Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Graham Central Station, ConFunkShun, Tower of Power, and lead singer Ashling Cole will perform at the Teena Marie Birthday Tribute as 6 Piece & a Biscuit, commemorating what would've been Teena Marie's
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: White Elephant Sale, How-to Homestead, Found Footage Fest, Michael Showalter, and Beer-Soaked Snuggies Oakland Museum White Elephant Sale: The much anticipated annual weekend-long rummage extravaganza in Oakland is finally here. Get you and your tote bags over there first thing tomorrow, as it gets picked over
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Margaret Cho's "Hey Big Dog" Laughing Squid brings our attention to Margaret Cho's "Hey Big Dog" featuring the world's greatest living singer/songwriter, Fiona Apple. It’s from Cho's comedy music album "Cho Dependent" which you can get
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Expect to see "full-frontal puppet nudity" at Avenue Q, the hit Broadway musical about real life in New York City, as told by a cast of people and puppets through a hilariously
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FUNDRAISER: 826 Valencia presents their first-ever Spelling Bee for Cheaters, a tournament that tests not only the word-wisdom of the contestants, who include Daniel Handler, Tracy Chapman, and Mythbuster's Adam Savage, but also
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Modern Eden Gallery and the SF SPCA present Menagerie, showcasing inspired work by San Francisco's established and emerging artists incorporating the SPCA's mission. During the month of February, 20% of the proceeds
Arts & Entertainment Tickets On Sale For Last-Minute Dave Chappelle Performances Tomorrow Night At Cobb's Cobb's Comedy Club just announced a couple of last-minute Dave Chappelle performances for tomorrow night. (He's also there tonight, but the shows sold out fast.) Tickets were still available as of this posting,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: It's $7 Tuesday at the Red Vic, featuring the Steve Martin classic, The Jerk, in which a total imbecile manages to strike it rich. 7:15 and 9:20 p.m. // Red
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Watch Holly Golightly charm the pants off of New York City at the Castro's celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Breakfast at Tiffany's, the film that brings the classic Truman Capote novel
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Tickets are still available to see the legendary Lemmy Kilmister annihilate the Warfield at tonight's Motörhead show. Also on the bill are Clutch and Valient Thorr. 8 p.m. // The Warfield (982
Arts & Entertainment Waitlist for Dave Chappelle Oakland Show Still Open Just as soon as it was announced, Dave Chappelle's two shows tonight at The New Parish in Oakland sold out. Alas. However, if you want to get on the waitlist for the 11pm
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: JD Samson, of Le Tigre and the art/performance collective Men fame, will be spinning a special DJ set in celebration of the release of Men's debut album, Talk About Body, on
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 COMEDY: Tickets are still available for SF Sketchfest's Music Night, hosted by Web Soup's Chris Hardwick, featuring an impressive line-up of comedic musicians turning it up to 11, including David Koechner (of Anchorman
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The 2010 documentary Two In The Wave examines the great friendship and rivalry of the fathers of French New Wave, François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, weaving revealing period footage of both men
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Over several years, Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan filmed Last Train Home, which follows a couple who make the annual New Year's exodus, along with 130 million other migrant workers, from China's cities
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: The SF Sketchfest 10-Year Reunion brings together the festival's original six groups that took the stage of the tiny Shelton theater a decade ago, featuring Colin Mahan and Mike Spiegelman of The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Moby, Martha Plimpton, and Thao Nguyen of Thao and the Get Down Stay Down will make guest appearances at SF Sketchfest's The Dave Hill Explosion, a variety show in which Dave talks,
Arts & Entertainment SF Sketchfest on a Budget FunCheapSF, the site that's always got your back in terms of monetary concerns, is hooking you up with a handy list of sweet half-price ticket deals for a variety of SF Sketchfest shows
Arts & Entertainment Navigating SF Sketchfest This Weekend The biggest comedy festival of the year kicks off tonight with The Upright Citizens Brigade's ASSSSCAT, based on the troupe's popular weekly long-form improv show. Tonight's show will feature founders Matt Besser, Matt
Arts & Entertainment SFist Radar This Weekend As SFist noted last week, SF Sketchfest starts on Thursday! The list of performers is endless. Let us name just a few: Candice Bergen, Dan Aykroyd, Michael Ian Black, Thomas Lennon,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: It's night two of the Castro's epic Hitchcock Double-Feature Marathon, which runs through Thursday. Tonight's films include the classic Rope, which was Hitchock's first color film, and the "humorless and uncharacteristically noirish"
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Gallery Hijinks presents As It Was Before an exhibition of new works by Martin Machado and Todd Freeman with installations by Aleksandra Zee, who use "nature and science to reinterpret memories, fables
Arts & Entertainment <em>Murphy Brown</em> Tribute With Candice Bergen Highlight's SF Sketchfest 2011 SF Sketchfest, arguably the city's most anticipated and entertaining annual festival, promises to top last year's stellar selection of bladder squeezers. Most notably, Candice Bergen and Diane English will make a special appearance
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Based on a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go features the coming of age of three friends who leave the shelter of their idyllic English boarding school and discover a
