Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SCIENCE: Drink cocktails served by actual robots and expect a "snarky" electronic bartender at the fourth annual BarBot 2011, a celebration of cocktail culture and man-machine interface. Drink up! 9 p.m. // pariSoma
Arts & Entertainment Saturday Night: Rise Japan Art Fundraiser at Gallery Heist and Kokoru Studio Here's a fantastic opportunity to buy super affordable art by local artists while benefiting disaster relief in Japan. The kind folks at SIR, Gallery Heist, and Kokoru Studio have organized Rise Japan, a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: At the titillating The Reality Shows: Karen Finley Uncensored, Karen Finley, whose performance work is renowned for shattering taboos surrounding sex, gender, and celebrity, will perform excerpts from her new book, which
Arts & Entertainment Photo Show Tomorrow Night: #Thankyou Hey, you know Travis Jensen? He's a regularly featured photographer on SFist. In fact, this image was today's Photo du Jour. (Psst, tag your photos with "sfist" in Flickr for consideration on the
Arts & Entertainment The International Art Museum of America Opens Tomorrow Near 6th and Market, and We Still Don't Understand What It Is One of the stranger developments on the mid-Market scene of recent years -- and that is saying a lot! -- is this mysterious museum project at 1023-1025 Market Street (between 6th and 7th)
Arts & Entertainment Alice Street Community Garden Lays Disco Eggs Over the weekend, these mirror ball eggs turned up at the Alice Street Community Garden in SoMa, which you can find here. Also, do you know the name of the artist(s)? If
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Week: Rotunda Dance with Fauxnique, Yoga for an Honest Change, Thursday Film at Noon, St. Stupid's Parade Looking for a fun lunch-time activity this week? Or perhaps you're a non-9-to-5er? Check out a few day-time events happening this week. Rotunda Dance Series/Friday: The fabulous Monique Jenkinson/Fauxnique will spice
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FOOD: The second shift of ForageSF's ever popular Night Market will feature hot food from a big line-up of vendors such as Little Knock, The Grilled Cheese Guy, and SF Delicious, among many
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Tonight's Snob Theater, a series showcasing the best in the Bay Area's indie rock bands and stand-up comedians in a very small, intimate setting, features comedians Anita Drieseberg, Sam Davidoff, Sammy K
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC/ART: Experience the Sights and Sounds of Punks in Contemporary Mexico tonight with an artist’s talk by Juan Luna-Avin, who traces the history of punk music in Mexico from the late
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SHOP: Vintage fans can shop their heart out at the aptly named All Vintage Everything event, featuring a night of great vintage brought to you by Bay Area online and boutique vendors, further
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: San Francisco artist Julia Goodman will be exhibiting her series Eleven Months Mourning, for the first time in its entirety, alongside a multimedia body of work connecting handmade paper with mortality and
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, In Berkeley... "[Y]arn-bombing artist Streetcolor and her assistant went to work on the bike rack in front of the former Black Oak Books store on Shattuck Avenue," reports Berkeleyside. Indeed.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The acclaimed documentary, William S. Burroughs: A Man Within, features interviews with countless colleagues, confidants and countercultural luminaries, breaking the surface of the "troubled and brilliant world of one of the greatest
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Get a glimpse at the West Coast dark synthy-gothy pop/rock scene with Portland's Soft Kill (ex-Blessure Grave) and Dangerous Boys Club (mems. of Antioch Arrow, Glass Candy), along with Group Hex
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: St. Paddy's, SFIAAFF Extravaganza, Naked Cyclists, Cage Fights, and Ice Cream! In addition to getting that emergency preparedness kit ready and checking out SFist's ongoing Tsunami coverage, here's some other stuff to do this weekend. Also, it's Spring Forward on Sunday. Hooray! 2011 St.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BURLESQUE: Sparkly Devil presents San Francisco's newest burlesque and monthly variety show, Curvicious Cabaret: Burlesque That Bites Back, "an uproarious evening of in-your-face and over-the-top entertainment, from bold, beautiful women who wear glitter
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: It's the opening weekend of Catchy Name Theatre Company's Corned Beef, "a post-modern comedy of art with mistaken identity, triangular love and much popping in and out of doors." 8 p.m.
Arts & Entertainment Art Of The City: March Gallery Openings Artist, designer, and art-lover, Olivia Warnecke, sent SFist her list of top gallery openings going on around town this month. Olivia stresses that there is so much going on in the art scene
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PHOTOGRAPHY: Robert Tat Gallery presents a group exhibition of vintage and contemporary photographs, Sign of the Times, celebrating the special qualities that are captured when images incorporate existing signage into their compositions. 5
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FOOD: Get the latest scoop on the local food scene at City Art's, On Artisan Food, featuring a panel of folks in the local food industry, including The New York Times' Kim Severson,
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Crab-Cracking 49ers, Park Branch Library Reopening, Amoeba Artists, Edible Perfume, And Noisy Pancakes 9th Annual Celebrity Crab Festival: See which San Francisco 49ers and local chefs can crack the most crab on Saturday at Union Square, preceded by a crab-cracking demo. There will also be a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: YBCA celebrate Chinese New Year with the opening of Dad and Mom, Don’t Worry About Us, We Are All Well, a solo exhibition by Chinese conceptual artist Song Dong, which features
misc And Now, Dana King's Penis Sculpture CBS 5 anchorwoman Dana King is one of the highest paid talking heads in the Bay Area, and with good reason. She's a great reporter, has a warm yet no-nonsense presence, and looks
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: San Francisco Film Society presents Fever Dreams, featuring the work of Laurel Nakadate, a photographer, video artist, and filmmaker, which explores the collision of feminine adolescent fantasy with masculine angst and repression.
