Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight STORYTELLING: Tonight's the Halloween installment of Muni Diaries Live!, featuring story tellers Derek Powazek (Fray Magazine), comedian Bucky Sinister, and Isaac Fitzgerald (The Rumpus), along with author Andrew Lam (Perfume Dreams and East
misc Making the Rounds: A Love Letter To The San Francisco Giants Drew of Rocket Shoes, and friend of SFist contributor Daisy Barringer, penned this apt love letter to The San Francisco Giants embodying the mojo that the city is experiencing at this very moment.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: At Electronic Cinema, sound artists myrmyr and Kadet Kuhne will perform live electronic scores for experimental films by Sue-C, Paul Clipson, and Maia Cybelle Carpenter, incorporating and celebrating "unexpected ingredients and impressions,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Julie Michelle, I Live Here:SF by Naomi Kirsten Back in March 2009, San Francisco photographer Julie Michelle launched I Live Here:SF, an ever-growing collection of beautiful, lush portraits shot in various San Francisco locales and paired with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Attends: Tricycle Music Fest West The rain didn't stop dozens of families from swarming the library on Sunday afternoon for the fabulous 2nd Annual Tricycle Music Fest West grand finale show. The show, which was originally scheduled to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: SF Cinemateque celebrates both the late filmmaker Curtis Harrington and the late, great Dennis Hopper in Remembering Dennis Hopper, featuring Harrington's first feature film and Hopper's first leading role, Night Tide (1961)
Arts & Entertainment Halloween Events We're not short on choices for this weekend's Halloween festivities. Let's get to it! PARTIES Trannyshack Halloween: For everyone who misses the Castro Halloween street party, the 4th Annual Trannyshack Halloween, featuring best
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Classical Revolution, Lyz Luke and Porto Franco Records present two performances featuring over fifty musicians in ten bands covering the legendary album by The Velvet Underground and Nico. Get there early to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Giveaway: Tickets to Matcha This Thursday Thursday night's Matcha: Ghosts & Golden Clouds is the last Matcha of the season. Email [email protected] with Matcha in the subject heading and include your full name. The seventh entrant wins
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: Reverend Billy returns to San Francisco with the Life After Shopping Choir for The Earth-a-llujah Earth-a-llujah Revival! 7 p.m. // Victoria Theatre (2961 16th St) // $12 MUSIC: The Bay Area's top three
misc Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day Via R.G.: "Not that anyone needs an excuse to hate Phillies fans, but I was at a sports bar having dinner with some coworkers in fisherman's wharf today and a group of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: When We Leave (Die Fremde), the Centerpiece film at the current Berlin and Beyond Film Festival, features a mother struggling with the old-fashioned values of her family upon returning home to Germany
SF News Hello, World Series! San Francisco is on fire tonight. Got photos of the festivities in your 'hood? Tag 'em SFist. Below, video of Mission and 23rd after the Giants clinched the pennant.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: It's the first preview night for the limited run performance of In Here, No One Will Hear You Scream..., which is part radio play, part blues show, part confessional - "a tale
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend Thrill The World: It's finally here. Join thousands of people around the globe in breaking the World Record for the Largest Simultaneous Dance to Michael Jackson's Thriller on Saturday. Hayes Valley Farm Halloween
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Talia Greene's new series of prints, Colony, were created by pairing weaver ants with altered portraits of 19th century Westerners with Orientalist postcards taken and traded by Westerners in the Colonial
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: It's opening night of All About Evil: The Peaches Christ Experience in 4-D, a special four-night extravaganza featuring live "music, spectacle, and gore couture," with Peaches Christ, the Midnight Mass Players, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Yakuza's 'Of Seismic Consequences' Shatters Speakers Chicago metal band Yakuza will be performing at Slim's supporting Triptykon and 1349 on Saturday night. Here's what Erick Pressman had to say about their new album, Of Seismic Consequences. by Erick Pressman
misc SFist Asks: What Renters Insurance Do You Use? In light of this morning's fire that displaced 72 people, we're always reminded that we still need to get that renters insurance (along with putting together that emergency preparedness kit and folding our
SF News SF General Hospital Seeks Help Identifying Critically Ill Patient The woman pictured in the photo at right was brought into San Francisco General Hospital eleven days ago after she was found lying next to a wheelchair on the Embarcadero. She has not
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Hesta Prynn (formerly of Northern State) brings her own blend of electro-hip-hop-art-rock to the stage, along with LA's Kenan Bell and SF's 40Love. 8 p.m. // Rickshaw Stop (155 Fell St) // $10-12
Arts & Entertainment Register to Take Part in Tomorrow's Great California ShakeOut Are you prepared? There have been a lot of little earthquakes happening lately, serving as gentle reminders to be prepared for the Big One. At 10:21 a.m. on Thursday morning (10/
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: It's another installment of the monthly live art extravaganza, Sketch Tuesdays, featuring live sketching/art-making by local artists, who will offer their pieces for sale for around $25 or less, and Dr.
Arts & Entertainment SF Attends: 'Hamlet' on Alcatraz Get thee to Alcatraz. We Players artistic director Ava Roy brings the Prince of Denmark to The Rock, with chilling results. by Naomi Kirsten There were shades of drama as we waited to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Comedy outsiders Jason Rouse, Chris Neff, Sam Tripoli, and Ari Shaffir have joined forces as The Monsters of Comedy, a touring renegade stand-up comedy collective taking the mainstream comedy world by storm.