Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATRE: In Stale Magnolias, presented by Foul Play, you will meet the ladies of Texas’ Last Chance Salon, inspired by the kind of women found in such ’80s films as Steel Magnolias, Crimes
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Score some gems by over 350 local artists at Pop Noir, Southern Exposure's Annual Fundraiser + Art Auction. The event features a live and silent art auction, creative projects, delicious food and beverages,
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Weekend Events: Festivals Galore As always, funcheapSF has an exhaustive list of great stuff to do this weekend. For those who feel like staying in or getting out of town, there are street festivals and such all
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Schubert Lied, Berg Too The SF Symphony journey from Schubert to Berg continued on Wednesday with an intimate exploration of some lieder and chamber music, as well as the Lulu suite. The directions for the voyage (which
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: The Thrillpeddlers present the revival of the legendary Cockettes' 1970s crown jewel production, Pearls Over Shanghai, a comic mock-operetta about white slavery and miscegenation set in the colorful world of 1937 Shanghai,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Peruse art and enjoy food and drink specials at dozens of venues (including free dessert at Metro Kathmandu!), as part of the Divisadero Art Walk. 6 p.m. // Divisadero Street (from Haight
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Jens Lekman @ Bottom of the Hill by Moses Namkung In the middle of his second consecutive sellout show at Bottom of the Hill on Tuesday, Jens Lekman gave his own "gentle response to all the Prop 8 bullshit going
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: It's another titillating night of the SF Sex Worker Fest. Army of Lovers presents Formerly Known As, a two day festival of performance, art and video by male sex workers. Flavorpill tells
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Master trumpet player Herb Alpert, of the delightfully cheesy Sergio Mendes and Tijuana Brass fame, and his wife, singer Lani Hall will perform an intimate night of American and Brazilian jazz featuring
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung The last time we saw Jens Lekman, as his set ended he apologized that he had run out of time. The lights went on, he hopped down from the stage
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: CASA (Children’s After School Arts) is having a musical theatrical extravaganza, Adventures at Camp Itchy Scratchy, starring 85 kindergarten through fifth graders. "Looking to escape their school-year stresses, a group of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: It's the closing weekend of Boleros for the Disenchanted, written by The Motorcycle Diaries screenwriter José Rivera, which is a love story set in Puerto Rico that spans several generations and is
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Jenny Lewis @ the Fillmore by Moses Namkung San Francisco guitarist Johnathan Rice said as he strummed the opening to "See Fernando" to kick off the evening, "it may not be legal for all of us to marry.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Check out the original Inglorious Bastards by Italian director Enzo Castellari, which inspired the partial premise of Tarantino's upcoming version. Incidentally, Tarantino is a very bad speller. The original remains perhaps the
SF News SF Approves Three-Year Contract for White Man's Overbite San Francisco just approved a contract that will permit future yacht rockers to entertain the masses at Golden Gate Park. That is to say, we've got three more years of the Outside Lands
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts concludes its 2008-2009 season with Nick Cave Soundsuits Collaboration, which combines the movement of New York-based choreographer Ronald K. Brown and the shimmering Soundsuits of Chicago-based
Arts & Entertainment Fight Over Naming 40th Anniversary Woodstock Concert in SF This year marks the 40th anniversary of the peace-, love- and mud-fest known as Woodstock, and organizers of a free, commemorative concert in San Francisco are being threatened with a very un-peaceful and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LECTURE: The Commonwealth Club hosts an enlightening discussion with Michael Eric Dyson: Can You Hear Me Now? Known as the "hip-hop" intellectual, Dyson examines issues of class, race and poverty, and political strife.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: It's a night of high-energy indie. So, get up there and shake your skinny butts, hipsters. Passion Pit, Harlem Shakes, and Cale Parks will not let you down. 7 p.m. // Bimbo's
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung Exciting week ahead, yes? Yes. Our favorites? We'll be catching St. Vincent on Wednesday, Jenny Lewis on Friday and the Thermals on Sunday! See you out there. Monday, May 25
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: There's still a few remaining nights of film noir at I Wake Up Dreaming. Tonight's double feature is Women in the Night (8 p.m.), "one of the rarest of 40s B
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Sarah Applebaum's Soft Core exhibit features her technicolor costumes, paintings, installations and fabric work, which were aptly described by SF Weekly as "visual LSD." Check out Fecal Face's recent visit to Applebaum's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: StageWright presents Beatboxing Beasts & Cafeteria Feasts, in which fifth graders from Starr King Elementary School have written six original plays inspired by works of visual art at the de Young Museum.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: As part of SFMOMA's Robert Frank Retrospective, Program 3 will be a screening of three of Frank's short films. Keep Busy is a spontaneous, improvised story of a group of people living
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: During a time in which the military is desperate for new recruits, unless you're openly gay, Ask Not exposes the tangled political battles that led to the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy
