Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Mario Bava's Blood and Black Lace (1964), featuring "a shadowy killer in black murdering fashion models through brutal methods," is the first film in Cineforum's three-part series, Giallo: a Retrospective on Italian-Style
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Check out SFist Halloween Events post for lots more ideas! PARTY: Triple Cobra, who were described by Spin as "Of Montreal meets Hedwig in Scissor Sisters' orgy room," take the stage at the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight TALK: Illustrator, artist, designer, and author Maira Kalman, whose delightful work appeals to adults and kids alike and is currently on exhibit at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, has come out with a new
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: With a description like, "Part swampy juke joint brawlers, part smooth Philly warehouse doo-wop crooners, a sprinkling of wild-eyed, demon-haunted art hustler, and a hint of punky kindergarten playroom Pollyannas," you can't
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Nathan Richard Phelps' solo show, Absolute Subjectivity, consists of stunning, intricate linework that forms floral or geometric “Mandela-like” patterns. The title of the show comes from a Buddhist concept of non-duality
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Gallery Hijinks presents their Inaugural Exhibition, featuring a fresh and diverse range of work and several types of media by Bay Area artists Brynda Glazier, Lisa Congdon, Pakayla Biehn, Charmaine Olivia, Ryan
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Tonight's Big Idea Night at YBCA, DIYbca, enables you to "redesign your reality with the Bay Area’s pioneering brand of homemade, homespun, DIY weirdness" with a huge slew of performances and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: At this week's Bad Movie Night, which is having a video-game themed August series, hosts Mikl-Em, Tristan Buckner, and Sherilyn Connelly talk about Angelina Jolie's boobs because they suspect that's the only
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: The Thunderbird Theatre presents Agnes the Barbarian, the story of Conan the Barbarian's plain, bookish daughter, who's forced to go on a quest to prove her worth. Runs through August 14. 8
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The Long Now and the SFMOMA Artist’s Gallery present Wondrous Strange: A Twenty-first Century Cabinet of Curiosities, an exploration of time through art, whimsy, music, and mechanics, which will feature work
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: A garden party with projected multimedia art sounds like a lovely idea. SOMArts Cultural Center presents Night Light: Multimedia Garden Party, featuring abstract sound, video, and site-specific film installations "spilling through the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Happy Bastille Day! Looking for more events to celebrate this French holiday (in addition to the one below)? Then head on over to Eye on Blogs. ART: In Leave No Trace, artists Elisheva
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Photographer Jamie McHugh exhibits Seascapes, a series of natural abstract photographs of the Sonoma Coast’s tidal zone with unusual points of view. 6 to 9 p.m. // Dickerman Prints Gallery (3180
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: For one night only at the Dark Room, conceptual artist Spy Emerson presents Happy Forever: The Life and Death of an Italian Cat, based on her experiences as a crewmember of the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: StreetSmARTS celebrates the completion of their pilot-program murals with a Community Extravaganza, curated by Infin8 Sync, a resource for independent artists in the Bay Area. The event will feature food, live muraling,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC I: Grammy-award winning musician, film/theater actor, all-around great and funny guy, and father of the talented Rufus and Martha, Loudon Wainwright III, is promoting his latest album, Songs for the New
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight CLUB: This month's EpiscoDisco will feature the aerial stylings of Adam Wier, Evan Holm’s Image Immersion Machine and music by Daniel Higgs, Barn Owl, Danny Paul Grody and Portraits. 7 to 10
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Akira's latest exhibition of paintings features pop culture icons such as Walt Whitman, Ice Cube, Chuck Norris, Snoop Dogg, Ayn Rand, Guns n Roses, LeBron James, and Andre the Giant. 7
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: In the spirit of dreaming and the dream world, Roots and Wires Sound Dimensional present Dreamplay, an evening of performance art, interactive art installations and soundscapes. All proceeds will benefit Haitian Children.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: This month's Porchlight Storytelling Stories, "La Petit Mort: The Sex Show," embraces the "humor, irreverence, pain, humiliation, and inimitable array of sounds" involved in sex. Tonight's show benefits the Friends of the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: In the Life and Style of DJ Ts by Micke Tong Artist Micke Tong spoke with inveterate DJ Tony Sison (Ts) about growing up in San Francisco, the club scene throughout the '90s and '00s, and Club Life/Style, Ts' latest
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Explore the underside of love this Valentine's Day Eve at Oddball Films' Love, Sex + VD! Classic social guidance and avant garde films and gender-bending cartoons will be screened. 8 to 10 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The San Francisco and Shanghai Conservatories of Music will celebrate the creation of their sister-school relationship with their Shanghai Celebration Concert, which coincides with the 30th anniversary of the signing of the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The SF Independent Film Festival starts tonight with Opening Night film Wah Do Dem, about a solitary Brooklyn hipster on a cruise full of the middle-aged set en route to Jamaica. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: ACT has joined forces with England's Kneehigh Theatre in this limited engagement, U.S. premiere of Brief Encounter, which is "ingeniously crafted with whimsical humor, dreamy romance, and stunning multimedia effects." The
