Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: St. Paddy's, SFIAAFF Extravaganza, Naked Cyclists, Cage Fights, and Ice Cream! In addition to getting that emergency preparedness kit ready and checking out SFist's ongoing Tsunami coverage, here's some other stuff to do this weekend. Also, it's Spring Forward on Sunday. Hooray! 2011 St.
misc SFist Tonight MUSIC: Emily Jane White headlines a night of folk/pop rock at Du Nord tonight, along with Hélene Renaut celebrating the release of her new album, The Deer Convention, and Ed Masuga. 8:
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Festival Returns to Three-Day Schedule, Will Hopefully Not Suck The Outside Lands Music Festival announced the festival's dates for 2011 today. No big surprises on the weekend it's taking place: August 12th-14th, 2011, but maybe some slight surprise to see the festival
Arts & Entertainment Must Read: Tim Redmond's <em>American Idol</em> Recaps If you're not reading American Idol recaps by SF Bay Guardian's Tim Redmond, you're missing out. And how. The noted alt-weekly editor has been doing a surprisingly bang-up job wrapping up this year's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Graham Central Station, ConFunkShun, Tower of Power, and lead singer Ashling Cole will perform at the Teena Marie Birthday Tribute as 6 Piece & a Biscuit, commemorating what would've been Teena Marie's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Vision from the Life of Hildegard von Bingen, a lushly shot portrait of a 12-century Benedictine nun way ahead of her time, "who has emerged from the shadows of history as a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PHOTOGRAPHY: The ever-popular 4th Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show showcases the ninety top photos from the contest's Bay Area, national, and international entries. Come celebrate the joy and simplicity of the latent
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: White Elephant Sale, How-to Homestead, Found Footage Fest, Michael Showalter, and Beer-Soaked Snuggies Oakland Museum White Elephant Sale: The much anticipated annual weekend-long rummage extravaganza in Oakland is finally here. Get you and your tote bags over there first thing tomorrow, as it gets picked over
Arts & Entertainment Britney Spears Castro Concert Details The Examiner has more details about Britney Spears' Castro concert for Good Morning America. "The 400 and 500 blocks of Castro Street between Market and 19th streets will be closed starting just before
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Smile presents a Save KUSF Benefit, featuring performances by The Trifles, The Twinks, The Danger Babes, and Hate Factory, along with DJ Neil Martinson spinning psych, soul, glam, bubblegum, and laserboogie. All
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The acclaimed We Were Here is playing at the Castro through March 3. The film takes an intimate - and epic - journey through the arrival and impact of AIDS in San
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Crab-Cracking 49ers, Park Branch Library Reopening, Amoeba Artists, Edible Perfume, And Noisy Pancakes 9th Annual Celebrity Crab Festival: See which San Francisco 49ers and local chefs can crack the most crab on Saturday at Union Square, preceded by a crab-cracking demo. There will also be a
SF News Man Beaten By Prince Fans After Catching Guitar Well, this is disgusting. At Wednesday night's Prince concert at Oakland Arena, a man was beaten by concert goers after catching the purple one's guitar. Prince typically tosses his guitar into the audience
Arts & Entertainment SFist Attends: UnderCover Presents Pixies 'Doolittle' Monkey's Gone to Heaven? by Daniel Phifer A good cover song is no simple achievement. It requires a very delicate balance. An artist has to add their own stylistic viewpoint to the song
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: San Francisco Film Society presents Fever Dreams, featuring the work of Laurel Nakadate, a photographer, video artist, and filmmaker, which explores the collision of feminine adolescent fantasy with masculine angst and repression.
Arts & Entertainment Oops! Missed One! Judgment Day, Street Eaters, Bam!Bam! Play Amoeba/Noise Pop's Pop N Shop Today At 5PM! by Erick Pressman When you have a fest as vast as Noise Pop, inevitably, even those with trained eyes may miss a killer show when getting their preview for a blog together. Lucky
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Hahn/Lisitsa, Hope/Kahane at SF Performances. In an SF Performances recital on Saturday night, violinist Hilary Hahn and her accompanist Valentina Lisitsa put together a set of pieces that had nothing in common, except for the mastery of the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Margaret Cho's "Hey Big Dog" Laughing Squid brings our attention to Margaret Cho's "Hey Big Dog" featuring the world's greatest living singer/songwriter, Fiona Apple. It’s from Cho's comedy music album "Cho Dependent" which you can get
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The lovable and "other-worldly" surf/new wave band, Man or Astroman? land at the Independent tonight, with guests, Austin's Octopus Project, "a group of young noise-rock musicians" who specialize in "blasts of
Arts & Entertainment The Official SFist Noise Pop Preview and Day By Day Festival Planner: Do It Right or Be Bummed by Erick Pressman Ah yes, its the end of February. The weather is awful, the Giants are in Arizona, which means its time for the annual Noise Pop Festival! Now in its nineteenth
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LAUNCH PARTY: Celebrate the re-launch of Fruitflylife.com, which explores the notion of gender and normalcy through the lens of pop culture. Tonight's event will highlight interactive art projects, music, food, and surprises,
Arts & Entertainment Odd Future Make Hip Hop Interesting For The First Time In Years; Prepare To Wreck Slim’s On 2/22 by Erick Pressman For the most part, Jimmy Fallon’s late night television show leaves a lot to be desired, but Wednesday night he may have put himself on the historical map forever
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Mark Growden celebrates the release of his tenth album in fifteen years, Lose Me in the Sand, which is a tribute to Growden’s rural mountain roots, "a hats-off to the roughshod
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Chinese New Year, TechShop Opening, Tulipmania, Bluegrass Workshops Chinese New Year Parade and Fair: Does it rain during every Chinese New Year Parade? Find out tomorrow. There's also a community fair on Saturday and Sunday, featuring dance and music from throughout
