Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week It's not technically summer yet but this week's event line-up definitely has a strong case of senioritis. Free coffee day at Peet's, a baguette show-down, and a diva double-feature all made the cut
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This Thing: Beer Fest Aboard A Submarine San Francisco is a beer-loving town if ever there was one, and this week marks the third annual installment of a smaller-scale beer fest than the annual Beer Week Gala that went down
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Ben Gibbard At Davies Symphony Hall Death Cab For Cutie / Postal Service frontman Ben Gibbard has not been touring a ton, but he'll be coming to San Francisco in June to do a special solo show at Davies Symphony
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Dan Savage's HUMP! Film Festival Returns Next Week Once again, Dan Savage's carefully curated film festival for homegrown porn (and somewhat porn-y indie shorts) HUMP! is returning to San Francisco, marking the first stop on its national tour at the Victoria
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: 'Out Of The Box,' A Sneaker Exhibit At Oakland Museum Over at the Oakland Museum of California, a new exhibit tracks the phenomenon of sneakers as fashion items and design objects. It's called Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture and
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Alamo Drafthouse Celebration Of SF Cinema From 'Mrs. Doubtfire' To 'The Last Waltz' Has there ever been a better time to escape into the soothing oblivion of a dark movie theater? Not to mention one where you can drink at your seat and where you're expressly
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: 'Puttin' On The Titz' at The Strand Drag fans and regulars at Oasis may have caught the House of MORE!'s terrific command performance of their eclectic, 1930's-inspired cabaret experience last fall, when Juanita MORE! and her gang took over
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Preview 'Mascots' With Christopher Guest Live On Stage! Lovers of the oeuvre of writer-director Christopher Guest and his brilliant mockumentary/comedy ensemble (like myself) are getting Busy Bee-level excited about the upcoming Netflix release of Guest's latest work, Mascots, coming on
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: 'Disastrous,' A Drag Send-Up Of Disaster Films At Oasis Marking her third foray into the ridiculous saga of stripper-turned-action-heroine Champagne Horowitz Jones Dickerson White, local drag star and Oasis co-owner D'Arcy Drollinger returns to the stage this week with Disastrous. It's a
Arts & Entertainment Go See This Thing: John Waters's Early Film <i>Multiple Maniacs</i> At Alamo Drafthouse Last night, Alamo Drafthouse once again proved how terrific a new cultural asset it is for San Francisco, hosting the local premiere of a restored (and reviled!) print of John Waters's early, trashy
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Hodor Actor Kristian Nairn To DJ Rave Of Thrones At Mezzanine Before he was huge on the small screen as Hodor on HBO's Game of Thrones, Kristian Nairn was just a huge dude who was also very big on the Northern Irish deep house
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This Thing: Sierra Nevada Beer Festival At Pier 35 This Weekend Heads up: Sierra Nevada of Chico, CA, the nation's third largest craft brewery, is docking at Pier 35 this Saturday for an afternoon of beer and merriment. The festival, in the afternoon from
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: A Drag Tribute To Nikki Star Drag queens, sadly, are not immortal despite what you may believe, especially if you listen to all the jokes about Lady Bunny being from the 14th Century, or a fully embalmed, miraculously animated
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Five Thirty Eight's Nate Silver At InForum You know those guys who are crazy good at predicting elections and also think they're qualified to judge burritos? Well, the whole Five Thirty Eight team, including founder and editor-in-chief Nate Silver, podcast
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Sunday: Michelle Visage Launches Her Book In SF While the beloved reality competition television show RuPaul's Drag Race has always been suspiciously stingy with SF love, that doesn't mean the show's greatest tertiary character, the legendary Michelle Visage, shares in that
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Saturday: 'True Crime' Comedy At The Great Star "Tragedy plus time equals comedy" is an axiom that's been used by stand-up comedians since the form began. A comedy show this Saturday aims to put that dictum to the test, by featuring
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Monday: Susie Cagle's Silk Road Trial Art Show When Forbes sent Sarah Jeong and Susie Cagle to New York to cover the trial of Ross "Dread Pirate Roberts" Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road illicit marketplace juggernaut, what resulted was
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Drag Comedienne Dina Martina At Rebel This Weekend Seattle-based drag performer/comedienne/performance artist Dina Martina, who's also well known to Provincetown and New York audiences, is making a rare appearance in S.F. this weekend. She's been called "the most
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Big 'Game Of Thrones'-Themed Benefit Bash At Kink.com Armory Get out your sabers and dragon puppets, nerds: They're throwing a big Game of Thrones-themed party at the Armory on Saturday, April 5, and it's for a good cause. It's called Game of
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Work MORE at SoMArts Local drag star Vivvyanne Forevermore, a.k.a. Mica Sigourney, the host of the weekly Friday night shindig at the Stud known as SomeThing, got a residency at SoMArts as part of their
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Every Five Minutes When's the last time you went to a play? Tonight's the night for you to get a better answer to that question, at Magic Theatre's world premiere of Linda McLean’s Every Five
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Weekend: Oscar Viewing Parties At The Balboa Theatre, SoMa StrEat Food Where are you watching the Oscars? Probably at home in something cozy, if you're smart. But should you find the willpower to venture out this weekend, here are two options for watching them
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, At Virgil's Sea Room... The SFist Reader Meetup is happening! When, you ask? Tonight from 5:30-7:30. Where? I just said, it's at Virgil's Sea Room in the Mission. What's to drink? For starters, $3 Speakeasy
Arts & Entertainment Reminder: Come Have A Beer With Us Next Week At SFist's Reader Meetup Consider this your second notice, friends: next Thursday, February 6th the editors, contributors and beautiful commenters of this very website will meet in real life at Virgil's Sea Room. So what can you
Arts & Entertainment Tonight: State of the Union Watch Party at The Connecticut Yankee Doesn't it seem like just yesterday, when the President's 2013 State of the Union Speech highlighted his plans to fix Medicare, close tax loopholes, address climate change and keep the pressure on Syria?
