Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Obscure Canadian metal band Anvil, whose comeback warmed the hearts of America (and Japan), in Anvil! The Story of Anvil!, will be turning it up to 11 at the Fillmore tonight. 8
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSICAL: The Marsh presents the Marsh Youth Theater’s (MYT’s) Teen Troupe in the premiere of The Wave, a musical by Ron Jones, based on his real-life classroom experiment on fascism that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: SF Sketchfest's 'Celebrity Autobiography' After checking out SF Sketchfest's Celebrity Autobiography at Cobb's on Saturday night -- a glorious evening of comedians reading bizarre autobiographies of equally bizarre celebrities -- it's easy to see how Rachel Dratch
Arts & Entertainment Jason Segel To Replace Neil Patrick Harris At Sketchfest First Michael Cera cancels (which is just fine), then Conan O'Brien pulls out (understandable given his current situation), and now Neil Patrick Harris has nixed performing at SF Sketchfest. Sad. See, he was
Arts & Entertainment SF SketchFest: January 14 - February 2 Holy smokes. Holy fucking smokes. Holy fucking, take-my-wife-please smokes. SF SketchFest, the city's annual comedy festival, starts Thursday. Which means you should get your tickets now. Right now. Because shows tend to sell
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker COMEDY: Jon Lovitz is more than just the “Yeah, yeah! That’s the ticket!” guy. He also, more importantly, convinced Lisa Kudrow to quit her job as a medical researcher
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Attention adventurous singles with some extra cash -- Improv Dating Scene might be for you. The event begins with a comedy show with Big City Improv performing sketches based on audience suggestions.
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Kristen Wiig Reading From the Early Poems of Suzanne Somers This was part of the Celebrity Autobiography series. What more do you need to know? [Hat tip: Le Fag site semi-NSFW]
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Tonight's the monthly First Thursday Art Walk, in which local galleries are open late for casual open houses. Some exhibitions of note are Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Evolution of a Painter at George Krevsky
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight VIDEO: Check out the West Coast premiere of Target Video's SF Punk, as part of the SF Main Library's Punk Passages exhibit. The film features Bay Area early punk legends The Avengers, Dead
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FASHION: Witness a live, Project Runway-type fashion show at the ongoing Fashion Feud SF. Designers will create their "garments" on stage within an hour, the models will have a "walk-off," and the audience
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: There are two more preview nights for David Mamet's over-the-top comedy, November, which takes a satirical stab at American politics. The play was a Broadway success, and critics describe it as "one
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Margot Leitman and Giulia Rozzi present Stripped Stories, a touring night of sex-themed stories. Each show features a comedian, a non-comedian, and a musical act revealing hysterically honest stories about their sex
Arts & Entertainment Geeks Unite at W00tstock Tomorrow Night Hurry, tonight's event is sold out, but tickets to tomorrow night's edition of w00tstock at Cafe Du Nord are still available (as of this posting). W00tstock is a special event for geeks of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Enjoy a night of hypnotic post-punk at the Hemlock. Lumerians' "other-worldly synthesizers layer amidst ambient post-rock stretches" and Grass Widow "braids apparitional vocals over distorted post-punk riffs." Clipd Beaks opens. 9 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Jacqueline Gordon's solo work, Our Best Machines are Made of Sunshine, merges contemporary folk aesthetics with the emergent technology of sound imaging, exploring patterns recurrent in nature and collected sounds "synthesized
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: Bay Area poets and musicians will join together for The Monica Storss Benefit and Silent Auction to help Storss, who is uninsured, pay for the expensive new chemotherapy she needs to fight
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: A new production of the Pulitzer and Tony Award Winning play The Heidi Chronicles is back at Custom Made through October 24. Heidi Holland, a successful art historian and essayist, "is driven
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMICS: Shitty Kitty is still abroad, but Telephone & Soup will be showcasing their latest Shitty Kitty work at Mission: Comics, which was inspired by their recent relocation to Rabat, Morocco. There will
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: San Francisco Cinematheque presents Of Heaven and Earth, a showcase of nine newly restored 16 mm films created between 1967 and 1971 by Tom Chomont, avant-garde master, New York provocateur, leather fetishist,
Arts & Entertainment David Cross at Union Square Borders on Saturday The irreverent David Cross, who captured America's hearts (or at least the smart part of America) as the "never-nude," "analrapist" Tobias Funke and who graced SFist's comments with his controversial presence back in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Love it or hate, street art is here to stay. 1:AM SF gallery, Estria, and Montana Colors North America present Don’t Sweat the Technique: Ode to the Spraycan, a celebration
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Three of the best indie rock bands from China, Hedgehog, Queen Sea Big Shark, and Casino Demon, are spending 28 days in the U.S. as part of the Sing for China
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Comedian Mary Van Note will have the Dark Room squirming with her quirky and awkward humor tonight and next Saturday. Tonight's special guests are Caitlin Gill, Emily Heller, and Ray Molina. 10
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Jarringly different from the , this re-telling of deaf-blind Helen Keller has Annie Sullivan speaking only in Japanese throughout the play, which "leads Helen to discover her abilities to communicate reach beyond her
