Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: 'Corner Store' Doc at Red Vic, John Sayles at Tosca Cafe, and City Circus Cabaret at Supper Club FILM: The new documentary, Corner Store, which was produced in San Francisco, follows beloved San Francisco corner shop owner and Palestinian immigrant, Yousef Elhaj, as he returns to Palestine to reunite with his
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: 'Camille 2000' at YBCA, ArtPad SF at Phoenix Hotel, and Nightlife on Mars Comedy FILM: You really can't go wrong with a flm series featuring classic vintage erotic gems. Camille 2000, ("softcore sexploitation at its most stylish and sophisticated)" kicks off YBCA's Three-Way: A Trilogy of Vintage
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: 'Swinging In The Shadows' (Beat Documentary), 'Plastic: A Toxic Love Story' (Book), and 'Thyroid Diary' (Staged Reading) FILM: Filmmakers Mary Kerr and Elaine Trotter present the first half of their documentary, Swinging in the Shadows, which is a work in progress chronicling the untold story of the California beat era.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Tickets are still available for the delightfully inappropriate Chelsea Handler, bestselling author, talk show host, comedian, and actress who has redefined the talk show format, at Oakland's Paramount Theatre. Handler is promoting
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMICS: Daniel Clowes, of Ghost World fame, is at City Lights tonight celebrating the release of Mister Wonderful, a newly published collection of his Eisner Award-winning comic series that originally appeared in The
Arts & Entertainment Tomorrow: Noise Pop Presents 'Brian Eno 1971 - 1977: The Man Who Fell To Earth' at the Roxie The prolific Brian Eno (also known as Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno), king of art/glam rock and experimental/ambient music, turns 63 on Sunday. Yep, most
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Kung Pao Kosher Comedy, Monthly Rumpus, and 'Hair' COMEDY: Shazia Mirza, award-winning British Muslim stand up comedian who "could have married a rich man and lived in a mansion with servants, bidets, and horses, but instead she chose to drive up
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Jacqueline Gallagher paints refreshingly sexy zombies who float "aimlessly through life, but they look good doing it." The pieces in Gallagher's delightfully named exhibition, Of Melancholy and Monkey Business reflect the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: SF Sketchfest presents two new never before-riffed films in San Francisco at The Return of Cinematic Titanic with Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, J. Elvis Weinstein, Frank Conniff and Mary Jo Pehl from
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The San Francisco International Film Festival wraps up tonight with a screening of On Tour, the risque and "unsentimental homage to the burlesque show" that "reminds us that women have real bodies—
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The Rickshaw presents a night of female-led, garage/shoegazy pop, featuring Vivian Girls, who are celebrating the release of their third full-length album, Share the Joy, along with Montreal/LA's No Joy,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: There are a just a handful of tickets left to see the delightfully and uproariously trashy John Waters at JCCSF tonight (we hope that bomb threat doesn't mess things up!), who will
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC/FILM: Snatch up some tickets, while they're still available to Tindersticks: Claire Denis Film Scores 1996-2009, a special, live SFIFF presentation featuring the UK's Tindersticks performing works from an original score that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Set in a circular system of labyrinthine streets, much like the film’s twisting narrative, Asleep in the Sun, which is "a wildly inventive mix of Kafkaesque nightmare and political allegory," delves
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Hunky Jesus Contest, Bring Your Own Big Wheel, John Waters B-Day Weekend, Earth Day, And Union Street Celebration & Easter Parade The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence's HARE at Dolores Park: It wouldn't be Easter without the Hunky Jesus and Easter Bonnet Contests along with all the other fabulous tongue-in-cheek activities put on by San
Arts & Entertainment SFist Guide to the SF International Film Festival In addition to tonight's opening night premiere of Beginners at the Castro Theater, the next two and a half weeks of the San Francisco International Film Festival are packed with screenings and events
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The 54th San Francisco International Film Festival opens tonight with a screening of the new film Beginners, starring Christopher Plummer as a senior who comes out of the closet in the wake
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight TALK: Wired's Steven Levy speaks in conversation with journalist John Battelle at Inside Google: The Myths, the Culture and the Secret Sauce, about his book In the Plex, in which Levy dives deep
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Jackeline Rago directs Venezuelan Music Project, a dynamic ensemble that performs a wide range of music combining Indigenous-Venezuelan, West African and Spanish-European influences -- from folklore-driven songs (executed with traditional instruments) to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Celebrate the fact that Tax Day isn't until Monday by shaking your "assets" to the unbelievably infectiously poppy Scissor Sisters at the Warfield tonight. Tickets are still available as of this posting!
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Explore the questionable world of anti-graffiti vigilantism with the new documentary, Vigilante Vigilante, which follows Berkeley's Jim Sharp and other anti-graffiti zealots who "stop at nothing to rid their neighborhoods and cities
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: Tonight kicks off Fantomas-By-The-Bay, a centennial celebration of pulp fiction writers Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain's ultimate anti-hero, who was as enigmatic as he was treacherous. Tonight's reception, Fantomas Strikes the Bay!
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: In the new "shocking and hilarious" documentary, Orgasm, Inc., filmmaker Liz Canner explores the medical industry as an employee at a pharmaceutical company that is simultaneously creating a new disease, Female Sexual
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Tonight's Bad Movie Night kicks off Blaxploitation Month with Shaft, starring Richard Roundtree as the quintessentially cool private eye and featuring opening credits that "make Times Square look awesome and gritty and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: SF Cinemateque presents Radical Light: In Search of Christopher MacLaine -- Man, Artist, Legend, which provides an in-depth look at four films by San Francisco Beat poet Christopher Maclaine -- The End,
