Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/17: Jay Reatard Doc, Litquake's Epicenter Burns, Drink Like a Fish Mixer FILM: Noise Pop and The Roxie present the West Coast premiere of Better Than Something, the new documentary about the controversial and prolific Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr, aka Jay Reatard, which intimately captures
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/16: Vigilante Vigilante, MP3 Experiment, Feast of Words, FILM: Vigilante Vigilante, the documentary featuring Berkeley's infamous anti-graffiti cleaner-upper among others, will be at the Roxie for a couple more days. Ironically, the filmmakers have royally pissed off the city, whose crews
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/14: Bare Wires, Natural Child, Liquor Store; Final Cocktailgate; 'Terri' MUSIC: Oakland's groovy Bare Wires, "who like to drive around in a van a lot," hit the Hemlock for the late show tonight, along with equally edgily groovy-sounding Nashville's Natural Child and New
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/11: Art Show/SF SPCA Benefit, Best Coast at NightLife, Cinema Benefit for Save KUSF ART: Printmaker Xavier Viramontes is exhibiting his new collection of work, Characters, Friends and Neighbors, featuring a whimsical cast of canines and felines while drawing attention to the plight of homeless animals. Twenty-five
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/10: 'Entitled,' 'Meek's Cutoff' and 'Limbo' Double Feature, Caveat Lector FASHION: Project One Gallery is being transformed into a modern-day salon for Entitled, in which avant garde artists and designers have been invited to be "entitled and courageous in their expression of culture,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/9: 'The Birds', Oscar Wilde Staged Reading, Laughing Matters FILM: Enjoy Top of the Mark's breathtaking views while sipping some MacMurray Ranch Pinot Noir and Ecco Domani Pinot Grigio and watching the Hitchcock classic, The Birds. (5:30 to 11:30 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/8: 'Stop Making Sense,' Adam Arcuragi & The Lupine Chorale Society, Kung Pao Kosher Comedy FILM: This week's free film at Red Devil Lounge is the acclaimed Talking Heads gem, Stop Making Sense, which was filmed during three consecutive shows at the Hollywood Pantages Theater during the band's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/7: Gene Kelly Double Feature, Turtle Island Quartet, Vinyl Swap FILM: The Castro Theatre presents a Gene Kelly Double Feature screening of An American in Paris, starring Kelly as a former GI who stays in Paris to make it as an artist, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/5: 'Between Two Worlds,' Friday Night at the de Young, Friday Night Skate Party FILM: Directors Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman will be attending the 7 p.m. screenings all weekend of Between Two Worlds, their new documentary that exposes the polarized debates over tradition and change,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/4: 200 Yards, Hard Shorts, 'Ratatouille' PHOTOGRAPHY: The latest edition of 200 Yards, which is centered around Cafe Royale, opens tonight with a party co-hosted by The Tender. Check out all the interesting scenes that the artists captured within
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/3: World on a Wire, Fireside Storytelling, Habitat for Insanity FILM: The newly restored dystopic 1973 science-fiction epic, World on a Wire, which is a "cracked, boundlessly inventive take on future paranoia" is a previously "unseen three-and-a-half-hour labyrinth from one of cinema’s
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/1: 'The Goonies,' Slim's Pop-Up Series, LGBT Democratic Club 40th Anniversary FILM: The Red Devil Lounge has a weekly cure for the Monday blues with their ongoing free movie screenings. This week's film is the classic family flick, The Goonies, starring Sean Astin, Josh
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/28: The Cool Kids, 'Passing Strangers,' Invented in San Francisco Tour MUSIC: Midwestern-based, "retro-styled" rappers, The Cool Kids, who describe themselves as the black Beastie Boys, bring their fresh sound (sponsored by Mountain Dew) to Oakland's New Parish tonight, along with Go Corporate and
Arts & Entertainment Farewell, Red Vic [Sniff] Another locally-owned, neighborhood theater bites the dust today. The Haight-Ashbury's beloved Red Vic is set to close its doors for good after tonight's final screening of the endearingly morbid Hal Ashby classic, Harold
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/24: 'Mary Lou,' Dee Dee Bridgewater, 'The Dislocation Express' FILM: Mary Lou, which is screening tonight as part of the ongoing 31st Annual Jewish Film Festival, has been called Israel’s answer to Glee, featuring "infectious pop songs and high-energy choreography," "colorful
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/23: Kung Fu Panda, Gary Wilson, Temptation vs. The Queen Is Dead FILM: Bundle up and head to Japantown Peace Plaza for an outdoor screening of the delightful, family-friendly Kung Fu Panda, in which you can "[m]aster the martial arts so that you can
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/22: Moustache Bash w/2 Live Crew, Wild at Heart,' ODC Summer Sampler MUSIC: Yes, you read the headline correctly -- the infamous 2 Live Crew will be performing an exclusive live show at the big Moustache Bash, along with Cosmo Baker, Hottub, and a huge
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/21: 'Diva,' Black Futurists Open Mic, In Extremis: Artists' Panel FILM: Diva, a French thriller that ushered in the 1980s Cinéma du Look movement, features a postman with a passion for opera, who makes a bootleg of a performance by his favorite diva,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/19: The Avett Brothers, TV Noir, Feast of Words MUSIC: Punkgrass band, The Avett Brothers, a high-flying ensemble that "tears through tunes with unbridled energy, popping banjo and guitar strings right and left," are at Fox Theater in Oakland tonight and tomorrow
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/18: Double Feature w/Billy Elliot Cast, Pistolera, Desperado Orchestra FILM: Castro Theatre celebrates Billy Elliot the Musical with a special screening of Billy Elliot the Movie, and featuring the cast of the musical in person before the show. Wear your tutu, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/17: 'Surrogate Valentine;' Shahrzad Sepanlou; 'Persepolis, Texis' FILM: SF-based musician Goh Nakamura will be performing before both of tonight's screenings of Surrogate Valentine, starring Nakamura playing himself. There's also a Q&A with director Dave Boyle after the film.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/16: 'When Harry Met Sally,' Dead Meadow, 'The New Surrealism' FILM: Bundle up and bring a chair to Union Square for Film Night in the Park's screening of the Billy Crystal/Meg Ryan classic, When Harry Met Sally. If you bring the kids,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/14: Smut Capital of America, Litquake's Cabaret Bastille, Lower Polk Art Walk FILM: YBCA kicks off its series, Smut Capital of America, which features Michael Stabile’s in-progress documentary that chronicles San Francisco's reign as the center of porn production in the U.S. during
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/13: 'Bill Cunningham New York,' David Bazan, Wet Hot American BoozeTube FILM: Bill Cunningham New York explores the life of "80+ Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist," Bill Cunningham, who's spent decades "obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the New York
SF News Like to Stream AND Get Discs Via Netflix? Prepare to Bend Over and Take it in the Wallet Your days of enjoying a combo plan of getting a disc or two via those red envelopes in the mail and streaming content from California-based Netflix are numbered, kids. Starting September 1, the
