Here's another chance to score a pair of tickets to the Asian Art Museum's popular Matcha series. The fifth person to email us at sfistevents@gmail.com wins -- be sure to include Matcha in the subject, along with your full name. Update: Contest closed. more ›

Update: Contest Closed. Here's a chance to win a pair of tickets to this Thursday's Matcha at the Asian Art Museum, featuring Balinese Jazz Guitar. Email your full name to sfistevents@gmail.com and include Matcha in the subject heading, and the fifth entrant wins the tickets. more ›

A friend of SFist spotted a pretty haggard-looking Dave Chappelle in the FiDi last week sporting bloodshot eyes that screamed, "Don't you dare talk to me." Hopefully Chappelle got his rest over the weekend because Cobb's just announced that he's playing yet another couple of impromptu shows tonight at 8 and 10:30 p.m. more ›

Tomorrow night is another installment of Matcha at the Asian Art Museum, and you can win tickets! Email sfistevents@gmail.com with MATCHA in the subject, and verify your full name while you're at it. The seventh entrant scores the tickets. more ›

Luckily for the Bay Area, Dave Chappelle loves to hang out here for prolonged periods of time and ends up performing impromptu shows while he's here. After performing two sets of sold-out, last-minute gigs at Cobb's on Thursday and Friday after his stellar night with Lauryn Hill at The New Parish last Wednesday, he's back for another round tomorrow night. As of this posting, tickets are still available for both the 8 and 10:30 p.m. shows at $55 a pop, plus a $12.10 convenience fee. more ›

The Asian Art Museum presents -- for just three days only (April 19-21) -- the exclusive Pure Views exhibition, a special installation of brand new works by some of China's most world-renowned and emerging artists. The closing night of the exhibit, which coincides with the museum's MATCHA event next Thursday, will feature a panel discussion about art in China today amongst four of the featured artists, along with critic Liu Chun and curator Lu Peng. more ›

Well, that was fast. Guess we won't be seeing Britney this Sunday at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. After the damaged pop unicorn moved her concert from the Castro to the Civic Center, tickets were required to see her Sunday performance for Good Morning America. However, just minutes after going live this morning, free tickets were snapped up right-quick. more ›

Cobb's Comedy Club just announced a couple of last-minute Dave Chappelle performances for tomorrow night. (He's also there tonight, but the shows sold out fast.) more ›

At 10 am today, tickets for Burning Man, the popular gala in the desert, will go on sale. While ticket prices can seem, well, price - they run anywhere from $210 to $320 - the event organizers do have a low income program available, which you can apply for on January 26. more ›

This should go over swimmingly with some San Franciscans. Looking to fill Muni's $21 million budget shortfall, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency officials plan on ticketing divers more in 2011. Yes, in lieu of raising fares (at least for now), "[t]he agency plans to redeploy parking control officers to better capture meter revenue and issue citations." more ›

Thursday night's Matcha: Ghosts & Golden Clouds is the last Matcha of the season. Email sfistevents@gmail.com with Matcha in the subject heading and include your full name. The seventh entrant wins the tickets! more ›

While National League division series tix against the Atlanta Braves are sold out -- technically, anyway -- should the Giants advance to the National League championship series, tickets go on sale tomorrow at 3 p.m. at www.sfgiants.com/postseason or via877-4-SFGTIX. In related news, you should all be hanging Giants flags of posting anything with orange and black combination in your windows, to honor the Giants and Halloween. [Mercury News] more ›

The annual Free Night of Theater is almost here! It starts on Friday and runs through the entire month of October. The general giveaway for local tickets will begin tonight at 6 p.m. via Theatre Bay Area, so get those fingers/computers ready. Protip: Sign up for your Patron ID now to save time. more ›

Here's a chance to win two tickets to Joe Goode Performance Group's Traveling Light on July 9th at 10 p.m. at the historic Old Mint building, which is rarely open to the public. Email tickets@joegoode.org with "SFIST" in the subject line, and verify your full name while you're at it. The tenth entrant scores the tickets. Contest Closed. more ›

In just a two weeks, baseball season opens. And with that comes hope--and lots of it--for a seamless Giants season. Which, typically, crashes and burns by early summer. But? We have faith this year. We do. We really do. We need to believe. And with tickets starting out at a mere $10 per game, so should you. (Except you weird auténtico baseball fans living in SF who, inexplicably, root for the A's. You be sure to have fun at--chortle--The Coliseum.) more ›

We have another giveaway for a pair of tickets to next Thursday's MATCHA: Shanghai Jazz event. The fifth entrant to email us (sfistevents@gmail.com) their full name (and include MATCHA in the subject) wins! Update: CONTEST CLOSED. Congrats, L.W.! more ›

"Creating this ticket is more or less equivalent to printing money, since each one is valued over $200," notes San Francisco-based graphic designer Arin Fishkin, who created this year's Burning Man ticket. "Security features include embossing and two separate foil stamps, including one holographic. The ticket is also meant to be a tiny piece of art that builds enthusiasm and communicates the theme of the event (this year its Metropolis)." more ›

Thursday is the final installment of this season's Matcha series at the Asian Art Museum, and the theme is Thai River Festival, a very special Loi Krathong celebration. more ›

Hmm. We're not sure where most of you stand on Lady Gaga. Many of you claim to loathe her, some of you secretly love her. Why, it was just a few months ago in March that she was performing at Mezzanine and 715 Harrison. Now she's canceling her tour with Kanye West, wearing bubbles, and hanging out with Madonna. more ›

On Sunday night, the irreverent Lewis Black will tear into his favorite subjects, such as politics, religion, and "other American foolishness," live and uncensored in Back in Black, a conversation with former Air America Radio host and "sometime feral cat wrangler" Marc Maron. Black will also discuss his book We of Little Faith, and there will be an audience Q & A and book signing. All proceeds will benefit Litquake, which is celebrating its 10-year anniversary. more ›

If you're planning to purchase lawn tickets for any Shoreline Amphitheatre concerts this summer, be sure to get them via Live Nation on a select No Service Fee Wednesday, including today, for an all-in-one price of $24.99. This is an especially great deal for concerts such as Depeche Mode and Def Leppard/Poison/Cheap Trick, where regular lawn tickets start at $40, once all of the annoying service fees are factored in. more ›

Single-day tickets for Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival go on sale Sunday. Yay, you! On June 21 at 10 a.m., you can buy single-day tickets to see such critically-lavished acts as Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band and Beastie Boys, Tom Jones, Modest Mouse, and M.I.A., just to name a few. You can buy them at at www.SFOutsidelands.com. The festival erupts in Golden Gate Park on August 28 - 30th. They go for $89 or $235/VIP . (Hey, look, they even have a layaway plan!) more ›

Litquake is celebrating their 10th anniversary tonight with a fundraiser called, "Cocktails with Canin." Author Ethan Canin, who is currently promoting the paperback release of his epic novel, America America, which was described by the late John Updike as “a complicated, many-layered epic of class, politics, sex, death, and social history,” will be sharing cocktails and conversation onstage with former San Francisco Chronicle book editor Oscar Villalon and the audience. more ›

The San Francisco Giants just announced that they're reducing ticket prices. Why? Who's to say, exactly. The economy, chronic plague of empty seats at AT&T Park, boredom with baseball; fans realizing that garlic fries just aren't as tasty as they sound -- one guess is as good as the other. (But! If they somehow installed an In-N-Out franchise, perhaps things might change. We'd be more than willing to pay full ticket price on a regular basis so that we don't have to go to Fisherman's Wharf, home to SF's only In-N-Out restaurant.) Anyway, for the Giants vs. Dodgers series at AT&T Park April 27-29, you can score tickets for pretty damn cheap. Lower box goes for $28 (normally $42); view reserve, $18 ($24); and bleacher seats, $15 ($25). Get 'em while they're hot. (Use the code 'RIVALS' to get this offer.) more ›

Thousands of students lined up in Berkeley on Wednesday to get tickets to see professional celebrity and sometime activist, the Dalai Lama, scheduled to appear April 25 at the Greek Theater. According to Daily Clog's Alex Bigman, "we haven’t seen lines like this since Star Wars: Episode I came out." He goes on to say the Lama's appearance is the "coolest thing to take place at the Greek since that Steely Dan show." Tickets for the general public go on sale on March 23.< more ›

Here's your chance to win a spot on Grand Ole Party's guest list for their upcoming concert with Rogue Wave on Saturday night at the Fillmore. We promised and we never break our promises. (Well, at least we try not to.) more ›

Saturday night we had the pleasure to watch one of Noise Pop's most intriguing local acts: Wallpaper. We interviewed Eric Frederic - the man behind it all - earlier in the week and had even listened to his new EP, T REX on his MySpace page but we had no idea it was going to be that much fun. We were on such a high from Wallpaper's set that we didn't want to ruin it so we left early and missed Immigrant and headliner, Panther. more ›

Those goddamn, dirty, lovable hippies known as the Grateful Dead -- i.e., Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, and Phil Lesh -- reunite tonight in honor of (our future president) Barack Obama. Looking to snare to what Joe Garofoli refers to as, "California's gray-haired ponytail vote," the Dead is backing Obama. Minus, Jerry Garcia, of course, since he is now most literally a dead head. more ›

Tickets, tickets, anyone want some tickets? We have two tickets to Friday's concert at Slim's featuring: Until June, Matt White and Melee. We've already told you that you don't want to be late to this show, because all three bands are equally as good. more ›

Tickets are $20.00 general admission plus applicable service charges...all ages more ›