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.
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: The Creators Project The Creators Project: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Squarepusher, and HEALTH are part of a big line-up of bands rocking Fort Mason this weekend as part of a colossal two-day art and technology festival
Arts & Entertainment ODC/Dance Kicks Off Season With Piece About 'Mad Men'-Era Women One of the pieces that are part of the inaugural program of ODC/Dance's 41st season is called "Breathing Underwater," and the piece grew out of an earlier work by choreographer/ODC founder
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/17: Trannyshack Michael Vs. Janet Tribute CLUB: Trannyshack presents a special Michael vs. Janet Jackson Tribute saluting those "Wacko-Jacko's, the two most titanically talented (and famous) siblings of the clan," featuring a big line-up of drag performers, including Peaches
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, At The Embarcadero... Your average hippie/Burning Man dance of light (is there a technical name for this kind of routine?) turns into a spectacular shot of enveloping violet waves and glimmer care of this photo
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 1/27: A Carlin Home Companion COMEDY: George Carlin's daughter, author/storyteller Kelly Carlin, will talk about the span of her dad's career from straight comic to culture hero and social commentator at A Carlin Home Companion: Life, Love
Arts & Entertainment Saturday: All You Can Dance For $5 Finding your resolutions slipping away? No worries, the LINES Dance Center folks will kick your lazy butt into gear with their All You Can Dance For $5 event on Saturday afternoon from 1
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 12/22: Smuin Christmas Ballet LGBT Night DANCE: Smuin Ballet hosts a special LGBT Show Pre-Party prior to their annual Christmas Ballet in the upstairs theater lobby tonight, featuring complimentary appetizers, cocktails and entertainment. $5 of every ticket sold will
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 12/17: Peaches Christ's 'The Shining' All of tonight's events make us wish we were home in San Francisco right now (instead of staying with family in the Midwestern suburbs for Christmas). So, if you go to any of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 12/15: The Jewish Nutcracker DANCE: In The Jewish Nutcracker, A Maccabee Celebration, Katy Alaniz Rous and World Dance Fusion re-imagines the original Tchaikovsky score as traditional cultural dance, blending dance forms such as Flamenco, Chinese, Persian, Kathak,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 12/10: Dance-Along Nutcracker DANCE: Tickets are still available to tonight's Dance-Along Nutcracker adult gala, featuring Clara's psychedelic '60s-esque journey through the dawning of the Age of Aquarius. The San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band will perform
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/30: Kev Choice, Printz Dance Project MUSIC: Pianist/M.C./producer/band-director Kev Choice premieres excerpts from his new hip-hopera: The Chosen One in a special "The Art of Composition" performance, which will also feature other work Kev Choice
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/22: Shwayze & Cisco Adler, Veronica Klaus, Tango Throwdown & Lesson HIP-HOP: Hip-hop collaborators Shwayze & Cisco Adler will be at the Independent in support of their new album, Island in the Sun, which is a "tribute to the life of deceptive leisure the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/20: Hip Hop DanceFest, Cabaret Showcase Showdown, <em>Dragonslayer</em> DANCE: The 13th Annual SF Hip Hop Dancefest concludes tonight with its Program B performances, featuring local, national, and international acts. (6 p.m., Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, 3301 Lyon Street) CABARET:
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/12: BATS Improv 25th Anniversary, Dance Mission's 'Pick Cells,' Audrey Moira Shimkas Trio IMPROV: Tickets might still be available at the door for the opening of BATS Improv's 25th Anniversary Season, featuring a special presentation of the first Theatresports show, followed by a champagne and dessert
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/23: 'Shake That Sin,' The War on Drugs, 'Aurelie Laflamme's Diary DANCE: It's your last night to catch French dancer, choreographer, writer and director Maïmouna Coulibaly's Shake That Sin, featuring seven female dancers exploring the seven capital vices: the lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/15: 'Bad Seed'/Patty McCormack Live, Yerba Buena Night, Non Stop Bhangra 7th Anniversary FILM: Actress Patty McCormack will be live in-person at Marc Huestis' tribute and screening of The Bad Seed, starring McCormack as "one of the most evil child characters ever to grace the screen.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/6: 'You Look Familiar,' Craft Bar, Alonzo King Talk ART: The SFAC Gallery and PhotoAlliance present You Look Familiar, an exhibition that depicts groups of people who share activities, identities, locations or some form of common ground -- "[f]rom fashionistas to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/17: The People: San Francisco, 'Bound(less)', 'The Reverse Side' PERFORMANCE: YBCA presents New York-based performance troupe Big Art Group's The People: San Francisco, a site specific, outdoor extravaganza that combines live theater with large scale, real time video projection, focusing on the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/15: Carmen Souza, SF Center for the Book 15th Anniversary, RAW Showcase MUSIC: SFJazz presents Carmen Souza, a Lisbon-born "jazz-tinged chanteuse" of Cape Verdean descent, who performs a seductive combination of traditional rhythms and songs with jazz and Brazilian influences. (7:30 p.m., Jewish
Arts & Entertainment Drunk Break Dancing Comes To Oakland Rords of the Froor, a Seattle-based dance-battle event that requires all participants to do a shot before performing one-minute routines, came to Oakland for the first time on Sunday, at the New Parish.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/12: Amy LaVere, Ethnic Indonesian Dance, LittleRock MUSIC: Memphis singer-songwriter, upright bass player, and actress, Amy LaVere, brings her classic country, gypsy jazz, and southern soul-tinged Americana to Cafe Du Nord, along with guests, Emily Bonn & The Vivants. (8:
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/10: Fleet Foxes/Walkmen, Introductions 2011, Jazz and Belly Dance MUSIC: It's sure to be a pleasant evening in Berkeley tonight as Fleet Foxes and The Walkmen take over the Greek Theatre. Be sure to bring layers! (8 p.m., Greek Theatre, UC
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/4: 'Toke' the Play, Expanded Cinema, RAWdance THEATER: Head over to Berkeley's Ashby Theater for the delightful-sounding Toke, DeeDee Kirkwood's madcap play about "Weedee, the black sheep with the heart of gold the Auntie Mame of marijuana the woman with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/28: Los Rakas, Bollywood Dance Party, 'Drive Angry' MUSIC: Oakland-based Los Rakas, who hail from Panama, blend "hip-hop, reggae and dancehall music with Spanish and English lyricism creating songs that leaves your head noddin' and body rockin' for more, tag teaming
