Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Akira's latest exhibition of paintings features pop culture icons such as Walt Whitman, Ice Cube, Chuck Norris, Snoop Dogg, Ayn Rand, Guns n Roses, LeBron James, and Andre the Giant. 7
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: "Sons of the Golden Era of Hip Hop," Kidz In The Hall will be tearing The Independent up tonight, along with 88-Keys, Izza Kizza, and Donnis. 7:30 p.m. // The Independent
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: LCD Soundsystem's "Drunk Girls" If Dakota Fanning's bone-shatteringly electric portrayal of Cherie Currie in The Runaways has taught us one thing, it's this: drunk girls are shockingly entertaining. So, it should come as little surprise that LCD
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: It's the first night in the Blue Bear School of Music Showcases, going on through Wednesday. Jack Black's School of Rock was based on Blue Bear. There will be two stages --
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Soulfood no.2, the second event in a quarterly music series organized by Griff Williams, Tommy Guerrero and Marc Capelle, is raising money for local charity, MuST (music in the schools today)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Los Angeles-based painter, illustrator, and costume designer Kime Buzzelli is exhibiting her work at Candystore Collective, featuring fantastical portraits of women inspired by "fashion, film, music, make believe, mysteries and voyeurism." 7
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photos: SXSW 2010 Photos by Yoni Mekuria and Kim Zylker of epicsauce We are back and 40% recovered from the land of Lonestars, queso dip, free schwag and live music. The 2010 SXSW absolutely blew us
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: LA/NYC's High Places new record, High Places vs. Mankind, features "an imaginative and spacious amalgamation of sounds with a unique, almost Caribbean undertone that is as immediate as it is refreshing.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Watch Michael Jackson's This Is It for free with a two-drink minimum at the Independent's Cinema Drafthouse -- Best of 2009 Movie Night. 7:30 p.m. // The Independent (628 Divisadero St)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: SeaweedSway Sunday presents local choir, Conspiracy of Beards, which is comprised of 30 men performing exclusively Leonard Cohen songs a capella in complex four- to five-part harmonies, and Beards' sister band, Conspiracy
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Andrea Heimer, who hails from Bellingham, Washington, is exhibiting her latest series of watercolors in Fight!, which illustrates her fascination with “two halves of the same equation struggling against one another for
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DANCE: Enjoy a wine and appetizer reception preceding a special ODC/Dance Downtown one-hour performance, featuring Something About a Nightingale, River, and 24 Exposures. ODC will be performing at Yerba Buena through March
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Poet (who penned the now famous The Revolution Will Not Be Televised), activist, author, and pioneer of blues, jazz and funk, Gil Scott-Heron, will perform some of his classics along with new
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Copenhagen's Efterklang are touring the U.S. in celebration of the release of their new album Magic Chairs put out by 4AD. Local darlings Tartufi and New Zealander-transplants V.I.R. open.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Addendum Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce, and SFist's music editor, is launching a free/cheap semi-weekly live music party tonight at Milk, former home of legendary Upper Haight live music venue, Club Boomerang. Three of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: In It All Came So Close to Never Happening, "a photographic exploration of human uprising and the world of tomorrow," photographer Anthony Kurtz presents two intertwining sets of photographs that blur "the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The U.K.'s The Clientele create moody psychedelic pop perfect for reminiscing on a rainy day or spacing out on a sun-drenched afternoon. The Wooden Birds, fronted by Andrew Kenny of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Violinist Jennifer Koh, whose "natural flair is matched with a probing intellect," "grabs the listener by the ears and refuses to let go." The concert also includes conversation with Koh. 6 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Poncho Sanchez, conga player and leader of the most popular Latin jazz group in the world today, spins "vivacious tales that pay homage to the glories of a half-century tradition that was
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Xing Danwen's solo show, A Personal Diary -- China Avant-garde in 1990s tells Danwen's personal experience as a first-hand witness and participant in the avant-garde scene of 1990s China, as well
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: In his new exhibition Vulnerability, artist Philip Buller blends realism and abstraction in his depiction of bodies in transition, as if they're "experiencing a rebirth, or embarking on a new chapter in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Flamenco guitarist/singer/songwriter Freddy Clarke presents "Wobbly World," in which he brings together a wide range of musicians and singers from all parts of the globe, from Paraguay and Cuba to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Grammy Award-winning classical/experimental group Kronos Quartet will be in San Francisco for four nights performing four different programs. Each performance will feature Jon Rose's Music from 4 Fences, along with a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Seminal goth/deathrock band Christian Death (fronted by Valor Kand, of course) are still at it, promoting their latest album, American Inquisition at the Red Devil tonight. 7 p.m. // The Red
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Southern Exposure presents An Evening of Bollywood and Tabla with Robin Sukhadia, which includes a lecture focusing on RD Burman, the renowned film composer of Sholay, followed by a classical tabla performance
