Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Attention adventurous singles with some extra cash -- Improv Dating Scene might be for you. The event begins with a comedy show with Big City Improv performing sketches based on audience suggestions.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Filmmaker Nara Denning will be celebrating the release of her new DVD Neurotique with a premiere screening. Neurotique is a collection of six silent and tragic love stories set to live musical
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Alternative Tentacles have been celebrating their 30th Anniversary with an Incest-A-Thon this weekend. Tonight's line-up is Alice Donut, Victims Family, and Burning Image. 7:30 p.m. // Great American Music Hall (859
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DRAG: Trannyshack and Midnight Mass host Halloween: A Party, starring Heklina as "Dracula" and Peaches Christ as "Tran Hesling," with a special performance by guest star Jackie Beat and a whole line-up of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LIT: It's another installment of Muni-inspired entertainment at Muni Diaries Live! Under the Influence, with BART tales added to the mix, too. Entertainment includes the Cock-Ts, Shane Papatolicas, the winning Muni Erotic fiction
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FOOD: Local street cart chefs will discuss their food, their big plans, their permit status and how the new street-eats scene is changing ideas about dining out during the Commonwealth Club's The Street
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: It's the first night of Ghosts of the River at Brava Theater, which runs through November 8. Incorporating actors, shadow puppets, and music with the epic writing of Octavio Solís, the play
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FASHION: Witness a live, Project Runway-type fashion show at the ongoing Fashion Feud SF. Designers will create their "garments" on stage within an hour, the models will have a "walk-off," and the audience
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 10/26 - 11/1 This week's concert preview is being brought to you by Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce, providing detailed concert listings for the Bay Area every week. Follow them on Twitter. Insane week in live music
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The eccentric, musical genius of Daniel Johnston takes some getting used to, but his sincerely sweet and simple vocals and arrangements win his fans over for life. The melodic Hymns open. 8
Arts & Entertainment Lady Gaga Tickets On Sale This Saturday Hmm. We're not sure where most of you stand on Lady Gaga. Many of you claim to loathe her, some of you secretly love her. Why, it was just a few months ago
Arts & Entertainment "Secret" Weezer Show On Wednesday The band who sings that "Just Like Buddy Holly" song (we don't know the title, and we refuse to Google it) will perform a "secret show" on Wednesday night at The Regency. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The 27th Annual Jazz Festival presents living jazz legend Omara Portuondo. Portuondo, who is dubbed the “la novia del filin” (fiancée of feeling), will perform the romantic Afro-Cuban boleros and Brazilian-inspired jazz
Arts & Entertainment Geeks Unite at W00tstock Tomorrow Night Hurry, tonight's event is sold out, but tickets to tomorrow night's edition of w00tstock at Cafe Du Nord are still available (as of this posting). W00tstock is a special event for geeks of
Arts & Entertainment Treasure Island Music Fest '09: A Gallery - UPDATED Saturday was sunny and electronic; Sunday was chilly and leaned more toward back-to-basics rock. Also thrown in was some gypsy music, hip-hop, and whatever you want to call this new rock operetta thing
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Enjoy a night of hypnotic post-punk at the Hemlock. Lumerians' "other-worldly synthesizers layer amidst ambient post-rock stretches" and Grass Widow "braids apparitional vocals over distorted post-punk riffs." Clipd Beaks opens. 9 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Southern Exposure is celebrating their new location Grand Opening and Inaugural Exhibition, Bellwether, "multi-layered speculative projections on our ever shifting and uncertain future." Projects include a time capsule triptych, a large-scale installation
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Jacqueline Gordon's solo work, Our Best Machines are Made of Sunshine, merges contemporary folk aesthetics with the emergent technology of sound imaging, exploring patterns recurrent in nature and collected sounds "synthesized
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The LightHouse and the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery's Art at City Hall program present Insights 2009: 20 Years of Creative Vision, an exhibition of 118 works in a variety of media
Arts & Entertainment MGMT, BLK JKS Perform Friday At The Independent This show was, like, just announced, so we thought it best to bring it to your attention. Stating at noon today, tickets ($25) will go on sale to see MGMT and BLK JKS
SF News Sen. Leland Yee and Moby, Together At Last In what could be the most bizarre yet amusing pairing this city has seen since bacon met ice cream, Senator Leland Yee and violently-vegan musician Moby will join forces today on the steps
Arts & Entertainment Treasure Island Music Fest: A Preview It's the music fest that all the hip kids and true indie and indie-ish music fans have been waiting all year for, and it's finally here. The two-day long Treasure Island Music Festival
SF News Larry Ellison = Jerry Garcia? So who would have imagined the scene we stumbled across at the Oracle festival at Moscone Center today. We know the 60s are long past, and since Jerry's departure the search for a
Arts & Entertainment Tomorrow Night: <em>SF Weekly</em> Bestows Accolades to Local Musicians Tomorrow evening, October 15, SF Weekly will hold their annual music award bash, honoring local artists for their aural talent in 10 distinct categories -- rap/hip hop, dance/electronic, international, soul/R&
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: Bay Area poets and musicians will join together for The Monica Storss Benefit and Silent Auction to help Storss, who is uninsured, pay for the expensive new chemotherapy she needs to fight
