Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/3: Legends of Horror Go Noir, SF Mayoral Candidates Forum, Geoff Manaugh/Jeannene Przyblyski FILM: The Roxie continues its "block-busting, face-melting" TV Noir series with Legends of Horror Go Noir, a double-feature of "never-seen ragers and chillers," featuring horror heavy-hitters such as Bela Lugosi, Vincent Price, and
Arts & Entertainment Pop-Up Magazine Issue No. 5 Tickets on Sale Tomorrow Pop-Up Magazine fans, get your fingers ready -- tickets to Pop-Up Magazine Issue No. 5, which takes place on November 9th at Davies Symphony Hall, go on sale tomorrow at Noon. The event,
Arts & Entertainment Poll: Best Credit Union in Town? In light of the historic protests currently taking place over on Wall Street, along with the trend of banks -- most notably Bank of America -- beginning to charge monthly fees for debit
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/2: Toro Y Moi, 'We Don't Belong Here', 'Night of the Living Dead 3D' MUSIC: Toro y Moi, which started in 2001 as Chaz Bundick's bedroom project and was "born from a plethora of different genres, from freak-folk to R&B to French House," hits Great
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/1: ShEvil Dead, The Great SF Read-Out, Night School THEATER: It's opening night of Primitive Screwheads' month-long comedic theater production of ShEvil Dead, in which "[f]ive girls vacation at a cabin in the woods and inadvertently unleash powerful demons and monsters
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/30: Killing My Lobster, One Night Bookstand, Chicken John Block Party COMEDY: You have two weekends left to catch beloved local comedy troupe Killing My Lobster's latest sketch comedy show, Killing My Lobster Conquers the Galaxy, which includes "the real story of how Dr.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/29: 'The Beat is Law' Film, 'Lunatic Fringe' Book, 'Portrait of the Ground' Installation FILM: Watch Pulp make their legendary debut at 1995's Glastonbury Festival in the SF premiere of The Beat is Law: Fanfare for the Common People, in which the band delivered a set "regarded
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/28: Muni Diaries Live Reunion, Richie Spice, Banned Books Talk STORYTELLING: The talented folks at Muni Diaries, who are seriously funny people in person, are hosting their first Muni Diaries Live Reunion and Open Mic, featuring Muni Diaries Live alumni telling the stories
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/27: Sketch Tuesday, The Sound Of Cinema, SF Comedy Competition Semi-Finals ART: It's another installment of Sketch Tuesdays, your monthly golden opportunity to score cheap one-of-a-kind art ($5-30) that's created before your eyes by highly talented Bay Area artists. (7 p.m., 111 Minna
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/26: Django by the Bay, Dr. Ruth, 'Farmageddon' MUSIC: SF Bay Area Django Rheinhardtophiles unite at tonight's Django by the Bay celebration, featuring Le Jazz Hot (the quartet of the Hot Club of SF), Doug Martin's Avatar Ensemble, and Vic &
Arts & Entertainment Get Your Free Mary Jane Sample Today Is Mary Jane an outdated term? Oh well, we like saying it, at least in blog post headlines. FunCheapSF, always the first to know about such fun events as these, informs us that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/25: Twin Shadow, Deviants Folsom, Sing-Along 'Little Mermaid' MUSIC: Twin Shadow, aka George Lewis Jr., and his band will be at Great American tonight in support of his debut release, Forget, "a panoramic LP that introduces us to the twilight zone
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/24: 'Top Gun,' Hell's Belles Pinewood Derby, 'Moholy Ground' Launch Party FILM: Homoerotic gem, Top Gun, will screen at the last Film Night in the Park of the season. Be sure to catch that delicious volleyball scene (if the inflatable screen doesn't blow away,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/23: Sink or Swim Fundraiser, Bicycle Film Fest, Alice: Down the Rwong Wrabbit Whole ART: Japan-based, PangeaSeed, and Spoke Art Gallery present the weekend-long Sink or Swim Fundraiser, their inaugural art exhibition featuring original works from thirty internationally renowned artists such as Dave Kinsey, Josh Keyes, Dan
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/22: "Live Documentaries," BedPost Confessions, Ask a Scientist FILM: Artists Sam Green and Dave Cerf present Greetings on Behalf of the People of Our Planet!, three short "live documentaries" that combine film, live narration, and sound mixing, including the local premiere
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/21: Branford Marsalis, Wendy Wasserstein, 'Unfinished Spaces' MUSIC: Three-time Grammy winning saxophonist, NEA Jazz Master, and member of "jazz’s most storied living dynasty", Branford Marsalis, will be at Yoshi's tonight through Sunday, in support of his latest release, Songs
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/20: Bob Mould & Shepard Fairey, A Night of Rejection with 'New Yorker' Cartoonists, Free Curry Without Worry TALK: Noise Pop and City Arts presents an onstage conversation between Bob Mould, formerly of Husker Dü fame, and counter-culture hero, Shepard Fairey, as part of City Arts "On Arts" series, which benefits
SF News Baby Boy Born on SFO-Bound Flight from Philippines Philippines Airlines passenger Aida Alamillo delivered a healthy baby boy mid-flight yesterday while en route to San Francisco with the help of three onboard nurses and several flight crew members. The baby was
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/19: Low, Theater Pub, 'Turandot' Talk MUSIC: Beloved "slowcore" trio Low will be at Great American tonight in support of their latest album, C'Mon, which was "[r]ecorded in an old church in Duluth, MN and mixed in an
Arts & Entertainment The Big Book Sale Returns This Week! Looking to score a bunch of awesome kids' books, older-edition cookbooks, self-help guides, parenting manuals, or art books? Got a hankering for laser discs or '80s one-hit wonders and musical soundtracks on vinyl?
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/18: Two Kids, One Hall; 'The Future'; Lumerians COMEDY: SF Weekly informs us that Kids in the Halls co-stars Kevin McDonald and Scott Thompson have been at Cobbs all weekend, as part of SF Sketchfest's presentation of Two Kids, One Hall.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/17: The People: San Francisco, 'Bound(less)', 'The Reverse Side' PERFORMANCE: YBCA presents New York-based performance troupe Big Art Group's The People: San Francisco, a site specific, outdoor extravaganza that combines live theater with large scale, real time video projection, focusing on the
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Bring Your Own Queer, Rock Make Street Fest, Cardboard Tube Fighting, Duboce Park Tag Sale, & More! Bring Your Own Queer (BYOQ): Local performers and icons will be shaking things up today at the annual Bring Your Own Queer music, arts and performance festival, including Juanita Moore, The Sisters of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/16: L@TE at BAM/PFA, Proof: Southern Exposure Juried Exhibition, Popscene/Teddy Bears PARTY: Tonight's edition of Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive's L@TE series presents a screening of the gloriously awful Forbidden Zone, along with a celebration of the Create exhibition, which closes this
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/15: Carmen Souza, SF Center for the Book 15th Anniversary, RAW Showcase MUSIC: SFJazz presents Carmen Souza, a Lisbon-born "jazz-tinged chanteuse" of Cape Verdean descent, who performs a seductive combination of traditional rhythms and songs with jazz and Brazilian influences. (7:30 p.m., Jewish
