Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Werner Herzog's 1972 film, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, stars Klaus Kinski as the barbaric Aguirre in "a performance you will never forget," alongside his then teenage, real-life daughter, Natasha Kinski, on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: German film, Soul Kitchen, which screened at the SF Int'l Film Festival this year, is described as "a deliciously overstuffed comedy" about a failing restaurant in Hamburg that suddenly gains a cult
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Mario Bava's Blood and Black Lace (1964), featuring "a shadowy killer in black murdering fashion models through brutal methods," is the first film in Cineforum's three-part series, Giallo: a Retrospective on Italian-Style
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Nine Nation Animation, a compilation of recent award-winning animated short films from the world’s most renowned festivals, including Cannes, Berlin, Annecy, Clermont-Ferrand, and others, "proves that there’s a lot more
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Back Alley Theater Company presents Beyond Therapy by Christopher Durang, one of his most popular and frequently performed plays, as well as one of his sunnier comedies. Runs through Monday. 8 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Learn all about body dysmorphic disorder in the gay community through a comedic lens at Between Sizes: An Evening with Skinnyfat, featuring a one-night only encore screening of the film Skinnyfat, along
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Filmmaker and historian Brecht Andersch introduces Bay Area Ecstatic, a program of short films exploring the Bay Area's history as the epicenter of a branch of mystically inclined experimental filmmaking that seeks
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PARTY: Ambrosia Salad celebrates her 30th birthday at her Doble Quinceanera extravaganza, featuring mariachi band Trio Sol de Mexico, vocal performances by Glamamore, Paige Sargent, and Maki Noguchi, special guest performances by Putanesca
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Documentary Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and The Magnetic Fields traces the 20-year career of Stephin Merritt, exploring his songwriting and recording process, and focusing on his relationships with his bandmates and longtime
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The 5th Annual San Francisco Int'l Animation Festival kicks off with a screening of Here Come the Waves: The Hazards of Love Visualized, featuring four animators' widely different interpretations of the epic
Arts & Entertainment SFist Radar John Waters Live Christmas Show: Those with a hefty holiday budget best be getting their tickets to "John Waters and his sleigh full of smut" now. The event takes place on December 11
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Craig Baldwin presents Radical Light: Bay Area Found Footage -- From Junk to Funk to Punk, a celebration of found footage filmmaking, which has quite a history in our local heritage. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: Intrepid literary journalist turned bona fide counterculture icon, Daniel Pinchbeck, celebrates the release of his highly anticipated Notes From The Edge Times, a collection of his most compelling writings on sex, money,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Southern Exposure and The San Francisco Film Society present Cross Cuts, a screening of experimental video and film by twelve Bay Area artists, as part of the Cinema By the Bay festival.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Designer Lil Tuffy, who has a vast portfolio of local and international rock show posters, presents his third annual exhibition of over 225 new pieces of work, including limited edition screenprinted art,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Badly Happy: Pain, Pleasure, and Panic in Recent Romanian Art, a new exhibit curated by Erwin Kessler, represents work by Romanian artists from "a generation which struggles to make sense out of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The Castro presents an Arthur Penn Double Feature screening of Bonnie and Clyde, starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the psychotic bank robbers who terrorized the midwest in the Great Depression,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Get ready for a one-night only screening of the new documentary, Iconoclast: Boyd Rice, an "off-the-rails roller coaster ride spinning four decades of pop culture, music, art and film through the mind
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Spoke Art presents Bad Dads, an art show tribute to the films of Wes Anderson at the new LoPo Gallery, featuring a huge line-up of artists. Tonight's opening includes a special Halloween
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: At Electronic Cinema, sound artists myrmyr and Kadet Kuhne will perform live electronic scores for experimental films by Sue-C, Paul Clipson, and Maia Cybelle Carpenter, incorporating and celebrating "unexpected ingredients and impressions,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: SF Cinemateque celebrates both the late filmmaker Curtis Harrington and the late, great Dennis Hopper in Remembering Dennis Hopper, featuring Harrington's first feature film and Hopper's first leading role, Night Tide (1961)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: When We Leave (Die Fremde), the Centerpiece film at the current Berlin and Beyond Film Festival, features a mother struggling with the old-fashioned values of her family upon returning home to Germany
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Talia Greene's new series of prints, Colony, were created by pairing weaver ants with altered portraits of 19th century Westerners with Orientalist postcards taken and traded by Westerners in the Colonial
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 ART: It's another installment of the monthly live art extravaganza, Sketch Tuesdays, featuring live sketching/art-making by local artists, who will offer their pieces for sale for around $25 or less, and Dr.
