Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Dollar Shave Club's Blades Are F***ing Great DollarShaveClub.com bills itself as a new membership-only company that promises to "shave time, shave money" by shipping you an order of razors every month without all of the pricey Mach3-Quattro-esque hoopla. According
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 3/4: Ben Goldberg's Orphic Machine MUSIC: The Jewish Music Festival presents the world premiere of "Orphic Machine," led by clarinetist and composer Ben Goldberg and accompanied by a renowned ensemble in a song-cycle based on the poetical writings
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 3/2: Hollywood Before The Code FILM: Roxie Theater kicks off its week-long Hollywood Before the Code series tonight, featuring films produced before 1932 that are filled with "erotically charged images, dangerous, graphic violence, and bizarrely aberrant behavior." Tonight's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 3/1: 'Salaam Dunk' FILM: Director David Fine will be in person at tonight's screening of his documentary, Salaam Dunk, which kicks off YBCA's Human Rights Watch Film festival. The film follows an Iraqi women’s basketball
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/29: Terry Zwigoff LECTURE: Acclaimed director Terry Zwigoff will be talking about his work as part of San Francisco Art Institute's Radical Directing Lecture Series, which is free and open to the public and "emphasizes techniques
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/27: Leslie & The LY's MUSIC: SFist is bummed that we can't make it to the funtastic Leslie & The LY's show tonight. Don your best metallic sweater and blue eye shadow, and go in our place, will
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/23: Peter Ellenby Rock Photography PHOTOGRAPHY: Noise Pop presents DC/JV: Photography by Peter Ellenby, featuring fifteen years' worth of portraits of Death Cab for Cutie and John Vanderslice, which document the musicians' storied careers and "serve as
Arts & Entertainment Oscars This Sunday! Our Picks For The Best Places To Watch In SF It's that time of year again where stylists dress actors to within an inch of their true personalities for the red carpet and product endorsement deals. That is to say, it's Academy Awards
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/19: Party Lil Miss Hot Mess's Roller Skating Birthday PARTY: The delightful Lil Miss Hot Mess is hosting a fabulous Roller Skating Birthday: "Get ready to lace up your skates, buckle your blades, and wipe out with style as you spin around
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/17: Trannyshack Michael Vs. Janet Tribute CLUB: Trannyshack presents a special Michael vs. Janet Jackson Tribute saluting those "Wacko-Jacko's, the two most titanically talented (and famous) siblings of the clan," featuring a big line-up of drag performers, including Peaches
Arts & Entertainment Video: Guy Invites Homeless Man Home To Shower, Eat Stefano Caprile, who shot this footage of Drippy Art on Bernal Hill, send us this new video of a real life recording from a homeless man in San Francisco asking for something to
Arts & Entertainment Jeremy Lin, James Franco: Palo Alto High Boasts Impressive Alumni Jeremy Lin, now a member of the New York Knicks, played on the 2006 Palo Alto High School basketball team before attending Harvard. While at Palo Alto HS, he helped his team win
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/14: Ali McGraw/'Love Story' FILM: Ali MacGraw will be in person at Marc Huestis' Valentine's Day Celebration, featuring a screening of Love Story and a gala hosted by Katya Smirnoff Skyy, which includes tribute performances, an Ali
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/12: 'Sironia' FILM: SF IndieFest presents, Sironia, which is inspired by the music of singer-songwriter Wes Cunningham and tells the story of a talented but unsuccessful musician who moves his young family from Hollywood to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/9: IndieFest Spinal Tap Tribute/Opening Party MUSIC/FILM: SF IndieFest kicks off tonight with a Spinal Tap Tribute and Opening Night Party, featuring Live Evil performing as Spinal Tap, along with Motley Crue tribute band, Wildside, and hard rock
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/6: Communion Feat. Entrance, Tim Cohen, Hot Lunch, More MUSIC: Tonight's installment of the monthly Communion club, which originated in the U.K. and was founded by Mumford & Sons' Ben Lovett, features a stellar line-up, including The Entrance Band, Tim Cohen,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/5: 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' FILM: For those who plan on doing the opposite of watching the Super Bowl tonight, the Castro presents its annual Super Bowl screening of Breakfast at Tiffany's, featuring Audrey Hepburn at her finest
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Top 5: Giants FanFest, Men In Tights Super Bowl Show As you'd expect, there are lots of Super Bowl festivities happening on Sunday. We've highlighted a couple, along with a few other non-sports items. Enjoy! Giants FanFest: All your favorite Giants players will
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/1: 'Midnight In Paris'/'The Moderns' FILM: Castro Theatre presents a Paris-themed double feature with screenings of Woody Allen's acclaimed Midnight in Paris starring Owen Wilson who finds himself in his own fantasy, and The Moderns, starring Keith Carradine
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 1/30: Harry Belafonte 'Sing Your Song' FILM: Harry Belafonte biopic, Sing Your Song, which is an Academy Award Best Documentary Shortlist Contender, takes the viewer on a journey through the life and work of "one of the truly heroic
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 1/26: 'Blair Witch Project' Actress Turned Pot Grower MUSIC: Classic S.F. punk band Avengers headline Bottom of the Hill tonight, featuring guests power pop Sacramento and BOATS! and Oakland rockers/punkers Midnite Snaxxx. (9 p.m., Bottom Of The Hill,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 1/25: Ann Magnuson: The Drawing Room Apocalypse PERFORMANCE: SF Sketchfest presents Ann Magnuson: The Drawing Room Apocalypse, "[a] Salon des Beaux Arts for the Fin du Monde 2012," featuring a "mashing up of 'end of the world' songs, appropriately themed
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 1/23: 'Pearl Jam 20' FILM: Tonight's Cinema Drafthouse feature is Cameron Crowe's Pearl Jam 20, which marked the band's 20th anniversary last year. (7:30 p.m., The Independent, 628 Divisadero Street) MUSIC: Jimmy Kansau and his
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 1/19: SF Sketchfest's RiffTrax COMEDY: There are still tickets available for SF Sketchfest's opening night presentation of RiffTrax Presents Night of the Shorts III: The Search for Schlock, featuring hosts Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett and guest
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 1/17: 'Cleanflix' FILM: The "fascinating and even-handed documentary," Cleanflix, explores the world of the backroom entrepreneurs in Utah who clean-up racy Hollywood films to suit the puritanical Mormon community, resulting in "twists, turns and a
