Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Grammy Award-winning classical/experimental group Kronos Quartet will be in San Francisco for four nights performing four different programs. Each performance will feature Jon Rose's Music from 4 Fences, along with a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LIT: One of the first performance artists and a New York Underground cultural icon, Penny Arcade (Susan Ventura), will make a rare appearance tonight in celebration of her new book, Bad Reputation: Performances,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Comedian and playwright Rick Reynolds presents his hilarious and gut-wrenching personal confessions and childhood remembrances in Love, God, Sex (and and other stuff I don’t have), which is directed by Jason
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Check out a night of handmade personal cinema at Luminous Triptych. Angelina Krahn sews onto the surface of the film in order cover up and obscure images of her own body, Karen
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, which consists of women from all four corners of the world who joined together out of concern for the planet, will be honored tonight with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: San Francisco's own Ralph Carney, who has performed as sideman for Tom Waits, B-52’s, Oranj Symphonette, and has scored film music for Jim Jarmusch and David Lynch, presents his latest incarnation,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Off-the-wall comedian Maria Bamford has a knack for introducing the audience to her myriad of multiple personalities/dysfunctional family members during her stand-up routine, and we especially enjoy her occasional appearances on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: Joe Goode Performance Group presents Traveling Light, an installation combining dance, language, irony and reflection, which will take the audience on a journey through the vaults and chambers of the oldest stone
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: San Francisco artist Brian Barneclo, whose colorful, retro-esque murals adorn high-profile locales, such as the SF Bay Guardian building, Kilowatt, and NoPa, will be showing his new body of paintings at the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: He might appear rather nerdy to those who haven't been fortunate enough to hear his music, but Jarvis Cocker's titillating voice and songwriting are sure to throw his fans into quite a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight CLUB: The traveling Soul Clap/Dance-Off event hosted by New York City's "maximum rock and soul DJ" Mr. Jonathan Toubin is stopping in San Francisco for one epic night of soul 45s with
Arts & Entertainment "Feed me, Seymour" Calling all (for lack of a better term) foodies. Ready for a little controversy? The next Long Now Foundation lecture on Tuesday, July 28th promises to be especially interesting, as two agriculture experts
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: This week's $7 Tuesday flick at the Red Vic is Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Come see Sean Penn at his best as the infamous Jeff Spicoli, and who can forget the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The 2009 Ypulse Youth Marketing Mashup Conference presents a free screening of DARE, which follows three very different teenagers through the last semester of high school. The screening will be followed by
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LECTURE: The Commonwealth Club hosts an enlightening discussion with Michael Eric Dyson: Can You Hear Me Now? Known as the "hip-hop" intellectual, Dyson examines issues of class, race and poverty, and political strife.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: The Eighth Annual Cabaret to Fight AIDS features the Company members of the San Francisco production of Wicked, including Kendra Kassebaum, Natalie Daradich, and Angel Reda. The cast will perform favorites from
SF News Top Chefs Tell All Tomorrow Night The Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, as most of you know, host some amazing speakers. Nothing new, right? But tomorrow night's gathering is, as they say, not to be missed. Tomorrow night, you
