SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Q Restaurant Boasts Charming Buster Posey DL Mural As the Giants drop (ever so slightly and briefly!) to second place, we have something to cheer up irked fans. And Buster Posey too! Cartoonist Andy George created this mural in honor of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/21: Summer Solstice Celebration, 'Unhappy Birthday', Dr Sketchy's Star Wars CELEBRATION: It's a great day for being the longest one of the year. Head to the lovely Muir Beach, "the continent's edge," for the Summer Solstice Celebration. Enjoy some storytelling and songs around
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/18: 'Caddyshack' at Dolores Park, Brian Barneclo Solo Show, Bootie SF: Pre-Pride Party FILM: Bundle up, pack a picnic, and plop down at Dolores Park for the Bill Murray/Rodney Dangerfield/Chevy Chase classic, Caddyshack, as part of Film Night in the Park. We imagine they'll
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/17: Meat Puppets, Fresh Meat Festival, Non-Solo Exhibition Tour MUSIC: KUSF in Exile presents veteran alternative rockers, Meat Puppets, are at the Independent tonight promoting their thirteenth studio album, Lollipop, which "fits in perfectly with such mid '80s classics as Up on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/16: Frameline35 Opening Night, 'Toward A Human Face' Portraits, '4Giveness: In a Family Way' Play FILM: The 35th Annual Frameline Film Festival kicks off tonight with a screening of Gun Hill Road, "a tense and complex family drama about a teen embracing her gender identity and a father
Arts & Entertainment I am (Not) a Camera: Photo Exhibits The Haines Gallery is showing work by a wide range of alt-photographers, including images by Abelardo Morell, who converts full-sized rooms into camera obscuras, photograms by Shi Guorui and Wendy Small, pinhole pictures
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/15: Art in Storefronts Artist Talk and Walk, DIY Porn Workshop, The Cries of San Francisco ART: Meet up with the Art in Storefronts artists for a discussion and guided art walk. The artists will talk about their temporary projects and how they each addressed the neighborhood’s specific
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/11: 'Eye of the Beholder' Art Show, The Black Lips, Triple Shot Productions Staged Readings ART: This month's Root Division art event, Eye of the Beholder, explores the presence of the body in art "through parody, distortion and subversion, giving viewer the opportunity to look at the body
Arts & Entertainment Nine-Year-Old, ca. 1991, Lip-Syncs to Madonna's 'Vogue' [Video] Robert Jeffrey shared with the world this joyful lip-sync routine set to Madonna's triumphant "Vogue," which he performed in 1991 during a vacation with his parents. He was nine-years-old at the time. Jeffrey
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/8: Loquat, Inu, at The Rickshaw; 'As We Live It' at City Hall; Talk on Nazi-Era Artist, Charlotte Salomon MUSIC: Bay Area faves, Loquat, are playing their first show in eight months at the Rickshaw tonight, with special guests Inu. Spin aptly coins the band's sound as "[s]ugary, sultry vocals" "wrapped
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/5: Michael Scott Moore Reading, Cockettes' 'Vice Palace', and Imagery's Summer Season Benefit READING: Journalist, surfer and author Michael Scott Moore will be at Green Apple Books tonight reading from his latest book, Sweetness and Blood, in which Moore visits unlikely surfing destinations —Gaza, West Africa,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/2: 'Resistance to the Indignities of Modern Life' Art Show, Another Hole in the Head Film Fest Launch Party, 'Dinner' Salon at CJM ART: Artist Aaron Terry has transformed Ever Gold Gallery into a cave-like installation in an exhibition entitled, Resistance to the Indignities of Modern Life, in which the viewer becomes part of a massive
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight 6/1: SFAC Gallery's 'Aftermath,' Penny Arcade 6th Anniversary, 'Wicked Plants' Book Signing ART: The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery presents Aftermath, celebrating the launch of Bay Area artist Ernest Jolly's new installation, Natural Reaction. The event, which was inspired by recent natural disasters and those
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Veronica Klaus Sings Peggy Lee, Conversation with Tucker Nichols and Daniel Handler, and 'Bruja' at Magic Theatre MUSIC: San Francisco's Veronica Klaus is performing two encore performances of her new show with the Tammy Hall Trio, featuring some of her favorite Peggy Lee songs, both well-known and more obscure. Get
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: YBCA's Smart Night Out, SF Popfest Slumberland Records Showcase, and 'Into Eternity' ART: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts debuts the first night in their new Smart Night Out series, which will explore the concept of quiet as it relates to contemporary art and performance.
Arts & Entertainment Artist Luke Chueh Joins the Shark Fin Debate Artist Luke Chueh revealed a bold statement last week at the "Getting BIG 36 Sharky Show" at the Toy Tokyo Underground Gallery in New York City. Chueh's telling 36"-tall fiberglass piece titled
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight CLUB: Hubba Hubba Revue and Bootie are mashing it up tonight, featuring five of the Bay Area's sexiest and sauciest burlesque performers, along with sets by DJ Tripp, guest DJ Billy Jam of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival, Art Showcase at City Hall, and ATA/Other Cinema Screening & Benefit for Dara Greenwald CABARET: The San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival kicks off tonight with Love for $ale: A Sweet Talking, Street Walking Burlesque Cabaret, featuring an exciting and arousing evening of "hookers, hustlers,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: 'Camille 2000' at YBCA, ArtPad SF at Phoenix Hotel, and Nightlife on Mars Comedy FILM: You really can't go wrong with a flm series featuring classic vintage erotic gems. Camille 2000, ("softcore sexploitation at its most stylish and sophisticated)" kicks off YBCA's Three-Way: A Trilogy of Vintage
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: We must say, The Fiery Furnaces have the best band bio we've ever read. Catch an intimate show with the clever and talented brother and sister duo, Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger tonight
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Rolando B Rosler's Male Figure Drawings, Feast of Words Literary Potluck, and 'Three Sisters' at Berkeley Rep ART: Mark I Chester studio presents an exhibition of eighteen pastel drawings by Rolando B Rosler celebrating the male figure, including gesture drawings, figure studies, and facial portraits. Rosler says about his work,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The laser kitten mural sighting from a couple of weeks back turned out to be for tonight's stellar Apocalypse Meow show at Space gallery, which examines the dominance of all things feline
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Central Market Art in Storefronts, Femi Kuti & The Positive Force, and 'Apocalypse Maybe' ART: The Mid-Market revitalization keeps on truckin' as the SF Arts Commission's latest Art in Storefronts project heads to central Market Street, presenting six storefront installations and five murals. Tonight's opening event will
Arts & Entertainment Sidewalk 'Star Trek' Etching Found on 7th Avenue Chase Tingley came across this sharp piece of Star Trek sidewalk art along 7th Avenue, between Irving and Hugo "in some guy's driveway," in San Francisco. The etching was created by David Fisher.
