Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The 27th Annual Jazz Festival presents living jazz legend Omara Portuondo. Portuondo, who is dubbed the “la novia del filin” (fiancée of feeling), will perform the romantic Afro-Cuban boleros and Brazilian-inspired jazz
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: SF DocFest is going strong! Waiting for Hockney profiles Baltimore artist Billy Pappas, who has spent the past eight and a half years creating a portrait that requires drawing for seven hours
Arts & Entertainment Lit Crawl: A Bar Crawl for Literary Types In addition to marking the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta quake, Saturday also marks the annual Litquake Lit Crawl, a three-phase bar crawl through the Mission featuring a great many writer types
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LAUNCH PARTY: Who says print is dead? We Still Like is defying this statement by releasing their very first issue, Manifesto Destiny, a manifesto-themed collection of prose, poetry, reviews, rants, and raves. The
Arts & Entertainment Litquake Kicks Off Tonight The annual week-long Litquake festival starts tonight, featuring a daunting line-up of events. Below is a list of our picks featuring one event per day (otherwise this post would take us all weekend)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The San Francisco Zen Center hosts an evening of food, literature, and film with Alix Lambert. Lambert's new book, The Silencing, is a bi-lingual case account of six murdered Russian journalists, paired
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LIT: The untimely death of David Foster Wallace prompted hundreds of his fans across the world to read Infinite Jest together over the summer, ie. Infinite Summer. Tonight, Bay Area participants will join
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DANCE: The all-female Chitresh Das Dance Company presents the world premiere of Sita Haran, a dramatic staging of one of the most popular stories from India's great text, "The Râmâyana," told in the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The Expansion Bar may be closed, but it will remain in the hearts of San Franciscans forever, thanks to the documentary, The little man in the Boat. The film consists of footage
