Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Spoke Art presents the group exhibition, The Bridge is Over, which features the work of artists who live and work in the East Bay, showing San Francisco "the quality of work, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Learn all about body dysmorphic disorder in the gay community through a comedic lens at Between Sizes: An Evening with Skinnyfat, featuring a one-night only encore screening of the film Skinnyfat, along
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DANCE: It's the first night of the weekend-long 12th Annual San Francisco Hip Hop DanceFest, featuring hip hop dance companies, b-boys, and veteran dancers from France, South Africa, Belgium, Stateside, and the Bay
SF News (Updated) What's Going On Here, Tagger? This brave soul tags a wall in broad daylight -- presumably somewhere in the Mission, where street art is still relevant -- while getting caught in the lens of Mission Mission's Andrew Sarkarati.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: It's the 50th Sketch Tuesday event, featuring live art-making by a huge line-up of seasoned, local artists, which will be for sale for cheap at the show. DJ Pre-K will be spinning
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Documentary Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and The Magnetic Fields traces the 20-year career of Stephin Merritt, exploring his songwriting and recording process, and focusing on his relationships with his bandmates and longtime
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The 5th Annual San Francisco Int'l Animation Festival kicks off with a screening of Here Come the Waves: The Hazards of Love Visualized, featuring four animators' widely different interpretations of the epic
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Organ Spectacular!, which has been bringing the organ out of the church and into underground dens since 1997, features "semi-improvised opulence, clanglorious classics and a smattering of blotpolished battletech electronics to settle
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Southern Exposure and The San Francisco Film Society present Cross Cuts, a screening of experimental video and film by twelve Bay Area artists, as part of the Cinema By the Bay festival.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Iconic photographer Glen E. Friedman brings his touring collection of work, Fuck You All, to San Francisco for the first time. The exhibition features one of the most significant photographic contributions to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Designer Lil Tuffy, who has a vast portfolio of local and international rock show posters, presents his third annual exhibition of over 225 new pieces of work, including limited edition screenprinted art,
misc Trend Alert: Yarnbombing Recent sightings of yarnbombings across the Bay Area indicate that the long relationship San Francisco has enjoyed (or not, it's up to you really) with various forms of street art is taking a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Badly Happy: Pain, Pleasure, and Panic in Recent Romanian Art, a new exhibit curated by Erwin Kessler, represents work by Romanian artists from "a generation which struggles to make sense out of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Check out SFist Halloween Events post for lots more ideas! PARTY: Triple Cobra, who were described by Spin as "Of Montreal meets Hedwig in Scissor Sisters' orgy room," take the stage at the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Spoke Art presents Bad Dads, an art show tribute to the films of Wes Anderson at the new LoPo Gallery, featuring a huge line-up of artists. Tonight's opening includes a special Halloween
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight STORYTELLING: Tonight's the Halloween installment of Muni Diaries Live!, featuring story tellers Derek Powazek (Fray Magazine), comedian Bucky Sinister, and Isaac Fitzgerald (The Rumpus), along with author Andrew Lam (Perfume Dreams and East
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Talia Greene's new series of prints, Colony, were created by pairing weaver ants with altered portraits of 19th century Westerners with Orientalist postcards taken and traded by Westerners in the Colonial
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: It's opening night of All About Evil: The Peaches Christ Experience in 4-D, a special four-night extravaganza featuring live "music, spectacle, and gore couture," with Peaches Christ, the Midnight Mass Players, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Hesta Prynn (formerly of Northern State) brings her own blend of electro-hip-hop-art-rock to the stage, along with LA's Kenan Bell and SF's 40Love. 8 p.m. // Rickshaw Stop (155 Fell St) // $10-12
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: It's another installment of the monthly live art extravaganza, Sketch Tuesdays, featuring live sketching/art-making by local artists, who will offer their pieces for sale for around $25 or less, and Dr.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Mark Warren Jacques will exhibit a new series of work, I’m Here Now, which unveils a new direction in concept and theory in Jacques' work, inspired by his newly acquired
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: At the Exquisite Book Project Signing Party & Live Drawing event, co-author Julia Rothman will be signing copies of The Exquisite Book, which features work created by 100 artists while taking part
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Several Bay Area artists will be showing their work at the group exhibition, Above the Plane, which will "navigate the viewers through a habitat of art away from the traditional wall hangings
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Local artists Chor Boogie, Jacqueline Norheim, Rose Smith, Kirsten Harkonen, and many others will be selling their work at The Restoration Art & Music & Fundraiser. One hundred percent of art sales,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: SOMArts presents its annual Day of the Dead exhibit, Honoring Revolution with Visions of Healing, featuring altars and installations that will honor the dead and provide offerings to the living. Tonight's opening