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: Arc Gallery has been figuratively transformed into a giant dollhouse for one-of-a-kind dolls and dollhouses as part of the juried group exhibition, Dollhouse. 7 p.m. // Arc Studios & Gallery (1246 Folsom
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DANCE: It's the first night of the weekend-long 12th Annual San Francisco Hip Hop DanceFest, featuring hip hop dance companies, b-boys, and veteran dancers from France, South Africa, Belgium, Stateside, and the Bay
Arts & Entertainment Today: Embarcadero Center Winter Carnival, Lighting Ceremony The holidays are fast approaching! Along with Macy's big Holiday Adoption Window Display unveiling happening this afternoon, Embarcadero Center is having their 24th Annual Winter Carnival and Holiday Building Lighting Ceremony tonight. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PHOTOGRAPHY: For Show 2 of Lightbox SF's brilliant 200 Yards, participants were asked to shoot photos of the 200-yard radius surrounding Dirty Thieves. You have until December 10 to check out what they
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: It's opening night of All About Evil: The Peaches Christ Experience in 4-D, a special four-night extravaganza featuring live "music, spectacle, and gore couture," with Peaches Christ, the Midnight Mass Players, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Inspired by the lives of women such as Andrea Yates and Susan Eubanks, The Penny Dreadful Project uses expressionist, experimental, and politically charged theatre to intimately explore the tragedy and state of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Gallery Hijinks presents their Inaugural Exhibition, featuring a fresh and diverse range of work and several types of media by Bay Area artists Brynda Glazier, Lisa Congdon, Pakayla Biehn, Charmaine Olivia, Ryan
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight CRAFT: Scissors for Lefty will perform at the opening night party for TechnoCRAFT: Hackers, Modders, Fabbers, Tweakers and Design in the Age of Individuality, which focuses on the intersection of technology and craft
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend That 3-day weekend is almost here (or are you off today, too?)! All Weekend: The Frozen Film Festival is happening Friday and Saturday night. The month-long LaborFest kicks off this weekend with a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Giveaway: Tickets to Joe Goode Performance Group's 'Traveling Light' Traveling Light - "It's a nothing time" from Joe Goode Performance Group on Vimeo. Here's a chance to win two tickets to Joe Goode Performance Group's Traveling Light on July 9th at 10
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend Not watching the World Cup this weekend? Don't worry, there's lots more for you to do. Going on all weekend are the Giants County Fair, the 34th annual San Francisco Free Folk Festival
Arts & Entertainment Help Break a World Record at Sunday's How Weird Street Faire As noted in SFist This Weekend, the How Weird Street Faire, which is Bollywood themed this year, is happening on Sunday afternoon. Apparently, the fair organizers are gunning to win the record for
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend Another weekend, another slew of events. Let's get the party started. Saturday is jam-packed. There's the Cinco de Mayo Festival at Dolores Park, the Chinatown Music Festival at Portsmouth Square, the Taiwanese American
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC II: The Wanderlust Festival, which happens later this summer in Tahoe, is having a Fillmore show today and tonight. Tonight's program will feature Rupa & The April Fishes and MC Yogi, with
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Temple of Poi Fire Dancing, Union Square On Saturday night, Temple of Poi fire dancers kicked off Bay Area National Dance Week in Union Square. (Aside: in honor of Bay Area National Dance Week, please allow Donna McKechnie to get
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: LA/NYC's High Places new record, High Places vs. Mankind, features "an imaginative and spacious amalgamation of sounds with a unique, almost Caribbean undertone that is as immediate as it is refreshing.
Arts & Entertainment Dance Anywhere Friday at Noon Dance Anywhere has been embracing the flash mob model since 2005, way before it got trendy. On Friday at Noon PST, they invite people across the world to take a minute to dance
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DANCE: Enjoy a wine and appetizer reception preceding a special ODC/Dance Downtown one-hour performance, featuring Something About a Nightingale, River, and 24 Exposures. ODC will be performing at Yerba Buena through March
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: RayKo’s Third Annual Juried Plastic Camera Show celebrates low-tech photography with an exhibit of imperfect yet beautiful photos shot with cheap film cameras, invoking a nostalgia for the latent image. 6
SF News SF Views: Fauxnique/Monique Jenkinson Please, please, please join SF Appeal Editor Eve Batey and your SFist Editor as we welcome bone-shatteringly important guest Monique Jenkinson. Also known as Fauxnique (former Miss Trannyshack, one of 7x7's 'Hot 20')
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PARTY: At BarBot 2010: "Get a drink from an actual robot. Chat up a snarky electronic bartender. Listen to some graceful tunes being played by robotic music makers. And, after downing your sixth
Arts & Entertainment Video: Love Everywhere at City Hall Today's Love Everywhere dance performance at City Hall, put on by the Erika Chong Shuch Performance Project in celebration of the sixth-year anniversary of same-sex marriage, was a huge hit. We got there
Arts & Entertainment Tomorrow at Noon, This Weekend: Love Everywhere, Celebrating Gay Marriage The Erika Chong Shuch Performance Project will be celebrating the six-year anniversary of same-sex marriage with Love Everywhere, a free and interactive dance performance intended to bring strangers together, which will take place
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: In his latest exhibition Alex, artist Topher Chin depicts mescaline-enhanced experiences from a brief period during his teenage years with some appealingly trippy Op-Art. Get to the opening early -- the Fecal
