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SFist Tonight, 1/18: Rayko's Plastic Camera Show

PHOTOGRAPHY: Rayko presents its 5th Annual Plastic Camera Show, featuring the work of local, national, and international photographers who were picked from thousands of entries, including Robert Holmgren, a past best-of-show winner. (6

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SFist Tonight, 1/12: Sisters of Soul

MUSIC: Bay Area hip hop/rock fave Silk-E headlines this special Sisters of Soul showcase at Yoshi's Oakland tonight featuring the Bay Area's most prominent female entertainers. Also on the bill are Ryan

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SFist Tonight, 12/20: Caspa

MUSIC: Sunset Promotions and Mezzanine present a night of dubstep and bass with West Londoner Caspa, who was "brought up on a diet of jungle & hiphop," along with guests Antennae and the

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SFist Tonight, 12/18: The Mother Hips

MUSIC: West Coast psychedelic/folk indie faves, The Mother Hips, bring their “rootsy mix of 70s rock and power pop” to the Great American. Also featuring guests Kelley Stoltz, Acacia, and DJ Britt

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SFist Tonight, 12/5: Repeal Day Party

DRINKING: FunCheapSF has the scoop on 21st Amendment Brewery's annual celebration of Repeal Day with 5-cent beers, a march against Prohibition, a secret speakeasy event (password required!), and the tapping of the cask

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SFist Tonight, 12/2: Taj Mahal

TALK: Ben Fong-Torres will be interviewing composer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Taj Mahal, one of the most prominent and influential figures in contemporary blues and roots music, with accompaniment by live musical interludes. (8

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SFist Tonight, 11/14: Stephen Kaltenbach, Laughter Against the Machine, GuyWriters

ART/LECTURE: Visiting artist Stephen Kaltenbach with speak about his lengthy and diverse career most notably "creating conceptual gestures, magazine advertisements, diagrammatic propositions, 'Street Works,' time capsules, and photorealistic paintings," as part

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SFist Tonight, 10/31: Halloween Concert at the Freight, Adam Gopnik, Nopa Halloween Block Party

MUSIC: Classical at the Freight presents a special Halloween Concert featuring the Bellavente Wind Quintet performing a special early family-friendly concert of "spooky and adventurous music" designed for kids of all ages. There

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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

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SFist Tonight, 10/20: Open Show, Queer Literati at Occupy SF, Burlesque for the Shy and Awkward

PHOTOGRAPHY: Open Show, which organizes live events worldwide featuring the work of photographers, filmmakers, and multimedia producers in high-profile spaces, is celebrating its two-year anniversary with a special print exhibition featuring more than

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Lemony Snicket's Take on Occupy Wall Street

San Francisco gem Daniel Handler recently penned a clever synopsis of Occupy Wall Street through the voice of Lemony Snicket, entitled "Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from

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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

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SFist This Weekend: IndieMart, Open Studios, Italian Heritage Parade, and More!

IndieMart: IndieMart celebrates Indian Summer with a "full fledged metal & psych rock fest, loaded with short sleeves a plenty, foxy ladies in fringe, summer BBQ, one too many beers and oh yeah,

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SFist Tonight, 8/5: Go the F**k to Sleep, Poetry World Series, Penny Arcade

READING: Author Adam Mansbach will be at City Lights performing a complete reading of Go the F**k to Sleep, a kids book that's just for adults. (It's a phrase that SFist finds

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SFist Tonight, 10/4: John Lithgow, Haight/Fillmore Fire Relief Fundraiser, Dum Dum Girls

LITERARY: There might still be tickets available at the door to see the multi-talented John Lithgow at the Kabuki Theater talking about his new memoir, Drama, which Steve Martin says, "tells of transgressions,

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Pop-Up Magazine Issue No. 5 Tickets on Sale Tomorrow

Pop-Up Magazine fans, get your fingers ready -- tickets to Pop-Up Magazine Issue No. 5, which takes place on November 9th at Davies Symphony Hall, go on sale tomorrow at Noon. The event,

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SFist Tonight, 10/1: ShEvil Dead, The Great SF Read-Out, Night School

THEATER: It's opening night of Primitive Screwheads' month-long comedic theater production of ShEvil Dead, in which "[f]ive girls vacation at a cabin in the woods and inadvertently unleash powerful demons and monsters

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SFist Tonight, 9/30: Killing My Lobster, One Night Bookstand, Chicken John Block Party

COMEDY: You have two weekends left to catch beloved local comedy troupe Killing My Lobster's latest sketch comedy show, Killing My Lobster Conquers the Galaxy, which includes "the real story of how Dr.

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SFist Tonight, 9/28: Muni Diaries Live Reunion, Richie Spice, Banned Books Talk

STORYTELLING: The talented folks at Muni Diaries, who are seriously funny people in person, are hosting their first Muni Diaries Live Reunion and Open Mic, featuring Muni Diaries Live alumni telling the stories

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SFist Tonight, 9/15: Carmen Souza, SF Center for the Book 15th Anniversary, RAW Showcase

MUSIC: SFJazz presents Carmen Souza, a Lisbon-born "jazz-tinged chanteuse" of Cape Verdean descent, who performs a seductive combination of traditional rhythms and songs with jazz and Brazilian influences. (7:30 p.m., Jewish

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SFist Tonight, 9/7: Fringe Festival, Tim Lee, Sustainable Fashion

COMEDY: Ex-scientist turned comedian Tim Lee takes the stage at the Punchline. As NY Times reports, "The former biologist was Tim Lee. After completing his undergraduate biology degree at the University of California,

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SFist Tonight, 8/17: Jay Reatard Doc, Litquake's Epicenter Burns, Drink Like a Fish Mixer

FILM: Noise Pop and The Roxie present the West Coast premiere of Better Than Something, the new documentary about the controversial and prolific Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr, aka Jay Reatard, which intimately captures

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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 the city, whose crews

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SFist Tonight, 8/10: 'Entitled,' 'Meek's Cutoff' and 'Limbo' Double Feature, Caveat Lector

FASHION: Project One Gallery is being transformed into a modern-day salon for Entitled, in which avant garde artists and designers have been invited to be "entitled and courageous in their expression of culture,

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SFist Tonight, 8/3: World on a Wire, Fireside Storytelling, Habitat for Insanity

FILM: The newly restored dystopic 1973 science-fiction epic, World on a Wire, which is a "cracked, boundlessly inventive take on future paranoia" is a previously "unseen three-and-a-half-hour labyrinth from one of cinema’s