Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/17: 'The Sleeping Beauty,' Laura Cunningham, Cello Bazaar FILM: S.F. Film Society presents French auteur Catherine Breillat's The Sleeping Beauty, which delves into yet another "piquant" fairy tale of Charles Perrault, creating "a reverie and rumination over slumbering lives and
Arts & Entertainment Tomorrow: Occupy SF Public Meditation in Union Square Say what you will about the Occupy movement and the idea of "collective meditation," but considering there were reports of violence at last night's protest here in San Francisco, some positive vibes never
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/16: Thao With The Get Down Stay Down, 'Adventures in Plymptoons!', 'The Birds of the Nile' MUSIC: Kill Rock Stars' Thao With The Get Down Stay Down will rock the Independent tonight at the Treasure Island night show, along with Bare Wires and The She's. (8:30 p.m.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/15: 'Bad Seed'/Patty McCormack Live, Yerba Buena Night, Non Stop Bhangra 7th Anniversary FILM: Actress Patty McCormack will be live in-person at Marc Huestis' tribute and screening of The Bad Seed, starring McCormack as "one of the most evil child characters ever to grace the screen.
SF News SFPD in Search of Missing Lower Haight Man San Francisco police investigators are searching for Mark Marvin, 39, who was last seen leaving his home near Divisadero and Waller at around 4 p.m. on October 6th. He has not been
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Kidquake, Vagabond Craft Fair, Neighborhood Fairs Galore, and More! Lots of folks will be heading to Treasure Island this beautiful weekend for some un-stressful concert-going. For those who want to stay close to home, there just might be a fair going on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/14: DocFest, 2 Blocks of Art, Beats for Boobs FILM: DocFest kicks off tonight with Dirty Pictures, about Dr. Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin, "the rogue chemist who discovered the effects of MDMA (aka Ecstasy) and over 200 other mind-altering drugs," earning him the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/13: 'Summer of Goliath', Lightbox SF Mixer and Artist Talk, Hot Mess 2011 FILM: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts kicks off its Mexico Rising: Films of Nicolás Peruda series, featuring the prolific work of acclaimed 27-year-old filmmaker Nicolás Peruda, with Summer of Goliath, "a quiet
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/12: People Under the Stairs, Jean Harlow Double Feature, Free Jazz/Sushi Party MUSIC: L.A. indie hip-hoppers People Under the Stairs will be playing a free show at Amoeba, promoting their latest album, Highlighter, which "features everything from full string sections to vintage vibraphones and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/11: The Renderers, Ariel Dorfman/Ilan Stavans, Bioneers Film Night MUSIC: New Zealand's The Renderers will fill the Hemlock with their psychedelic noise rock, which they've been making since before the 90s, along with folk psych-rockers Sore Eros from Northampton, Massachusetts and the
Arts & Entertainment The Great California ShakeOut 2011 Hits Thursday, 10/20 Next Thursday, October 20th, the annual Great California ShakeOut earthquake drill, reportedly the third largest in history, will take place at 10:20 a.m., once again reminding us to continue working on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/10: Kal Spelletich Lecture, The Rileys, SORYA! A Minor Miracle (Part 1) ART: Berkeley Center for New Media presents a lecture entitled, Fear and Fun, by San Francisco based artist Kal Spelletich, who builds interactive machines, robots and installations, putting people in touch with intense
Arts & Entertainment Half Moon Bay's World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off Happening Today If we had any ounce of adventurousness in us on this rainy morning, we'd be on the road to Half Moon Bay for the 38th Annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off, which we
Arts & Entertainment Academy of Sciences Debuts Shark Lagoon Cam The California Academy of Sciences launched its new Shark Lagoon Cam on Thursday, which features a lovely mix of Blacktip Reef sharks and Bamboo sharks, Cownose rays, Honeycomb rays, and Blue-spot stingrays, along
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/9: Girls/Sonny and the Sunsets, 'The Underpants', 'American Teacher' MUSIC: SF's Girls, who are said by the New York Times to have an "Elvis Costello, Buddy Holly, and The Beach Boys" sort of vibe take the stage with SF's Sonny and the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/8: Pam Ann, Rock Photographer Lynn Goldsmith, 'Better a Live Ass Than a Dead Lion' COMEDY: There will be a few tickets available at the door to see Pam Ann aka Australian comedienne Caroline Reid, "the fashion-flying, hard-drinking, A-list hostess to the stars," who's "touching down" in San
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/7: The Fresh & Onlys, First Friday on 24th, Get Sketchy at the de Young MUSIC: Local faves, The Fresh & Onlys, will rock the Great American tonight with their signature sound, which takes "a little from here and a little from there, sometimes from fifties rock, or
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: IndieMart, Open Studios, Italian Heritage Parade, and More! IndieMart: IndieMart celebrates Indian Summer with a "full fledged metal & psych rock fest, loaded with short sleeves a plenty, foxy ladies in fringe, summer BBQ, one too many beers and oh yeah,
Arts & Entertainment Chronicling Steve Jobs' Rainbow In extreme contrast to SFist Brock's collection of Steve Jobs backlash stories, we offer one from the opposite end of the spectrum. In response to SFist Jay's lovely double-rainbow post from yesterday, commenter
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/6: 'You Look Familiar,' Craft Bar, Alonzo King Talk ART: The SFAC Gallery and PhotoAlliance present You Look Familiar, an exhibition that depicts groups of people who share activities, identities, locations or some form of common ground -- "[f]rom fashionistas to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/5: Go the F**k to Sleep, Poetry World Series, Penny Arcade READING: Author Adam Mansbach will be at City Lights performing a complete reading of Go the F**k to Sleep, a kids book that's just for adults. (It's a phrase that SFist finds
Arts & Entertainment Outer Sunset Business Wards Off Concert-Going Hippies Although this SFist contributor couldn't make it to the little bluegrass concert in the park last weekend, we kept hearing mention of lots of hippies saturating the event. To echo that sentiment, friend
SF News Michele Bachmann to Talk in S.F. on October 20th For those who've been looking for a chance to ask Republican Presidential Candidate and Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann some questions about her enlightening views on HPV vaccinations and race without contributing their hard-earned
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/4: John Lithgow, Haight/Fillmore Fire Relief Fundraiser, Dum Dum Girls LITERARY: There might still be tickets available at the door to see the multi-talented John Lithgow at the Kabuki Theater talking about his new memoir, Drama, which Steve Martin says, "tells of transgressions,
