Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Werner Herzog tells the true story of The Enigma of Kasper Hauser, one of his most compelling films, about a young man who had been held captive in a dungeon his whole
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: Sister Spit co-founder Michelle Tea and lesbian author Ali Liebegott host the Sister Spit: The Next Generation, an all-gendered and trans-inclusive national tour, in other words "a vanload of multimedia, queer-centric brilliance"
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Fans are stoked to see Jason Mewes & Kevin Smith (Jay and Silent Bob) live and in-person, getting old in front of their very eyes, sans trench coats and hair extensions. "Every
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: Surrealistic one-man band, Andrew Goldfarb (aka The Slow Poisoner) and absurdist writer/performer Dan Carbone, have merged as The Wounded Stag, a "psychotronic vaudeville," in which they "sing from their hearts and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PHOTOGRAPHY: The ever-popular 4th Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show showcases the ninety top photos from the contest's Bay Area, national, and international entries. Come celebrate the joy and simplicity of the latent
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The acclaimed We Were Here is playing at the Castro through March 3. The film takes an intimate - and epic - journey through the arrival and impact of AIDS in San
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Expect to see "full-frontal puppet nudity" at Avenue Q, the hit Broadway musical about real life in New York City, as told by a cast of people and puppets through a hilariously
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FUNDRAISER: 826 Valencia presents their first-ever Spelling Bee for Cheaters, a tournament that tests not only the word-wisdom of the contestants, who include Daniel Handler, Tracy Chapman, and Mythbuster's Adam Savage, but also
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight HISTORY: City Lights and Speak Out celebrate the publication of Clarence Lusane's The Black History of the White House, which illuminates the central role the White House has played in advancing, thwarting, or
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: IndieFest presents The Drummond Will, which pays homage to the classic British comedies of the '40s and '50s, featuring brothers who reunite after their father's death and encounter a colorful cast of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: SF Sketchfest presents Airplane! Tribute to Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, the film's brilliant writing and directing team. Joining the team onstage will be their leading man Robert Hays ("Ted
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Classic 70s funk band, WAR, perform their characteristically funky blend of soul, Latin, jazz, blues, reggae, and rock played with "the sunny, laid-back vibe emblematic of their Southern California roots." 8 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Attends: Amy Chua, "Tiger Mother," At Booksmith Anyone with internet access has surely heard about author Amy Chua. Her memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, was recently excerpted in the Wall Street Journal and paired with a rather baiting
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Clue, "a play based on a movie based on a board game," has been adapted for the stage. The audience watches from six feet in the air as six guests and a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: Bob Dylan's foremost interpreter, Greil Marcus, will read from his eponymous collection, Writings 1968-2010, compiled of dozens of pieces that are "the result of a more than forty-year engagement between an unparalleled
Arts & Entertainment SFist Radar This Weekend As SFist noted last week, SF Sketchfest starts on Thursday! The list of performers is endless. Let us name just a few: Candice Bergen, Dan Aykroyd, Michael Ian Black, Thomas Lennon,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: FunCheapSF informs us of the folkYEAH! Winter Residency at Slim's, as part of the venue's $5 Concert series. Tonight's show features Sweet Chariot, Sparrows Gate, Montra, and Nico Georis & Matt Baldwin.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Gallery Hijinks presents As It Was Before an exhibition of new works by Martin Machado and Todd Freeman with installations by Aleksandra Zee, who use "nature and science to reinterpret memories, fables
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: PianoFight Productions will perform the last production of their One Year AnnivHERsary Show, featuring the best of their past sketches, which include dueling dictator chefs, a liquor cabinet coming to life, air
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Hilary Williams will exhibit fourteen new mixed media paintings, which deal with a variety of emotions about the coexistence of the urban landscape, nature and humanity, through the month of December.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Here's your chance to attend a free screening of Tom Wyrsch's Remembering Playland, a full-length documentary about San Francisco's beloved amusement park, Playland at the Beach, which was located next to Ocean
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: It's the 50th Sketch Tuesday event, featuring live art-making by a huge line-up of seasoned, local artists, which will be for sale for cheap at the show. DJ Pre-K will be spinning
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Documentary Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and The Magnetic Fields traces the 20-year career of Stephin Merritt, exploring his songwriting and recording process, and focusing on his relationships with his bandmates and longtime
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Organ Spectacular!, which has been bringing the organ out of the church and into underground dens since 1997, features "semi-improvised opulence, clanglorious classics and a smattering of blotpolished battletech electronics to settle
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: Intrepid literary journalist turned bona fide counterculture icon, Daniel Pinchbeck, celebrates the release of his highly anticipated Notes From The Edge Times, a collection of his most compelling writings on sex, money,
