Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Comedy outsiders Jason Rouse, Chris Neff, Sam Tripoli, and Ari Shaffir have joined forces as The Monsters of Comedy, a touring renegade stand-up comedy collective taking the mainstream comedy world by storm.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: It's a punk extravaganza with the legendary Toys That Kill, Fleshies, and Rank/Xerox. 9 p.m. // The Hemlock Tavern (1131 Polk St) // $7 FILM: Gary Busey, Corey Haim, and Keanu Reeves
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Mark Warren Jacques will exhibit a new series of work, I’m Here Now, which unveils a new direction in concept and theory in Jacques' work, inspired by his newly acquired
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Relationships between couples in crisis and the tensions between noise and silence take center stage at One-Act Fringe, an annual festival of student-penned plays. The festival has a track record for acting
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: At the Exquisite Book Project Signing Party & Live Drawing event, co-author Julia Rothman will be signing copies of The Exquisite Book, which features work created by 100 artists while taking part
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Fishbone Documentary 'Everyday Sunshine' Lives Up to Its Name by Erick Pressman SF Docfest kicks off this Thursday evening with the Bay Area premiere of Every Day Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone, followed by a post-screening Q&A with the filmmakers
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Grant Morrison, who's known as the "Rock Star of Comics," is profiled in Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods. The film features extensive interviews with Morrison, along with never before seen photos and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Local artists Chor Boogie, Jacqueline Norheim, Rose Smith, Kirsten Harkonen, and many others will be selling their work at The Restoration Art & Music & Fundraiser. One hundred percent of art sales,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Bay Area artist John Belingheri will exhibit his calming and mesmerizing collection of oil and mixed media paintings on canvas, which "express an interrelationship of form, process, contradictions and turmoil". 5:30
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Japanese garage punk power trio Guitar Wolf, who coined the phrase "jet rock 'n' roll", which they also use to describe their musical style -- an energetic cross between the Ramones, rockabilly,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Fresh celebrates the farmers, thinkers, and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system and confronting the consequences of industrialized agriculture: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Spirit Games + Ruby Hawk Productions present Spirit Games Vol 4, featuring "unfiltered, deeply-grooved and intense Nigerian Afrobeat -- tribal break beats keeping you dialed in on the dance floor and sweating to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: It's opening night of Thrillpeddlers' 11th annual presentation of Shoctober Fest 2010: Kiss of Blood, a series of three one-act Grand Guignol terror plays and titillating farces. Plays include Kiss of Blood,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight TALK: Illustrator, artist, designer, and author Maira Kalman, whose delightful work appeals to adults and kids alike and is currently on exhibit at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, has come out with a new
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Hal Hartley fans can enjoy a double feature tonight and tomorrow night. Films include Surviving Desire, about a handsome young college professor smitten with a beautiful female student, and The Book of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PHOTOGRAPHY: Can You See Me? - A Life through the Lens features a 40-photo exhibition, some of them never before seen, featuring the legendary Jimi Hendrix, including his debut at the 1967 Monterey
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Charles Ludlam, the visionary behind the notorious Ridiculous Theatrical Company from 1967-1987, created queer satires that embraced the "ridiculousness of high culture and the seriousness of the low with drag pastiche and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The Museum of Craft and Folk Art celebrates the Mexico’s Bicentennial Anniversary of Independence and the Centennial of the Revolution, with Volver: Mexican Folk Art into Play, in which the artists
Arts & Entertainment Sunday: Red Vic Moviehouse Benefit In this day and age, it's hard for any small business to stay afloat, but single-screen, worker-owned-and-operated neighborhood moviehouses are fewer and far between. Show your support to 20-year-old SF gem, the Red
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The SF Maritime Nat'l Park Association presents an encore screening to their popular Floating Films: Cinema At Hyde Street Pier series, featuring the epic Moby Dick. Watch the movie aboard the world's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: A lush and diverse sampling of artistic European erotic short films that blur the line between art and porn, is awaiting you at Sexy Euro Cinema. The event features the award-winning Matinée;
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: 941 Geary's inaugural exhibition, Flotsam's Wonder World, features artist Mike Shine, who has transformed the gallery into an art "opera" complete with films, music, carnival tent, games, and over 200 mixed media
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The 8th Annual San Francisco Altered Barbie Exhibition 2010 is upon us, and tonight's event is the Artists Reception and A Date with Barbie. Dress as your favorite Birthday Barbie or Ken
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Happy Birthday, Claude the Albino Alligator Two years ago, SFist posted this minor scoop on the new arrival of a white alligator at the San Francisco Zoo. Sadly, hours after posting this amazing footage it was taken down. (Word
SF News Surveillance Video Captures 'Moment of Impact' Explosion, Fireball At a gas station in San Bruno, a surveillance video caught Thursday's natural gas explosion and fire on film. "You can see one man getting ready to fill up his car when something
