Arts & Entertainment Notable Humans: Filmmaker Joslyn Rose Lyons Leads Oakland Arts Renaissance This week: Filmmaker Joslyn Rose Lyons spotlights Oakland stories; Dr. Veronica Jow bridges dance and medicine; softball star Nina Pototo shines; and we honor lives well lived — Federal Glover, Rob Reich, and Dorothy Fisher Anderson.
Arts & Entertainment Things To Do This Week: Climate Week, Art Battle, Sundance Stompede Doc, JFK Promenade This week, 4/21-27: Five-day sustainable fashion exhibition; queer-oriented climate meetup; live-painting and art auction; two-day celebration of queer country-western dance culture; and the 5th anniversary of the JFK Promenade.
Arts & Entertainment Springtime Palate Cleanser: ‘Swan Lake’ Outdoor Ballet on the SF Bay Another stunning outdoor ballet video from Post:ballet, as their interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s ‘Swan Lake’ premieres today and pirouettes around the Golden Gate Bridge.
Arts & Entertainment Aerial Dance Grapples With Domestic Violence In <i>Grace and Delia Are Gone</i> You may not expect an acrobatic, circus-style aerial performance to explore the topic of violence against women. But this improbable concept achieves great heights in Grace and Delia Are Gone, a new dance
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Monster's Mesmerizing Dance At Arguello And Clement So, you're headed down Arguello toward Clement when suddenly, in the dark, you see a monster dancing on that relatively quiet, distinctly neighborhoody street. What would you do? It's likely that that was
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Veronica Mars, Inhabitant, St. Patrick's Day Parade This weekend, spend some time with a great detective, watch dancers take over 24th Street, and celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Friday: Veronica Mars Look, I need to be honest with you. I don't
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing This Weekend: Arty Party Join members of Post:Ballet for a dance party cum fashion show Sunday at Raven in SoMa. It's called Arty Party, it starts at 4 p.m., and it's not just a party.
Arts & Entertainment Best Dance Clubs In San Francisco Why isn't there a dance club strictly devoted to tap dancing? We'd hit that place every night until our toes fell off into a pool of blood. We'd own that scene. But until
Arts & Entertainment Woman Learns To Dance in One Year, Inspires Many Designer Karen X. Cheng proves that, if willing, you can learn to dance at any age. Do anything, practically. In this video she details her journey from rookie to formidable dancer and the
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Tonight: Lights Down Low Turns 7! Let's give it up for Richie Panic, shall we? Mr. Panic, local DJ of note, has been dishing out his monthly Lights Down Low for masses at Mezzanine. And now it's time to
Arts & Entertainment Zombie Christ Haunted House Is The Only Easter Zombie Party You'll Need The dearth of creativity and art in San Francisco is apparent and nothing short of horrifying. That is, until now. The fine folks behind Pride-season's GayGlo (remember that?) are back again (finally) and
Arts & Entertainment John Cameron Mitchell's Mattachine Dance Party This Saturday Noted for being one of the first "homophile" organizations in the United States in 1950, the Mattachine Society were an anarchistic bunch of fun gays who liked to drink while being pinko political.
SF News Video: Watch Nancy Pelosi Dancing at Barney Frank's Gay Wedding House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi cut a rug over the weekend at the wedding of Barney Frank and Jim Ready in Newton, Massachusetts. Here she is dancing with co-Best Man Terry Bean, the
Arts & Entertainment Other Out-Of-The-Way Pride Events Happening On Sunday Still not sure what to do on Pride Sunday, other than stay at home with your cat, a bottle of fume blanc, and Donna Sachet on TV? Then check out one of these
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/6: La Quebradora ART: MCCLA presents La Quebradora, an exhibition of Contemporary Art from Mexico curated by Amy Pederson that uses lucha libre, or Mexican professional wrestling, as a platform for mapping Mexico’s cultural history
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/1: 200 Yards PHOTOGRAPHY: Frequent SFist contributor Darwin Bell will be among several talented photographers showcased at this month's 200 Yards, which is taking place at Rare Device's Divisadero location. Participants whose work "meshes" with the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/28: Push Dance Company DANCE: Tonight's your last night to catch Bitter Melon, a 3D dance installation project by distinguished choreographer Raissa Simpson’s Push Dance Company and British video artist Ben Wood and his collaborator technologist
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/13: SFJAZZ High School All-Stars Orchestra MUSIC: SFJAZZ presents its annual High School All-Stars performance featuring improvisations by the top young musicians in the Bay Area performing the work of classic American jazz artists, including Oliver Nelson, Duke Ellington,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink S.F. Gay Dance Party's Confusing Pico de Gallo Racism Controversy Hard French, El Rio's award-winning afternoon queer dance party in the Mission District, turned soft over the weekend after several of its Facebook followers (i.e., commenters) took offense to their naming their
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 4/23: Merrill Garbus, Buster Keaton Shorts FILM/MUSIC: The acclaimed Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs fame will be performing a live score to a series of Buster Keaton shorts, as part of the S.F. International Film Festival's hugely popular
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 4/6: Swervedriver MUSIC: Mid-90s British grunge-tinged shoegazers Swervedriver are back on tour after reuiniting a few years ago. They take the stage at Slim's tonight, along with guests, Heaven. (9 p.m., Slim's, 333 11th
Arts & Entertainment Video: Hundreds Perform Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" In The Castro Hundreds gathered in San Francisco's Castro district on Friday to perform Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" in remembrance of the deceased singer. (Which is to say, people performed a flash mob.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 3/25: The Ting Tings MUSIC: High energy and very blond indie pop duo, The Ting Tings, will take your pulse up a few notches at the Fillmore tonight, along with guests MNDR. (8 p.m., The Fillmore,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 3/21: George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic MUSIC: Hall-of-Famer, funk innovator, and godfather of urban music, George Clinton, is in the house with Parliament Funkadelic at Regency Ballroom tonight. Queue the "Give Up the Funk" earworm; "Gotta have the funk.
