Arts & Entertainment Friday: 826 Valencia's 8/26 Day Write-a-Thon This Friday, 826 Valencia is hosting 8 hours and 26 minutes of non-stop writing as part of their 2nd Ever 8/26 Day Write-a-Thon to benefit the organization's free student programming. We can
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/22: Katya Back in the USSR, Sheila McClear 'Last of the Live Nude Girls', Mister Heavenly CABARET: Countess Katya Smirnoff-Skyy is at the Rrazz Room tonight and tomorrow night performing her "voyage into the Beatles song book,"Back in the USSR, which is described as "Abby Road meets the
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Week: Caltopia, Four-Barrel B-Day, Lunchtime Music Concerts, de Young's Fair Trade Bazaar If you find yourself with leisure time on weekdays, or you're looking for something fun to do on your lunch/coffee break, here are this week's highlights. A shout-out of course goes to
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Bonehead BBQ, Atheist Film Festival, Alamo Square Flea Market, and More! We've already told you all you need to know about tomorrow's Street Food Festival. Here's other stuff that might be less crowded. 1st Annual Bonehead Barbeque: 107.7 The Bone presents the legendary
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/19: Public Enemy, Collage Theater, L@TE at BAM/PFA MUSIC: There are still tickets available to fight the power at Public Enemy's 25th Anniversary concert, featuring the return of Chuck D and Flavor Flav, at Regency Ballroom (via the dreaded Ticketmaster, of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/18: Oriana Small, YBCA's Wildcard Film Night, 'The Other View' READING: Porn star Oriana Small, AKA Ashley Blue, will be reading from her new book, Girlvert: A Porno Memoir, which offers an intimate view of her last decade in and out of the
Arts & Entertainment SF Sketchfest Summer Nights: 'Labyrinth' 25th Anniversary, 'Stuffed and Unstrung,' Weird Science NightLife, 'Night of the Shorts II: Electric Riffaloo' Bowie in spandex, uncensored puppets, fake docents, and celebrity riffers are all things you can expect from SF Sketchfest's Summer Nights series, happening now through August 27. The series started last night with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/17: Jay Reatard Doc, Litquake's Epicenter Burns, Drink Like a Fish Mixer FILM: Noise Pop and The Roxie present the West Coast premiere of Better Than Something, the new documentary about the controversial and prolific Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr, aka Jay Reatard, which intimately captures
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/16: Vigilante Vigilante, MP3 Experiment, Feast of Words, FILM: Vigilante Vigilante, the documentary featuring Berkeley's infamous anti-graffiti cleaner-upper among others, will be at the Roxie for a couple more days. Ironically, the filmmakers have royally pissed off the city, whose crews
Arts & Entertainment SFist Giveaway: Tickets to Matcha This Thursday, 8/18 Here's another chance to score a pair of tickets to the Asian Art Museum's popular Matcha series. The fifth person to email us at [email protected] wins -- be sure to include
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/15: Talking Taiko, Whiskey Waxing Beard And Mustache Competition, Slim's Pop-up MUSIC: Yoshi's brings together poetry and music at Talking Taiko, celebrating the release of Yuri Kageyama's The New and Selected Yuri Writing From Peeling Till Now, and featuring guest poet Ishmael Reed, accompanied
SF News Anonymous Peacefully Hacks MyBART.org, Posts User Data As Bay City News reports, Anonymous has taken credit for today's hacking of MyBART.org via "an 8-year-old" and posting the data of a couple of thousand users online (via commenter sfsfsf). The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/14: Bare Wires, Natural Child, Liquor Store; Final Cocktailgate; 'Terri' MUSIC: Oakland's groovy Bare Wires, "who like to drive around in a van a lot," hit the Hemlock for the late show tonight, along with equally edgily groovy-sounding Nashville's Natural Child and New
SF News Anonymous to Bring Peaceful Wrath Upon BART on Monday SF Examiner is reporting that Anonymous, the group most famous for giving Scientologists a hard time, is focusing its attention on BART on Monday. As you might have heard, BART police shut down
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/13: ReGeneration Photography Show, Bootie 8th Anniversary, Opera Early & Ancient PHOTOGRAPHY: The group exhibition, ReGeneration, will feature eight artists who occupy either side of the “generation gap.” Each of the veteran photographers from the Baby Boomer generation have been paired up with an
SF News Amber Alert in Effect for Sacramento Toddler and Father [Updated] Update: Sadly, the bodies believed to be those of the father and daughter were found in the suspect's vehicle last night in a remote area of El Dorado County, near Placerville. The FBI
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Sunday Streets and Tricycle Music Fest West, Pistahan Parade and Festival, Nihonmachi Street Fair, and More! Not doing the Outside Lands thing this weekend? As it would happen, there's plenty of other stuff going on! Sunday Streets and Tricycle Music Fest: Sunday Streets hits Civic Center and the Tenderloin
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/12: Breakiosaurus, Dave Attell, American Tripps BENEFIT: Breakiosaurus, a funky Outside Lands after-party and fundraiser for Elephant Bird Camp, challenges you to adorn yourself with your best breakin'/dinosaur costume ever. The event features live performances by i can
Arts & Entertainment Relevant Facebook Status Update Of The Day Via D.K.: All the Burning Man people are at Home Depot.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/11: Art Show/SF SPCA Benefit, Best Coast at NightLife, Cinema Benefit for Save KUSF ART: Printmaker Xavier Viramontes is exhibiting his new collection of work, Characters, Friends and Neighbors, featuring a whimsical cast of canines and felines while drawing attention to the plight of homeless animals. Twenty-five
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/10: 'Entitled,' 'Meek's Cutoff' and 'Limbo' Double Feature, Caveat Lector FASHION: Project One Gallery is being transformed into a modern-day salon for Entitled, in which avant garde artists and designers have been invited to be "entitled and courageous in their expression of culture,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/9: 'The Birds', Oscar Wilde Staged Reading, Laughing Matters FILM: Enjoy Top of the Mark's breathtaking views while sipping some MacMurray Ranch Pinot Noir and Ecco Domani Pinot Grigio and watching the Hitchcock classic, The Birds. (5:30 to 11:30 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/8: 'Stop Making Sense,' Adam Arcuragi & The Lupine Chorale Society, Kung Pao Kosher Comedy FILM: This week's free film at Red Devil Lounge is the acclaimed Talking Heads gem, Stop Making Sense, which was filmed during three consecutive shows at the Hollywood Pantages Theater during the band's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/7: Gene Kelly Double Feature, Turtle Island Quartet, Vinyl Swap FILM: The Castro Theatre presents a Gene Kelly Double Feature screening of An American in Paris, starring Kelly as a former GI who stays in Paris to make it as an artist, and
