Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: WomenROCK, a women’s music collective and movement, founded in San Francisco that's now a national network of women, celebrates its four year anniversary with a huge line-up, including Bernadette, Stripmall Architecture,
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend Not watching the World Cup this weekend? Don't worry, there's lots more for you to do. Going on all weekend are the Giants County Fair, the 34th annual San Francisco Free Folk Festival
SF News Second Death After Cow Palace Rave Trung Nguyen, 25, died on Sunday at Washington Hospital in Fremont, making him the second fatality after Memorial Day weekend's infamous Cow Palace rave. Nguyen was a graduate of Overfelt High School and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: Theater company Mugwumpin presents Get This Go, which takes place in three rooms at the Pacific Heights Inn. The performance focuses on the victims of natural disaster, and the audience will move
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Mission: Comic & Art presents artist Michael Capozzola's Riddler's Mother, which includes pieces from his weekly San Francisco Chronicle cartoon Surveillance Caricatures. 8 p.m. to Midnight // Mission: Comics and Art (3520
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend Sorry for getting this posted late! There are lots of fun and unique events this weekend. Let's get down to it! Saturday: Calling all musicians, "buy, sell, exchange, trade, teach, learn, play, dance"
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Malawian songsmith Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit’s Etienne Tron and Johan Karlberg make up the hip-hop group The Very Best, "an epic global partnership with the sole aim to re write western
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC I: Grammy-award winning musician, film/theater actor, all-around great and funny guy, and father of the talented Rufus and Martha, Loudon Wainwright III, is promoting his latest album, Songs for the New
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: Channel your inner Sue Sylvester at the Lesbian Gym Teacher Costume Contest, as part of the release party for Monica Nolan's pulp satire, Bobby Blanchard, Lesbian Gym Teacher. There will also be
SF News LimeWire Wants A Second Chance File sharing software gem LimeWire, something we know absolutely nothing about whatsoever, is in trouble. See, on May 11, according to Wired, "a federal judge ruled that LimeWire’s users commit a 'substantial
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Danny Dechi, who's been described as "Woody Allen doing vaudeville," and whose style is a "quirky combination of clean comedy & a unique #2 pencil musical act," presents Comedy Blast. 7:30
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The Cat's Pajamas presents Hillbilly Hoedown, "a celebration of pitchforks, swamps, blue misty mountain, corn liquor, hayseeds and all that hard foot stompin' on an old barn floor to the sounds of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC I: Fulfill your dream of embodying your favorite punk legends live and onstage at American Idle: Live Band Karaoke. The event's house band, the HeeBeeGeeBees, will also perform, along with some surprise
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight CLUB: This month's EpiscoDisco will feature the aerial stylings of Adam Wier, Evan Holm’s Image Immersion Machine and music by Daniel Higgs, Barn Owl, Danny Paul Grody and Portraits. 7 to 10
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend We have some more big events this weekend, including Kaboom, which will now be taking place in the Candlestick Park lot (bring an umbrella!), the giant 5th Annual Maker Faire in San Mateo,
Arts & Entertainment Backstreet Boys To Play SF Pride Bay Area Reporter confirms that Backstreet Boys, one-time boy band phenoms famous for wanting it that way, will perform at this year's SF Pride Party on June 27 at Civic Center. Already scheduled
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Aren't Day Laborers Adorable? Picked up along the Bayshore Uhaul station, these three day laborers were plucked from obscurity and put in a Monarchs music video. (Hat tip: Mission Mission)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The Hayes Valley Farm presents Farm Film Night Kick-Off! with a screening of DIRT! the Movie, preceded by film shorts and live music by the artists at How-to Homestead. 7:30 p.
misc Meanwhile, In Berkeley... Dancer/Watcher from Allan Hough on Vimeo. Filmed on location at the Berkeley Art Museum, we're... well, not sure what's going on here, but it sure looks exciting.
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend There's a ton going on on Saturday, and only a few events dare to compete with the massive Bay to Breakers on Sunday. There are some good events in the East Bay though,
SF News Singer & Actress Lena Horne Dies at 92 Actor and singer Lena Horne died Sunday in New York. She was "was the first black performer to be signed to a long-term contract by a major Hollywood studio and who went on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: In Broadway to Brecht, Julia Migenes, who has starred on Broadway, in film and television, and in major opera houses throughout the world, will cover several types of music from her life
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FUNDRAISER: You can always count on a good time with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, whose latest event is Supreme Bingo: Celebrating the Girl Groups of the '50s and '60s, benefiting the Metropolitan
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: At SHOWNUFF, 111 Minna's free weekly Friday live music happy hour series, eleven-piece funk/soul band Stymie and the Pimp Jones Luv Orchestra will kick start your weekend, along with Chris Orr
