as it lands in n Redwood......

In a city littered with film festivals, few of them stand out. This is one of them. Starting this Thursday (11/6), the San Francisco International Animation Festival will sample a wide array of animation with a selection of the finest, boldest and most exciting animated films and videos from around the world, including frame-by-frame and computer-assisted animation. The festival opens with Leslie Iwerks' examination of Pixar, perhaps the best-known and most successful animation house......

It's the end of the week -- and it's our last Frameline LGBT film fest ticket giveaway. The last one's a blowout, though -- it's passes for you and a friend to the sold-out closing night movie and party Sunday night! Whoooo! Frameline goes out in style, starting out with Sunday night's 7:30 p.m. Castro screening of Itty Bitty Titty Committee at the Castro, an exuberantly-idealistic radical feminist punk rocker romantic comedy by the......

We hope we've worked you into a frenzy with all these free passes to SF Int'l Film Fest movies this weekend! Here's our last set -- after this, you're on your own to catch all the fantastic films they're screening from now until May 10. (Don't forget to check back at SFist for our reviews of the movies too.) Want to check out some film this Sunday afternoon? The Unforeseen, a documentary set in one......

Hey everyone, we got yet another ticket giveaway for y'all. It's for a dance performance, The Shape of Poison, at the ODC Theater and the tickets are for Friday's premiere engagement. So what's up with this performance? Well, according to the hand-dandy press release, it's a mash up of Buddhism and modern dance performed by ODC artist-in-residence Manuelito Biag and his stable of dancers. ...

If you've somehow managed to miss all the press coverage of Murderball, the award winning documentary about quadriplegic rugby players, SFist is here to save you from cultural illiteracy with yet another ticket giveaway! Enter below NOW for passes for two to a special Wednesday, July 20 at 7:30 screening of Murderball at the Embarcadero Cinema (and don't forget to tell them happy birthday. Remember, if you write for an "-ist", don't enter, and......

SFist has seen our traffic spike since the change in calendars, setting a new record for sessions in a 24 hour period on Tuesday. We'd like to think that it's because of the incredible popularity of our SFist Cares feature (it should be), but we have a feeling it's because we've taken the WULAD approach to increasing our readership -- Britney Spears' baby, anyone? Speaking of which, this weekend marks the anniversary of Roe......