Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Persephone's Bees return to the Bay Area for a special S.F. Food Bank Benefit Fundraiser show. Marc & the Casuals and Virgil Shaw w/Peacock Gap and the Wagoneers will also
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: It's a night of classic indie rock performed by a couple of its originators, Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven. Get a double-dose of David Lowery and Frank Funaro. 7:30 p.m.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Get out some of your holiday aggression vicariously through your favorite watermelon-smashing '80s comedian at Gallagher's Holiday Smash Bash. See the Sledge-O-Matic in action! MUSIC: Tonight kicks off the week-long Fifth Kwanzaa
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Bay Area comedian Will Franken performs his latest one-man show, Texas Chainsaw Yuletide, in which he'll "employ his manifold, manic, multiple personalities to bring life to characters such as Father McJagger, who
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Get your last-minute gifts at Madrone Craft Bar Pop-up Shop, featuring handmade items by local artists and crafters, including Ben Swire, Cori Crooks, Gregory Cowley Photography, Guerrero Street Handmade, Hansolo Creations, Mariafatima
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: PianoFight Productions will perform the last production of their One Year AnnivHERsary Show, featuring the best of their past sketches, which include dueling dictator chefs, a liquor cabinet coming to life, air
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY/MUSIC: Actor, writer, and musician Donald Glover brings his I Am Donald Tour, a cool blend of stand-up and music, to Slim's. Glover's a former writer for 30 Rock, which won him
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Hilary Williams will exhibit fourteen new mixed media paintings, which deal with a variety of emotions about the coexistence of the urban landscape, nature and humanity, through the month of December.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Get ready for a one-night only screening of the new documentary, Iconoclast: Boyd Rice, an "off-the-rails roller coaster ride spinning four decades of pop culture, music, art and film through the mind
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Comedy outsiders Jason Rouse, Chris Neff, Sam Tripoli, and Ari Shaffir have joined forces as The Monsters of Comedy, a touring renegade stand-up comedy collective taking the mainstream comedy world by storm.
Arts & Entertainment A Love of Omelets Brings an Actress and a Car Dealer Together to Open a Comedy Club A new comedy club is opening November 4 on the mezzanine level of the AMC Van Ness building at 1000 Van Ness (actually called the Don Lee Cadillac Building and built in 1921)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: SOMArts presents its annual Day of the Dead exhibit, Honoring Revolution with Visions of Healing, featuring altars and installations that will honor the dead and provide offerings to the living. Tonight's opening
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: The refreshingly goofy Kristen Schaal, most notably known as Flight of the Conchords' biggest fan and a regular correspondent on The Daily Show, will be at Cobb's all weekend. Schaal's new book
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The SF Maritime Nat'l Park Association presents an encore screening to their popular Floating Films: Cinema At Hyde Street Pier series, featuring the epic Moby Dick. Watch the movie aboard the world's
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend ALL WEEKEND: The annual Iranian Film Festival will showcase independent feature and short films made by or about Iranians from around the world. Vintage enthusiasts can be found at the Vintage Fashion Expo
Arts & Entertainment Saturday: Comedy for Kids With Autism This Saturday night, Jenny McCarthy comes to S.F. to espouse her favorite subject: children with autism. Hilarious, right? No, not really. In fact, autism affects one in every 90 kids. Alas. But!
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Fecal Face Dot Com, the premier and inexhaustible arts and culture site, are having their mammoth 10 Year Anniversary Show tonight. The exhibit at the Luggage Store Gallery features some of SF's
misc Phyllis Diller, Fast Pass Spokeswoman Before San Francisco evolved into a city best known for eating food from a truck in Dolores Park, we used to have the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange, renowned stand up comedy, affordable housing,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Mario Wagner, who recently relocated to S.F. from Cologne, Germany, will exhibit his first San Francisco solo show, Observed by Clouds. "Utilizing imagery from the 1950s and 60s, Wagner’s
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts celebrates the myth of the vampire and how it will never die with Rare Vampire Films. The films include Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark -- a "badass
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend All Weekend: Be sure to check out SFist Jay's Outside Lands User's Guide, especially the part about bringing a jacket. Over 250 artists showcase their work at the 35th Annual American Craft Council
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: At the group exhibition Black Lab, a diverse line-up of artists investigates the cultural connotations and psychological implications of the darkest color. There will be performances by Terrance Graven, Gerritt Wittmer &
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Acclaimed indie hip-hop artist (and chemist) Psalm One headlines Elbo Room tonight. Art rapper Open Mike Eagle and up-and-comer and Bay Area native Moe Green open. 9 p.m. // Elbo Room (647
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Fabric8 presents Multifarious Tendencies, curated by Sandra Silvoy and featuring artists Adam Flores, Brett Amory, Micke Tong, and Kevin Earl Taylor, who explore their "mutual concern for the particularities of human tendency"
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: SF Sketchfest presents the popular Cinematic Titanic, featuring the geniuses behind Mystery Science Theater 3000 providing a hilarious riff-track to 1968's War of the Insects, a feature-length Japanese B-movie. 8 p.m.
