Arts & Entertainment Tomorrow Night: Episcodisco at Grace Cathedral Who knew that Grace Cathedral has a monthly nightlife event called Episcodisco, presented by Reverend Bertie Pearson and curatorial duo Paradise Now and featuring contemporary art installations, live performance, drinks and DJ’ed
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Myles Cooper's 'Gonna Find Boyfriends Today' Why, this is the most joy-inducing thing we've seen since this. Local musician and crooner Myles Cooper's "Gonna Find Boyfriends Today" is a merry ditty about finding male tail, with a video that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: M.C. Mars by Justin Juul M.C. Mars is a 59 year-old rapper with HIV who has been driving cabs for over thirty years. He’s also a published writer and a former sex machine.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The San Francisco Bay Guardian presents cool blue thing, the opening night party for YBCA's new exhibition, Reneé Green: Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams. Green is a world-renowned artist and current Dean
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: Silicon Valley visionary Jaron Lanier shares his expertise in his new book, You Are Not a Gadget. He'll discuss how programming decisions made decades ago have had enormous—and often unintended—consequences
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: In the Life and Style of DJ Ts by Micke Tong Artist Micke Tong spoke with inveterate DJ Tony Sison (Ts) about growing up in San Francisco, the club scene throughout the '90s and '00s, and Club Life/Style, Ts' latest
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Fantastic Fest programmer and Twitch Film critic Rodney Perkins has compiled a collection of gems from the back catalogs of now-defunct public access stations from the Bay Area and beyond in Access
Arts & Entertainment Get KISSed in Dolores Park this Valentine's Day Well, this is downright rad. Two artists, Michelle Morby and Robert Girvin, are working on an art project that will happen in Dolores Park this Sunday (V-Day!) at around 11am. See, they're setting
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: Head over to Elixir tonight for the Drink Up for Rocket Dog Rescue fundraiser, and get served by guest bartenders/local internati (we just made that up) Eve Batey from SF Appeal,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC:Gillian Welch and members of Old Crow Medicine Show will accompany bluegrass guitarist and harmony singer Dave Rawlings as part of the Dave Rawlings Machine at the Fillmore tonight. Rawlings will also
Arts & Entertainment SF Music: Wednesday, Haiti Benefit Show at Elbo Room by Rachel Brodsky Surely nothing good can come of a natural disaster, i.e. the earthquake in Haiti. On the other hand, when devastating things happen to the world, the resulting musical collaborations
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The San Francisco and Shanghai Conservatories of Music will celebrate the creation of their sister-school relationship with their Shanghai Celebration Concert, which coincides with the 30th anniversary of the signing of the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Obscure Canadian metal band Anvil, whose comeback warmed the hearts of America (and Japan), in Anvil! The Story of Anvil!, will be turning it up to 11 at the Fillmore tonight. 8
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSICAL: The Marsh presents the Marsh Youth Theater’s (MYT’s) Teen Troupe in the premiere of The Wave, a musical by Ron Jones, based on his real-life classroom experiment on fascism that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The SF Independent Film Festival starts tonight with Opening Night film Wah Do Dem, about a solitary Brooklyn hipster on a cruise full of the middle-aged set en route to Jamaica. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker CLUB: Without being facetious, it's safe to say Ishi Hideaki is huge in Japan. Under the moniker DJ Krush, he has released a dozen albums as a hip hop producer
Arts & Entertainment Rock Benefits for Haitian Relief There have been a lot of benefits for Haiti in recent weeks that we missed. Here are a few upcoming events, in which all of the proceeds will go to various charities. Tomorrow,
Arts & Entertainment SF This Weekend: San Francisco Mixtape Society by Rachel Brodsky As a John Cusack character once said, "The making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem." Regardless
Arts & Entertainment Donna McKechnie In 'Nice Work If You Can Get It! An Ira Gershwin Salon' Holy smokes, folks! Donna McKechnie is coming to town. Primarily known as the best dancer ever to grace the Broadway stage, McKechnie (A Chorus Line, Company, Promises, Promises) will appear in Nice Work
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Pianist Adam Tendler Pianist Adam Tendler will perform John Cage's Sonatas and Interlude, a set of music for prepared piano. John Cage was an avant-garde music composer who pushed the boundaries of music. In 1952, inspired
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker SCIENCE: Ever been to a cocktail party and wished you had some bit of information to share that would be so fascinating, so relevant, and so unique that you'd be
Arts & Entertainment Coachella Lineup Announced! This year's headliners: Jay-Z, Muse, and Gorillaz. Apparently Thom Yorke, as a solo act, is a possibility for Day 3. Other highlights: LCD Soundsystem, MGMT, Passion Pit, Hot Chip, Tiesto, and Pavement. Oh,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Hears: Shannon & The Clams @ The Hemlock 1/12 by Taryn Harrington Shannon and the Clams would arguably sound their best at a 1960s themed prom; hosted by the Log Lady from Twin Peaks and attended by every DIY kid in the
Arts & Entertainment Beyond Ipanema: Brazilian Waves in Global Music, 1/16 by Rachel Brodsky There is no exact way to measure the massive success Brazillian boss nova and Tropicalia has seen around the world, except to discuss with those who knew it best. Tropicalia,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker MUSIC: The Oakland-based, ten-piece Latin soul band, The Funk Revival Orchestra, plays tonight at The Elbo Room with Skins & Needles. F.R.O aims to bring back the funk
