Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 12/14: Southern (Dis)Comfort FILM: The Roxie hosts a night of Gothic cinema with Southern (Dis)Comfort, featuring Hurry Sundown, "an overly earnest 1960s-era take on race relations and a gorgeously mounted trash melodrama" starring Michael Caine
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 12/12: Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa MUSIC: Expect to get a contact high at the Warfield tonight as Snoop Dogg takes the stage with Wiz Khalifa, in support of their new soundtrack for the film, Mac & Devin Go
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 12/11: Erase Errata/Grass Widow MUSIC: Bay Area Girls Rock Camp presents a showcase featuring four teen bands that were formed during the camp's new Advanced Music Program (AMP), which launched in September, followed by performances by Erase
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 12/10: Dance-Along Nutcracker DANCE: Tickets are still available to tonight's Dance-Along Nutcracker adult gala, featuring Clara's psychedelic '60s-esque journey through the dawning of the Age of Aquarius. The San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band will perform
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 12/8: Beats By The Bay ART: The Ever Gold Gallery presents Beats by the Bay: SF Artists & Galleries of the Fifties, featuring work by the less publicized Beat visual artists, including artist/writer/educator Fred Martin, gallery
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 12/7: Jonathan Richman MUSIC: Folky-pop icon and S.F. resident Jonathan Richman takes the stage at the gorgeous Great American tonight, along with collaborator Tommy Larkins, in which they'll "continue to wow crowds with handfuls of
Arts & Entertainment Teatro ZinZanni Gets New Home After the America's Cup pushed Teatro ZinZanni out of its current Embarcadero home, Mayor Lee announced today that the dinner-theater show's new spot will be located at a triangular parcel, located where Broadway
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 12/6: Katya Holiday Spectacular MUSIC: Russian opera diva, Katya Smirnoff-Sky, will be at the Rrazz Room for one night only performing her Holiday Spectacular, a fun-filled evening of "belting, banter, and ball gowns" sure to make your
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Final 'Guest DJ' Night At Flour + Water Over in the hoity-toity/gritty Mission arrondissement, the final night of Flour + Water's guest DJs will spin tonight. Geographer, an electronic (and more) SF-based act, will pump out tunes that pair with Chef
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 12/3: Papercuts MUSIC: Bay Area faves, Papercuts, whose latest album, Fading Parade, is described as "[i]magine Belle & Sebastian teaming up with Slowdive and recording with Phil Spector back when he was killing it
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 12/1: Too Short, After Dark, 'Chico and Rita' MUSIC: Local gem Too Short has been making the rounds a lot lately. Tonight, he'll be taking the stage at The New Parish with notable players, Kev Choice and Martin Luther, among others.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/30: Kev Choice, Printz Dance Project MUSIC: Pianist/M.C./producer/band-director Kev Choice premieres excerpts from his new hip-hopera: The Chosen One in a special "The Art of Composition" performance, which will also feature other work Kev Choice
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fried Chicken 'The New Cupcake,' Declares Questlove What's this? Another declaration of a looming 'it' food on the horizon? Count us in like Flynn. We love to eat what's white-hot (and, at times, what's hot and white), so we're tickled—
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/29: Metal Mother MUSIC: Oakland's Metal Mother, aka Tara Tati, will bring her "fresh bath of melancholic emotion, bubbled with loud tribal drums, futuristic synth leads, and sweetly haunting Celtic-inspired vocals" to Cafe Du Nord, along
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/27: Castro Vigil, Sing-Along 'Sound of Music' VIGIL: San Francisco FYI via FunCheapSF tells us about tonight's annual Harvey Milk and Moscone Candlelight March and Vigil, which commemorates the spontaneous candlelight march that occurred on the night of the shootings
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/26: Sigur Ros' 'Inni,' Suzanne Westenhoefer, Mist and Mast FILM: The Roxie presents Inni, Sigur Rós’s second live film following 2007's hugely-celebrated Heima, which is "artfully and intimately captured by French Canadian director Vincent Morisset (Arcade Fire’s Miroir Noir)," interweaving
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/25: Turkey Trot, Haight Fire Benefit, 'Swell Season' MUSIC: Get some heaping helpings of "Southern-fried honky-tonk, creamy country swing, sweet old-time bluegrass, and extra spicy hillbilly-grass" at the 9th Annual Turkey Trot 2011, featuring The Whisky Richards, Windy Hill Bluegrass Band,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/23: Tune-Yards, Savage In Limbo, Red Hots Burlesque MUSIC: Local 4AD duo, Tune-Yards bring their acclaimed live show to The Regency Ballroom in support of their latest album, w h o k i l l, which is heavily influenced by frontwoman
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/22: Shwayze & Cisco Adler, Veronica Klaus, Tango Throwdown & Lesson HIP-HOP: Hip-hop collaborators Shwayze & Cisco Adler will be at the Independent in support of their new album, Island in the Sun, which is a "tribute to the life of deceptive leisure the
Arts & Entertainment Twentysomething: Veronica Klaus Award-winning jazz and cabaret performer extraordinaire Veronica Klaus will hit the floorboards next week at The Rrazz Room in her latest show, After Dark. In addition to being a noted artist and lush
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/17: Robyn Hitchcock, <em>An Age of Monsters</em>, Turk+Taylor MUSIC: The legendary Robyn Hitchcock will be at Slim's tonight performing his 1990 solo album in its entirety, Eye, which Hitchcock says concluded his stint on the college radio air waves. Also featuring
Arts & Entertainment Third Eye Blind Pens New Song About Occupy Wall Street Third Eye Blind, who got their start in San Francisco during the real world '90s, penned a new song dedicated to the Occupy Wall Street movement. It's called "If Ever There Was A
Arts & Entertainment Richmond Embraces Home-Grown Rap Star Macho Hip-hop is borne of the ghetto, and Richmond Confidential -- as part of a two-part series they're writing with RichmondPulse.org -- profiles a self-styled "Prince of the Projects" by the name of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/15: Celluloid Salon, Dawes/Blitzen Trapper, Photographer Barbara Traub FILM: Head over to Public Works early for some free Drambuie at Celluloid Salon, a series which "breathes new life into the audio-visual experience, pairing obscure silent film shorts with soundtracks curated (and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/13: 'Pudhupettai', Myles Boisen Group, Red Curtain Variety Show FILM: 3rd Eye Fest presents Pudhupettai, an Indian Tamil gangster film, which follows "the unlikely rise of Kokki Kumar (Dhanush) from petty criminal to powerful gang lord in the Pudhupettai slums of Chennai"
