Arts & Entertainment SFist Giveaway: Tickets to Matcha Tomorrow Night Tomorrow night is another installment of Matcha at the Asian Art Museum, and you can win tickets! Email [email protected] with MATCHA in the subject, and verify your full name while you're
Arts & Entertainment Video: Drippy Art on Bernal Hill Bernalwood brings your attention to this nifty video by Stefano Caprile and Alejandra Cano -- who are opening of a Lomography gallery in San Francisco -- recorded last week on the top of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Jacqueline Gallagher paints refreshingly sexy zombies who float "aimlessly through life, but they look good doing it." The pieces in Gallagher's delightfully named exhibition, Of Melancholy and Monkey Business reflect the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: SF Sketchfest presents two new never before-riffed films in San Francisco at The Return of Cinematic Titanic with Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, J. Elvis Weinstein, Frank Conniff and Mary Jo Pehl from
Arts & Entertainment Score Some Local Artwork: SFMOMA's 18th Annual Artists Warehouse Sale, Tonight Through Sunday SFMOMA Artists Gallery opens its doors in the beautiful Fort Mason Center tonight for the 18th Annual Artists Warehouse Sale, featuring over 7,000 square feet of space filled with artwork by more
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Oakland-based Goapele (pronounced Gwa-pa-lay), who's inspired by a tradition of soulful singers like Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Bob Marley, and Miriam Makeba, "mixes sweet soul vocals, jazz funk instrumentation and hip hop
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: How Weird Street Faire, Art in the Alley, Noodle Fest, Dutch Queen's Day, Vagabond Craft Fair, and Glen Park Festival It's that glorious time of year again in which there are dozens of things going on over the weekend. Here is mere handful of choices. Enjoy! How Weird Street Fair: Pull out that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: SF Camerawork presents the second annual Looking Forward, Giving Back benefit, an evening of music, photography, and a silent auction benefiting First Exposures, which provides free weekly photography classes for underserved youth,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: New York-based artist group, The Bruce High Quality Foundation (BHQF), hits the Bay Area tonight on their national Teach 4 Amerika tour which is inspired by the spectacle and energy of a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: Take advantage of the fact that the Eagle Tavern is open for at least another month and head over to see Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Carletta Sue Kay and The Sandwitches
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: More On The 100,000 Toothpick San Francisco Kinetic Sculpture Scott Weaver's Rolling through the Bay from Learning Studio on Vimeo. Though we've showcased this magnificent sculpture in the past, here's a new video that reveals a bit more about Scott Weaver's Rolling
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight STORYTELLING: Celebrate three years of the fabulous Muni Diaries at Muni Diaries Live 5 tonight. Bring a Muni tale with you and hit the stage with H.P. Mendoza, screen writer and composer
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The 54th San Francisco International Film Festival opens tonight with a screening of the new film Beginners, starring Christopher Plummer as a senior who comes out of the closet in the wake
Arts & Entertainment Meet the Artists: Mission Open Studios It's a gorgeous Spring weekend so get out there and visit the Mission Open Studios, continuing through Sunday. Admire some art, stroll around the Mission in the sun (here's a helpful map of
Arts & Entertainment The Late Federico (Pico) Sanchez's Final Open Studio During The Mission's Spring Open Studios This Weekend Seize the opportunity to learn more about the life and work of Mission icon Pico Sanchez, the neighborhood's most beloved artist, mentor, and friend who passed away suddenly at age 63 in December.
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Record Store Day, Cherry Blossom Festival, DogFest, Art-A-Thon, and Wood Faire Record Store Day: Saturday is the annual day in which music nerds can score extra sweet deals and exclusive, limited-edition releases at record stores nationwide. Here's a list of all the participating San
Arts & Entertainment Girafa, AKA Steven Free, Pleads Guilty to $38,000 Worth of Street Art Prolific Bay Area tagger and muralist Girafa (née Steven Free) pled guilty to two felony counts and two misdemeanor counts of vandalism in a Santa Clara Superior Court earlier this week. The 32-year-old
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Have you walked along Divisadero lately? It's pretty dang swank these days. Check out all it has to offer at the Divisadero Spring Art Walk. Peruse lots of great art and enjoy
Arts & Entertainment SFist Giveaway: Tickets to Matcha Next Thursday, 4/21 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
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight CABARET: Tony Award nominee Justin Vivian Bond, who has been described by the New Yorker as "the greatest cabaret artist of his generation.....an artful truth telling illusionist," celebrates the release of his
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: SFO Terminal 2, Anarchist Book Fair, Green Festival, Cesar Chavez Festival, And Sunday Streets/Free Wall SFO Terminal 2 Community Open House: BART on over to SFO and take a gander at the swanky new, state-of-the-art Terminal 2, featuring five new art commissions as well as the reinstallation of
misc SFist Tonight ART: Tonight is the opening reception gala for the 11th Annual Art Explosion Spring Open Studios, which is happening all weekend. Over 140 artists, including painters, sculptors, photographers, fashion designers, jewelers and textile
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Explore the questionable world of anti-graffiti vigilantism with the new documentary, Vigilante Vigilante, which follows Berkeley's Jim Sharp and other anti-graffiti zealots who "stop at nothing to rid their neighborhoods and cities
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Brooklyn-bred (Park Slope, to be exact) rap visionary, Talib Kweli, will be at the Fillmore tonight, stimulating your body and your intellect with his own brand of "conscious rap," in support of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PRINTMAKING: At tonight's opening of Light/Dark, a group exhibition featuring one piece of artwork each by 53 members of the California Society of Printmakers selected by renowned Bay Area printmaker Enrique Chagoya,
