Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Japantown Peace Plaza Outdoor Cinema & Karaoke presents a free screening of Hong Kong comedy classic, Shaolin Soccer. The film stars Stephen Chow as a young shaolin follower who forms a soccer
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: "My Life in a Day" My Life in a Day; San Francisco from Scott Hammel on Vimeo. The Tender points us to this hypnotic film by artist and filmmaker Scott Hammel, featuring time-lapse footage of 24 hours in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: sfSound's San Francisco Tape Music Collective kicks off the trippie-sounding San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2011, featuring three nights of classic audio art and new fixed media compositions. Twenty local and international
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PHOTOGRAPHY: SF Camerawork presents As Yet Untitled: Artists and Writers in Collaboration, which blurs the boundaries between photography and writing and suggests possibilities for what exists beyond the confines of each, featuring works
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Based on a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go features the coming of age of three friends who leave the shelter of their idyllic English boarding school and discover a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Persephone's Bees return to the Bay Area for a special S.F. Food Bank Benefit Fundraiser show. Marc & the Casuals and Virgil Shaw w/Peacock Gap and the Wagoneers will also
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Legendary L.A. punk band X rock Slim's tonight and tomorrow night with X-mas with X, along with special guest Ray Manzarek (just don't get him talking about The Doors). 8 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Get out some of your holiday aggression vicariously through your favorite watermelon-smashing '80s comedian at Gallagher's Holiday Smash Bash. See the Sledge-O-Matic in action! MUSIC: Tonight kicks off the week-long Fifth Kwanzaa
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The Oakland Interfaith Gospel Ensemble perform an intimate version of their annual Paramount Holiday Concert in a more relaxed setting, expressing "the power of spirit" and bringing "a message of faith, hope,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: A onetime SF denizen and “One Woman Pixar” (as coined by Wired Magazine), Nina Paley, expands the artistic boundaries of animation with Sita Sings the Blues, which is animated in a dazzling
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks take on the holidays with Holidaze In Hicksville, featuring their "signature violin and guitar and two girls backing me up and the tongue-in-cheek approach to the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Have a couple of microbrews, or club sodas, and enjoy the endlessly-hyped Inception. If you're like us and haven't seen the movie yet, a bar might not be the best place to
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Necessary Conversation & Gavin Newsom Necessary Conversation City Hall Christmas Edition from Necessary Conversation on Vimeo. Columnists Melissa Griffin and Beth Spotswood interviewed reigning Mayor / Lieutenant Governor-elect Gavin Newsom at Sunday's Holiday Open House at City Hall for
SF News S.F. Film Critics Circle Awards 'Social Network' Speaking of Facebook accolades, the San Francisco Critics Circle Awards bestowed The Social Network, the non-gritty Harvard drama about barely-legal college kids, lawsuits and social media, with three awards Monday night, including best
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Rush tickets are still available for the SF Film Society's presentation of Mauritz Stiller’s 1919 silent film classic Sir Arne’s Treasure, featuring a live original musical accompaniment by John Darnielle
Arts & Entertainment SFist Attends: 'Kings of Pastry' Screening, Q&A with Michael Recchiuti by Aislinn Fletcher “Eat the highest quality of food you can in small quantities so your brain is happy every day.” -- Pastry Chef Jacquy Pfeiffer Saturday night’s screening of the movie
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: French New Wave classic, Breathless, which popularized the jump cut and the hand-held camera, along with the "Belmondo pout and the boho waif", is at the Red Vic through tomorrow night. 7:
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY/MUSIC: Actor, writer, and musician Donald Glover brings his I Am Donald Tour, a cool blend of stand-up and music, to Slim's. Glover's a former writer for 30 Rock, which won him
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Score some killer art for affordable prices at Print, an exhibition of limited edition prints from a fantastic line-up of Bay Area artists. The show runs through January 29. 7 to 9:
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The U.S. theatrical premiere of Saint Misbehavin', featuring benevolent 1960s counter-culture icon, Wavy Gravy, is at the Red Vic through Thursday. Get a closer look at "a true servant to humanity
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Legendary Seattle band, The Posies, whose diversely poppy discography spans three decades, hit the Independent tonight, along with the the Raconteurs' Brendan Benson and Aqueduct. 7:30 p.m. // The Independent (628
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 DRAG: Watch local drag faves take over the tourist-heavy ice rink in Union Square for the delightful Drag Queens on Ice. 8 to 9:30 p.m. // Union Square (Geary and Powell) // free
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Here's your chance to attend a free screening of Tom Wyrsch's Remembering Playland, a full-length documentary about San Francisco's beloved amusement park, Playland at the Beach, which was located next to Ocean
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Head to Drafthouse Cinema to watch the classic 1982 version of Tron, in which a hacker is "literally abducted into the world of a computer and forced to participate in gladiatorial games
