Arts & Entertainment Indiefest Brings SF’s ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic-Themed Burlesque Documentary to the Roxie Screen on Saturday Indiefest is back for 2026, and a team of burlesque beauties will 'Bare to be Stupid’ with Indiefest's West Coast premiere of the ‘Weird Al’-themed burlesque documentary ‘Tight & Nerdy’ Saturday night.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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,
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
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 team
