Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/11: Art Show/SF SPCA Benefit, Best Coast at NightLife, Cinema Benefit for Save KUSF ART: Printmaker Xavier Viramontes is exhibiting his new collection of work, Characters, Friends and Neighbors, featuring a whimsical cast of canines and felines while drawing attention to the plight of homeless animals. Twenty-five
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/6: Skinner; Sioux City Kid, Kill Moi, B and Not B; Scavenger Hunt ART: Artist Skinner will be exhibiting his latest collection of work entitled, The Fragile Art of Existence, in which he "steps back a bit from his investigations of fear and destruction" to make
Arts & Entertainment Friday Night: "Will Draw for Drugs," Sketch Party and Benefit for Indie Mart's Kelly Malone This Friday night at 111 Minna, artist Kelly Tunstall is hosting a stunning line-up of local artists for a special sketch party and fundraiser, "Will Draw for Drugs" to benefit Indie Mart and
Arts & Entertainment Clever New Illustrated Mission Poster Now Available Here's an illustrated poster of the Mission cleverly created by Adrian Covert. It has a golden "Little Boxes" feel to it, which we mean in the best way possible. Enjoy it. Purchase it
Arts & Entertainment Video: Interpretive Dancers Delight BART Passengers Muni Diaries alerts us to this very important video: three women doing interpretive dance on a Richmond bound BART train. Fun! And fluid! But... would a little Michael Bennett now and then kill
Arts & Entertainment Contemporary Jewish Museum to Host "Hand Holding Day" This Sunday The folks at Contemporary Jewish Museum are pretty smart cookies when it comes to putting out fires. In response to the controversy that SFist wrote about earlier this week regarding a security guard
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/21: 'Diva,' Black Futurists Open Mic, In Extremis: Artists' Panel FILM: Diva, a French thriller that ushered in the 1980s Cinéma du Look movement, features a postman with a passion for opera, who makes a bootleg of a performance by his favorite diva,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/20: Barn Owl/Sean Smith, Zombies Identified, Beat the Gong MUSIC: Barn Owl, who SFist Erick described as having a "melodic brand of loud, space filling, melodic stonerish metal that the untrained ear may not even consider metal," are at the Elbo Room
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/16: 'When Harry Met Sally,' Dead Meadow, 'The New Surrealism' FILM: Bundle up and bring a chair to Union Square for Film Night in the Park's screening of the Billy Crystal/Meg Ryan classic, When Harry Met Sally. If you bring the kids,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/15: 'When We Were Kids', Gypsy Jazz at the de Young, Bardot-a-Go-Go ART: The group art show, When We Were Kids, explores children in play, power and poverty, vividly capturing "childhood imagination, struggles, and innocence loss from the perspective of growing up as a Filipino
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/14: Smut Capital of America, Litquake's Cabaret Bastille, Lower Polk Art Walk FILM: YBCA kicks off its series, Smut Capital of America, which features Michael Stabile’s in-progress documentary that chronicles San Francisco's reign as the center of porn production in the U.S. during
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/8: YBCA's Bay Area Now 6, 'OMFG! The Internet Dating Musical,' Literary Clown Foolery ART: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts kicks off its signature triennial Bay Area Now 6 (BAN6) exhibition with an opening night party, featuring live music by "critically-acclaimed 'dreamy synth-pop' quartet" Dominant Legs
Arts & Entertainment Litquake 2011 Lineup Announced Jeffrey Eugenides, Susan Orlean, James Ellroy, Mary Roach, Ishmael Reed, Adam Mansbach, Jane Smiley, Chris Adrian, Thomas McGuane, Christopher Moore, Daniel Woodrell, Deepak Chopra, Cyra McFadden, and Guillermo Gomez-Peña are just a few
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/7: Exploratorium After Dark: Red, Bit Shifter, Laura Kimpton's 'Flying Solo,' SCIENCE: At tonight's installment of Exploratorium After Dark, which is themed Red, explore color chemistry, discover surprising uses for insects and vibrant vegetables, and get a crash-course in making your own paints. (6
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/6: Jack Leamy, Tim Cohen's Magic Trick, "High As a Kite" ART: The Tournesol Exhibition in association with Headlands Center for the Arts presents this year's Tournesol Awardee Jack Leamy's Bigfoot/Littlefoot, an intriguing collection of paintings that often feature his wife and son,
Arts & Entertainment Sunday Afternoon in Dolores Park vs. 'Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte' Mission Mission reader "Beebe" sent the fine folks over at the city's favorite neighborhood blog this nifty side-by-side comparison of a Sunday afternoon in Dolores Park and "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/5: Panoramic Landscapes, Porchlight's Brushes With Fame 2, Religious Girls ART: Brian Gross Fine Art presents Appellation Series, an ongoing series of landscape photographs by California artist, Lewis deSoto, in which he seamlessly merges together 50 to 200 photographs per image into panoramic
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/2: 'Water Chronicles' Photo Show, 'Happy' Doc, Roller Disco ART: Gallery 1044 presents Water Chronicles, a solo exhibition of painted photographs by artist Leslie Morgan, which "captures our timeless connection with water through nostalgic images and assemblage frames from reclaimed materials." (6
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/1: 'Purple Rain' w/Peaches Christ & Apollonia, Fillmore Art Walk, SF Bike Party FILM: The captivating Apollonia will be live and in-person for a Q&A during Peaches Christ's "royally bad-ass purple pre-show" at the Midnight Mass screening of Purple Rain this evening. Attendees are
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/30: 'Children's Hospital,' Creativity Explored's 'Small,' Yoga Doc COMEDY: The hilarious folks from the hit comedy Childrens Hospital, along with the new comedy NTSF: SD: SUV, will be Marines' Memorial Theatre tonight for a special live action show presented by SF
Arts & Entertainment Thursday: Photo Show 'The Streets of San Francisco' Opens You've seen their work featured here on a regular basis. Now see them and their images in person. On Thursday, Travis Jensen and Josh Sullivan will hold a reception for their new photo
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/29: 'In You We Trust,' Caitlin Shetterly, Project Orgasm ART: Artist couple, Debby and Larry Kline, "deftly jockey the (conceptual) borders that inextricably link the U.S. and Mexico" through their series of installations entitled In You We Trust, which explore religion-based
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/28: KQED Presents Pride Docs, Bob Mould, Sketch Tuesday FILM: KQED continues the Pride celebration with a free double-feature screening of Stonewall Uprising, about the violent six-day riots in New York that marked a major turning point in the modern gay civil
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/25: Zoë Keating w/ Magik*Magik Orchestra, 'Astral Rise,' Cockblock Dyke March After-Party MUSIC: SF-based cellist and arranger Zoë Keating brings her one-woman orchestra to Great American, consisting of a cello and a foot-controlled laptop that records "layer upon layer of cello to create lush, beautiful
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/24: Annual Pride Concert, 'A Floorless Room Without Walls,' 200 Yards PRIDE: Have a gleeful evening with fabulous host Trauma Flintstone at the 33rd Annual Pride Concert, featuring five groundbreaking ensembles -- Bay Area Rainbow Symphony, Lesbian/Gay Chorus of SF, SF Lesbian Gay
