Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LIT: One of the first performance artists and a New York Underground cultural icon, Penny Arcade (Susan Ventura), will make a rare appearance tonight in celebration of her new book, Bad Reputation: Performances,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Director Barry Jenkins joins SF Film Society Director Graham Leggat for a screening of Medicine for Melancholy and a conversation afterwards. M4M, which was shot in a mere three weeks and made
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Multimedia artist Carter riffs off of Robert Rauschenberg's iconic drawing Erased Willem de Kooning in Erased James Franco, in which contemporary actor, James Franco, is stripped of the sureties of his craft
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight VARIETY: The Devil-Ettes and The Mini Skirt Mob pay tribute to the great 60’s variety shows like Laugh-In, Shindig, and Hullabaloo in the action-packed Go Go Spectacular. Special guests The Barbary Coasters
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Black Film Festival Tomorrow It wouldn't be a weekend in San Francisco without at least two film festivals going on. (What a great town we live in!) The 11th Annual Black Film Festival honors festival founder and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Paul Madonna will debut his annual publication, Album, along with an exhibit of his corresponding large-scale, pen-and-ink drawings of '70s and '80s era toys, which serve as a catalog to the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight GALA: AIGA San Francisco presents Hung up, its annual fall gala. This year, AIGA celebrates the art of skateboarding and has invited its members to contribute custom skate decks, which will be auctioned
Arts & Entertainment Massive Coed "Cool Cat" Clothing Swap and Potluck at CellSpace Tomorrow Night Guys and gals, clear out your closets and throw your discarded duds into the giant pile at CellSpace (2050 Bryant St) tomorrow night, as part of the Massive Men's And Women's "Cool Cat"
Arts & Entertainment Holiday Ice Rink Open Today Although it's still rather warm outside, the Holiday Ice Rink at Union Square officially opened this morning. SF Appeal/Bay City News informed us that a snow machine will drop snow on the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Soul legend Bill Withers (of "Ain't No Sunshine," "Lean on Me," and "Just the Two of Us" fame) is profiled in the new documentary Still Bill, which will be screening in San
Arts & Entertainment <em>Children of the Fillmore, 1952,</em> Photography Exhibit Opening on Saturday Veteran San Francisco photographer Gerald Ratto will exhibit his rarely seen collection of photographs, Children of the Fillmore, 1952, which he captured with his Rolleiflex camera while a student at California School of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight HISTORY: As part of the SF Museum and Historical Society's 2009 "Neighborhoods of San Francisco" program, author and historian Woody LaBounty will reintroduce the community to Beachside Bohemia: Carville-by-the-Sea and the Birth of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Attention adventurous singles with some extra cash -- Improv Dating Scene might be for you. The event begins with a comedy show with Big City Improv performing sketches based on audience suggestions.
SF News Fatal Big Rig Crash on Bay Bridge This Morning A big rig driver lost control of his truck at 3:30 a.m. this morning while negotiating the infamous S-curve on the Bay Bridge. The vehicle plunged 200 feet onto Yerba Buena
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Filmmaker Nara Denning will be celebrating the release of her new DVD Neurotique with a premiere screening. Neurotique is a collection of six silent and tragic love stories set to live musical
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Alternative Tentacles have been celebrating their 30th Anniversary with an Incest-A-Thon this weekend. Tonight's line-up is Alice Donut, Victims Family, and Burning Image. 7:30 p.m. // Great American Music Hall (859
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Tonight's the monthly First Thursday Art Walk, in which local galleries are open late for casual open houses. Some exhibitions of note are Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Evolution of a Painter at George Krevsky
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight VIDEO: Check out the West Coast premiere of Target Video's SF Punk, as part of the SF Main Library's Punk Passages exhibit. The film features Bay Area early punk legends The Avengers, Dead
SF News SF Company Helped Repeal Maine's Same-Sex Marriage Law SF Appeal brings it to our attention that smarmy San Francisco-based (located on Maiden Lane, specifically) "independent integrated marketing communications company," Criswell and Associates, earned about $700K in the past couple of months
Arts & Entertainment Margaret Cho to Make a Surprise Appearence at the EndUp Tonight SFist Jay sent us the scoop that Margaret Cho will be hanging with her pal, Monistat, at the EndUp's Chaser club tonight. There's no word on whether Cho will be MC'ing, performing, or
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Comedian and playwright Rick Reynolds presents his hilarious and gut-wrenching personal confessions and childhood remembrances in Love, God, Sex (and and other stuff I don’t have), which is directed by Jason
misc Interspecies Muni Line This is amazing. Someone must have dropped some fast food wrappers or chicken bones on that bus or something, or as Jim Herd suspects, the drivers feed them. (Yeah, we know this photo
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight VARIETY SHOW: Tonight is the premiere of PianoFight's Monday Night ForePlays, a female-driven variety show that will run every Monday through November 23. Consisting of comedy sketches, original dance numbers, a rotating line-up
misc Photos: Critical Mass Halloween Friday's Critical Mass was particularly colorful this month in celebration of Halloween. We saw the group go by outside A.C.T before the start of Mamet's November, and the theater crowd was
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: If you missed Built to Spill's Halloween show last night, in which Doug Martsch played with a fake scar on his forehead and then peeled it off halfway through the set, they'll
