Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour "That '60s Beat" by Erik Wilson. (The latest EINE piece in technicolor splendor.)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: YBCA's Smart Night Out, SF Popfest Slumberland Records Showcase, and 'Into Eternity' ART: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts debuts the first night in their new Smart Night Out series, which will explore the concept of quiet as it relates to contemporary art and performance.
SF News Expect BART Delays Through Transbay Tube Sunday and Monday, This Week and Next BART announced in a rather confusing manner that there will be delays through the Transbay Tube this weekend and next. What it boils down to is that passengers traveling between San Francisco/Peninsula
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Carnaval, Treasure Island Flea, Push Dance, The Dance Church, and Asian American Orchestra Carnaval Festival & Grand Parade: Danny Glover is the grand marshal of the 33rd Annual Carnaval Parade. Accompanying him at the helm will be Giants’ mascot Lou Seal and the 2010 World Series
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Elizabeth Taylor Memorial, 'Worst Horse' Multimedia Show, and LINES Ballet BENEFIT: Donna Sachet hosts White Diamonds -- Memorial for Elizabeth Taylor, which kicks off at the Castro Theatre with a screening of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, a champagne toast, and a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Muybridge in Three Movements, Tracy Morgan, and Project By Project Summer Soiree FILM: SFMOMA presents Muybridge in Three Movements, featuring an evening of dance, film, and conversation inspired by the work of photographer Eadweard Muybridge. The event, which is in conjunction with SFMOMA's Helios: Eadweard
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: SF Popfest, Slow Sex Soiree, and Stay Gold MUSIC: The Bay Bridged and SF Bay Guardian present The SF Popfest, featuring co-headliners The Black Ryder (shoegaze from Sydney, Australia) and Blackbird Blackbird (SF synth-pop), along with LA's White Arrows and Wolf
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Wall Ball Dance Performance, Jake Shears at Books Inc., and Conspiracy of Beards DANCE: Flyaway Productions premiered their new work, WALL BALL/throw yourself in, a "site specific dance for flying hula hoops, balls and jump rope propelling public school activism," at the Sunnyside Elementary School
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: '13 Assassins,' Humorist Roy Blount Jr., and Pecha Kucha FILM: The epic 13 Assassins takes place at the end of the samurai era in 1844, featuring thirteen swordsmen who are enlisted to assassinate a sadistic lord, who rapes and kills with impunity,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: 'Corner Store' Doc at Red Vic, John Sayles at Tosca Cafe, and City Circus Cabaret at Supper Club FILM: The new documentary, Corner Store, which was produced in San Francisco, follows beloved San Francisco corner shop owner and Palestinian immigrant, Yousef Elhaj, as he returns to Palestine to reunite with his
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight CLUB: Hubba Hubba Revue and Bootie are mashing it up tonight, featuring five of the Bay Area's sexiest and sauciest burlesque performers, along with sets by DJ Tripp, guest DJ Billy Jam of
Arts & Entertainment Gallery of Street Name Typos Polk Sheet shared a funny photo the other day of this curb at "Sacarmneto" and Hyde sporting a comically misspelled street name. This led us to discover a delightful gallery by "throgers" (via
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: BlacKMahal at Yerba Buena Gardens, Bluegrass Pickin' Party, Maker Faire, Circus Center's Spring Carnival, and SF Underground Market SFist already let you know about the big Rapture Party, ArtPadSF, and Sex Worker Fest going on this weekend. Here's even more stuff that's happening. BlacKMahal + Guests: Bring a picnic to the lovely
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival, Art Showcase at City Hall, and ATA/Other Cinema Screening & Benefit for Dara Greenwald CABARET: The San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival kicks off tonight with Love for $ale: A Sweet Talking, Street Walking Burlesque Cabaret, featuring an exciting and arousing evening of "hookers, hustlers,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: 'Camille 2000' at YBCA, ArtPad SF at Phoenix Hotel, and Nightlife on Mars Comedy FILM: You really can't go wrong with a flm series featuring classic vintage erotic gems. Camille 2000, ("softcore sexploitation at its most stylish and sophisticated)" kicks off YBCA's Three-Way: A Trilogy of Vintage
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: We must say, The Fiery Furnaces have the best band bio we've ever read. Catch an intimate show with the clever and talented brother and sister duo, Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger tonight
SF News Adieu, SFPD Horses, Hawk and Hunter! The San Francsico Police Department announced yesterday that the SFPD Mounted Unit will hold a retirement ceremony for two of its horses on Saturday, May 28. Hawk, a 25-year-old American Quarter Horse who
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Rolando B Rosler's Male Figure Drawings, Feast of Words Literary Potluck, and 'Three Sisters' at Berkeley Rep ART: Mark I Chester studio presents an exhibition of eighteen pastel drawings by Rolando B Rosler celebrating the male figure, including gesture drawings, figure studies, and facial portraits. Rosler says about his work,
Arts & Entertainment Tonight at Cobbs: Dave Chappelle Keeps on Tickin' A friend of SFist spotted a pretty haggard-looking Dave Chappelle in the FiDi last week sporting bloodshot eyes that screamed, "Don't you dare talk to me." Hopefully Chappelle got his rest over the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: 'Swinging In The Shadows' (Beat Documentary), 'Plastic: A Toxic Love Story' (Book), and 'Thyroid Diary' (Staged Reading) FILM: Filmmakers Mary Kerr and Elaine Trotter present the first half of their documentary, Swinging in the Shadows, which is a work in progress chronicling the untold story of the California beat era.
SF News Runner Who "Died" at 2010 Bay to Breakers Completes This Year's Race If you recall, at last year's Bay to Breakers, there had been reports of a runner collapsing from a heart attack at the finish line, and many at the scene said he had
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Tickets are still available for the delightfully inappropriate Chelsea Handler, bestselling author, talk show host, comedian, and actress who has redefined the talk show format, at Oakland's Paramount Theatre. Handler is promoting
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The laser kitten mural sighting from a couple of weeks back turned out to be for tonight's stellar Apocalypse Meow show at Space gallery, which examines the dominance of all things feline
