Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The Shooting Gallery presents Fahamu Pecou, whose latest exhibition Whirl Trade portrays how the hip hop culture has altered the views of African American men around the world. In the adjoining White
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend Not watching the World Cup this weekend? Don't worry, there's lots more for you to do. Going on all weekend are the Giants County Fair, the 34th annual San Francisco Free Folk Festival
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART I: Muni Diaries presents Outbound, featuring a group mixed media exhibition portraying SF's beloved public transit in the form of paintings, graffiti, and more. There will also be a storytelling tent set
Arts & Entertainment Art in the Gardens It's going to be a gorgeous sunny day on Saturday, so there's no better time head down to the Metreon Yerba Buena Gardens for an afternoon Gallery Walk. More than a dozen galleries
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Tonight is the opening reception for Big Dreams, solo exhibition of works by Esther Pearl Watson, which "attempt to capture the youthful innocence of another age, reconstructing an alternative history based on
SF News PostSecret and Facebook Users Unite to Save Life PostSecret -- an art community art site that in which people mail their secrets in on homemade postcards, anonymously, then said secrets get posted online -- has joined efforts with Facebook to save
Arts & Entertainment Adobe Books Art Installation Proves Point Contrary to what Adobe Books' owner Andrew McKinley told SFist Jay a couple of weeks back, Mission Mission reports that Adobe Books is not closing any time soon. Apparently, the "Everything Must Go"
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Mission: Comic & Art presents artist Michael Capozzola's Riddler's Mother, which includes pieces from his weekly San Francisco Chronicle cartoon Surveillance Caricatures. 8 p.m. to Midnight // Mission: Comics and Art (3520
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend Sorry for getting this posted late! There are lots of fun and unique events this weekend. Let's get down to it! Saturday: Calling all musicians, "buy, sell, exchange, trade, teach, learn, play, dance"
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist-Xchange Gallery presents the Views of the City theme show, featuring work from several emerging artists that's representative or symbolic of Bay Area urban landscapes, SF city streets, local neighborhood scenes, cityscapes,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: In the "so bad it's good" category comes the instant cult classic, Birdemic: Shock and Terror, created by Silicon Valley resident, James Nguyen, and featuring the terrorized residents of Half Moon Bay,
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Pieces of the AIDS Memorial Quilt While AIDS humor will never fail to tickle the funny bones of lazy comedians and the BPR-swilling set, people are still dying from it. Yes, still. Right in your neighborhood too. The AIDS
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend We have some more big events this weekend, including Kaboom, which will now be taking place in the Candlestick Park lot (bring an umbrella!), the giant 5th Annual Maker Faire in San Mateo,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: David Calonne in conversation with Garrett Caples celebrate the release of previously unpublished works by Charles Bukowski, Absence of the Hero: Uncollected Stories and Essays, Vol. 2: 1946-1992. There will also be
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The Hayes Valley Farm presents Farm Film Night Kick-Off! with a screening of DIRT! the Movie, preceded by film shorts and live music by the artists at How-to Homestead. 7:30 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: In Previously Secret Information, comedian and host Joe Klocek presents a line-up of San Francisco's top stand-up comics, solo performers, and storytellers, who will reveal the stories behind punchlines. 7 p.m.
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend There's a ton going on on Saturday, and only a few events dare to compete with the massive Bay to Breakers on Sunday. There are some good events in the East Bay though,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Get a peek at cutting edge pieces by emerging filmmakers on their way to festivals worldwide at SF State's The 50th Film Finals. The event primarily consists of shorts in animation, experimental,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Dr. Sketchy's presents the 2nd Annual Cute Girls on Bicycles, in celebration of Bike to Work Day on Thursday and coinciding with the monthly Sketch Tuesday. Three females and four bikes will
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART/SCIENCE: At tonight's installment of Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous, discussion topics will include custom software tools that embrace Middle Eastern styles, an investigation of the sciences, the natural world, and contemplative
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FUNDRAISER: You can always count on a good time with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, whose latest event is Supreme Bingo: Celebrating the Girl Groups of the '50s and '60s, benefiting the Metropolitan
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: At SHOWNUFF, 111 Minna's free weekly Friday live music happy hour series, eleven-piece funk/soul band Stymie and the Pimp Jones Luv Orchestra will kick start your weekend, along with Chris Orr
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend Another weekend, another slew of events. Let's get the party started. Saturday is jam-packed. There's the Cinco de Mayo Festival at Dolores Park, the Chinatown Music Festival at Portsmouth Square, the Taiwanese American
Arts & Entertainment 'Whistler's Mother' Lands in SF The painting officially known as "Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother" (1871) by James MacNeill Whistler, which is the fourth most recognizable painted image in the world, landed in SF at
misc Photo du Jour 628 "I Feel So Down" by Troy Holden. (Side note: this is downright gorgeous, people.)
