Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Incredibly Strange Picture Show presents Wattstax, a documentary about a one-day concert put on by Stax Records in the summer of 1972 commemorating the 7th anniversary of the Watts riots in Los
SF News Pink Triangle Partially Burned Early This Morning The iconic Pink Triangle on Twin Peaks was set on fire by possible vandals at around 5 a.m. this morning, damaging a 25-by-30 foot area. The fire was extinguished thirty minutes later.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DANCE: Get your country-western dancing on at Sundance After-Pride Dance. Beginning lessons are from 6:00 to 7:30 pm, and open dancing is from 7:30 to close. 6 to 11 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Tyson Ayers, a Bay Area music composer, instrument builder, and multimedia installation and performance artist, presents the Sound Cave, a small room built out of piano parts. When someone crawls inside, the
SF News Pink Triangle Ceremony Tomorrow, Volunteers Still Needed Tomorrow morning is the annual Pink Triangle Ceremony on Twin Peaks. The Pink Triangle, which can be seen from miles away, commemorates the gay victims of the Holocaust and is a reminder of
misc Photos: Last Night's Michael Jackson Flash Party Steve Rhodes was on the scene at last night's Michael Jackson Tribute/Flashdance Flash Mob at Justin Herman Plaza. We hear it lasted for six hours. We're surprised there weren't any zombies. Check
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Gary Hustwit, the director of the hip documentary Helvetica presents his second hip documentary, Objectified, which is about "our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LIT: In the newly released book Smash the Church, Smash the State: the Early Years of Gay Liberation, nearly 40 authors describe their involvement in the radical groups that took the fight for
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Last Night's Lindy Hop in Union Square Last night's Lindy in the Square was a huge success. As the above photos demonstrate, folks of all ages were up there strutting their stuff. The striped-shirt fellow in the second photo, at
SF News The Latest on ABC vs. SF All-Ages Music Venues 7 x 7 created this great video featuring Dawn Holliday, co-owner of Slim's, Guy Carson, owner of Cafe Du Nord, and Amy Miller of Sonicliving.com speaking about the Alcoholic Beverage Control's recent
Arts & Entertainment SF/SPCA Celebrates Adopt-a-Shelter-Cat Month San Francisco SPCA has been celebrating Adopt-a-Shelter-Cat Month with a few big events. They had an adoption fair on Saturday (pictured above), featuring cats, dogs, birds, rabbits, and other small mammals, and they're
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Based on the classic book by Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest explores "a world where sanity means conformity and following the rules is the only way to survive." Tonight
SF News BART Prepares Commuters for Potential Strike on July 1 Many of BART's 355,000 daily commuters are still unaware that the agency might go on strike next week, which would cause quite a meltdown throughout the Bay Area. Five unions representing 3,
Arts & Entertainment Haiku Giveaway: Tickets to Lewis Black Litquake Fundraiser on Sunday On Sunday night, the irreverent Lewis Black will tear into his favorite subjects, such as politics, religion, and "other American foolishness," live and uncensored in Back in Black, a conversation with former Air
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: GLBT Historical Society, LGBT Community Center, and Scott Richards Contemporary Art will unveil MILK, the photo mosaic of Harvey Milk, created by Robert Silvers. The event immediately follows the Rainbow Flag raising
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Here's another depressing but much-needed film about how our oceans are headed for dire straits. Based on the book by Charles Clover, and narrated by Ted Danson, The End of the Line
Arts & Entertainment YBCA Seeking Volunteers for Upcoming <em>Wallworks</em> Exhibition Attention art-lovers with free time on their hands throughout July: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is looking for volunteers for their upcoming Wallworks exhibition to be launched at the end of July.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: As part of the Frameline Festival, My Buddy Claudia documents the vibrant life of Brazilian trans girl, Claudia Wonder, the first "travesti" to star in '70s mainstream soft-core porn and to pose
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Enjoy a picnic and a concealed beverage while watching Goldfinger at Dolores Park, in which James Bond woos Pussy Galore and battles "a gold-hoarding, power-hungry maniac who plans to detonate a small
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Events: Fairs and Festivals Another weekend full of fun events is soon upon us. FuncheapSF and The Squid List have exhaustive lists, and here are a few highlights. ALL WEEKEND: 59th Annual San Francisco Juneteenth Parade and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Visiting "mirror" artist Daniel Rozin has created a dazzling exhibition, "Reflections," in which guests can "multiply your visage into hundreds of kaleidoscopic views, use computers and mirrors to distort your appearance, experiment
Arts & Entertainment Elvis Costello to Play at Amoeba on Monday at Noon Spend your Monday lunch break at a special, free in-store performance at Amoeba with Elvis Costello in celebration of the release of his new album Secret, Profane & Sugarcane. Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Jim
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SING-ALONG: Join San Francisco's favorite film critic (and SFist Brock's) Jan Wahl in a Castro Theater-style sing-a-long of the world's most famous "shtetl" musical, Fiddler on the Roof. Shtetl fashion is encouraged. 6
misc Greening San Francisco, an Impressive Student Wiki A class of 17 juniors and seniors at the Urban School of San Francisco have brought environmental education into the 21st Century with their comprehensive eco-wiki, Greening San Francisco. Currently the site covers
misc The Hidden Side of Fashion, a Mission Sewing Factory SF Indie Fashion posted a compelling story that originally appeared in Action Orange yesterday, in which blogger Lisa Katayama visited a recently abandoned sewing factory located in the Mission. Katayama's friend Jenny spent
