Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Black Film Festival Tomorrow It wouldn't be a weekend in San Francisco without at least two film festivals going on. (What a great town we live in!) The 11th Annual Black Film Festival honors festival founder and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Paul Madonna will debut his annual publication, Album, along with an exhibit of his corresponding large-scale, pen-and-ink drawings of '70s and '80s era toys, which serve as a catalog to the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight GALA: AIGA San Francisco presents Hung up, its annual fall gala. This year, AIGA celebrates the art of skateboarding and has invited its members to contribute custom skate decks, which will be auctioned
Arts & Entertainment Massive Coed "Cool Cat" Clothing Swap and Potluck at CellSpace Tomorrow Night Guys and gals, clear out your closets and throw your discarded duds into the giant pile at CellSpace (2050 Bryant St) tomorrow night, as part of the Massive Men's And Women's "Cool Cat"
Arts & Entertainment Holiday Ice Rink Open Today Although it's still rather warm outside, the Holiday Ice Rink at Union Square officially opened this morning. SF Appeal/Bay City News informed us that a snow machine will drop snow on the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Soul legend Bill Withers (of "Ain't No Sunshine," "Lean on Me," and "Just the Two of Us" fame) is profiled in the new documentary Still Bill, which will be screening in San
Arts & Entertainment <em>Children of the Fillmore, 1952,</em> Photography Exhibit Opening on Saturday Veteran San Francisco photographer Gerald Ratto will exhibit his rarely seen collection of photographs, Children of the Fillmore, 1952, which he captured with his Rolleiflex camera while a student at California School of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight HISTORY: As part of the SF Museum and Historical Society's 2009 "Neighborhoods of San Francisco" program, author and historian Woody LaBounty will reintroduce the community to Beachside Bohemia: Carville-by-the-Sea and the Birth of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Attention adventurous singles with some extra cash -- Improv Dating Scene might be for you. The event begins with a comedy show with Big City Improv performing sketches based on audience suggestions.
SF News Fatal Big Rig Crash on Bay Bridge This Morning A big rig driver lost control of his truck at 3:30 a.m. this morning while negotiating the infamous S-curve on the Bay Bridge. The vehicle plunged 200 feet onto Yerba Buena
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Filmmaker Nara Denning will be celebrating the release of her new DVD Neurotique with a premiere screening. Neurotique is a collection of six silent and tragic love stories set to live musical
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Alternative Tentacles have been celebrating their 30th Anniversary with an Incest-A-Thon this weekend. Tonight's line-up is Alice Donut, Victims Family, and Burning Image. 7:30 p.m. // Great American Music Hall (859
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Tonight's the monthly First Thursday Art Walk, in which local galleries are open late for casual open houses. Some exhibitions of note are Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Evolution of a Painter at George Krevsky
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight VIDEO: Check out the West Coast premiere of Target Video's SF Punk, as part of the SF Main Library's Punk Passages exhibit. The film features Bay Area early punk legends The Avengers, Dead
SF News SF Company Helped Repeal Maine's Same-Sex Marriage Law SF Appeal brings it to our attention that smarmy San Francisco-based (located on Maiden Lane, specifically) "independent integrated marketing communications company," Criswell and Associates, earned about $700K in the past couple of months
Arts & Entertainment Margaret Cho to Make a Surprise Appearence at the EndUp Tonight SFist Jay sent us the scoop that Margaret Cho will be hanging with her pal, Monistat, at the EndUp's Chaser club tonight. There's no word on whether Cho will be MC'ing, performing, or
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Comedian and playwright Rick Reynolds presents his hilarious and gut-wrenching personal confessions and childhood remembrances in Love, God, Sex (and and other stuff I don’t have), which is directed by Jason
misc Interspecies Muni Line This is amazing. Someone must have dropped some fast food wrappers or chicken bones on that bus or something, or as Jim Herd suspects, the drivers feed them. (Yeah, we know this photo
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight VARIETY SHOW: Tonight is the premiere of PianoFight's Monday Night ForePlays, a female-driven variety show that will run every Monday through November 23. Consisting of comedy sketches, original dance numbers, a rotating line-up
misc Photos: Critical Mass Halloween Friday's Critical Mass was particularly colorful this month in celebration of Halloween. We saw the group go by outside A.C.T before the start of Mamet's November, and the theater crowd was
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: If you missed Built to Spill's Halloween show last night, in which Doug Martsch played with a fake scar on his forehead and then peeled it off halfway through the set, they'll
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DRAG: Trannyshack and Midnight Mass host Halloween: A Party, starring Heklina as "Dracula" and Peaches Christ as "Tran Hesling," with a special performance by guest star Jackie Beat and a whole line-up of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LIT: It's another installment of Muni-inspired entertainment at Muni Diaries Live! Under the Influence, with BART tales added to the mix, too. Entertainment includes the Cock-Ts, Shane Papatolicas, the winning Muni Erotic fiction
Arts & Entertainment Halloween Events If crowded bars and flashmobs aren't your thing, check out this short list of fun events taking place on Saturday, brought to us by FuncheapSF. FuncheapSF also recommends perusing Haunted Bay for even
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FOOD: Local street cart chefs will discuss their food, their big plans, their permit status and how the new street-eats scene is changing ideas about dining out during the Commonwealth Club's The Street
