Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Soulfood no.2, the second event in a quarterly music series organized by Griff Williams, Tommy Guerrero and Marc Capelle, is raising money for local charity, MuST (music in the schools today)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Los Angeles-based painter, illustrator, and costume designer Kime Buzzelli is exhibiting her work at Candystore Collective, featuring fantastical portraits of women inspired by "fashion, film, music, make believe, mysteries and voyeurism." 7
Arts & Entertainment Dance Anywhere Friday at Noon Dance Anywhere has been embracing the flash mob model since 2005, way before it got trendy. On Friday at Noon PST, they invite people across the world to take a minute to dance
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: In the spirit of dreaming and the dream world, Roots and Wires Sound Dimensional present Dreamplay, an evening of performance art, interactive art installations and soundscapes. All proceeds will benefit Haitian Children.
misc SFist Out and About They were finishing up the installation of the new sculpture at Patricia's Green in Hayes Valley yesterday. Anyone know who the artist is? Update: The sculpture is called Ecstasy, and the artists are
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Andrea Heimer, who hails from Bellingham, Washington, is exhibiting her latest series of watercolors in Fight!, which illustrates her fascination with “two halves of the same equation struggling against one another for
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Poet (who penned the now famous The Revolution Will Not Be Televised), activist, author, and pioneer of blues, jazz and funk, Gil Scott-Heron, will perform some of his classics along with new
Arts & Entertainment Meat and Coffee Kick Off 'SFMOMA: Now Playing' Meatpaper and Blue Bottle Coffee are joining forces to open SFMOMA’s third Thursday springtime event series, SFMOMA: Now Playing. What is "Now Playing," you ask? Well, it's when SFMOMA "invites artists to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SCIENCE: Harlan Emil Gruber will describe the math and "Earth energies" underlying his Portal installations that have been at Burning Man and other festivals over the last six years in Sacred Geometry + Earth
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Director Cathy Cook explores the life of poet Lorine Niedecker, who has been described as the 20th century's Emily Dickinson, in her film, Immortal Cupboard: In Search of Lorine Niedecker, which "weaves
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Happy Feet presents Defiant Proclamations: Radical Posters from the 1960s to the Present, an exhibit featuring old and new posters, handbills, and artifacts, "giving a glimpse of the broad range of opinions
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: In It All Came So Close to Never Happening, "a photographic exploration of human uprising and the world of tomorrow," photographer Anthony Kurtz presents two intertwining sets of photographs that blur "the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Violinist Jennifer Koh, whose "natural flair is matched with a probing intellect," "grabs the listener by the ears and refuses to let go." The concert also includes conversation with Koh. 6 p.
Arts & Entertainment Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day Via SFMOMA: "What a beautiful weekend in SF! The kind of weather that makes you want to visit a Rooftop Garden and celebrate Piet Mondrian's 138th birthday while having a delicious piece of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: For the group photography show, I Got 5 on It, twenty photographers were asked to capture five seminal subjects: a chair, a flower, a window, a tree, and the road, in order
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Help restore the artwork that's part of the landmark Defenestration Building at the month-long Operation Restore Defenestration. Artist Brian Goggin has been given access to the building for a minimum of 18
misc What's Going On Here, Crazy 'Day of Action' Poster? Spotted over at Indybay.org, we have no idea what this poster is trying to tell us -- which is unfortunate since it seems aimed at a far-reaching protest and problem -- but
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Xing Danwen's solo show, A Personal Diary -- China Avant-garde in 1990s tells Danwen's personal experience as a first-hand witness and participant in the avant-garde scene of 1990s China, as well
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: In his new exhibition Vulnerability, artist Philip Buller blends realism and abstraction in his depiction of bodies in transition, as if they're "experiencing a rebirth, or embarking on a new chapter in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: fabric8 celebrates the revamping of their wood stain gallery with a new group collection of 6 in. x 12 in. originals focusing on the theme My Favorite Things. 7 to 10 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: RayKo’s Third Annual Juried Plastic Camera Show celebrates low-tech photography with an exhibit of imperfect yet beautiful photos shot with cheap film cameras, invoking a nostalgia for the latent image. 6
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Noise Pop and Hotel Biron present Outside the Crowd, a rock photography show that aims to "illustrate the musicians’ artistry and individual personalities through a single still photograph, and share the intimacy
SF News Academy of Art President Speaks Out About North Beach Student's Murder The Academy of Art University's famously prickly president, Elisa Stephens, spoke about the recent murder of Luis Armando Prieto, who was killed in North Beach last week be a car fleeing a shooting.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Join established and emerging Bay Area artists for the monthly Sketch Tuesday, and score some original artwork for $5 to $30. And if there's room at the table, feel free to create
Arts & Entertainment Tomorrow Night: Episcodisco at Grace Cathedral Who knew that Grace Cathedral has a monthly nightlife event called Episcodisco, presented by Reverend Bertie Pearson and curatorial duo Paradise Now and featuring contemporary art installations, live performance, drinks and DJ’ed
