Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FOOD: Explore the Slow Food movement with tapas, wine, and a film screening at Slow Food on Film: Mad City Chickens. Mad City Chickens tells the story of how more and more city
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PARTY: It's an all-out celebration of art, music, surfing, and skating at Surf Movie Party. Local bands Thee Oh Sees, Black Bow, and bands from the Bay Area Girls Rock Camp will kick
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMMUNITY: Celebrate the diversity of Lower Haight with an evening of live music, live painting, food, drink, merriment, and merchant discounts at the Lower Haight Art Walk. 7 to 10 p.m. // Haight
Arts & Entertainment Tenacious D to Replace Beastie Boys at Outside Lands Tenacious D (Jack Black's funnyman rock 'n' roll shtick) will replace the ailing Beastie Boys at the upcoming Outside Lands Festival. Ta-da. (If you recall, doctors discovered a cancerous tumor in Adam Yauch's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Nine emerging artists sought out inspiring mentors to explore the collaborative experience for Ever Gold Gallery's Double Trouble exhibition. Mentor-student pairs include John Casey + Althea James, Jihaari Terry + Kale Cooley, Tara Foley
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Night Shows by Moses Namkung Who's super excited for Outside Lands? Some of you? A few of you? Well, the organizers have announced a series of night shows by bands such as The Dodos, Calexico,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PARTY: Celebrate with the Bay Guardian at their 35th Annual Best of the Bay Party. There will be live music performances by Sila & The Afrofunk Experience, J-Boogie's Dubtronic Science, Sellassie, and The
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung Did you miss out on buying tickets to the secret show for Sonic Youth at the Independent tonight? Never fear, they're available for... oh, wait... somebody's asking for the extortionary
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: There are still tickets available for the epic Sonic Youth show at the lovely Fox Theater tonight (in case you weren't lucky enough to score tickets to their surprise show at the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The Heavenly States, along with French Miami, Railcars, 60 Watt Kid, Anderson Congress and Vitiligo, rally the troupes at tonight's DorkFest. 7:30 p.m. // Cafe Du Nord (2170 Market) // $10-$12
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Our favorite part of the Kill Bill magnum opus? Daryl Hannah as Elle Driver. Which is surprising since she's never been good in anything, ever. (Quentin Tarantino, if we may snit, is
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SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eat at Outside Lands Music Festival In between doing the whiteman's overbite at this year's Outside Lands Festival, be sure to check out the tasty grub they're offering at A Taste of the Bay Area. A list of the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The SF Bike Coalition is kicking off their summer Bike-In Movie Series with the beloved BMX cult classic Rad, featuring "the amazing and infamous bike dance scene" with a young Lori Loughlin
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: He might appear rather nerdy to those who haven't been fortunate enough to hear his music, but Jarvis Cocker's titillating voice and songwriting are sure to throw his fans into quite a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight CLUB: The traveling Soul Clap/Dance-Off event hosted by New York City's "maximum rock and soul DJ" Mr. Jonathan Toubin is stopping in San Francisco for one epic night of soul 45s with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Golden Thread Productions presents the world premiere of Ecstasy | a waterfable, which was Inspired by the 9th century Sufi fable, "When the Waters Were Changed," where stories are "written in water, spells
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Tonight's Kafana Balkan party, which is a benefit for Hleb i Sir Cirkus (Bread and Cheese) who provide free circus shows and workshops for refugee children in Kosovo, will feature high-energy Balkan
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend We have another weekend full of fun and mostly free daytime events coming up. Here are a few. SATURDAY 1st Annual Super Hero Street Fair anonEvents, Get YER Freak On!, and Climate Theater
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Tonight's San Francisco Film Society's bi-monthly 360 Film+Club event is a "special edition, double-barreled mash-up program," featuring a screening of the documentary RiP: A Remix Manifesto directed by Web activist and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LIT: Did someone say free Scotch tasting? Enjoy a free tasting of Balvenie scotch with some light snacks, along with raffle prizes, as author Howard Miller celebrates the release of his book You’
Arts & Entertainment Haiku Giveaway: Passes to Wanderlust Festival in Tahoe This Weekend Feel like getting away to Tahoe this weekend for three days of beautiful scenery and an amazing line-up of bands, including Spoon, Broken Social Scene, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Gillian Welch, Jenny Lewis,
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Needs Your Help Yesterday, SFist reported that the Beastie Boys will pull out of this year's Outside Lands Festival. If you recall, doctors discovered a cancerous tumor in Adam Yauch's left parotid (salivary) gland, so the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Chicago-based (and former San Francisco film school drop-out) Owen Ashworth, also known as Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, will bring his eclectic mix of forlorn beats-and-keys to Bottom of the Hill. Concern
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses NamkungThe Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival, the two-week long extravaganza featuring an array of "local independent concert promoters, musicians, artists, filmmakers, dancers and multi-media performance artists", finishes this week with
