Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: It's your last chance to view the current exhibitions at SF Camerawork. The Summer Exhibition Cool-Down Party features Ersatz Group Exhibition, Leaving A Mark: Cutter Photozine, and The 2009 James D. Phelan
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: San Francisco artist Micke Tong will be exhibiting a new series of site-specific conceptual art pieces, drawings, and installation sculptures in Micro-Habitat. Viewers can expect to find "low-rider inspired candy colored taxidermy
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Japanese cowboy possessing amazing yodeling skills Toshio Hirano will perform his beloved bluegrass favorites for adoring fans as part of Amnesia's free Bluegrass Mondays. 8:30 p.m. // Amnesia (853 Valencia St)
misc Photo du Jour 468 Dave Eggers wearing a hat indoors (grumble, grumble) while signing copies of his latest effort, , today at Books Inc on Van Ness.Zeitoun
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend We have another weekend full of fun and mostly free daytime events coming up. Here are a few. SATURDAY 1st Annual Super Hero Street Fair anonEvents, Get YER Freak On!, and Climate Theater
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LIT: Did someone say free Scotch tasting? Enjoy a free tasting of Balvenie scotch with some light snacks, along with raffle prizes, as author Howard Miller celebrates the release of his book You’
Arts & Entertainment Book 'em, Dan-o So, do you like books? Do you like people? Do you like people who like books? Then spend Saturday afternoon on the first-ever San Francisco Indie Bookstore Tour, starting at Get Lost Travel
Arts & Entertainment Dave Eggers Book Signing Tomorrow Although some claim to dislike local scribe Dave Eggers -- probably because he is successful, something writers and alleged writers hate like holy hell -- you should read his new book. It's a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight VARIETY: The Rumpus and Kink.com host a Sex, Music, Comedy Night with Jill Sobule, co-sponsored by The Center for Sex and Culture. The evening includes readings and performances from sex worker authors
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LIT: Novella Carpenter, author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, will be on hand to discuss her adventures with raising chickens, geese, ducks, turkeys, a beehive, rabbits, and pigs in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SING-ALONG: Join San Francisco's favorite film critic (and SFist Brock's) Jan Wahl in a Castro Theater-style sing-a-long of the world's most famous "shtetl" musical, Fiddler on the Roof. Shtetl fashion is encouraged. 6
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: SF Sketchfest presents San Francisco-based comedy troupe Kasper Hauser for a special one-night show celebrating the release of their book, Weddings of the Times, a parody of the New York Times wedding
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Greg Gossel will exhibit his new collection of appropriated pop culture imagery ranging from pulp novels, romance comics, political references, and fallen icons of the 20th century. His pieces are large-scale multimedia
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Sugary yet melancholic Scottish indie-poppers Camera Obscura, lead by angelic crooner Tracyanne Campbell, will entrance the Fillmore tonight. Lovely, vintage cabaret-inspired, all-female trio Agent Ribbons opens. 9 p.m. // The Fillmore (1805
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Peruse art and enjoy food and drink specials at dozens of venues (including free dessert at Metro Kathmandu!), as part of the Divisadero Art Walk. 6 p.m. // Divisadero Street (from Haight
Arts & Entertainment Giveaway: Win Tickets to Litquake Tonight Litquake is celebrating their 10th anniversary tonight with a fundraiser called, "Cocktails with Canin." Author Ethan Canin, who is currently promoting the paperback release of his epic novel, America America, which was described
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LIT: Canteen magazine, which was edited and launched in San Francisco, is celebrating their fourth issue and the new semester of canTeen, their creative writing tutoring and publishing program in Harlem. Canteen asks
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: The Eighth Annual Cabaret to Fight AIDS features the Company members of the San Francisco production of Wicked, including Kendra Kassebaum, Natalie Daradich, and Angel Reda. The cast will perform favorites from
Arts & Entertainment Diane di Prima Named SF Poet Laureate Today, beat-ish scribe Diane di Prima was named the fifth Poet Laureate of San Francisco. Here she is back in the day reading something she wrote. Di Prima is wearing a lovely white,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Bring your bike, a cushion/blanket, and a radio for the Disposable Film Festival's first ever bike-in screening (as opposed to a drive-in). Immediately following the movie, there will be a party
SF News Google Honors Eric Carle's <em>Very Hungry Caterpillar</em> OK, we know it's no longer cool to coo over Google's logos anymore -- we're sure most of you would prefer a post on the series finale Battlestar Galactica, a show we simple
misc Film du Jour: Puppy Odysseus Puppies and Homer collide in this downright adorable Cliff Notes version of a Greek classic.
Arts & Entertainment Beth Lisick Leg-Wrestles Her Fans at Litquake Event (By Joe Kukura) Yes, that photo at right is depicting exactly what it appears to – Beth Lisick mowing down her own fans onstage in a leg-wrestling competition at last night's "Litquake Fuck Sports!
Arts & Entertainment How Now Brown Cow: Poets 11 Accepting Submissions Are you a poet? Do you know it? (Ouch.) Well, Poets Eleven, a citywide poetry contest showcasing prose created by residents of each of San Francisco's 11 districts, above, is now accepting submissions.
misc Photo du Jour 36 (Check out the actual chin scratching occurring, lower right, at an intelligentsia event. Har!) Here we have novelist Dave Eggers at the National Book Critics Circle nominee announcement at City Lights. We're in
