Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: 'Swinging In The Shadows' (Beat Documentary), 'Plastic: A Toxic Love Story' (Book), and 'Thyroid Diary' (Staged Reading) FILM: Filmmakers Mary Kerr and Elaine Trotter present the first half of their documentary, Swinging in the Shadows, which is a work in progress chronicling the untold story of the California beat era.
SF News Runner Who "Died" at 2010 Bay to Breakers Completes This Year's Race If you recall, at last year's Bay to Breakers, there had been reports of a runner collapsing from a heart attack at the finish line, and many at the scene said he had
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Tickets are still available for the delightfully inappropriate Chelsea Handler, bestselling author, talk show host, comedian, and actress who has redefined the talk show format, at Oakland's Paramount Theatre. Handler is promoting
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The laser kitten mural sighting from a couple of weeks back turned out to be for tonight's stellar Apocalypse Meow show at Space gallery, which examines the dominance of all things feline
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Central Market Art in Storefronts, Femi Kuti & The Positive Force, and 'Apocalypse Maybe' ART: The Mid-Market revitalization keeps on truckin' as the SF Arts Commission's latest Art in Storefronts project heads to central Market Street, presenting six storefront installations and five murals. Tonight's opening event will
Arts & Entertainment Where To Take The Kids This Weekend: Gustafer Yellowgold, CASAStars' 'Project Connect,' and Alphabet Rockers! The Bay Area is lucky to have a thriving "kindie" music scene, along with lots of other activities and programs for kids. Here are a few happening this weekend. Gustafer Yellowgold's Show at
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Countess Katya Cabaret, Bike From Work Party, and Good Magazine's Good Design SF Competition CABARET: It's opening night of The Countess Katya Smirnoff-Skyy's Katya Takes You Home, a comedic romp around the world with "San Francisco's favorite Russian countess opera diva turned Macy's cosmetic counter lady," who
Arts & Entertainment SFist Giveaway: Tickets to Matcha Tomorrow Night Tomorrow night is another installment of Matcha at the Asian Art Museum, and you can win tickets! Email [email protected] with MATCHA in the subject, and verify your full name while you're
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMICS: Daniel Clowes, of Ghost World fame, is at City Lights tonight celebrating the release of Mister Wonderful, a newly published collection of his Eisner Award-winning comic series that originally appeared in The
SF News Three Killed in San Jose State University Parking Garage Shooting, Including Alleged Shooter Three people were shot and killed last night at around 8:30 p.m. in the 10th Street parking garage at San Jose State University, including the alleged shooter. A weapon was recovered
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Uptown Almanac Comedy Night, David Liebe Hart, and 'The Lily's Revenge' COMEDY: The folks at Uptown Almanac present a cutting edge Locally-Sourced Pop-Up Comedy Night, which promises that no NIMBYs will be in attendance (but the Mission Mission crew will be) and complimentary PBRs
Arts & Entertainment Tomorrow: Noise Pop Presents 'Brian Eno 1971 - 1977: The Man Who Fell To Earth' at the Roxie The prolific Brian Eno (also known as Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno), king of art/glam rock and experimental/ambient music, turns 63 on Sunday. Yep, most
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Kung Pao Kosher Comedy, Monthly Rumpus, and 'Hair' COMEDY: Shazia Mirza, award-winning British Muslim stand up comedian who "could have married a rich man and lived in a mansion with servants, bidets, and horses, but instead she chose to drive up
Arts & Entertainment Happy Mother's Day! Check out photographer Franck Avril's lovely photo exhibition, Dahlias! A Photographic Tribute to San Francisco's Official Flower, at the Helen Crocker Russell Library at the San Francisco Botanical Garden between now and August
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Jacqueline Gallagher paints refreshingly sexy zombies who float "aimlessly through life, but they look good doing it." The pieces in Gallagher's delightfully named exhibition, Of Melancholy and Monkey Business reflect the
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour "Holy Cow" by Darwin Bell. Want to be a candidate for Photo du Jour? Tag your photos "sfist" on Flickr!
SF News Borderlands Owner Expresses Bitterness Over "Nanny State" Smoking Laws The owner of Borderlands Cafe and Borderland Books in the Mission is apparently not pleased about San Francisco's smoking laws. Here's what he has to say in the above sign: Our Nanny State
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: SF Sketchfest presents two new never before-riffed films in San Francisco at The Return of Cinematic Titanic with Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, J. Elvis Weinstein, Frank Conniff and Mary Jo Pehl from
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Mission Sunday Streets, Cinco de Mayo Festival, Thrasher Ramp Jam, Free Comic Book Day, and Competitive Swinging Sunday Streets: Take your mother on a tandem bike ride through the glorious Mission on Sunday for Mother's Day, unless it rains, that is. There's only a ten percent chance of that though,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The San Francisco International Film Festival wraps up tonight with a screening of On Tour, the risque and "unsentimental homage to the burlesque show" that "reminds us that women have real bodies—
Arts & Entertainment ¡Cinco de Mayo Events! Celebrate Cinco de Mayo, which marks this day in 1862 when an outnumbered and under-supplied Mexican army led by Texas-born General Ignacio Zaragoza kicked ass over French forces in what became known as
misc Happy Birthday, Oakland! Oaklandish reports that on this day, May 4, in 1852, the California state legislature incorporated the town of Oakland. Previously, according to Oaklandnet,com, the "hamlet" was previously known as Contra Costa and
Arts & Entertainment Score Some Local Artwork: SFMOMA's 18th Annual Artists Warehouse Sale, Tonight Through Sunday SFMOMA Artists Gallery opens its doors in the beautiful Fort Mason Center tonight for the 18th Annual Artists Warehouse Sale, featuring over 7,000 square feet of space filled with artwork by more
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The Rickshaw presents a night of female-led, garage/shoegazy pop, featuring Vivian Girls, who are celebrating the release of their third full-length album, Share the Joy, along with Montreal/LA's No Joy,
