Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/22: Drag Yourself To Pride's Disney Prom DRAG: Get out your Disney gear for Drag Yourself to Pride's Disney Prom, featuring Disney Prom Queen, Prom King, and Prom Villain walk-offs, DJ B.Urmanita on Beats, and Go-Go Boys & Girls
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/21: Creativity Explored's 'Fabulous' ART: Creative Explored pays tribute to Pride with Fabulous, a group exhibition that celebrates fashion, fame, identity, and queer culture with glamorous portrait paintings, wearable, multi-media hats, gender-bending drawings, and a full-size hot
SF News SFMOMA Neither Confirms Nor Denies Reports Of Three-Year Closure [Update] When the SFMOMA announced plans to expand last December, reporters rhapsodized over the renovation plans. One question went nearly unaddressed: though the Chron's John King noted in passing that the construction would require
Arts & Entertainment Help Make This Tom Hanks Statue A Reality! Wonderment Consortium, who describe themselves as "An Oakland Based Arts Collective Concerned With Uplifting Oakland Public High School Students Everywhere," have started a Kickstarter campaign that pokes a little fun at the types
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pop-up Lunch At SFMOMA Today Now that the bros of WWDC have all but gone back to their caves (it officially ends today), it would be the perfect time to head down to SoMa to munch on some
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/11: Marriage Equality Plays THEATER: Tom Bruett and BATS Improv hosts Marriage Equality Plays, an evening of short, original plays benefiting the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), featuring new short plays by William Bivins, Michelle Carter,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/8: 12th Annual Monster Drawing Rally ART: Head over to the Verdi Club tonight for the mother of all live drawing events, Southern Exposure's famous Monster Drawing Rally, which features more than 120 artists working side by side and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/7: Casey Weldon's 'New World Hoarder' ART: We're riveted by the delightfully creepy work of Los Angeles-based artist Casey Weldon, who makes his debut in San Francisco with his solo exhibition, New World Hoarder. Weldon's paintings take you on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/6: La Quebradora ART: MCCLA presents La Quebradora, an exhibition of Contemporary Art from Mexico curated by Amy Pederson that uses lucha libre, or Mexican professional wrestling, as a platform for mapping Mexico’s cultural history
Arts & Entertainment 'Portrait of George,' A Controversial Bust of Moscone, Returns to S.F. SFMOMA director Neal Benezra, long a fan of Bay Area sculptor Robert Arneson, has spent a decade chasing after a bust of slain mayor George Moscone which the city commissioned from Arneson but
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/1: 200 Yards PHOTOGRAPHY: Frequent SFist contributor Darwin Bell will be among several talented photographers showcased at this month's 200 Yards, which is taking place at Rare Device's Divisadero location. Participants whose work "meshes" with the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/31: Vetiver Performs 'Foul Play' MUSIC: Folk Yeah and Vogue Theater present a new series called City Scenes, featuring films curated by local musicians who perform alongside the screening. Tonight's inaugural event will feature local indie-folk darlings Vetiver
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/19: Murmurama ART: Oakland Art Murmur's second annual Murmurama, a multi-venue celebration including art exhibitions, film screenings, live music, food, wine and more, will feature at least sixteen galleries and mixed-use spaces within walking distance
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/18: The Avengers/Erase Errata MUSIC: It's a stellar line-up of S.F.-based bands at Cafe Du Nord tonight, featuring beloved punk veterans The Avengers, along with indie rockers Erase Errata and singer-songwriter Carletta Sue Kay. (9
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/17: Broke-Ass Stuart's 10th Year In S.F. PARTY: Broke-Ass Stuart celebrates ten years of living in San Francisco with a Broke & Classy bash, featuring a big line-up of bands and DJs, as well as free booze and oysters. Be
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/16: Giants Carnaval at the Park FESTIVAL: Arrive at tonight's Giants game early for The Giants Carnaval Festival at the Park, featuring live 2012 SF Carnaval King Roberto and Queen Ashlee, music, dancing, and food and drink specials. And
Arts & Entertainment Who Put Up This Dirty Ad On Muni?! Someone posted this ad on Muni, and while we sort of chuckled at it we have to say it might offend the more PC and sensitive among us not to mention those of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/12: ESKMO And Love & Light MUSIC: Sunset SF presents "'[S]izzling' Ninja Tune phenom" ESKMO at Mezzanine along with Reno duo Love & Light and locals DJ Dials and U9Lift. (9 p.m., Mezzanine, 444 Jessie Street)
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: How Weird, Balloonacy, And More! This weekend promises to be quite nice, and hopefully for the half-naked attendees at the How Weird Street Faire, temperatures will get above 70 on Sunday. Join thousands of people to "celebrate the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/11: SFAI MFA Graduate Exhibition ART: Head over to Phoenix Hotel for the opening reception of San Francisco Art Institute's limited-engagement MFA Graduate Exhibition featuring nearly 100 students working in painting, photography, printmaking, film, sculpture, installation, digital media,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/10: Photolucida's Top 50 Photographers PHOTOGRAPHY: Photolucida, an international arts nonprofit, presents Contents: Love, Anxiety, Happiness and Everything Else Critical Mass 2011 (not any relation to Critical Mass, the bike event), a juried exhibition featuring the contest's top
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/9: Folk Yeah Presents Sweet Chariot MUSIC: Folk Yeah presents quartet Sweet Chariot, who perform "timeless power-pop, classic biker rock, and dusty desert jams trimmed in the bygone tones of west coast canyon-twang," along with folk singer-songwriter Joseph Childress.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/4: 'FAX' At SFAC Gallery ART: As part of FAX, an evolving exhibition from the Independent Curators International that began in New York in 2009, 22 Bay Area artists were invited to reconceive the fax machine as a
