Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: M.C. Mars by Justin Juul M.C. Mars is a 59 year-old rapper with HIV who has been driving cabs for over thirty years. He’s also a published writer and a former sex machine.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The San Francisco Bay Guardian presents cool blue thing, the opening night party for YBCA's new exhibition, Reneé Green: Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams. Green is a world-renowned artist and current Dean
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: In celebration of Chinese New Year, Creativity Explored will showcase works by artists of Chinese descent in Tiger Leaping Gold Mountain. 7 to 9 p.m. // Creativity Explored (3245 16th St) // free
SF News SF Views: Fauxnique/Monique Jenkinson Please, please, please join SF Appeal Editor Eve Batey and your SFist Editor as we welcome bone-shatteringly important guest Monique Jenkinson. Also known as Fauxnique (former Miss Trannyshack, one of 7x7's 'Hot 20')
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PARTY: At BarBot 2010: "Get a drink from an actual robot. Chat up a snarky electronic bartender. Listen to some graceful tunes being played by robotic music makers. And, after downing your sixth
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Explore the underside of love this Valentine's Day Eve at Oddball Films' Love, Sex + VD! Classic social guidance and avant garde films and gender-bending cartoons will be screened. 8 to 10 p.
Arts & Entertainment Get KISSed in Dolores Park this Valentine's Day Well, this is downright rad. Two artists, Michelle Morby and Robert Girvin, are working on an art project that will happen in Dolores Park this Sunday (V-Day!) at around 11am. See, they're setting
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: In his latest exhibition Alex, artist Topher Chin depicts mescaline-enhanced experiences from a brief period during his teenage years with some appealingly trippy Op-Art. Get to the opening early -- the Fecal
misc Meanwhile, In Berkeley... Vandalism/stencil art in Berkeley by EndlessCanvas / EndlessCanvas.com.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Maker Faire Bay Area 2010 Call For Pyros DIY geniuses, listen up: the 5th annual Maker Faire Bay Area, taking place May 22-23 in San Mateo, CA, is looking for a few good artists. Who like fire. And metal. And robots.
Arts & Entertainment Behold This Year's Burning Man Ticket Designer: Arin Fishkin "Creating this ticket is more or less equivalent to printing money, since each one is valued over $200," notes San Francisco-based graphic designer Arin Fishkin, who created this year's Burning Man ticket. "Security
SF News Three-Headed, Six-Armed Buddha Could Call Civic Center Plaza Home Oh fun. A massive Buddha sculpture could comes to Civic Center Plaza -- that is, according to SF Examiner, "if the area’s infrastructure proves strong enough to support the six-armed behemoth." The
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Celebrates 75 Years by Amy Crocker This weekend is the official 75th anniversary celebration of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The party starts on Saturday at 11 a.m., kicking off a three-day weekend
Arts & Entertainment Prohibition: Then and Now by Rachel Brodsky The age of Prohibition (1920-1933) was a relatively unsuccessful period in American history where the American government sought to ban all alcoholic beverages from being exported, imported or sold. And
Arts & Entertainment Eye Candy at Gallery 16 For a slice of sophisticated, playful eye candy, head on over to Gallery 16 near South Park this month and check out a fantastic new show of artwork from Emigre, the independent type
Arts & Entertainment A Visit From BRLSQ by Rachel Brodsky You like the Melvins? Oh yeah? Great. So do we. How about Arcade Fire? Of course you do. So do BURLESQE of North America. The Minneapolis-based BURLESQE is a creative
misc Sleep Under Matisse and Pollock at St. Regis Hotel This year, SFMOMA celebrates its 75th anniversary. In honor of such a grand milestone, according to 7x7, "the St. Regis has rolled out two limited edition MOMA suites and a MOMA Anniversary Travel
Arts & Entertainment Neon Monster's Cave of Wonders by Jeremy Brautman This month, Castro's own design-collective-slash-toy-store, Neon Monster, traveled to Miami to take part in the multi-brand, limited edition environment, F-Factory for Art Basel. With their toy-filled Cave of Wonders, they
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Artist Catherine Galasso by Amy Crocker It’s said you have a better chance of getting struck by lightning than winning the lottery. One man in history certainly found this to be true. Roy Sullivan never
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker HOLIDAY: Oh come all ye faithful to the 80th Annual Golden Gate Park Christmas Tree Lighting. Put on by the San Francisco Parks Trust (sfpt.org), the free event will
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The Oakland Underground Film Festival presents the San Francisco premiere of Black Dynamite, an action-packed comedy rooted in the traditions of American Blaxploitation and Kung Fu films, such as Shaft (1971), Super
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Director Barry Jenkins joins SF Film Society Director Graham Leggat for a screening of Medicine for Melancholy and a conversation afterwards. M4M, which was shot in a mere three weeks and made
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Paul Madonna will debut his annual publication, Album, along with an exhibit of his corresponding large-scale, pen-and-ink drawings of '70s and '80s era toys, which serve as a catalog to the
Arts & Entertainment Toban Nichols: Three Shows, Two Months, One Artist Artist Toban Nichols -- a former San Francisco resident who recently exchanged his Bay Area lifestyle for LA's expansive and creative community -- has three shows that will take over the Bay Area
