Arts & Entertainment SF LovEvolution/LoveFest Needs New Home Do you like this (warning: autoplay) kind of music? Do you like crowds? Do you love the fun yet oddly titled SF LovEvolution/LoveFest, the annual rave-ish parade cum dance party? Well then,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts celebrates the myth of the vampire and how it will never die with Rare Vampire Films. The films include Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark -- a "badass
Arts & Entertainment Catch SF Opera on KQED Thursday Evenings This Month Four San Francisco Opera performances, which were recorded in high definition at the War Memorial Opera House, will air on KQED tonight and every Thursday through September 23, along with additional airings each
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: A line-up of local literati will be featured at The Microscopic Giant, including Tracy Jones, April Wolfe, Steven Gray, Charlie Getter, and Glynn Washington, host of NPR's Snap Judgment. There will also
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Tonight's line-up at the Hemlock features some heavy-hitting ladies. Acclaimed, melancholic singer-songwriter and Texan, Sarah Jaffe, headlines with support from SF's poppy The Glassines and fellow Texan, Kristy Kruger. 8 p.m.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Five artists under the age of 21 and raised in the Bay Area present Granny’s Missed You, a multimedia show that's part of Luggage Store’s Short Cuts Program. The exhibition,
SF News Man Falls to His Death at Saratoga Mountain Winery Concert During a concert featuring the Swell Season last night, a man plunged to his death at the Saratoga Mountain Winery, landing next to the lead singer. According to Mercury News, "At about 10
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: Contemporary Jewish Museum hosts their second MILTON, part of a series of conceptual spaces for "whimsy and exchange" developed by artist Maira Kalman, whose solo exhibition is currently on view. Daniel Handler
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Homespun Rowdy provide a toe-tapping good time at Amnesia's Bluegrass Mondays, bringing the banjo, mandolin, and fiddle to the mix. 8:30 p.m. // Amnesia (853 Valencia St) // free FILM: Here's another
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Birmingham, Alabama's Dan Sartain, who "sounds as if Jonathan Richman wanted to be Hank Williams instead of Lou Reed or if The Voidoids were fronted by Hasil Adkins," will perform his "beautifully
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend All Weekend: Be sure to check out SFist Jay's Outside Lands User's Guide, especially the part about bringing a jacket. Over 250 artists showcase their work at the 35th Annual American Craft Council
Arts & Entertainment SFist Radar This Weekend: The San Francisco Improv Festival starts tonight, and runs through August 21. The much anticipated Outside Lands Festival is here, and the fog will lend those special trippy effects again. (Stay
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The darling young Yoshida Brothers, masters of the ancient tsugaru-shamisen, reinvent traditional Japanese folk music with the addition of modern pop, rock, and world music sensibilities. The bros. will be at Yoshi's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Acclaimed indie hip-hop artist (and chemist) Psalm One headlines Elbo Room tonight. Art rapper Open Mike Eagle and up-and-comer and Bay Area native Moe Green open. 9 p.m. // Elbo Room (647
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: At this week's Bad Movie Night, which is having a video-game themed August series, hosts Mikl-Em, Tristan Buckner, and Sherilyn Connelly talk about Angelina Jolie's boobs because they suspect that's the only
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: In addition to Ferris Bueller's Day Off happening tonight, the Rolling Roadshow presents, Dirty Harry, "cleaning up the streets of San Francisco, eradicating any pusher, scumbag and lowlife that dared show his
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend All Weekend: Enjoy Pacific Islander music, Polynesian dance, arts & crafts, island cuisine, educational exhibits and workshops, and an `Ohana Korner with simple games for the kids at the 16th Annual San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Fabric8 presents Multifarious Tendencies, curated by Sandra Silvoy and featuring artists Adam Flores, Brett Amory, Micke Tong, and Kevin Earl Taylor, who explore their "mutual concern for the particularities of human tendency"
SF News Early Graves Vocalist Dies In Oregon Car Crash A van carrying members of Early Graves, a San Francisco-based heavy metal band, crashed on I-5 near Medford, Oregon early Monday morning. 28-year-old Makh Daniels, the vocalist for Early Graves, was killed in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FOOD: Mmm, cheese. The Monteillet Fromagerie invites you to Homestead Cheese and Pairings Soiree: Rural Cheese Farm Meets Urban Farm. Sample twelve varieties of Monteillet cheese, paired with microbrews, greens, wild, foraged delights,
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend All Weekend: Go rogue at the Renegade Craft Fair. Saturday: Jam on your bike at the Bicycle Music Festival. While on your bike, take a lovely Social Justice Mural Ride with ThinkWalks. Celebrate
Arts & Entertainment Looking Back at Bimbo's 365 Bimbo's 365 is one of the Bay Area's finest music venues, period. Opened by Agostino Giuntoli, who moved it to its current Columbus spot in 1951, the name of the historically textured joint
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PHOTOGRAPHY: (Por)trait Revealed, a juried exhibition of portrait photography, features Mark Menjivar's You Are What You Eat, a series of interior shots of refrigerators taken "as is" in homes across the US
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The Cat's Pajamas presents The Songbird Festival's Sin + Sass, featuring Mr Lucky, Ramshackle Romeos, Cabaret Nouveaux with Allison Lovejoy, Dusty Rose, and Linda Robertson, of The Trifles. 8 p.m. // Make-Out Room
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The dynamic trio made up of seasoned musicians, John Dieterich (Deerhoof), Scott Amendola (Nels Cline), and Thollem McDonas (soloist), will perform together alongside New York filmmaker Martha Colburn's 16 mm stop motion
