Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: The refreshingly goofy Kristen Schaal, most notably known as Flight of the Conchords' biggest fan and a regular correspondent on The Daily Show, will be at Cobb's all weekend. Schaal's new book
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Bay Area artist John Belingheri will exhibit his calming and mesmerizing collection of oil and mixed media paintings on canvas, which "express an interrelationship of form, process, contradictions and turmoil". 5:30
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend Hardly Strictly Bluegrass rightfully steals the show this weekend, but here are a few more events. Even more can be found here. Castro Street Fair: Get your dance on, eat, drink, and be
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART/FASHION: Velvet da Vinci presents The Plastic Show, featuring work by 75 jewelry designers employing a variety of plastic materials such as resin, latex, rubber, epoxy, and thermoplastics, many of which are
Arts & Entertainment Thursday: Blick Madness Have you been to the new Blick location in the "up-and-coming" Mid-Market district? Well, here's your chance. Blick is having their annual Blick Madness event on Thursday, featuring 20-percent off all non-sale items,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The Wattis Institute presents Huckleberry Finn, the third show in a trilogy of exhibitions that are based on canonical American novels. The Huckleberry Finn exhibit features the work of several established and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Charles Ludlam, the visionary behind the notorious Ridiculous Theatrical Company from 1967-1987, created queer satires that embraced the "ridiculousness of high culture and the seriousness of the low with drag pastiche and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The Museum of Craft and Folk Art celebrates the Mexico’s Bicentennial Anniversary of Independence and the Centennial of the Revolution, with Volver: Mexican Folk Art into Play, in which the artists
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: A lush and diverse sampling of artistic European erotic short films that blur the line between art and porn, is awaiting you at Sexy Euro Cinema. The event features the award-winning Matinée;
SF News De Young Ranks Fifth In Attendance Let's face it, museums are dull. They're quiet, full of old photos and paintings, and demand an attention span that isn't rife with ADHD tendencies. The San Francisco's de Young Museum, however, is
Arts & Entertainment CANCELLED: Conversation with Veteran SF Photographer Fred Lyon on Wednesday Update: Sorry about that -- the show has been cancelled. Get a lesson in both photography and San Francisco history on Wednesday by attending a discussion hosted by SOMArts and CaliberSF with photographer
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC/ART: The Spare Room Project presents a night of music by Monarch Duo, who "follow each other through complex musical landscapes that interweave influences from Cuba, Spain, and Eastern Europe," with the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: 941 Geary's inaugural exhibition, Flotsam's Wonder World, features artist Mike Shine, who has transformed the gallery into an art "opera" complete with films, music, carnival tent, games, and over 200 mixed media
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Ray of Light Theatre kicks off their 10th Anniversary Season with the West Coast premiere of Jerry Springer The Opera. The opera, which was awarded "Best Musical" honors by all four major
Arts & Entertainment Win Some Free Artwork at SFMOMA Today SFMOMA is having a fun contest today, in which three people will win a bag of artwork by Chris Sollars, who was SFMOMA's One Day Artist in Residence last month. Head over to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The 8th Annual San Francisco Altered Barbie Exhibition 2010 is upon us, and tonight's event is the Artists Reception and A Date with Barbie. Dress as your favorite Birthday Barbie or Ken
misc The Abandoned Couches of San Francisco Abandoned couches on city streets, you see them all the time. We had no idea, however, how prevalent they were until they kept popping up over and over and over again in the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Montage artist Winston Smith, who has created some of punk rock’s most lasting and iconic symbols, will be exhibiting select retrospective works spanning thirty years at Deep Dimension in his first
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BURLESQUE: Bombshell Betty and Fromagique present Sci-Fi Burlesque, featuring robots, aliens, space cowgirls, time travelers, and much more, along with Star Trek and Star Wars acts. 9 p.m. // Elbo Room (647 Valencia
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE:The fabulous Bambi Lake will be performing live at the Roxie in conjunction with the screening of the 1973 documentary Pickup's Tricks, featuring the Cockettes and their founder Hibiscus, the Angels of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Fecal Face Dot Com, the premier and inexhaustible arts and culture site, are having their mammoth 10 Year Anniversary Show tonight. The exhibit at the Luggage Store Gallery features some of SF's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artists Kyle Ranson and Daniel Higgs present Morph Traits, an exhibition of 44 drawings that are the result of a collaborative exercise between the two that started in 1991. The Morph Traits
misc Artists Erect Impressive Bike Obelisk In Santa Rosa Christened the Cyclisk, two California artists, Mark Grieve and Ilana Spector, built this obelisk made entirely out of (unusable) bike parts in Santa Rosa. According to Inhabitant (via Wired), who have other images
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man 2010: Scenes from the Playa SFist opted out of Burning Man this year, but we're certain a fair number of you out there are currently sleeping it off/sweating out your drugs/picking dust out of your ears
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Mario Wagner, who recently relocated to S.F. from Cologne, Germany, will exhibit his first San Francisco solo show, Observed by Clouds. "Utilizing imagery from the 1950s and 60s, Wagner’s
