Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight WORKSHOP: It's easy to forget that we have such a gorgeous and historic green space such as the Presidio right in our backyards. As part of the ongoing Presidio Visitor Experience workshop series,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Set in a circular system of labyrinthine streets, much like the film’s twisting narrative, Asleep in the Sun, which is "a wildly inventive mix of Kafkaesque nightmare and political allegory," delves
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight STORYTELLING: Celebrate three years of the fabulous Muni Diaries at Muni Diaries Live 5 tonight. Bring a Muni tale with you and hit the stage with H.P. Mendoza, screen writer and composer
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Hunky Jesus Contest, Bring Your Own Big Wheel, John Waters B-Day Weekend, Earth Day, And Union Street Celebration & Easter Parade The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence's HARE at Dolores Park: It wouldn't be Easter without the Hunky Jesus and Easter Bonnet Contests along with all the other fabulous tongue-in-cheek activities put on by San
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The 54th San Francisco International Film Festival opens tonight with a screening of the new film Beginners, starring Christopher Plummer as a senior who comes out of the closet in the wake
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SCIENCE: The saga of killer plants prevails at Conservatory of Flowers' new Wicked Plants: Botanical Rogues & Assassins exhibit, and tonight's after hours event, Plants Behind Bars, will provide an extra eerie take
SF News Richmond Mother Fatally Shot Near West Oakland Park Beatrice Burton, a 33-year-old mother of two, was involved in a fatal drive-by shooting in West Oakland last night near Poplar Park at 30th and Union streets at 9:45 p.m. Burton,
Arts & Entertainment The Devil Makes Three Bring Drug-Fueled Honkey Tonk Americana Hard-On 'Do Wrong Right,' Play At Slim's 4/28 by Erick Pressman Upon first listen, one would think the notorious folk/bluegrass/Americana outfit Devil Makes Three hailed from West Virginia, deep in the backwoods where everything from moonshine to high grade
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight TALK: Wired's Steven Levy speaks in conversation with journalist John Battelle at Inside Google: The Myths, the Culture and the Secret Sauce, about his book In the Plex, in which Levy dives deep
SF News CHP Confirms That Sunday's Jumper Was Attempting Suicide, Was In Town From So-Cal It's been confirmed that the 16-year-old girl who survived a fall off the Golden Gate Bridge this morning was attempting to commit suicide. California Highway Patrol spokesman Patrick Roth told Contra Costa Times
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Peptastic ensemble of super-star musicians, The New Pornographers, visits the Regency Ballroom to lift you out of your dreary, tax day doldrums and warm your weary heart, with special guests Menomena. 7
Arts & Entertainment Tickets On Sale For Impromptu Dave Chappelle At Cobbs On Monday Night Luckily for the Bay Area, Dave Chappelle loves to hang out here for prolonged periods of time and ends up performing impromptu shows while he's here. After performing two sets of sold-out, last-minute
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Jackeline Rago directs Venezuelan Music Project, a dynamic ensemble that performs a wide range of music combining Indigenous-Venezuelan, West African and Spanish-European influences -- from folklore-driven songs (executed with traditional instruments) to
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour "Unfortunately For Damien, The Exorcism Didn't Stick" by Bob Horowitz (taken at yesterday's DogFest at Duboce Park).
SF News Couple Describes Being Targeted By Suspected Serial Killer And One-Time Mission District Neighbor Joseph Naso Thaddeus Iorizzo and Margaret Prisco, a couple from upstate New York who briefly moved to San Francisco in 1981 when they were in their early 20s, tell of their experience with having Joseph
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: The gorgeous and hilarious Aisha Tyler, former host of Talk Soup and the voice of sexy, superspy Lana Kane on FX’s animated series Archer, not to mention the reigning Celebrity Jeopardy
Arts & Entertainment The Late Federico (Pico) Sanchez's Final Open Studio During The Mission's Spring Open Studios This Weekend Seize the opportunity to learn more about the life and work of Mission icon Pico Sanchez, the neighborhood's most beloved artist, mentor, and friend who passed away suddenly at age 63 in December.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Celebrate the fact that Tax Day isn't until Monday by shaking your "assets" to the unbelievably infectiously poppy Scissor Sisters at the Warfield tonight. Tickets are still available as of this posting!
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Record Store Day, Cherry Blossom Festival, DogFest, Art-A-Thon, and Wood Faire Record Store Day: Saturday is the annual day in which music nerds can score extra sweet deals and exclusive, limited-edition releases at record stores nationwide. Here's a list of all the participating San
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Have you walked along Divisadero lately? It's pretty dang swank these days. Check out all it has to offer at the Divisadero Spring Art Walk. Peruse lots of great art and enjoy
Arts & Entertainment Tomorrow: Get Prepared At Red Cross Bay Area's Prep Rally At Union Square Got that emergency preparedness kit ready yet? Didn't think so. Well, head over to Union Square tomorrow for American Red Cross Bay Area's Prep Rally and receive some free preparedness kit goodies. You
Arts & Entertainment SFist Giveaway: Tickets to Matcha Next Thursday, 4/21 The Asian Art Museum presents -- for just three days only (April 19-21) -- the exclusive Pure Views exhibition, a special installation of brand new works by some of China's most world-renowned and
misc Touch Brian Wilson's Virtual Beard Some of you might be sick of the beard, and yes, we'd love to see Brian Wilson sans his undoubtedly stinky crumb-catcher once again, but this virtual opportunity to touch Brian Wilson's beard
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Musician Dina Emerson, who "combines voice, text, electronics, physical theater and specifically chosen physical objects/materials to create works that defy categorization," will perform a new collection of work that was inspired
Arts & Entertainment Post-Punk Legends Wire Bring Their Highly Influential Legacy to Slim’s on 4/17 by Erick Pressman Wire are one of the most influential rock bands of all time. There really isn’t any other way to put it. When the list of bands who have name-checked
