Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/16: '5 Lesbians Eating Quiche' THEATER: Tides Theatre presents the West Coast premiere of 5 Lesbians Eating A Quiche, an outrageous comedy about repressed desire, food politics and warm-blooded, cold war survival, featuring the "Susan B. Anthony Society
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/15: Fresh Meat Festival PERFORMANCE: The 11th annual Fresh Meat Festival, the nation’s premiere transgender and queer performance festival, kicks off at Brava Theater tonight, featuring the world premiere collaboration by Vogue Evolution and Emily Vasquez
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/14: Big Freedia MUSIC: Noise Pop and Hard French present Big Freedia, "a 6-foot-plus phenom powered by brash sexual energy and raw, self-made talent," who's described as the "queen diva of bounce music." The organizers advise
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Concerned' Citizen Petitions Against Richmond's Soda Tax, Neglects To Mention She's Funded By Lobbyists Here's a good reason we tend to avoid signing random petitions: As California Watch reports, Richmond resident, Rosa Lara, has been going door to door identifying herself as an organizer with the Community
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/13: Beastie Boys - 'Awesome I F*ckin' Shot That!' FILM: The Roxie screens a night of Nathaniel Hornblower flicks, including the Beastie Boys' Awesome I Fuckin' Shot That!, in which the band gave fifty camcorders out to attendees at their Madison Square
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/12: Uptown Almanac's Comedy Night COMEDY: Back by popular demand, Uptown Almanac presents their third installment of Locally-Sourced Pop-Up Comedy Night hosted by Sean Keane and featuring eight stellar Bay Area comics and 8,640 ounces of cold
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, 6/10: Still Flyin' Album Release Party MUSIC: San Francisco megagroup Still Flyin' (60's era rock steady meets DIY indie-pop) celebrates the release of their new album, which the band describes as "Lots of rototoms. Epic snare drums. Huge chorus
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/9: Queer Women of Color Film Festival FILM: The 8th Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival, which runs all weekend, presents its featured short film screening, I Do And I Don't: From the family values of queer API women
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 SFist Tonight, 6/5: Dustin Lance Black/LGBT Pride Celebration PRIDE: Academy Award-winning Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black hosts an LGBT Pride Celebration featuring comedian Marga Gomez, SF Gay Men’s Chorus, and more, and honoring 2012 LGBT Local Heroes Dr. Jei Africa
Arts & Entertainment Get Out Your Viewers: Transit Of Venus This Afternoon Does it feel like we've been looking up in the sky at various planetary rarities a lot lately? Well, add another cool event to the list. Transit of Venus, which occurs when Venus
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/4: Justin (Sh*t My Dad Says) Halpern LITERARY: Bestselling author of Shit My Dad Says fame, Justin Halpern, celebrates the release of his latest collection of stories, I Suck at Girls, "an exploration of Halpern’s romantic adventures (read: mostly
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/3: 'The Color Wheel' FILM: The Color Wheel, which is described as "a comedic revelation - a remarkably sure, beautifully photographed, immaculately written and wickedly funny movie" about "an aspiring news-anchor, forces her disappointing younger brother Colin
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/2: An Evening of Wholphin Love FILM: Tonight's installment of McSweeney's quarterly DVD magazine series, Wolphin, celebrates the most "uniquely odd and profoundly amusing expressions of love" with An Evening of Wholphin Love, featuring a screening of short films
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink It's Official: Hi Lo Club (Formerly KoKo's) Now Open On Polk After nearly a year of nail-biting anticipation for Hi Lo Club, formerly known as KoKo Cocktails, to reopen at Polk and Pine (1423 Polk Street), the bar officially — and very quietly — opened its
Arts & Entertainment Library Patron Returns Book 37 Years Past Due [Updated] The San Francisco Public Library's Presidio branch received a pleasant surprise in the mail today when a patron returned a book that was due back in November of 1974, along with its original
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 This Weekend: The Whole Enchihuahua, Sunday Streets Chihuahuas will outnumber hipsters at Dolores Park on Saturday with SF SPCA's second annual The Whole Enchihuahua, a Chihuahua rescue awareness event, featuring a costume contest, live Mariachi, Off the Grid food trucks,
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, 5/30: Nico Vega MUSIC: L.A.'s Nico Vega, whose lead singer, Aja Volkman, has been compared to Karen O, Joan Jett and Janis Joplin, headline Rickshaw Stop, along with Fake Your Own Death (former Elephone
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/29: 'Dive' The Move FILM: Food Shift presents a free screening (donations appreciated) of Dive, which exposes the problem of food waste in America, followed by a discussion with Dana Frasz, Director of Food Shift and Kirsten
