Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/1: Noel Gallagher Doc, Ty Segall/Kut U Up, The Art of Robots FILM: Be sure to RSVP ASAP to the exclusive screening of the new documentary, It's Never Too Late To Be What U Might Have Been - The Making of Noel Gallagher and His
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/29: The Mumlers, Ghost Walk at Palace Hotel, 'Four Lovers' MUSIC: San Jose indie folk collective, The Mumlers, who are named after the "scandalized 19th century spirit photographer" William H. Mumler, will perform at Brick and Mortar tonight, along with guests He's My
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/25: Male Bonding, 'Counterfeits' Launch Party, 'Shaheed: The Dream & Death of Benazir Bhutto' MUSIC: Male Bonding, whose music is "animated by an infectious, evangelical zeal that reflects their roots in the D.I.Y. indie rock community," takes the stage at the Rickshaw, along with Water
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/24: 'Oil City Confidential', Nazi Trials Discussion, Brian Joseph FILM: SF DocFest and Mission Creek Music Festival present Oil City Confidential, the last film in director Julien Temple's '70s English punk rock trilogy that tells "the story of Dr Feelgood, four men
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/23: 'Shake That Sin,' The War on Drugs, 'Aurelie Laflamme's Diary DANCE: It's your last night to catch French dancer, choreographer, writer and director Maïmouna Coulibaly's Shake That Sin, featuring seven female dancers exploring the seven capital vices: the lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/21: ArtCrank SF 2011, Spank Rock, Naughty History Film Night ART: Chrome Industries brings its popular ArtCrank SF event to 111 Minna, showcasing the bicycle-inspired work of over 30 participating Bay Area artists. Be sure to take home a poster or two! (7
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/19: The Fine Art of Poisoning, HIV Community Mayoral Candidates Forum, ATA Film & Video Fest CABARET: The Conservatory of Flowers presents The Fine Art of Poisoning, a night inspired by San Francisco's "femme fatale for the thinking man" Jill Tracy. "Vacked by members of her Malcontent Orchestra, she
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/18: The Monster Show, Art & Social Change, Tin Cup Serenade ART: Project One Gallery presents The Monster Show, featuring work by an impressive line-up of artists paying tribute to classic monsters, ghouls, villains and horror movie characters, as well as sci-fi and cult
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/17: 'The Sleeping Beauty,' Laura Cunningham, Cello Bazaar FILM: S.F. Film Society presents French auteur Catherine Breillat's The Sleeping Beauty, which delves into yet another "piquant" fairy tale of Charles Perrault, creating "a reverie and rumination over slumbering lives and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/16: Thao With The Get Down Stay Down, 'Adventures in Plymptoons!', 'The Birds of the Nile' MUSIC: Kill Rock Stars' Thao With The Get Down Stay Down will rock the Independent tonight at the Treasure Island night show, along with Bare Wires and The She's. (8:30 p.m.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/15: 'Bad Seed'/Patty McCormack Live, Yerba Buena Night, Non Stop Bhangra 7th Anniversary FILM: Actress Patty McCormack will be live in-person at Marc Huestis' tribute and screening of The Bad Seed, starring McCormack as "one of the most evil child characters ever to grace the screen.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/14: DocFest, 2 Blocks of Art, Beats for Boobs FILM: DocFest kicks off tonight with Dirty Pictures, about Dr. Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin, "the rogue chemist who discovered the effects of MDMA (aka Ecstasy) and over 200 other mind-altering drugs," earning him the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/13: 'Summer of Goliath', Lightbox SF Mixer and Artist Talk, Hot Mess 2011 FILM: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts kicks off its Mexico Rising: Films of Nicolás Peruda series, featuring the prolific work of acclaimed 27-year-old filmmaker Nicolás Peruda, with Summer of Goliath, "a quiet
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/12: People Under the Stairs, Jean Harlow Double Feature, Free Jazz/Sushi Party MUSIC: L.A. indie hip-hoppers People Under the Stairs will be playing a free show at Amoeba, promoting their latest album, Highlighter, which "features everything from full string sections to vintage vibraphones and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/11: The Renderers, Ariel Dorfman/Ilan Stavans, Bioneers Film Night MUSIC: New Zealand's The Renderers will fill the Hemlock with their psychedelic noise rock, which they've been making since before the 90s, along with folk psych-rockers Sore Eros from Northampton, Massachusetts and the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/9: Girls/Sonny and the Sunsets, 'The Underpants', 'American Teacher' MUSIC: SF's Girls, who are said by the New York Times to have an "Elvis Costello, Buddy Holly, and The Beach Boys" sort of vibe take the stage with SF's Sonny and the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/3: Legends of Horror Go Noir, SF Mayoral Candidates Forum, Geoff Manaugh/Jeannene Przyblyski FILM: The Roxie continues its "block-busting, face-melting" TV Noir series with Legends of Horror Go Noir, a double-feature of "never-seen ragers and chillers," featuring horror heavy-hitters such as Bela Lugosi, Vincent Price, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/2: Toro Y Moi, 'We Don't Belong Here', 'Night of the Living Dead 3D' MUSIC: Toro y Moi, which started in 2001 as Chaz Bundick's bedroom project and was "born from a plethora of different genres, from freak-folk to R&B to French House," hits Great
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/29: 'The Beat is Law' Film, 'Lunatic Fringe' Book, 'Portrait of the Ground' Installation FILM: Watch Pulp make their legendary debut at 1995's Glastonbury Festival in the SF premiere of The Beat is Law: Fanfare for the Common People, in which the band delivered a set "regarded
Arts & Entertainment Saturday: 'Dark Passage' In Presidio Park Arguably one of the best flicks shot in San Francisco—our money is on Vertigo or the yet to be filmed or even conceived Shooting Versace In Style: The Andrew Cunanan Story—the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/27: Sketch Tuesday, The Sound Of Cinema, SF Comedy Competition Semi-Finals ART: It's another installment of Sketch Tuesdays, your monthly golden opportunity to score cheap one-of-a-kind art ($5-30) that's created before your eyes by highly talented Bay Area artists. (7 p.m., 111 Minna
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/26: Django by the Bay, Dr. Ruth, 'Farmageddon' MUSIC: SF Bay Area Django Rheinhardtophiles unite at tonight's Django by the Bay celebration, featuring Le Jazz Hot (the quartet of the Hot Club of SF), Doug Martin's Avatar Ensemble, and Vic &
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/25: Twin Shadow, Deviants Folsom, Sing-Along 'Little Mermaid' MUSIC: Twin Shadow, aka George Lewis Jr., and his band will be at Great American tonight in support of his debut release, Forget, "a panoramic LP that introduces us to the twilight zone
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/24: 'Top Gun,' Hell's Belles Pinewood Derby, 'Moholy Ground' Launch Party FILM: Homoerotic gem, Top Gun, will screen at the last Film Night in the Park of the season. Be sure to catch that delicious volleyball scene (if the inflatable screen doesn't blow away,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/23: Sink or Swim Fundraiser, Bicycle Film Fest, Alice: Down the Rwong Wrabbit Whole ART: Japan-based, PangeaSeed, and Spoke Art Gallery present the weekend-long Sink or Swim Fundraiser, their inaugural art exhibition featuring original works from thirty internationally renowned artists such as Dave Kinsey, Josh Keyes, Dan
