MUSIC: San Francisco's favorite crooner, Utah-born singer/songwriter Spencer Day, performs tonight at the one of the city's newest music venues, the Rrazz Room located at Hotel Nikko. COMEDY: Let hilarity wash over you with the comedic stylings of Arj Barker, Kristopher Tinkle ("Tinkle" = hee!), and Matt Morales. They hit the mic tonight at Punchline. *FILM: SF Indiefest is going on, folks. Tonight check out La Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo, 7:15 p.m. at......

Yay APAture! Tomorrow night is their film night at the Victoria Theater. This screening looks awesome: how can you not want to watch movies titled, among other things, "Since You've Been Ong," "Dick Ho: Asian Male Porn Star," or "Kiss My Hyphen?" Noted documentarian and cinematographer Emiko Omori is the featured artist. We've got tickets for you and a friend for Thursday's screening! 8 p.m. at the Victoria (at 16th and Capp). If you......

You know how you can always tell the tourists in town because they're the ones wearing shorts? Well, that's not the kind of shorts we're talking about here -- we're talking about the SF Shorts Film Festival starting tonight at the Victoria Theater (just one block up from today's Blocker!) and at the Red Vic. It's a grab bag of short films from here until Saturday -- the screenings are loosely categorized by theme ("But......

We know commenter Lilly is dying to know what we thought of Eternal Summer, the Taiwanese movie we were watching this afternoon in the Frameline GLBT film festival! Thanks for asking, Lilly -- though we should clarify that, like all other press outlets, SFist does not guarantee reviews in exchange for passes, nor are we expecting reviews from the readers who win free passes for individual screenings. So this is the first movie we've......

Lose Your Child or Lose Your Mind. We’re sure there are a lot of great films at Indiefest, but we screened one of the best on Wednesday night at the Roxie - The Substance of Things Hoped For. Daphne Lessing, played by Vanessa Lengies, faces a daunting choice after she’s diagnosed with a rare form of schizophrenia, and an unplanned pregnancy that implicitly resulted from one of her ever-increasing “episodes.” The film follows Daphne in......

Wow, there's a whole lot of benefits for worthy causes going on this weekend, as well as a head-spinning amount of other stuff to do: Friday that's tonight, and it's the kick-off for Creativity Explored's (3245 16th St. at Guerrero) Annual Holiday Art Sale, a bargain hunter’s paradise of original artwork by artists with developmental disabilities. And it’s all on sale for rock bottom prices – many items as low as $5. Creativity Explored......

First, the East Bay: The New Yorker College Tour presents on-campus programs and evening entertainment at UC Berkeley at Wheeler Auditorium (near Bancroft and Telegraph Ave.), including a preview screening of Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, starring Jack Black and Kyle Gass. (9pm) In SF: Silent Theatre Company presents a Louise Brooks Birthday Bash at the Victoria Theater (2961 16th Street) with a screening, live music, birthday cake, and festivities, followed by......

A mute boy in love with a blind girl! Marionettes! Butoh dancing! A swordfight! Attempted acting! Minnesotan hip-hoppers! Relentless artistic integrity! Sounds like another San Francisco film festival to us. The Foggy Eye Film Fest started as just an excuse to show the short film "Chatterbox," but as time progressed, the screening accumulated other shorts, until the whole thing had katamaried into a full-on exhibition. Fifteen projects and a live band; suggested donation of......

Wednesday nights at the Beauty Bar features Hip-hop and Dancehall at "Flavor in Ya Ear." Come for the music, stay for the $2 Cuervo shots and $3 rum-and-cokes, and leave nauseous. 'Indie' more your thang? It's DIY DJ night, "Indie Circus," at the Hush Hush -- bring a CD or an iPod and spend fifteen minutes looking for something besides the Bloc Party and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah that everyone else also thought......

There is a certain type of theatergoer who, upon seeing Joan Crawford turn, a sudden spotlight on her furious eyes and her dark lips snarled in melodrama, cannot help but cream themselves. Of those types of theatergoers, Charles Busch is king, and more often, queen; he's made an acting career out of evoking the acting style of film divas of the 30s, 40s, and 50s. Sometimes somber, mostly hilarious, "The Lady in Question is......

If you're not going to HorrorFest, checking out the bands recommended by SFist Krissy like you should be or have tickets for Sleater-Kinney at the Warfield or Fischerspooner at the Fillmore, then here are some ideas: Tonight at the Metreon is the fourth annual "Global Sight and Sound" party, featuring two of SFist's favorite local DJs Dan the Automator and Cheb i Sabbah, among dozens of other awesome acts and artists. It's pricey --......