Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Graffiti Pioneer Mike Giant Bay Area graffiti legend And pioneer Mike Giant painting on Larkin Street. Photo by Troy Holden.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 3/20: Feast Of Words LITERARY: Writer, performer, and Sister Spit veteran Ben McCoy will present some new work at the monthly Feast of Words: A Literary Potluck, which is themed “I Am Crime.” McCoy's reading will reference
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 3/17: Sickboy ART: Be one of the first 100 guests to arrive at the U.K.'s Sickboy's first U.S. solo show, Wonder Club, and get a free gift bag assembled by Sickboy himself,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 3/16: 'Kill List' FILM: Kill List, director Ben Wheatley's genre-flouting follow up to his heralded Down Terrace begins with an uncomfortable dinner party with two hit men in attendance and moves "effortlessly from kitchen-sink realism to
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: The Creators Project The Creators Project: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Squarepusher, and HEALTH are part of a big line-up of bands rocking Fort Mason this weekend as part of a colossal two-day art and technology festival
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jean Paul Gaultier: New Creative Director Of Diet Coke Before designer étonnant Jean-Paul Gaultier arrives in San Francisco next week to kick off the de Young Museum's Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, the man who
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 3/10: The Red Elvises MUSIC: The Red Elvises will perform two sets tonight, featuring frontman Igor Yuzov's collection of "wildly talented, entertaining musicians to bring into the fold of this increasingly international party band" as a result
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 3/9: SFIAAFF's Directions In Sound MUSIC: DJ Neil Armstrong headlines the SF International Asian American Film Festival's Directions In Sound 2012, a genre-bending showcase featuring emerging artists and established vets. The show also features Blackbird Blackbird, Hopie, Micropixie,
SF News International Women's Day 2012 Honored By Google Logo, Grand Hyatt Protest Today, March 8th, is International Women's Day. Google has reimagined its iconic logo into a piece celebrating the big day. To honor the holiday, as HuffPo notes, "Google created a simple, colorful doodle
Arts & Entertainment Video: Fantastic Post-It Mural Welcomes Game Developers Conference It's that time of year again when GameSpot, located at 235 Second Street in San Francisco, creates a nifty Post-It mural in honor of the Game Developers Conference now in progress. In all
Arts & Entertainment GrafRank Ranks Global Graffiti Statistics In SF And Oakland... And Beyond! Created by Gothamist cofounder and noted street art aficionado Jake Dobkin, GrafRank shows which graffiti artists are going up in San Francisco and Oakland, and which areas are popular for their work. The
Arts & Entertainment 14 Reasons To Love Arthur Tress' San Francisco 1964 In the summer of 1964, just before San Francisco turned into the epicenter of groovy vibes and summer luvin', a 23-year-old Arthur Tress traveled by bus from Mexico to San Francisco to visit
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/25: Zina Al-Shukri ART: Artist Zina Al-Shukri's latest exhibition, Rapport, showcases a series of portraits of friends and acquaintances, each of which she completed in a single sitting, resulting in expressions of the subtle shifts in
Arts & Entertainment Sketch: Shioko's Trip To San Francisco Fresh off a trip to San Francisco, Los Angeles artist Shioko Anderson sketched this adorable drawing of her visit yesterday. We love all the little details, especially the little dog in the foreground
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/22: The Fresh & Onlys MUSIC: One of Noise Pop's stellar shows this evening includes headliners The Fresh & Onlys, "psychedelic garage-pop revivalists," who "have a reputation for being weird." Flavorpill notes that "[w]hen asked about the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Jay Howell & Mark Whalen ART: Fecal Face Dot Gallery presents Midnight on the Sun, featuring over 60 new paintings by Los Angeles based artists Jay Howell & Mark Whalen (Kill Pixie). The opening reception also includes a
Arts & Entertainment Jean Paul Gaultier Exhibit: Designer's Childhood Teddy Bear Wearing First Cone Bra First came the works of Vivienne Westwood. Then a seamless Alexander McQueen show. Now the deYoung Museum intends to outdo itself with an earth's core-shattering retrospective of Jean Paul Gaultier. Opening on March
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/15: Don Cornelius Tribute TRIBUTE: Noise Pop and Wax Poetic magazine pay tribute to Don Cornelius at tonight's Pop-Up Shop, featuring a music and visual celebration of the iconic Soul Train host, who introduced generations of viewers
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/13: Litquake's Love Hurts LITERARY: SFist's own Andrew Dalton will be part of the line-up at tonight's Litquake Valentine event, Love Hurts, in which participants will tackle their favorite "overwrought passages," including picks from Harold Robbins, The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/12: 'Sironia' FILM: SF IndieFest presents, Sironia, which is inspired by the music of singer-songwriter Wes Cunningham and tells the story of a talented but unsuccessful musician who moves his young family from Hollywood to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/11: Mission Minis Anniversary Party FOOD: The delectable Mission Minis celebrates its second anniversary by giving away their signature cupcakes along with "libations gratis" while supplies last. The event will also feature mobile food vendors including Brass Knuckle,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/10: 200 Yards PHOTOGRAPHY: Tonight's installment of the popular 200 Yards is centered around Satellite 66, in which photographers showcase the shots they captured within — you guessed it — 200 yards of the gallery. (6 to 9
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/9: IndieFest Spinal Tap Tribute/Opening Party MUSIC/FILM: SF IndieFest kicks off tonight with a Spinal Tap Tribute and Opening Night Party, featuring Live Evil performing as Spinal Tap, along with Motley Crue tribute band, Wildside, and hard rock
Arts & Entertainment Haight-Ashbury Museum of Psychedelic Art And History [Video] The Haight-Ashbury Museum of Psychedelic Art and History, a proposed museum that would focus on psychedelic art and Haight-Ashbury during the psychedelia movement of '60s. Supporters are trying to raise funds via IndieGoGo.
