Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/12: BATS Improv 25th Anniversary, Dance Mission's 'Pick Cells,' Audrey Moira Shimkas Trio IMPROV: Tickets might still be available at the door for the opening of BATS Improv's 25th Anniversary Season, featuring a special presentation of the first Theatresports show, followed by a champagne and dessert
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kimo's to Become Cocktail Lounge. Maybe. Not that we have any right to complain (it's been over five years since we last blacked out at this fine music venue), but Polk Street rock 'n' roll/hustler staple Kimo's (1351
Arts & Entertainment Jesse Morris' Posthumous 'I Wanna Take It All Back' As some of you already know, noted San Franciscan street musician Jesse Morris (billed the "punk rock Johnny Cash" by some) died this week. He was 27. Back in 2008, however, Morris began
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/10: Blek le Rat Retrospective, EndHIV.com Masquerade Ball, JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound ART: SFMOMA is hosting a reception celebrating the release of Blek le Rat: The 30 year Anniversary Retrospective, featuring private family photos, point and shoot images of the Parisian-born artists graffiti artwork from
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/8: The Bangles, 'Octubre', VV Brown MUSIC: After reuniting in the late '90s, The Bangles are still going strong. (Now would be a good time to make "An Eternal Flame" joke.) They'll be rocking their fine selves at the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/7: 'Teenage Gang Debs'/'Girl Gang', Hot 8 Brass Band, Cup Cozy Workshop FILM: Roxie Theater's Not Necessarily Noir series continues with a bad-girl flick double feature, including Teenage Gang Debs, about a "[a] tough doll" who blows into town and takes over “The Rebels” gang,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/1: Noel Gallagher Doc, Ty Segall/Kut U Up, The Art of Robots FILM: Be sure to RSVP ASAP to the exclusive screening of the new documentary, It's Never Too Late To Be What U Might Have Been - The Making of Noel Gallagher and His
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/31: Halloween Concert at the Freight, Adam Gopnik, Nopa Halloween Block Party MUSIC: Classical at the Freight presents a special Halloween Concert featuring the Bellavente Wind Quintet performing a special early family-friendly concert of "spooky and adventurous music" designed for kids of all ages. There
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/30: The Lemonheads, Donnie Darko Halloween ’80s Party, Being Impossible MUSIC: The prolific Evan Dando takes the stage with the latest incarnation of the Lemonheads, in which they'll be performing It’s a Shame About Ray in its entirety. (7:30 p.m.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/29: The Mumlers, Ghost Walk at Palace Hotel, 'Four Lovers' MUSIC: San Jose indie folk collective, The Mumlers, who are named after the "scandalized 19th century spirit photographer" William H. Mumler, will perform at Brick and Mortar tonight, along with guests He's My
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/28: 'You Will Gonna Go Crazy,' 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' w/Yara Sofia, World Music Fest THEATER: Kularts presents You Will Gonna Go Crazy, "a hilariously sad and lyrical semi-autobiographical multimedia dance-theatre play" and coming-of-age story exploring the traumatic impacts of racist history on the Filipino American family, based
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/26: 'Death in Parallel,' 'Race,' Hans-Joachim Roedelius ART: Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts presents a sneak preview of its 34th Annual Day of the Dead exhibition, Death in Parallel, featuring stories, photos, home video and personal artifacts remembering and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/24: 'Oil City Confidential', Nazi Trials Discussion, Brian Joseph FILM: SF DocFest and Mission Creek Music Festival present Oil City Confidential, the last film in director Julien Temple's '70s English punk rock trilogy that tells "the story of Dr Feelgood, four men
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/23: 'Shake That Sin,' The War on Drugs, 'Aurelie Laflamme's Diary DANCE: It's your last night to catch French dancer, choreographer, writer and director Maïmouna Coulibaly's Shake That Sin, featuring seven female dancers exploring the seven capital vices: the lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/22: Afrofunk Fest, Roller Disco Costume Party, Zombie Bar Crawl MUSIC: Kenyan-born, San Francisco-based musician-activist Sila headlines the 2011 Afrofunk Festival, which benefits CARE, a humanitarian aid organization working to improve conditions in the horn of Africa. Black Nature, an original member of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/21: ArtCrank SF 2011, Spank Rock, Naughty History Film Night ART: Chrome Industries brings its popular ArtCrank SF event to 111 Minna, showcasing the bicycle-inspired work of over 30 participating Bay Area artists. Be sure to take home a poster or two! (7
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/17: 'The Sleeping Beauty,' Laura Cunningham, Cello Bazaar FILM: S.F. Film Society presents French auteur Catherine Breillat's The Sleeping Beauty, which delves into yet another "piquant" fairy tale of Charles Perrault, creating "a reverie and rumination over slumbering lives and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Herman Cain Sings Song About Pizza Republican presidential candidate and former Godfather's Pizza CO Herman Cain made headlines last week after becoming the GOP frontrunner for 2012. At last according to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, anyway.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/16: Thao With The Get Down Stay Down, 'Adventures in Plymptoons!', 'The Birds of the Nile' MUSIC: Kill Rock Stars' Thao With The Get Down Stay Down will rock the Independent tonight at the Treasure Island night show, along with Bare Wires and The She's. (8:30 p.m.
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Kidquake, Vagabond Craft Fair, Neighborhood Fairs Galore, and More! Lots of folks will be heading to Treasure Island this beautiful weekend for some un-stressful concert-going. For those who want to stay close to home, there just might be a fair going on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/14: DocFest, 2 Blocks of Art, Beats for Boobs FILM: DocFest kicks off tonight with Dirty Pictures, about Dr. Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin, "the rogue chemist who discovered the effects of MDMA (aka Ecstasy) and over 200 other mind-altering drugs," earning him the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/13: 'Summer of Goliath', Lightbox SF Mixer and Artist Talk, Hot Mess 2011 FILM: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts kicks off its Mexico Rising: Films of Nicolás Peruda series, featuring the prolific work of acclaimed 27-year-old filmmaker Nicolás Peruda, with Summer of Goliath, "a quiet
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/12: People Under the Stairs, Jean Harlow Double Feature, Free Jazz/Sushi Party MUSIC: L.A. indie hip-hoppers People Under the Stairs will be playing a free show at Amoeba, promoting their latest album, Highlighter, which "features everything from full string sections to vintage vibraphones and
