Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 3/5: The Driftwood Singers MUSIC: Tonight's edition of the monthly Communion club will feature The Driftwood Singers, who are in their early 20s and sing folk songs "that could have been written ages ago but were more
Arts & Entertainment Behold: The SFO Activity Book On the heels of last week's hot topic surrounding kids in restaurants which also brought up the typical debate in the comments over whether kids should be allowed on planes, we found ourselves
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Greetings From Central Market "San Francisco - Tenderloin: Central Market" by Wally Gobetz.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 3/4: Ben Goldberg's Orphic Machine MUSIC: The Jewish Music Festival presents the world premiere of "Orphic Machine," led by clarinetist and composer Ben Goldberg and accompanied by a renowned ensemble in a song-cycle based on the poetical writings
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 3/3: Roky Erickson With The Night Beats MUSIC: Flavorpill paints an intriguing picture of the come-back of Roky Erickson, '60s psychedelic rocker whose struggles with schizophrenia stalled his music career: "Tonight, revel in Erikson's gravelly, whiskey-soaked voice mingling with Okkervil
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 3/2: Hollywood Before The Code FILM: Roxie Theater kicks off its week-long Hollywood Before the Code series tonight, featuring films produced before 1932 that are filled with "erotically charged images, dangerous, graphic violence, and bizarrely aberrant behavior." Tonight's
Arts & Entertainment Prank: Couch On A Car Friend of SFist and Curator owner, Stacy Rodgers, was surprised to find a gently-used leather love seat atop the roof of her car this morning in the Mission near General Hospital. The silly
Arts & Entertainment SFist Memoirs: Alive In Albany This week's SFist Memoirs takes us to the East Bay in the early 1990s, as contributor Rene Becker shares some coming-of-age stories from her time spent as a teenager throwing spaghetti at Blatz
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 3/1: 'Salaam Dunk' FILM: Director David Fine will be in person at tonight's screening of his documentary, Salaam Dunk, which kicks off YBCA's Human Rights Watch Film festival. The film follows an Iraqi women’s basketball
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/29: Terry Zwigoff LECTURE: Acclaimed director Terry Zwigoff will be talking about his work as part of San Francisco Art Institute's Radical Directing Lecture Series, which is free and open to the public and "emphasizes techniques
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/28: Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks MUSIC: Surprisingly, there are still tickets left as of this posting to see the adorable Stephen Malkmus, and the his band, The Jicks at Slim's tonight, as part of Noise Pop. Their latest
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/27: Leslie & The LY's MUSIC: SFist is bummed that we can't make it to the funtastic Leslie & The LY's show tonight. Don your best metallic sweater and blue eye shadow, and go in our place, will
Arts & Entertainment Spotlight On Window Displays: Tampax And Trojans And so we begin yet another fun series, which may or may not stick, wherein we'll make note of eye-grabbing window displays, for better or worse. One of the many smoke shops along
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/26: Hélène Renaut MUSIC: San Francisco folk/pop gem, Hélène Renaut, who one critic described as, "[i]magine Syd Barret having a musical baby with Francoise Hardy," will take the stage at the intimate Hemlock Tavern
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/25: Zina Al-Shukri ART: Artist Zina Al-Shukri's latest exhibition, Rapport, showcases a series of portraits of friends and acquaintances, each of which she completed in a single sitting, resulting in expressions of the subtle shifts in
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Musicians Honor Public Radio, Punk Swap Meet There's lots to do this weekend in addition to Noise Pop and the Oscars. Let's take a look! Musicians Pay Tribute To Public Radio: Noise Pop presents a line-up of notable musicians on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/24: Jolie Holland MUSIC: Jazzy, folky, punky, bluesy crooner Jolie Holland, who sounds like, as Flavorpill describes it: "[T]hink Joanna Newsom with a Billie Holiday in her throat," will headline the Swedish American tonight. Also
Arts & Entertainment SFist Memoirs: Peace On Sixth Street This week's SFist Memoirs contributor is Reynaldo R. Cayetano Jr., a self-taught film photographer whose collective Inks of Truth — a Guardian Best of the Bay 2011 winner — has been engaging and empowering the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/23: Peter Ellenby Rock Photography PHOTOGRAPHY: Noise Pop presents DC/JV: Photography by Peter Ellenby, featuring fifteen years' worth of portraits of Death Cab for Cutie and John Vanderslice, which document the musicians' storied careers and "serve as
Arts & Entertainment Sketch: Shioko's Trip To San Francisco Fresh off a trip to San Francisco, Los Angeles artist Shioko Anderson sketched this adorable drawing of her visit yesterday. We love all the little details, especially the little dog in the foreground
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/22: The Fresh & Onlys MUSIC: One of Noise Pop's stellar shows this evening includes headliners The Fresh & Onlys, "psychedelic garage-pop revivalists," who "have a reputation for being weird." Flavorpill notes that "[w]hen asked about the
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Sad Baby Wolf & Mount Moriah At Noise Pop by Micke Tong SFist headed over to Bottom of the Hill last night for the first night of Noise Pop's 20th anniversary edition. Although we missed headliner Craig Finn and opener Ash Reiter,
