Arts & Entertainment California Music and Culture Association, a New Nightclub Coalition, Launches Last night, according to BCN (via SF Appeal) "a trade organization dedicated to serving the interests of nightclubs and other entertainment venues in San Francisco" kicked off their via a launch party. One
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend Another weekend, another slew of events. Let's get the party started. Saturday is jam-packed. There's the Cinco de Mayo Festival at Dolores Park, the Chinatown Music Festival at Portsmouth Square, the Taiwanese American
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Announces 2010 Dates The Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival at Golden Gate Park will be held on... August 14-15. Ta-da. The third annual music festival that bombards the park plans on announcing "at least a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PARTY: Tonight's Cinco De Mayo Cumbia Party is the place to be. The line-up includes La Colectiva, featuring Toqueson with members of Fuga, who combine a wide range of Latin genres, and Turbomex,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM/MUSIC: Rush tickets are still available for SFIFF's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea with Stephin Merritt. (So, if you didn't get advance tickets, line up early!) Merritt, of The Magnetic Fields
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC II: The Wanderlust Festival, which happens later this summer in Tahoe, is having a Fillmore show today and tonight. Tonight's program will feature Rupa & The April Fishes and MC Yogi, with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: In Amicus Monstrum, long-time gallery artists and friends, Scott C. and Nathan Stapley, will showcase paintings that tall tales of charming monsters and friendly mythological figures. 7 to 11 p.m. // Gallery
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend We're fast approaching another activity-packed weekend. Parents, be sure to refer to the Kids' events section at bottom! Speaking of kids, tonight Vice Verse is hosting the interactive Kids-patch, which consists of a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Genre-defying C-Mon & Kypski will keep your mind guessing and body moving at The Independent tonight. Check out their MP3, Turn of the Tides. The Frequency, Sweet Snacks, and DJ Mancub open.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The ViceVerse: Communikey + Dis-patch Collaboration Tour presents the Graphisms exhibition opening, featuring work by resident designers Nebojsa Cvetkovic and Marshall Demeranville III. The event will also feature a Pictoplasma screening & Color
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Four-time Tony and two-time Grammy Award winning soprano, Audra McDonald, whom SFist Brock endorses as having "THE best voice in the industry," will sing standards, favorite showtunes, classic songs from the movies,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Drift off to exotic, faraway places lost in time, while viewing early travelogues in shimmering black and white, 1950s travel in stunning Kodachrome color, and swinging sixties go-go holidays at Bon Voyage!
Arts & Entertainment Lang Lang Performs "Flight of the Bumblebee" on iPad This video, shot by Charissa Lui at Davies Symphony Hall, shows noted double-named pianist Lang Lang performing "Flight of the Bumblebee" at a concert on April 19. Oh, and he plays it on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The legendary Echo & the Bunnymen will bring on the dancing hipsters, performing classics and new songs from their latest album, The Fountain. 8 p.m. // The Fillmore (1805 Geary Blvd) // $27.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: At resonant world, enjoy the experimental work of the late avant-garde composer John Cage performed by various musical groups while perusing an exhibition of "half man, half myth," the late Morris Graves'
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: San Francisco Cinematheque presents the world premiere of Ken Paul Rosenthal's Crooked Beauty, a poetic documentary that explores positive and compassionate models for transforming the experience of madness in our culture, as
Arts & Entertainment Aquarius Records, Your Superior Indie Record Store What better way to celebrate Record Store Day on Saturday than by visiting Aquarius Records. Why? Because Spin readers ranked the Valencia Street vinyl treasure chest as the 7th best indie record store
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The artists at Creativity Explored explore the concept of maps in Where Are We? The aptly named New Maps of the West will perform. 7 to 9 p.m. // Creativity Explored (3245
Arts & Entertainment Record Store Day on Saturday Saturday is the annual Record Store Day, wherein music geeks will unite while scoring some sweet deals on vinyl and watching in-store live acts at over 700 participating venues internationally. Both Amoeba locations
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Blue Scholars, currently one of the top West Coast independent hip hop acts, bring their "soulful beats, poetic yet political rhymes" and a "dynamic live performance" to Slim's tonight. Bambu and Jern
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: As part of the Lynne Sachs Retrospective in San Francisco, 10 Short Films by Lynne Sachs (1986 -2010), curated by Stephen Parr, will be screened. 7:30 p.m. // Oddball Films (275
Arts & Entertainment Duncan Sheik Previews New Musical 'Whisper House' at Davies Famous for the relentlessly enthralling Spring Awakening -- a Tony Award-winning tragic tale of repressed and very horny teens, which starred a pre-Glee Lea Michele -- Duncan Sheik will "preview an orchestral arrangement
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The group art exhibition, The Anxiety Show, curated by Christine Kristen, explores the uncertainty and free-floating anxiety that are generated by the current economic crisis, global warming, and war. 8 p.m.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The San Francisco Film Society presents SFFS Film Arts Forum: Tales from Terror Town, "an appreciation, dissection and dismantling of the popular but misunderstood horror genre and its ties to the Bay
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The Hot 8 Brass Band, straight out of New Orleans, will steam up your cold, rainy night. DJ Concerned will start the night out spinning soul, funk, and hip hop. 8:30
