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SFist Tonight: The Something Something Shindig

The Something Something Shindig is "a wild show that combines stand up comedy, improv, music, and what we like to call 'audience-participation-good-times.'" This sounds like a

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SFist Tonight, 6/25: Philip Glass and Joanna Newsom with Tim Fain

BENEFIT: The Days and NIghts Festival kicks off its season with a stellar show co-presented by Folk Yeah, featuring Philip Glass and Joanna Newsom with Tim Fain performing collaborative and solo pieces.

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SFist Tonight, 5/11: SFAI MFA Graduate Exhibition

ART: Head over to Phoenix Hotel for the opening reception of San Francisco Art Institute's limited-engagement MFA Graduate Exhibition featuring nearly 100 students working in painting, photography, printmaking, film, sculpture,

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SFist Tonight, 4/21: Matthew Sweet Performs 'Girlfriend'

MUSIC: Matthew Sweet will perform in its entirety his classic 1991 album, Girlfriend, in which his "bone-dry, caterwauling sonics" opened up a "wild and picturesque new terrain for restless

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SFist Tonight, 3/9: SFIAAFF's Directions In Sound

MUSIC: DJ Neil Armstrong headlines the SF International Asian American Film Festival's Directions In Sound 2012, a genre-bending showcase featuring emerging artists and established vets. The show also features Blackbird

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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

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SFist Tonight, 11/12: BATS Improv 25th Anniversary, Dance Mission's 'Pick Cells,' Audrey Moira Shimkas Trio

IMPROV: Tickets might still be available at the door for the opening of BATS Improv's 25th Anniversary Season, featuring a special presentation of the first Theatresports show, followed by a champagne

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SFist Tonight, 8/16: Vigilante Vigilante, MP3 Experiment, Feast of Words,

FILM: Vigilante Vigilante, the documentary featuring Berkeley's infamous anti-graffiti cleaner-upper among others, will be at the Roxie for a couple more days. Ironically, the filmmakers have royally pissed off

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SFist Tonight

ART: It's your last chance to view the current exhibitions at SF Camerawork. The Summer Exhibition Cool-Down Party features Ersatz Group Exhibition, Leaving A Mark: Cutter Photozine, and The 2009

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THEATER: CASA (Children’s After School Arts) is having a musical theatrical extravaganza, Adventures at Camp Itchy Scratchy, starring 85 kindergarten through fifth graders. "Looking to escape their school-year stresses, a

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There's Nothing Like a Musical at 10 a.m.

Neatorama pointed this out on our reader and since we're big fans of food courts and confusion (and spontaneous bursts of musicals), we thought it'd cheer your Wednesday morning.

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Remove Your Trousers, or We'll Have Them Removed for You

When: Saturday, January 12 at 3:00 PM, Sharp! (Over by around 5:30) Where: I'm thinking we should meet across the street from Embarcadero station, but I'm open

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SFist Tonight

-- Cabaret for Humanity: Cabaret isn't just about getting drunk while telling self-centered stories about your life. Sometimes they give back. One of the city's best venues is getting

SF News

Baconator Hate: Wendy's Protested By Evil Redheads

There aren't a hell of a lot of Wendy's left in SF. The one on 658 Market closed all too soon, and we're dying to sample the

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The San Francisco Theater Festival Breaks A Leg

This past Sunday, under blazing blue skies in the City's snuggly warm SOMA bosom of Yerba Buena Gardens (YBG), there were no microphones, no stage lights, and no admission fees (and

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SFist Tonight

-- The Cribs, Sean Na Na, and the Hugs: popscene presents a surprisingly not-so-greasy group of Britrockers, the Cribs, performing along with Sean Na Na and the Hugs. (Aw.) Show starts at

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SFist Today

Saturday.... in the park... wish it were the Fourth of July! (That's the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra performing the Chicago classic above). Here's your events for today: --Supervisor Dreamy,

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SFist Tonight

Still plenty of shows for the Frameline , SF Improv, and the Hole in the Head festivals.... Inside Storytime, a monthly reading series at the Rickshaw Stop, features five local authors, reading from their

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SFist Tonight

SF Improv Fest kicks off tonight with Emo Phillips, performing with Bassprov and 3 For All, at the Buriel Clay Theatre. Get tickets in advance here. Show starts at 8pm, 762 Fulton St,

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Go Nuts This Weekend

Have we ever mentioned how much we love the Primitive Screwheads? Our infatuation began when we attended their final performance of , and we've been slavering to see what they'd

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Lewis Black Brings the Scary Funny

SFist Jon, contributing.