Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: 'Vampyr' With Steven Severin's Live Score Long before Twilight turned sex-crazed teenage vampires into a national fad, and even 25 years before Bram Stoker penned Dracula, there was Carmilla — a 1872 tale of a prototypical lesbian vampire that became
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Rock-N-Roll Carnival Tonight at Public Works in the Mission, noted local broke person Broke-Ass Stuart hosts a three-ring circus of live music, burlesque, comedy and skee-ball. Because there is not enough skee-ball in San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Hear A Literary Mixtape We were jazzed about Quiet Lightning's submission-based lit reading series when it debuted in the Conservatory of Flowers a few months back. Tonight, the local literary concern collides with LitQuake for the final
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Sharktoberfest Didn't get tickets to see Elvis Costello at the big benefit opening for Preservation Hall West? Don't fret, Costello is playing Hardly Strictly and there are cheaper shows already lined up for Valencia's
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Discount Laughs at The Dark Room Worried tonight's presidential debates will leave you feeling sad and depressed? Distract yourself with a trip to the Dark Room's divey theater on Mission Street tonight for The Business — a weekly alternative comedy
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Deerhoof At Slim's From their humble beginnings as a little-known nineties noise rock band to critical acclaim for one of Pitchfork's top albums of the 2000s, San Francisco's Deerhoof have made a name for themselves with
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Drinks And AT-ATs At The Walt Disney Museum Finally hopping on the after-hours museum trend, tonight the Walt Disney Family Museum in the Presidio hosts Animate Your Night: Where It's AT-AT. The informative drinking event promises to teach attendees a thing
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Party with SFBG and Drag Queens for Cindy Sherman The SF Bay Guardian will join creative forces with SFMOMA for a rooftop party tonight marking the end of the Cindy Sherman show: "A toast to Cindy Sherman." Details? We have them. Boy,
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Django Django At The Independent Tonight at the Independent on Divisadero, Scottish electro-jangle-pop band Django Django makes their San Francisco debut at a show that is criminally undersold as of this publication. In the three years between the
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Pour One Out For Patrick Swayze In 'Road House' Tonight San Francisco's love affair with drinking and ironic movie watching gets another outlet at newly arrived Sixth Street art gallery Satellite 66. To christen the space the gallery will be screening Road
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This Thing Tonight: Mark Bittman Discusses 'How To Cook Everything' New York Times opinion columnist and New York Times Magazine lead food writer, Mark Bittman has been celebrated for his straightforward and unpretentious approach to cooking pretty much everything. Despite no formal training
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing This Weekend: Special Delivery's Massive Graffiti Museum We mentioned it last week, but now that the location and details of Endless Canvas' 36,000-square-foot ad hoc street art museum have been revealed, the event will make a rad addition to
Arts & Entertainment Tomorrow Night: Cabaret And Burlesque To Benefit The Beloved Brown Twins Thursday night at the Red Devil Lounge on Polk Street, a band of local Jazz legends, burlesque stars and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence will pitch in to celebrate San Francisco's iconic set
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Shakespeare In A Bar Tonight at the Cafe Royale in Russian Hill, the San Francisco Theater Pub Company will end their summer season with a production of Bill Shakespeare's Measure for Measure while you get pleasantly drunk.
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Drink & Dance With Animals At The S.F. Zoo Nightlife events at normally sober venues are all the rage these days, but tonight's Noc'tails Silent Disco Party at the San Francisco Zoo is the first where attendees can party down with other
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Discover The History Of A-holes With A Linguistics Professor Tonight in the Commonwealth Club's Blue Room, UC Berkeley Linguistics professor Geoffrey Nunberg will give a talk on the "Ascent of the A-Word" from its roots with GIs in World War II, up
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Noise Pop Record Collective Tonight at Mr. Smith's in the heart of the city's Mid-Market revitalization district, local independent music concern Noise Pop and noted record store Amoeba Music join forces to present the latest edition of
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Incredibly Strange Television At The Roxie Tonight pop culture historian and presenter Johnny Legend will fire up the projectors at the Roxie Theater for the first of his two-night trip through the history of weird things on television. Tonight's
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Outside Lands Alternatives For The Festival-Averse With Outside Lands taking over the majority of Golden Gate Park, the slightly agoraphobic folks in the audience can take solace knowing there are still some small scale events going on in the
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Thee Oh Sees And Kelley Stoltz DJ Your Happy Hour NoisePop, the very same folks who put on San Francisco's long-running independent music festival and countless other shows throughout the year have been running these star-studded monthly happy hours at Blowfish Sushi in
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Foxygen, NO, Dylan Shearer At Brick & Mortar Tonight monthly free music series Wood Shoppe returns to Brick & Mortar Music Hall on Mission Street to showcase a trio of emerging artists in cover-free, cheap-drinking environment. The latest installment of the
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Beer And Lit In The Conservatory Of Flowers Tonight in Golden Gate Park, the folks from local literary concern Quiet Lightning will host the first of three monthly Greenhouse Effect beer-and-literature events in the always lovely Conservatory of Flowers. The event
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: John Vanderslice Performs Bowie's 'Diamond Dogs', Plus 'The Science of Sleep' Tonight at the Vogue Theatre in Laurel Heights, legendary local indie rocker John Vanderslice will perform David Bowie's classic album Diamond Dogs in its entirety followed by a screening of Michel Gondry's dreamy
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: The Dirty Projectors At The Fox Theater Last minute concert tickets, especially to a big-name band at a marquee venue, are usually tough goings. But you can stop slapping yourself for not buying tickets to see The Dirty Projectors debut
