Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/9: Mortified, Mission Block, 'Vertical Hold' PERFORMANCE: Travel back to the most awkward and painful moments of your life at Mortified Live, as "[g]rown men and women confront their past with tales of their first kiss, first puff,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Quintetto, A Fishy Music Ensemble Laughing Squid brings our attention to "Quintetto," a musical art installation that uses fish movement to create music. "The effect is achieved by capturing the motion of the fish on camera and translating
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/8: Fred Hersch Doc-in-Progress, Electronic Music Festival, Italian Fashion Through the Years FILM: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will host a discussion and clip screening of My Coma Dreams, a work-in-progress documentary about jazz great, educator, and AIDS activist Fred Hersch and the vivid
Arts & Entertainment Morrissey Coming To Oakland Former Smiths lead singer and avowed racist Morrissey will make a pitstop at the Fox Theater later this year. The (not so) sensitive crooner will appear with Kristeen Young at the Fox Theater
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/6: The Mummies, 'Escape From Alcatraz', Boots Riley & W. Kamau Bell MUSIC: Legendary '90s Bay Area garage band, The Mummies, whom SF Weekly say "took stripped-down, amped-up guitar pop to heights of volume, satire, and obnoxiousness, coining the phrase 'budget rock' to describe its
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/5: 'Love Exposure', Olivia Tremor Control, QComedy, FILM: You have until Thursday to catch Love Exposure, the entertainingly "dark and sick" epic by Japanese poet-turned-auteur Sion Sono, which broke art house box office records in Japan and "is the sort
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/2: Too $hort; 'Film Socialisme;' Avatars, Aliases, Alter-egos MUSIC: Legendary Bay Area hip-hopper, Too $hort, headlines The Labor Day Shakedown, a benefit to raise funds to cover the medical costs of a toddler from South San Francisco fighting a deadly form
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/1: 'The Holy Mountain,' Owen Takabayashi, 'All Athiests Are Muslim,' FILM: The Holy Mountain, Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowski's rarely screened underground "psychedelic, allegorical tale of spiritual ascent and degradation," is being screened as part of New People's Convergence MMXI Film Series tonight, an
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/31: Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema, a.Muse Photography Panel, 'Why We Have a Body' FILM: The Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema opens tonight with a great line-up of short films by local filmmakers, along with live music by Mister Odom and the Odom Poles, food, and an awards
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/30: Butthole Surfers, Pete Asher Musical Memoir, Cockyasians Comedy MUSIC: The infamous Butthole Surfers bring their "sicko" "shock rock antics" and "distinct and chaotic mishmash of avant-garde, hardcore, and Texas psychedelia" to the Regency Ballroom tonight. (8 p.m., The Regency Ballroom,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/29: 'Septien'/'Silver Jew', Pint-Sized Plays, Classical Revolution FILM: Director Michael Tulley will be in person at the Roxie to present a one-night-only screening of his new film, Septien, which follows Cornelius Rawlings, an enigmatic lost soul who returns to his
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/28: Los Rakas, Bollywood Dance Party, 'Drive Angry' MUSIC: Oakland-based Los Rakas, who hail from Panama, blend "hip-hop, reggae and dancehall music with Spanish and English lyricism creating songs that leaves your head noddin' and body rockin' for more, tag teaming
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/27: Gram Parsons Tribute, Peaches Christ/Showgirls, FourSquared, MUSIC: Celebrate the legendary Gram Parsons while benefiting The Hickory Wind Ranch, a sober living environment in Austin, TX started by Gram's daughter, at the 10th Annual Sleepless Nights, an annual celebration of
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Meklit Hadero, Chili Bowl & Skate Tournament, Raggae Fest, and More! Meklit Hadero: Meklit Hadero, who's described as "[i]f Joni Mitchell were East African and met Nina Simone for tea in the Mission," will be performing at Yerba Buena Gardens on Saturday. Toad
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/26: The Sedaris' 'The Book of Liz,' Non Stop Bhangra, Valencia Evening Fair THEATER: You have a little over a week left to catch The Custom Made Theatre Co's production of the Sedaris siblings' The Book of Liz, starring an under-appreciated cheeseball-making nun who encounters "Ukrainians
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/25: Rupa and The April Fishes, 'Tommy,' Clarinetist David Krakauer MUSIC I: SF Jazz presents Rupa & the April Fishes, who will perform their "intoxicating blend of music that echoes with influences of French chanson, Argentinean tango, Gypsy swing, American folk, Latin cumbias,
Arts & Entertainment SF Symphony Celebrates 100th Season With Free Lunch-Time Concert in Civic Center Plaza 9/8 You might have seen the posters around town -- hey, print media does still work! The San Francisco Symphony is kicking off its 100th season with a free lunch-time concert in Civic Center
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/23: The Ettes, 'Maltese Falcon', Sketch Tuesday & Dr. Sketchy's MUSIC: Nashville's The Ettes bring their "up-front, fearless vocals, fuzz bass runs, primal, driving drums beats, searing guitar lines and of course, tons of black eyeliner and attitude" to the Rickshaw tonight, along
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Week: Caltopia, Four-Barrel B-Day, Lunchtime Music Concerts, de Young's Fair Trade Bazaar If you find yourself with leisure time on weekdays, or you're looking for something fun to do on your lunch/coffee break, here are this week's highlights. A shout-out of course goes to
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Bonehead BBQ, Atheist Film Festival, Alamo Square Flea Market, and More! We've already told you all you need to know about tomorrow's Street Food Festival. Here's other stuff that might be less crowded. 1st Annual Bonehead Barbeque: 107.7 The Bone presents the legendary
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/19: Public Enemy, Collage Theater, L@TE at BAM/PFA MUSIC: There are still tickets available to fight the power at Public Enemy's 25th Anniversary concert, featuring the return of Chuck D and Flavor Flav, at Regency Ballroom (via the dreaded Ticketmaster, of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/17: Jay Reatard Doc, Litquake's Epicenter Burns, Drink Like a Fish Mixer FILM: Noise Pop and The Roxie present the West Coast premiere of Better Than Something, the new documentary about the controversial and prolific Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr, aka Jay Reatard, which intimately captures
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/15: Talking Taiko, Whiskey Waxing Beard And Mustache Competition, Slim's Pop-up MUSIC: Yoshi's brings together poetry and music at Talking Taiko, celebrating the release of Yuri Kageyama's The New and Selected Yuri Writing From Peeling Till Now, and featuring guest poet Ishmael Reed, accompanied
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/14: Bare Wires, Natural Child, Liquor Store; Final Cocktailgate; 'Terri' MUSIC: Oakland's groovy Bare Wires, "who like to drive around in a van a lot," hit the Hemlock for the late show tonight, along with equally edgily groovy-sounding Nashville's Natural Child and New
