Arts & Entertainment Weekend Top 5: Chinese New Year Parade, Pet Adopt-a-thon Chinese New Year Parade and Festival: Festival-goers might actually enjoy a dry Chinese New Year extravaganza this year. Leave those umbrellas and ponchos as home! SF SPCA's Be Mine Adopt-a-thon: The SF SPCA
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/10: 200 Yards PHOTOGRAPHY: Tonight's installment of the popular 200 Yards is centered around Satellite 66, in which photographers showcase the shots they captured within — you guessed it — 200 yards of the gallery. (6 to 9
Arts & Entertainment Lana Del Rey Performs At Amoeba Records [Video] Fresh off of a less than stellar SNL performance followed by an actually quite lovely Letterman appearance, Lana Del Rey — the lippy chanteuse with a flair for vintage California — breezed through San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/7: The Persuasions MUSIC: Veteran a capella group The Persuasions bring their legendarily eclectic repertoire, which includes "the heavy influence of gospel, a major measure soul, and a dose of pop," to Yoshi's tonight. (8 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/6: Communion Feat. Entrance, Tim Cohen, Hot Lunch, More MUSIC: Tonight's installment of the monthly Communion club, which originated in the U.K. and was founded by Mumford & Sons' Ben Lovett, features a stellar line-up, including The Entrance Band, Tim Cohen,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/5: 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' FILM: For those who plan on doing the opposite of watching the Super Bowl tonight, the Castro presents its annual Super Bowl screening of Breakfast at Tiffany's, featuring Audrey Hepburn at her finest
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 1/4: Hottub/Upcycle Ball, American Made, Go Van Gogh BENEFIT: Yellow Bike Project, a volunteer-powered community bike shop, is hosting its inaugural Upcycle Ball, featuring a live performance by Hottub, and DJ sets by maus haus, DJ Deep, and Mr. Pillz. Be
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Top 5: Giants FanFest, Men In Tights Super Bowl Show As you'd expect, there are lots of Super Bowl festivities happening on Sunday. We've highlighted a couple, along with a few other non-sports items. Enjoy! Giants FanFest: All your favorite Giants players will
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/2: Dengue Fever/Secret Chiefs 3 MUSIC: A transcendental evening will be had tonight and tomorrow night at Great American Music Hall, as the infectiously (pun intended) charming and poppy with Cambodian pop band Dengue Fever shares the bill
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 1/30: Harry Belafonte 'Sing Your Song' FILM: Harry Belafonte biopic, Sing Your Song, which is an Academy Award Best Documentary Shortlist Contender, takes the viewer on a journey through the life and work of "one of the truly heroic
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 1/29: w00tstock Founder's Night COMEDY: Adam Savage (MythBusters), Wil Wheaton (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Stand By Me) and music-comedy duo Paul and Storm (The Internet, Da Vinci's Notebook) honor geeks of all stripes at w00tstock Founder's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 1/28: The Pimps of Joytime MUSIC: Brooklyn's The Pimps of Joytime bring their "Janxta Funk", a sound that's "part gangsta, part janky" and ranges from "Latin inspired rhythms to deep funky grooves and hot dance beats laced with
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Top 5: White Elephant Preview, From A To Zin SFist already mentioned the sure-to-be-popular All You Can Dance For $5 event happening at LINES Dance Center tomorrow. Here are five more of our top weekend picks, along with a lovely gallery. White
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 1/26: 'Blair Witch Project' Actress Turned Pot Grower MUSIC: Classic S.F. punk band Avengers headline Bottom of the Hill tonight, featuring guests power pop Sacramento and BOATS! and Oakland rockers/punkers Midnite Snaxxx. (9 p.m., Bottom Of The Hill,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 1/25: Tom Tom Club/The Fixx MUSIC: It's a night of classic '80s new wave at Mezzanine, featuring Tom Tom Club, which was formed by Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth (of Talking Heads fame) and The Fixx, whose most
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 1/23: 'Pearl Jam 20' FILM: Tonight's Cinema Drafthouse feature is Cameron Crowe's Pearl Jam 20, which marked the band's 20th anniversary last year. (7:30 p.m., The Independent, 628 Divisadero Street) MUSIC: Jimmy Kansau and his
Arts & Entertainment Pulp Plays The Warfield April 17 [Updated] Adorable Britpop outfit Pulp will play The Warfield on April 17. The band confirmed this on their confusing website. Though excellent musicians with catchy tunes, their look spawned countless imitators. For example, every
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 1/22: Stella: The Classic Nightclub Show COMEDY: SF Sketchfest presents a rare Stella reunion, in which the crew pays homage to their early "Nightclub" days, when they hosted a weekly showcase for alternative and mainstream comedy. The event features
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 1/21: Hush, Muni Diaries Live ART: UK-based artist, Hush, will be exhibiting a new collection of mixed-media work that continues the artist’s trademark "focus on geisha-like women set within backgrounds filled with an expressionist’s freedom of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 1/20: Bay Area Girls Rock Camp Benefit BENEFIT: El Elle, a solo music and artistic endeavor by Lisa Light (ex-Lovemakers) that crosses "a variety of media and levels," and involves ongoing collaborations with other artists, dancers, and musicians, headlines a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 1/19: SF Sketchfest's RiffTrax COMEDY: There are still tickets available for SF Sketchfest's opening night presentation of RiffTrax Presents Night of the Shorts III: The Search for Schlock, featuring hosts Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett and guest
Arts & Entertainment Another Rad 49ers Anthem: Ashkon 'Niners In Paris' Behold! Another choice anthem about the San Francisco 49ers, "Niners in Paris" by Ashkon. The song spreads tukhus-shaking grooviness to and for while giving it up for the Niners. According to D Wizzle's
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Joe Staley & Vernon Davis Sing Adele Pause what you're doing and please enjoy as honey-throated 49ers O-lineman Joe Staley and soft-handed tight end Vernon Davis serenade you with their take on Adele's "Someone Like You". (The U.K.'s
SF News Woman Assaulted, Robbed By Man She Met At Nightclub Like a scene out of Sweet Charity, a 30-year-old woman was punched and robbed last night in the Mission after meeting what she thought was a nice man at a nightclub. SF Examiner
Arts & Entertainment The Mission's Force Of Habit Record Shop Closed, Getting Replaced By Restaurant [Updated] Another small, independent record shop bites the dust. Force of Habit, the little punk shop at 3565 20th Street (at Lexington) appears to be on its way to closing as SFist finds that
