Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/25: Offside Jazz Festival MUSIC: Tonight's installment of the inaugural three-day Offside Festival will take a decidedly contemporary look at straight-ahead jazz, presenting three Bay Area composers and their respective trios—bassist Marcus
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/24: Word For Word Performs Woody Allen THEATER: Word for Word Performing Arts Company takes on Woody Allen's classic short story The Kugelmass Episode, as part of an Off the Page staged reading co-presented by City Arts
Arts & Entertainment Girl About Town: I Break Horses, The Cult, Questlove, Tycho by Veronica de la Mora Memorial Day approaches! And with that, we have a healthy stew of shows waiting in the wings just before summer strikes. Morrissey, the Cult, Questlove, and Kurt Vile
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/23: Spring Cocktails Of The Farmers Market FOOD: It should be a delightful evening for sipping sweet springtime cocktails at tonight's Spring Cocktails of the Farmers Market. Featured in-season ingredients will include strawberries, elderflowers, mint, and peas
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/21: Porchlight's 'I Surrender' STORYTELLING: This month's Porchlight Storytelling Series, which is themed, I Surrender: Stories about Giving In, Giving Up, and Giving Over, features "one of the nation's most successful bounty
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/19: Murmurama ART: Oakland Art Murmur's second annual Murmurama, a multi-venue celebration including art exhibitions, film screenings, live music, food, wine and more, will feature at least sixteen galleries and mixed-use
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/18: The Avengers/Erase Errata MUSIC: It's a stellar line-up of S.F.-based bands at Cafe Du Nord tonight, featuring beloved punk veterans The Avengers, along with indie rockers Erase Errata and singer-songwriter
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/17: Broke-Ass Stuart's 10th Year In S.F. PARTY: Broke-Ass Stuart celebrates ten years of living in San Francisco with a Broke & Classy bash, featuring a big line-up of bands and DJs, as well as free booze and
Arts & Entertainment Girl About Town: Best Coast, Dita Von Teese, Dum Dum Girls by Veronica de la Mora Girl About Town is all about California dreaming this week. Inspired by the hottest star we know, the Sun. We love sitting in the sun listening to good
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/15: Ana Tijoux MUSIC: French-Chilean MC Ana Tijoux takes the stage with her full band in support of her latest release, La Bala, which is described as "a whirlwind trip through hip-hop, jazz,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/14: Herman Düne MUSIC I: Folk Yeah presents another great rock show, featuring John Peel darlings, Herman Düne, who are promoting their latest album, Strange Moosic, put out by their label of the same name. Tonight&
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/13: SFJAZZ High School All-Stars Orchestra MUSIC: SFJAZZ presents its annual High School All-Stars performance featuring improvisations by the top young musicians in the Bay Area performing the work of classic American jazz artists, including Oliver Nelson, Duke
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/12: ESKMO And Love & Light MUSIC: Sunset SF presents "'[S]izzling' Ninja Tune phenom" ESKMO at Mezzanine along with Reno duo Love & Light and locals DJ Dials and U9Lift. (9 p.m., Mezzanine,
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: How Weird, Balloonacy, And More! This weekend promises to be quite nice, and hopefully for the half-naked attendees at the How Weird Street Faire, temperatures will get above 70 on Sunday. Join thousands of people to "
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/11: SFAI MFA Graduate Exhibition ART: Head over to Phoenix Hotel for the opening reception of San Francisco Art Institute's limited-engagement MFA Graduate Exhibition featuring nearly 100 students working in painting, photography, printmaking, film, sculpture,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/9: Folk Yeah Presents Sweet Chariot MUSIC: Folk Yeah presents quartet Sweet Chariot, who perform "timeless power-pop, classic biker rock, and dusty desert jams trimmed in the bygone tones of west coast canyon-twang," along with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/8: Ferlinghetti Reading & Film Screening POETRY/FILM: Peter Coyote will be at Meridian Gallery tonight reading poetry by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, followed by a screening of Ferlinghetti, the 2009 documentary by Christopher Felver, which is "an incisive, sharply
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/7: The Wombats MUSIC: British trio, The Wombats, who SPIN declares to be "Echo & The Bunnymen for the internet age," play the Great American tonight in support of their sophomore album, This Modern
Arts & Entertainment Video: What's In John Cameron Mitchell's Bag? Amoeba Records has a delightful video series called, "What's In My Bag?," in which, you guessed it, they take a peek into the shopping bags of visiting musicians and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/6: Liquid Theatre's 'Antidot' THEATER: The San Francisco International Arts Festival and the Society of Living Traditions present Moscow's Liquid Theatre's West Coast debut with their award winning performance of Antidot, the company’
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/5: Master Artist, Stanislav Szukalski ART: Varnish Fine Art presents Szukalski, a solo exhibition of works by the forgotten master artist, Stanislav Szukalski, who was hailed as an artistic genius from the age of six and lauded as
Arts & Entertainment Get Outside Now: Cinco de Mayo, Sunday Streets, Omar Sosa Still making plans? Here's some stuff happening around town. The Eighth Annual Cinco de Mayo Festival is going on as we speak at Dolores Park, featuring a Zumba-thon, live performances
Arts & Entertainment Girl About Town: Black Keys/Arctic Monkeys, Drake, Morrissey's Birthday by Veronica de la Mora It's a party this week. We're super amped for Washed Out. Morrissey's birthday! Drake is in town. We've got two
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/1: Queens Of Boogie Woogie MUSIC: The 12th Annual Queens of Boogie Woogie, featuring pianists Lady Bianca, Doña Oxford, Sue Palmer & Wendy DeWitt, hit Yoshi's Oakland for a night of "unpredictable, rollicking and soulful
