Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: At tonight's installment of the Soundwave Festival (4), The Archives of the Natural World in the Illuminated Forest, singer-songwriter Odessa Chen will collaborate with sound artist [ruidobello] and visual artist Samuel Leshnick
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend All Weekend: The San Francisco Buddhist Church presents its annual Ginza Bazaar, which includes lots of food, dancing, and swords. The 30th Anniversary San Francisco Film Festival, which features Jewish mobsters, banana-laden donkeys,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Gallery Hijinks is hosting their first event, which includes two opening receptions, Free Life Center, a mobile art center crafted from salvaged material by Portland artists Mark Warren Jacques and Seth Neefus,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: It's another Hayes Valley Farm Film Night, featuring PBS "plant's eye view" documentary, Botany of Desire, which is based on Michael Pollen's book. The documentary is a "sensuous and eye-opening exploration into
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Tonight's Bad Movie Night feature, in which the hosts continue their celebration of the "Giant Floating Head" poster, is Days of Thunder (audio), featuring some "streaky cars down below" and Tom Cruise's
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend Looks like it'll be a nice weekend. Enjoy! Saturday: Keep your wits about you at the big, annual, free Mission Creek Music Festival at McLaren Park. Put on your leather pants and let
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Nymph O' Mania, a modern twist on A Midsummer Night's Dream, opens tonight and runs through August 15. Set in a redwood forest in Northern California, the play features a wedding, an
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Happy Bastille Day! Looking for more events to celebrate this French holiday (in addition to the one below)? Then head on over to Eye on Blogs. ART: In Leave No Trace, artists Elisheva
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Folk Yeah presents a line-up of folk/psychedelic bands at the Rickshaw, featuring Farmer Dave Scher (Beachwood Sparks and All Night Radio), Seventeen Evergreen, Tim Cohen (The Fresh & Onlys), and Night
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: San Francisco Mixtape Society presents their third event, which is themed Foreign vs. Familiar. Assemble a mix according to the theme in any format (cassette, CD, or USB) and trade with someone
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Photographer Jamie McHugh exhibits Seascapes, a series of natural abstract photographs of the Sonoma Coast’s tidal zone with unusual points of view. 6 to 9 p.m. // Dickerman Prints Gallery (3180
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Correction: Black Crown Stringband will perform "fiddle driven old-time numbers, twisted up bluegrass standards and plain old straight ahead mountain music at Belle Monroe and Her Brewglass Boys bring their clever name
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The Roxie has it going on with a double summer comedy feature today, One Crazy Wet Hot American Summer, featuring sleeper classic, Wet Hot American Summer (Michael Ian Black is our fave)
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend That 3-day weekend is almost here (or are you off today, too?)! All Weekend: The Frozen Film Festival is happening Friday and Saturday night. The month-long LaborFest kicks off this weekend with a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Cooperative art gallery and shared studio, Big Umbrella Studios, presents From The Beginning, featuring work from their newest members: Jessica Patrick, Vanessa Beckrum, Charlie Mirador, Annamarie Pabst, Chance Carstensen, Beja Tinsley, Chad
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Better Weather presents their first exhibition of the summer, featuring an array of "colourfully bright and stunning pieces" by contributing artists, Chrissy Angliker, Erin McCarty, Bill Dunlop, and Jessica Delorme, which will
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Elbo Room presents a night of rootsy rock with Buxter Hoot'n, Mark Matos & Os Beaches, and Glenn Labs. 9 p.m. // Elbo Room (647 Valencia St) // $5 COMEDY: Catch Eddie's brother,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: California artist Ed Moses is exhibiting Airborne, his series of paintings from 2007 that explores atmosphere and abstraction through lush applications of paint in light, airy hues, "lending an ephemeral quality suggestive
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Revisit Danzig's signature hard rock with its dark punk/goth edge. We imagine not a single person can resist pumping their fists and singing along to classic jam, "Mother". All Shall Perish
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: For one night only at the Dark Room, conceptual artist Spy Emerson presents Happy Forever: The Life and Death of an Italian Cat, based on her experiences as a crewmember of the
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend Pride dominates the weekend, but here are a few additional options. All Weekend: The Frameline Film Festival concludes this weekend, as does the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. The Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Tonight's installment of the monthly Snob Theater, which is organized by Bay Area comedian/music blogger Shawn Robbins, includes comedians Red Scott, Melanie O'Brien, Alex Koll, and DJ Real, and musical guests
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SCIENCE: As part of the Down to Science series, Thomas Goetz, Executive Editor of Wired, presents The Decision Tree: Gameshow Version!, in which participants will learn about "emerging tools to track and combine
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: As part of the Frameline Film Festival, Bear Nation shares the stories of bears' "second coming out:" finding other big, hairy guys, and explores the transformation of the bear movement into a
misc Weekend Palate Cleanser: Rogue Wave's "Solitary Gun," Starring BART Rogue Wave - Solitary Gun from Rogue Wave on Vimeo. Bay Area, and beyond, fav, Rogue Wave, have a stunning video out for their new song, "Solitary Gun," off of their recent release,
