Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Obscure Canadian metal band Anvil, whose comeback warmed the hearts of America (and Japan), in Anvil! The Story of Anvil!, will be turning it up to 11 at the Fillmore tonight. 8
Arts & Entertainment Tomorrow: Lil Miss Hot Mess' Bat Mitzvah by Rachel Brodsky We, the chosen ones, remember bar & bat mitzvah season clearly. There would be this six-month period where fat, shiny envelopes arrived in your mailbox by the pound, inviting you
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker DANCE: Returning for six encore performances after a sold out run in April 2009, The Illustrated Book of Invisible Stories. Presented by Janice Garrett and Charles Moulton, the show features
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker THEATER: Celebrating the New Year, the international troupe Shen Yun performs classical Chinese dance at the War Memorial Opera House. Evolved over five thousand years, classical Chinese dance includes both
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Ashley Muangmaithong, a <em>Nutcracker</em> Ballerina by Amy Crocker The San Francisco Ballet pulls talent from all over the world, and sometimes from its own backyard. Ashley Muangmaithong, a native of Walnut Creek, was accepted into the San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment Pre-Thanksgiving Dance Party Tonight: Fringe by Rachel Brodsky Some things only come along every so often, like say, Thanksgiving weekend. Even with the onset of turkey feasts, pie, yams n’ stuffing, not everything about Thanksgiving can be exciting.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DANCE: It's the last night of the 11th Annual Hip Hop Dance Fest, which has was the first event of its kind and has played host to dance companies throughout the world. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Women's Art Movement (W.A.M.) explores the scary and sweet sides of pop-surrealism in their latest group show, Dollhouse Monsters invade Polk Gulch. The participating artists of W.A.M. will
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DANCE: The all-female Chitresh Das Dance Company presents the world premiere of Sita Haran, a dramatic staging of one of the most popular stories from India's great text, "The Râmâyana," told in the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: It's a night of geographically diverse rock at Cafe Du Nord, featuring Australia's The Drones (dark/bluesy/psychedelic), Los Angeles' Model/Actress (noisy/high-energy indie rock), and SF's The Spyrals (ethereal/shoegaze/
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DANCE: Come learn the polka at the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival's open-air dance party at Jessie Square with Big Lou’s Polka Casserole, who are devoted to reminding audiences that polka was once
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: It's $3 Movie Night, featuring A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil, an inspirational documentary about environmental innovations that transformed Curitiba, Brazil, into one of the most livable cities in the
Arts & Entertainment Hit and Run Hula Ambushes the Apple Store It's been a busy day for the Nā Lei Hulu I Ka Wēkiu Dancers, who started their Hit and Run Hula at Pier 39 this morning, bused over to the Ferry Building, made
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend Wow, there's a lot of day-time events happening this weekend. We are fried from putting this all together. Time to get outside! ALL WEEKEND Homo A Go Go A whirlwind of music, art,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: Joe Goode Performance Group presents Traveling Light, an installation combining dance, language, irony and reflection, which will take the audience on a journey through the vaults and chambers of the oldest stone
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: San Francisco artist Brian Barneclo, whose colorful, retro-esque murals adorn high-profile locales, such as the SF Bay Guardian building, Kilowatt, and NoPa, will be showing his new body of paintings at the
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend It's another weekend with lots of fun daytime events. Here are a few big ones. Bonus: all of them are free! ALL WEEKEND Renegade Craft Fair Over 200 DIY artists from across the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Tonight is the start of The Crucible's 9th Annual Fire Arts Festival, an open-air exhibition of interactive fire art, performance and the largest collection of outdoor fire sculpture on the West Coast,
SF News Swing Dance Legal Again in Golden Gate Park For 13 years strong, people have gathered in Golden Gate Park on Sundays to do the Lindy Hop. That is, until two weeks ago when SFPD officers stopped the jazz-swing fun. Why? Well,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: This week's feature at Bad Movie Night is Rocky IV. Filmed at the height of the cold war, the statuesque Ivan Drago uses the highest technology to train for the fight of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Tyson Ayers, a Bay Area music composer, instrument builder, and multimedia installation and performance artist, presents the Sound Cave, a small room built out of piano parts. When someone crawls inside, the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DANCE: Get a free beginner salsa lesson at Salsa in the Square, a salsa music and dance festival happening every third Wednesday through October. Immediately following the lesson, test your skill to the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Master trumpet player Herb Alpert, of the delightfully cheesy Sergio Mendes and Tijuana Brass fame, and his wife, singer Lani Hall will perform an intimate night of American and Brazilian jazz featuring
Arts & Entertainment Haiku Contest!: Win a Pair of Free Tickets to See Tiga Tonight at the Independent Before growing into the acclaimed DJ and electronic music producer that he is today, Tiga got his first exposure to music touring the Goa region of India with his DJ father in the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: There's still a few remaining nights of film noir at I Wake Up Dreaming. Tonight's double feature is Women in the Night (8 p.m.), "one of the rarest of 40s B
