Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: The Lab and the Queer Cultural Center present Before We Were Named, a production using music, dance, media, performance, and ritual to chronicle the existence of queer/transgendered people of color via
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: Join The Rumpus and SMITH Magazine for some Beautiful Beginnings, featuring music by Dave Smallen and Amores Vigilantes, comedy by Will Durst, and authors Richard Ferguson, Piper Kerman, Raina Bird, Lisa Brown,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The Shooting Gallery presents Fahamu Pecou, whose latest exhibition Whirl Trade portrays how the hip hop culture has altered the views of African American men around the world. In the adjoining White
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Tonight is the opening reception for Big Dreams, solo exhibition of works by Esther Pearl Watson, which "attempt to capture the youthful innocence of another age, reconstructing an alternative history based on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight OPERA: San Francisco Opera presents Giacomo Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West) in celebration of its 100th anniversary, featuring a cast of the world’s leading singers
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: Get ready for the upcoming World Cup tournament with Alan Black's The Glorious World Cup: A Fantatics Guide, in which he and co-writer David Henry Sterry "take the piss from past to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: Channel your inner Sue Sylvester at the Lesbian Gym Teacher Costume Contest, as part of the release party for Monica Nolan's pulp satire, Bobby Blanchard, Lesbian Gym Teacher. There will also be
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Tonight's installment of Meet the Change will feature David Evan Harris, creator of the Global Lives Project, a video installation featuring documentaries that capture 24 hours in the lives of ten people
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The Cat's Pajamas presents Hillbilly Hoedown, "a celebration of pitchforks, swamps, blue misty mountain, corn liquor, hayseeds and all that hard foot stompin' on an old barn floor to the sounds of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight CLUB: This month's EpiscoDisco will feature the aerial stylings of Adam Wier, Evan Holm’s Image Immersion Machine and music by Daniel Higgs, Barn Owl, Danny Paul Grody and Portraits. 7 to 10
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: David Calonne in conversation with Garrett Caples celebrate the release of previously unpublished works by Charles Bukowski, Absence of the Hero: Uncollected Stories and Essays, Vol. 2: 1946-1992. There will also be
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The Oakland Underground Film Festival presents a double feature of two historical documentaries, Remembering Playland, about the old amusement park located next to Ocean Beach, which was established in the 1880s and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Get a peek at cutting edge pieces by emerging filmmakers on their way to festivals worldwide at SF State's The 50th Film Finals. The event primarily consists of shorts in animation, experimental,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PHOTOGRAPHY: Hamburger Eyes Photo Magazine presents the release of their latest issue, Casual Abyss, an "exhibition of modern artifacts that provide clues into the chasm hovering in another dimension beneath our own." 6
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART/SCIENCE: At tonight's installment of Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous, discussion topics will include custom software tools that embrace Middle Eastern styles, an investigation of the sciences, the natural world, and contemplative
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FUNDRAISER: You can always count on a good time with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, whose latest event is Supreme Bingo: Celebrating the Girl Groups of the '50s and '60s, benefiting the Metropolitan
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The ViceVerse: Communikey + Dis-patch Collaboration Tour presents the Graphisms exhibition opening, featuring work by resident designers Nebojsa Cvetkovic and Marshall Demeranville III. The event will also feature a Pictoplasma screening & Color
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight TALK: Andy Bichlbaum, leading member of The Yes Men will speak with the Chronicle's Joe Garofoli about The Yes Men's latest documentary, The Yes Men Fix the World, which has been hailed as
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight WALK: Wear comfortable shoes and gear up to scope out several blocks' worth of art and fashion, live music, and discounted food and libations at the very first Fillmore Art Walk. 6 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight CABARET: "Lose yourself in a haze of haute harlots, high-kicking hedonists, and howling humorists" at Hello, Folly! Revue 2, featuring a menagerie of song, dance, whimsy, and comedy. 8 p.m. // Amnesia (853
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The legendary Echo & the Bunnymen will bring on the dancing hipsters, performing classics and new songs from their latest album, The Fountain. 8 p.m. // The Fillmore (1805 Geary Blvd) // $27.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Belljar presents Mutatis Mutandis, a series of acrylic paintings on canvas by Scott Greenwalt, in which he seeks to express intimate celebrations of abnormality, imperfection and the bizarre. 6 to 9 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The artists at Creativity Explored explore the concept of maps in Where Are We? The aptly named New Maps of the West will perform. 7 to 9 p.m. // Creativity Explored (3245
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Milkgap (aka Geoffrey Porter) will be showing some of his new and old ink and watercolor pieces tonight. Grab some beverages at Pirate Cat Cafe and check them out. 8 to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Tonight's edition of the weekly Cinema Drafthouse -- The Best of 2009 will feature the incorrigible Robert Downey Jr. in Sherlock Holmes. 7:30 p.m. // The Independent (628 Divisadero St) // free
