Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: It's your last chance to view the current exhibitions at SF Camerawork. The Summer Exhibition Cool-Down Party features Ersatz Group Exhibition, Leaving A Mark: Cutter Photozine, and The 2009 James D. Phelan
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: This month's Incredibly Strange Picture Show features the zany Zach Galifianakis: Live at the Purple Onion. Filmed in 2005, Galifianakis' performance at SF's famed Purple Onion is said to still be his
SF News Seurat-Inspired <i>A Sunday Afternoon at Dolores Park</i> Defaced The delicious folks over at Mission Mission have some very sad news. Well, sad for those of you who care about the Mission and/or Dolores Park. It seems Lisa from everyday photos
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DRAG: It's the 14th Annual SF Drag King Contest, the biggest and longest running drag king contest in the world. This year's event is beach-themed, and proceeds will benefit P.A.W.S.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: San Francisco artist Micke Tong will be exhibiting a new series of site-specific conceptual art pieces, drawings, and installation sculptures in Micro-Habitat. Viewers can expect to find "low-rider inspired candy colored taxidermy
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Tonight is the first preview night of Cal Shakes' production of Samual Beckett's Happy Days, directed by Jonathan Moscone. Beckett's astounding portrait of a woman buried up to her waist in sand
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PARTY: It's an all-out celebration of art, music, surfing, and skating at Surf Movie Party. Local bands Thee Oh Sees, Black Bow, and bands from the Bay Area Girls Rock Camp will kick
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMMUNITY: Celebrate the diversity of Lower Haight with an evening of live music, live painting, food, drink, merriment, and merchant discounts at the Lower Haight Art Walk. 7 to 10 p.m. // Haight
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Nine emerging artists sought out inspiring mentors to explore the collaborative experience for Ever Gold Gallery's Double Trouble exhibition. Mentor-student pairs include John Casey + Althea James, Jihaari Terry + Kale Cooley, Tara Foley
Arts & Entertainment Words words words No need to raise your hand if you've read a book by potboiler novelist Danielle Steel. Even if you haven't, millions of others have, and you've probably strolled by her Pacific Heights mansion
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eat at Outside Lands Music Festival In between doing the whiteman's overbite at this year's Outside Lands Festival, be sure to check out the tasty grub they're offering at A Taste of the Bay Area. A list of the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: San Francisco artist Brian Barneclo, whose colorful, retro-esque murals adorn high-profile locales, such as the SF Bay Guardian building, Kilowatt, and NoPa, will be showing his new body of paintings at the
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Presents Sketch Fridays The folks at SFMOMA invite the public to participate in their weekly Sketch Fridays, which is geared toward facilitating an exchange between the community and the museum in the creation of "visual guestbooks.
Arts & Entertainment Behold the Painted Traffic Control Boxes of the Mission The fine folks over at Mission Mission came across these images of painted boxes in the part of the Mission district, along the lower half of 24th Street. You like? They've been in
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend We have another weekend full of fun and mostly free daytime events coming up. Here are a few. SATURDAY 1st Annual Super Hero Street Fair anonEvents, Get YER Freak On!, and Climate Theater
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Hayes Valley Art Coalition is celebrating the installation of Adaptations, a site specific sculpture created by San Francisco artist Mark Baugh-Sasaki, which is constructed of a steel skeleton filled with locally-sourced salvaged
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Tonight's San Francisco Film Society's bi-monthly 360 Film+Club event is a "special edition, double-barreled mash-up program," featuring a screening of the documentary RiP: A Remix Manifesto directed by Web activist and
misc Google Honors ComicCon ComicCon, the other annual gathering of comic stars and fans, is taking place this very second in San Diego, starting today and ending on Sunday. Never one to shy away from all things
SF News Newsom to Artists: Show Us Your Stuff In an effort to cover up the blight of many, many vacant storefronts dotting San Francisco these days, Mayor Gavin Newsom has a somewhat decent idea. See, Newsom, according to SFGate, "wants local
misc SFist Interviews: Reverend Billy, NYC Mayoral Candidate by Quinn Miller Reverend Billy Talen, performance artist and international activist, founder of the Church of Life After Shopping (formerly knows as the Church of Stop Shopping), star of the documentary What Would
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Fire Arts Festival at the Crucible Oh man, not some hippie Burning Man-ish art thing," you whine? Yes, another hippie Burning Man-ish art thing! Why? Because: fire. And lots of it. See, this weekend the annual Fire Arts Festival
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The 8th annual Outsound New Music Summit, which is happening all week, invites you to Touch the Gear. The event is a free, hands-on, family-friendly environment that allows audiences to roam among
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Indie Industries is celebrating their one-year anniversary with We Are One. Art by Matt Atkins, Jason Raish, and Hella More Funner will be on exhibit, and food and beverages will be served.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SIDESHOW: Wrestling circus performers compete with wrestlers performing circus stunts in the When Legends Collide Tour: The Jim Rose Circus vs. Jake “The Snake” Roberts, with special guests Sinn Bohdi, Bebe the Circus
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Tonight is the start of The Crucible's 9th Annual Fire Arts Festival, an open-air exhibition of interactive fire art, performance and the largest collection of outdoor fire sculpture on the West Coast,
