Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Over 20 artists will exhibit work ranging from photography, paintings, sculptures, and collage at Guerrero Gallery's April Group Show. 7 to 11 p.m. // Guerrero Gallery (2700 19th St) // free TALK: Amy
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Film screening Streets of San Francisco: Filmic Journeys will feature experimental films and videos from the late 1950s to the present, which offer evocative records of individual experiences of San Francisco street
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: World-renowned Mexican poet and environmentalist Homero Aridjis will read from Solar Poems, his collection of poems that "range from the humorous to the poignant, transcending the boundary between life and death." Lawrence
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: SF artist Ian Johnson will be exhibiting his latest drawings and paintings in his solo show, Of The Living Sky, featuring "realistic and highly detailed portraits of great jazz musicians, with the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: "Sons of the Golden Era of Hip Hop," Kidz In The Hall will be tearing The Independent up tonight, along with 88-Keys, Izza Kizza, and Donnis. 7:30 p.m. // The Independent
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: It's the preview night of Scalpel!, a killer comedy featuring wealthy New York socialite and soon-to-be divorceé Jacquelyn Blithers, whose nightmares start coming true after her new face lift. 8 p.m.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: In Ukrainian Time Machine, American filmmaker Naomi Uman creates a poignant portrait of the people of Legedzine, a small village near the center of Ukraine, conveyed in diary-like format. 8 to 10
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: It's the first night in the Blue Bear School of Music Showcases, going on through Wednesday. Jack Black's School of Rock was based on Blue Bear. There will be two stages --
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Watch Michael Jackson's This Is It for free with a two-drink minimum at the Independent's Cinema Drafthouse -- Best of 2009 Movie Night. 7:30 p.m. // The Independent (628 Divisadero St)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: In Den of Thieves, a pair of recovering kleptomaniacs, a drug dealer, and a topless dancer unsuccessfully join forces in order to pull off the perfect crime, resulting in a very long
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Copenhagen's Efterklang are touring the U.S. in celebration of the release of their new album Magic Chairs put out by 4AD. Local darlings Tartufi and New Zealander-transplants V.I.R. open.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Happy Feet presents Defiant Proclamations: Radical Posters from the 1960s to the Present, an exhibit featuring old and new posters, handbills, and artifacts, "giving a glimpse of the broad range of opinions
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The U.K.'s The Clientele create moody psychedelic pop perfect for reminiscing on a rainy day or spacing out on a sun-drenched afternoon. The Wooden Birds, fronted by Andrew Kenny of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: For the group photography show, I Got 5 on It, twenty photographers were asked to capture five seminal subjects: a chair, a flower, a window, a tree, and the road, in order
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Flamenco guitarist/singer/songwriter Freddy Clarke presents "Wobbly World," in which he brings together a wide range of musicians and singers from all parts of the globe, from Paraguay and Cuba to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Southern Exposure presents An Evening of Bollywood and Tabla with Robin Sukhadia, which includes a lecture focusing on RD Burman, the renowned film composer of Sholay, followed by a classical tabla performance
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: Silicon Valley visionary Jaron Lanier shares his expertise in his new book, You Are Not a Gadget. He'll discuss how programming decisions made decades ago have had enormous—and often unintended—consequences
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC:Gillian Welch and members of Old Crow Medicine Show will accompany bluegrass guitarist and harmony singer Dave Rawlings as part of the Dave Rawlings Machine at the Fillmore tonight. Rawlings will also
Arts & Entertainment Dave Eggers Reveals Identity of the Real Timothy McSweeney Assuming you've given any thought at all to such things, you may have believed, as we did, that the Timothy McSweeney who figures in the name of Dave Eggers' ten-year-old literary journal and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight HISTORY: Check out the Authors' Forum at the Old Mint tonight and learn about Jewish immigrant, Isaias Hellman, "creator" of California; the Chinatown police department from the Gold Rush to present day; Juana
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 VARIETY: The Devil-Ettes and The Mini Skirt Mob pay tribute to the great 60’s variety shows like Laugh-In, Shindig, and Hullabaloo in the action-packed Go Go Spectacular. Special guests The Barbary Coasters
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Attention adventurous singles with some extra cash -- Improv Dating Scene might be for you. The event begins with a comedy show with Big City Improv performing sketches based on audience suggestions.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LIT: It's another installment of Muni-inspired entertainment at Muni Diaries Live! Under the Influence, with BART tales added to the mix, too. Entertainment includes the Cock-Ts, Shane Papatolicas, the winning Muni Erotic fiction
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The eccentric, musical genius of Daniel Johnston takes some getting used to, but his sincerely sweet and simple vocals and arrangements win his fans over for life. The melodic Hymns open. 8
