Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/9: 'The Birds', Oscar Wilde Staged Reading, Laughing Matters FILM: Enjoy Top of the Mark's breathtaking views while sipping some MacMurray Ranch Pinot Noir and Ecco Domani Pinot Grigio and watching the Hitchcock classic, The Birds. (5:30 to 11:30 p.
Arts & Entertainment Friday Night: "Will Draw for Drugs," Sketch Party and Benefit for Indie Mart's Kelly Malone This Friday night at 111 Minna, artist Kelly Tunstall is hosting a stunning line-up of local artists for a special sketch party and fundraiser, "Will Draw for Drugs" to benefit Indie Mart and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/4: Jazz Benefit for Dayna Stephens, The GlamaZONE 4th of July, Isounderscore Presents BENEFIT: Bay Area jazz heavy-hitters are coming together for a health care fundraiser at Yoshi's tonight for fellow musician Dayna Stephens, who is awaiting a kidney transplant. The all-star lineup of four bands
Arts & Entertainment Tonight Addendum: Benefit for Capp Street Fire Victims On May 13, if you recall, a fire displaced residents of 506 Capp Street. A fundraiser will be held at Tope in North Beach to help them reclaim their lives. Head over to
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: 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: 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 PERFORMANCE: San Francisco Performances presents Dance, a groundbreaking revival of the 1979 minimalist masterpiece performed by its original collaborators -- choreographer Lucinda Childs' current company will recreate the dance piece on stage with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: SF Camerawork presents the second annual Looking Forward, Giving Back benefit, an evening of music, photography, and a silent auction benefiting First Exposures, which provides free weekly photography classes for underserved youth,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: New York-based artist group, The Bruce High Quality Foundation (BHQF), hits the Bay Area tonight on their national Teach 4 Amerika tour which is inspired by the spectacle and energy of a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Set in a circular system of labyrinthine streets, much like the film’s twisting narrative, Asleep in the Sun, which is "a wildly inventive mix of Kafkaesque nightmare and political allegory," delves
misc SFist Tonight ART: Tonight is the opening reception gala for the 11th Annual Art Explosion Spring Open Studios, which is happening all weekend. Over 140 artists, including painters, sculptors, photographers, fashion designers, jewelers and textile
Arts & Entertainment El Rio 4/8: Emergency Benefit for Victims of Mission-Valencia Fire As soon as last night's 3-alarm blaze temporarily displaced and disrupted the lives of residents at 3212 Mission in La Lengua, the community sprang into action. Tomorrow night (Friday!), an emergency benefit will
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend Sorry this is so late folks! There are quite a few things going on this weekend that SFist already gave you a heads-up about, including the Disposable Film Festival, Shop for Japan, and
Arts & Entertainment An Excuse to Splurge: Shop For Japan Global Fundraiser on Saturday Maybe you've been needing the right excuse to splurge a little, or you've been saving lots of errands for the weekend. Well, on Saturday, your retail therapy could benefit a good cause. A
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight TALK: Head to Berkeley for a refreshing take on life in the 21st century and beyond in An Optimist’s Tour of the Future, in which writer, deep-thinker, and stand-up comedian Mark Stevenson
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: The Bay Area Girls Rock Camp, in which girls aged 8 through 18 can go rock their butts off while bonding with other girls for a whole week, is having its 2nd
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: Kentucky Fried Woman will perform at Hotties 4 H0m0 Health Care, tonight's benefit for Lyon-Martin Health Clinic, which is trying to raise $250k in order to stay open. Also on the bill
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC I: The Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco presents Christmas Crap-Array 2010, which showcases soloists and ensembles performing "the kind of raunchy, hilarious songs and skits that have become their signature style"
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COCKTAILS: Artisan cocktail-enthusiasts should head over to the 2nd Annual Fillmore Cocktail Crawl for some neighborhood-inspired cocktails at several local Fillmore jazz district hotspots. 6:30 to 9 p.m. // Yoshi's San Francisco
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 THEATER: Relationships between couples in crisis and the tensions between noise and silence take center stage at One-Act Fringe, an annual festival of student-penned plays. The festival has a track record for acting
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Local artists Chor Boogie, Jacqueline Norheim, Rose Smith, Kirsten Harkonen, and many others will be selling their work at The Restoration Art & Music & Fundraiser. One hundred percent of art sales,
Arts & Entertainment Sunday: Red Vic Moviehouse Benefit In this day and age, it's hard for any small business to stay afloat, but single-screen, worker-owned-and-operated neighborhood moviehouses are fewer and far between. Show your support to 20-year-old SF gem, the Red
Arts & Entertainment Yogis to Raise Money for Charity at Justin Herman Plaza on Sunday Head over to Justin Herman Plaza at 10 a.m. on Sunday for a free, three-hour yoga class to benefit four yoga charities, as party of the global Yoga Aid Challenge. But be
