Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PARTY: Ambrosia Salad celebrates her 30th birthday at her Doble Quinceanera extravaganza, featuring mariachi band Trio Sol de Mexico, vocal performances by Glamamore, Paige Sargent, and Maki Noguchi, special guest performances by Putanesca
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PHOTOGRAPHY: For Show 2 of Lightbox SF's brilliant 200 Yards, participants were asked to shoot photos of the 200-yard radius surrounding Dirty Thieves. You have until December 10 to check out what they
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Documentary Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and The Magnetic Fields traces the 20-year career of Stephin Merritt, exploring his songwriting and recording process, and focusing on his relationships with his bandmates and longtime
misc Video: Final Sex Pistols Concert, Winterland, 1978 SF Weekly's All Shook Down hooked us up with some rare footage of the final Sex Pistols concert, in its entirety, which took place at Bill Graham's Winterland Ballroom in 1978. (The Winterland
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The 5th Annual San Francisco Int'l Animation Festival kicks off with a screening of Here Come the Waves: The Hazards of Love Visualized, featuring four animators' widely different interpretations of the epic
Arts & Entertainment SFist Radar John Waters Live Christmas Show: Those with a hefty holiday budget best be getting their tickets to "John Waters and his sleigh full of smut" now. The event takes place on December 11
SF News Scamming BART, Taxpayers, With Your Clipper Card As a tipster noted, Streetsblog came out with a detailed story yesterday about Clipper's "Dirty Little Secret," in which enterprising BART riders can scam a free trip (after adding the minimum $2 fare
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Craig Baldwin presents Radical Light: Bay Area Found Footage -- From Junk to Funk to Punk, a celebration of found footage filmmaking, which has quite a history in our local heritage. The
Arts & Entertainment Thursday: Benefit for Kim Greiss, Local Sound Engineer Beloved San Francisco sound engineer Kim Greiss, who has worked for over a decade as an independent contractor for local nightclubs including Bottom of the Hill, Slims, and Great American Music Hall, was
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Organ Spectacular!, which has been bringing the organ out of the church and into underground dens since 1997, features "semi-improvised opulence, clanglorious classics and a smattering of blotpolished battletech electronics to settle
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Artist Meryl Pataky by Micke Tong Let’s Get Metaphysical; with artist Meryl Pataky. Light itself has an attraction. In darkness it gives us a sense of safety; in death it calls us home. As art,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: Intrepid literary journalist turned bona fide counterculture icon, Daniel Pinchbeck, celebrates the release of his highly anticipated Notes From The Edge Times, a collection of his most compelling writings on sex, money,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Southern Exposure and The San Francisco Film Society present Cross Cuts, a screening of experimental video and film by twelve Bay Area artists, as part of the Cinema By the Bay festival.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Iconic photographer Glen E. Friedman brings his touring collection of work, Fuck You All, to San Francisco for the first time. The exhibition features one of the most significant photographic contributions to
SF News [Updated] SFPD Seek Help Locating Murder Suspect Who Posed As Utility Worker UPDATE: The suspect has been arrested. SFPD are looking for a person of interest in the murder of Kathleen Horan in her Russian Hill apartment last Friday night. The police believe that the
SF News Fare Inspectors Out in Full Force Along 38 Line Today SFist rode the 38 out to the Richmond and back today, and along the way we encountered about seven fare inspectors. The first inspector was en route to catch the 29 bus and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Designer Lil Tuffy, who has a vast portfolio of local and international rock show posters, presents his third annual exhibition of over 225 new pieces of work, including limited edition screenprinted art,
SF News SF-LA High Speed Rail Encounters Another Speed Bump Opponents of the proposed high speed rail, which would extend from the Bay Area to Los Angeles have brandished their latest weapon: a tree. It seems that Stanford’s iconic Redwood, “El Palo
Arts & Entertainment Cody Ross To Sign Autographs at Macys Today at Noon Want a Cody Ross autograph? Then head over to the Macy's men's store this morning and be among the first lucky 300 people to purchase $25 worth of official championship gear! Ross will
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Badly Happy: Pain, Pleasure, and Panic in Recent Romanian Art, a new exhibit curated by Erwin Kessler, represents work by Romanian artists from "a generation which struggles to make sense out of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The Castro presents an Arthur Penn Double Feature screening of Bonnie and Clyde, starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the psychotic bank robbers who terrorized the midwest in the Great Depression,
SF News [Updated] Giants' Parade Spectators Already Lined Up, Camped Out Bay City News/SF Appeal reports that fans have been gearing up for the big ticker-tape parade since last night, as some die-hards arrived at Civic Center as early as 10:30 p.
misc Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day Via M.A.: I wonder if all the people that lit mattresses on fire last night are performing their civic duties today.
Arts & Entertainment Giants' Victory Parade and Celebration on Wednesday FunCheapSF has the scoop on the historic Giants' Ticker Tape Parade and Celebration, which takes place on Wednesday morning at 11 a.m. in honor of the Giants' first World Series win. The
