Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: Bob Dylan's foremost interpreter, Greil Marcus, will read from his eponymous collection, Writings 1968-2010, compiled of dozens of pieces that are "the result of a more than forty-year engagement between an unparalleled
Arts & Entertainment SFist Radar This Weekend As SFist noted last week, SF Sketchfest starts on Thursday! The list of performers is endless. Let us name just a few: Candice Bergen, Dan Aykroyd, Michael Ian Black, Thomas Lennon,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: FunCheapSF informs us of the folkYEAH! Winter Residency at Slim's, as part of the venue's $5 Concert series. Tonight's show features Sweet Chariot, Sparrows Gate, Montra, and Nico Georis & Matt Baldwin.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Get a taste of Seattle hip-hop tonight with the gritty yet smooth Champagne Champagne, along with Seattle's Mad Rad, and the Bay Area's C U Next Weekend and Moe Greene. 9 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: sfSound's San Francisco Tape Music Collective kicks off the trippie-sounding San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2011, featuring three nights of classic audio art and new fixed media compositions. Twenty local and international
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ROAST: Start your new year right by bidding Sayonara to the supervisor everybody loves to hate at The Roast of Chris Daly, hosted by the lovely Beth Spotswood and Melissa Griffin. Proceeds benefit
Arts & Entertainment Show of the Week: The Boneless Children Foundation, 1/4 By Daniel Phifer Did we ever tell you that we’re huge Dead Milkmen fans? Well, we kind of lost track of the discography after Metaphysical Graffiti, but going five albums deep with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Revel in all things dark with a night of goth/punk/psychobilly, featuring Switchblade Riot, Plan 9 (Misfits tribute act), and Blasfemme. 9 p.m. // Bottom of the Hill (1233 17th St)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: SF Chamber Orchestra presents their Rush Hour Concert, featuring 17-year cello sensation, Nathan Chan, and the orchestra's principal bass player, Michel Taddei, along with lyric soprano Anja Strauss as the most beautiful
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Persephone's Bees return to the Bay Area for a special S.F. Food Bank Benefit Fundraiser show. Marc & the Casuals and Virgil Shaw w/Peacock Gap and the Wagoneers will also
Arts & Entertainment DJ Earworm's "United State of Pop 2010 (Don’t Stop the Pop)" DJ Earworm (Jordan Roseman), San Francisco-based mashup artist and all-around swell chap, just released his annual ode to the top pop songs of the year. It goes without saying, but we'll say it:
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Legendary L.A. punk band X rock Slim's tonight and tomorrow night with X-mas with X, along with special guest Ray Manzarek (just don't get him talking about The Doors). 8 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: It's a night of classic indie rock performed by a couple of its originators, Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven. Get a double-dose of David Lowery and Frank Funaro. 7:30 p.m.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Get out some of your holiday aggression vicariously through your favorite watermelon-smashing '80s comedian at Gallagher's Holiday Smash Bash. See the Sledge-O-Matic in action! MUSIC: Tonight kicks off the week-long Fifth Kwanzaa
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The Oakland Interfaith Gospel Ensemble perform an intimate version of their annual Paramount Holiday Concert in a more relaxed setting, expressing "the power of spirit" and bringing "a message of faith, hope,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: A onetime SF denizen and “One Woman Pixar” (as coined by Wired Magazine), Nina Paley, expands the artistic boundaries of animation with Sita Sings the Blues, which is animated in a dazzling
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks take on the holidays with Holidaze In Hicksville, featuring their "signature violin and guitar and two girls backing me up and the tongue-in-cheek approach to the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Have a couple of microbrews, or club sodas, and enjoy the endlessly-hyped Inception. If you're like us and haven't seen the movie yet, a bar might not be the best place to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Attends: Wild 94.9's Wild Jam A Woman Beater, a Phenom, a Pleasant Surprise, and a One Hit Wonder: SFist's Erick Pressman reports back from Thursday night's Wild 94.9's Wild Jam at HP Pavilion. by Erick Pressman While
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight CLUB: It's Holiday Non Stop Bhangra -- come dressed in red and green! Special guest DJ Dave Sharma of Sub Swara Crew from New York will join residents Dj Jimmy Love and Rav-E
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC I: The Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco presents Christmas Crap-Array 2010, which showcases soloists and ensembles performing "the kind of raunchy, hilarious songs and skits that have become their signature style"
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Rush tickets are still available for the SF Film Society's presentation of Mauritz Stiller’s 1919 silent film classic Sir Arne’s Treasure, featuring a live original musical accompaniment by John Darnielle
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: French New Wave classic, Breathless, which popularized the jump cut and the hand-held camera, along with the "Belmondo pout and the boho waif", is at the Red Vic through tomorrow night. 7:
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY/MUSIC: Actor, writer, and musician Donald Glover brings his I Am Donald Tour, a cool blend of stand-up and music, to Slim's. Glover's a former writer for 30 Rock, which won him
