Arts & Entertainment Bicycle Film Festival, Tonight Through Sunday The ninth annual Bicycle Film Festival begins with a stellar Bikes Rock show tonight and tomorrow night at the Independent, featuring performances by Blonde Redhead and Thee Oh Sees, followed by an after-party
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Closing this weekend's Silent Film Festival is Lady of the Pavements, D.W. Griffith's last silent film -- a splendid romantic drama set in 19th century Paris. There will be piano accompaniment
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SPORTS: The San Francisco ShEvil Dead duke it out with the Richmond Wrecking Belles at the B.ay A.rea D.erby Girls' Duel on the Docks, a full contact, all female, flat-track
Arts & Entertainment SF Frozen Film and Music Festival This Weekend, Opening Party Tonight The annual San Francisco Frozen Film and Music Festival, which was founded in 2006 and was named after the famous (and alleged) Mark Twain quote, "The coldest winter I ever spent was my
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MOCK UP ON MU TRAILER - CRAIG BALDWIN FILM: The Bay Area's own Craig Baldwin, master of independent, experimental cinema, presents Mock Up on Mu, a feature-length "collage-narrative" based on (mostly) true stories
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Raunchy rockabilly fave Reverand Horton Heat will heat up the Great American tonight with Danish psychobilly band The Nekromantix, who describe themselves as "Elvis meets the Wolfman." 7 p.m. // Great American
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: This week's feature at Bad Movie Night is Rocky IV. Filmed at the height of the cold war, the statuesque Ivan Drago uses the highest technology to train for the fight of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: It's the closing night party of Trace Elements, in which Bay Area artists were posed with questions such as "Does the urban environment hold secrets or codes that would provide a greater
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LIT: Novella Carpenter, author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, will be on hand to discuss her adventures with raising chickens, geese, ducks, turkeys, a beehive, rabbits, and pigs in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Bill Callahan, formerly known as Smog for the past 20 years, masterfully combines lo-fi folk/rock arrangements with his signature, smooth baritone. Callahan will play his lullabies for SF audiophiles at Bimbo's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Incredibly Strange Picture Show presents Wattstax, a documentary about a one-day concert put on by Stax Records in the summer of 1972 commemorating the 7th anniversary of the Watts riots in Los
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Gary Hustwit, the director of the hip documentary Helvetica presents his second hip documentary, Objectified, which is about "our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Based on the classic book by Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest explores "a world where sanity means conformity and following the rules is the only way to survive." Tonight
misc <i>Homes For The Homies</i> "Homes For The Homies" 2009 from Master Mind Productions on Vimeo. Bernal Heights native, artist and film director Abo Greenwald interviewed a lady who makes homes for Homies. You know, those collectible figures
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Here's another depressing but much-needed film about how our oceans are headed for dire straits. Based on the book by Charles Clover, and narrated by Ted Danson, The End of the Line
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: As part of the Frameline Festival, My Buddy Claudia documents the vibrant life of Brazilian trans girl, Claudia Wonder, the first "travesti" to star in '70s mainstream soft-core porn and to pose
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Enjoy a picnic and a concealed beverage while watching Goldfinger at Dolores Park, in which James Bond woos Pussy Galore and battles "a gold-hoarding, power-hungry maniac who plans to detonate a small
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SING-ALONG: Join San Francisco's favorite film critic (and SFist Brock's) Jan Wahl in a Castro Theater-style sing-a-long of the world's most famous "shtetl" musical, Fiddler on the Roof. Shtetl fashion is encouraged. 6
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: SF Sketchfest presents San Francisco-based comedy troupe Kasper Hauser for a special one-night show celebrating the release of their book, Weddings of the Times, a parody of the New York Times wedding
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: John Cage, who was an American composer and pioneer of chance music, electronic music and non-standard use of musical instruments, is honored in this one-time only screening of The Revenge of the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: This weekend at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Kunst-Stoff will perform its 11th San Francisco Home Season from inside a 50 x 50 square “boxing ring” set-up with the audience seated
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FLASH MOB: Ok, folks, it's apparently time for yet another flash mob. This one will last five minutes, and everyone will be singing the Beatles' "With a Little Help From My Friends" (in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Award-winning violinist Gil Shaham will perform the Berg Concerto, "part requiem, part showpiece," which he has explored for years and has played often, and Schubert's Mass No. 6, a "glory of the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: This week's $7 Tuesday flick at the Red Vic is Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Come see Sean Penn at his best as the infamous Jeff Spicoli, and who can forget the
Arts & Entertainment New Film With Script by Eggers and Vida Gets Scathing Review The new film Away We Go, directed by Sam Mendes and with a script by local literary it-couple Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, received a gut-punch of a review by A.O. Scott
