Arts & Entertainment Things To Do This Week: Free Tulips, ‘Screaming Queens’, Bikes & Books, Burlesque, Game Fest This week, March 17-23: The annual free tulip event will be at Union Square; Roxie's having a one-night screening of the Compton Cafeteria riot doc, 'Screaming Queens'; plus, bikes and books, a burlesque extravaganza, and a free game fest.
Arts & Entertainment SF-Based 'Weird Al' Yankovic-Themed Burlesque Group Is Making a Documentary, Will ‘Bare To Be Stupid’ “The world's first and only all Weird Al themed burlesque troupe” Tight and Nerdy was founded here in San Francisco, and after a slew of sold-out shows, they’re crowdfunding a full-length feature documentary about their troupe called “Showgals.”
Arts & Entertainment Star Wars-Themed Burlesque Show ‘Empire Strips Back’ at Great Star Theater Is a Real Blast You’ll laugh it up, fuzzball, at ‘The Empire Strips Back,’ a Star Wars burlesque parody stage show that uses the force of elaborate costumes, props, and puppets that are out of this world.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Hubba Hubba Revue Don't you feel like you need a kick in the pants tonight? I don't know, maybe it's the candy or the 4/20ness or the concussion from the Big Wheel race, but we're
SF News Noted S.F. Burlesque Performer Killed In Party Bus Crash Sarah Klein (AKA Sparkly Devil), internationally-known burlesque performer with the Bay Area's Hubba Hubba Revue, died over the weekend. She succumbed to injuries after the car she was riding in hit a party
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 1/9: Toshio Hirano MUSIC: Toshio Hirano, San Francisco's beloved Japanese cowboy, yodels his way through his monthly honkytonk set featuring, as SFGate notes, "faithful, respectful renditions of heartbreaking country tunes," as part of Amnesia's Monday Night
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/20: Open Show, Queer Literati at Occupy SF, Burlesque for the Shy and Awkward PHOTOGRAPHY: Open Show, which organizes live events worldwide featuring the work of photographers, filmmakers, and multimedia producers in high-profile spaces, is celebrating its two-year anniversary with a special print exhibition featuring more than
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/19: Hunx and His Punx, 'Hannah and the Hasbian,' Burley-esque MUSIC: Oakland's own Hunx and His Punx look like they put on a really fun show, with their "1960s girl groups, early power pop, and punk" sound and a variety of sexy and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Celebrate the fact that Tax Day isn't until Monday by shaking your "assets" to the unbelievably infectiously poppy Scissor Sisters at the Warfield tonight. Tickets are still available as of this posting!
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Explore the questionable world of anti-graffiti vigilantism with the new documentary, Vigilante Vigilante, which follows Berkeley's Jim Sharp and other anti-graffiti zealots who "stop at nothing to rid their neighborhoods and cities
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BURLESQUE: Sparkly Devil presents San Francisco's newest burlesque and monthly variety show, Curvicious Cabaret: Burlesque That Bites Back, "an uproarious evening of in-your-face and over-the-top entertainment, from bold, beautiful women who wear glitter
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BURLESQUE: Bombshell Betty and Fromagique present Sci-Fi Burlesque, featuring robots, aliens, space cowgirls, time travelers, and much more, along with Star Trek and Star Wars acts. 9 p.m. // Elbo Room (647 Valencia
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BURLESQUE: In Have Tassels Will Travel, Satans Angel will share stories, slides, and costumes from her times performing at San Francisco's Condor Club, the Las Vegas Strip, Paris' Folies Bergéré, and Bob Hope's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight VARIETY: "Backpack Burlesque! Campfire Comedy! Sultry Acts of Nature!," boast the organizers of tonight's Summer Camp-themed Hubba Hubba Revue. Come enjoy a whole line-up of performers at this titillating variety show that won
misc Today in San Francisco History - "Kolb and Dill" Timecapsule: November 3, 1910 We noticed a short notice in the local papers from, oh, 98 years back, announcing that the entire theatrical wardrobe of Kolb and Dill -- the most popular comedy
