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SFist Tonight, 6/25: Philip Glass and Joanna Newsom with Tim Fain

BENEFIT: The Days and NIghts Festival kicks off its season with a stellar show co-presented by Folk Yeah, featuring Philip Glass and Joanna Newsom with Tim Fain performing collaborative and solo pieces. Proceeds

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SFist Tonight, 6/16: '5 Lesbians Eating Quiche'

THEATER: Tides Theatre presents the West Coast premiere of 5 Lesbians Eating A Quiche, an outrageous comedy about repressed desire, food politics and warm-blooded, cold war survival, featuring the "Susan B. Anthony Society

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SFist Tonight, 6/14: Big Freedia

MUSIC: Noise Pop and Hard French present Big Freedia, "a 6-foot-plus phenom powered by brash sexual energy and raw, self-made talent," who's described as the "queen diva of bounce music." The organizers advise

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SFist Tonight, 5/16: Giants Carnaval at the Park

FESTIVAL: Arrive at tonight's Giants game early for The Giants Carnaval Festival at the Park, featuring live 2012 SF Carnaval King Roberto and Queen Ashlee, music, dancing, and food and drink specials. And

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SFist Tonight, 6/22: Pianist Monty Alexander, Radical Teaching Artists, The Dirty Gay Sex Comedy Show

MUSIC: Pianist Monty Alexander, who some consider to be one of the top five jazz pianists of all time, brings his "Harlem-Kingston Express" tour to Yoshi's tonight. Alexander's work blends American jazz, popular

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FILM: SF Cinemateque presents Radical Light: In Search of Christopher MacLaine -- Man, Artist, Legend, which provides an in-depth look at four films by San Francisco Beat poet Christopher Maclaine -- The End,

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FOOD: Get the latest scoop on the local food scene at City Art's, On Artisan Food, featuring a panel of folks in the local food industry, including The New York Times' Kim Severson,

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STORYTELLING: Porchlight Presents: Brushes with Fame, features Bay Area luminaries and "nobodies," including Edinburgh Castle barman Alan Black, Litquake co-founder Jack Boulware, burlesque performer Lady Monster, theater producer Bruce Pachtman, actress Patricia Rosestar,

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STORYTELLING: Creativity Explored studio artists, staff members, and volunteers take the mic at this month's Porchlight storytelling event Don’t Call Me Retard. Each guest will tell a ten-minute true story, which will

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BLOCK PARTY: This month's Bold Italic Microhood event will take place in a spot they've coined Mint Slope, "where Market Street runs through the shadow of the Federal Mint building." Enjoy all-night eats,

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BURLESQUE: In Have Tassels Will Travel, Satans Angel will share stories, slides, and costumes from her times performing at San Francisco's Condor Club, the Las Vegas Strip, Paris' Folies Bergéré, and Bob Hope's

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LITERARY: Join The Rumpus and SMITH Magazine for some Beautiful Beginnings, featuring music by Dave Smallen and Amores Vigilantes, comedy by Will Durst, and authors Richard Ferguson, Piper Kerman, Raina Bird, Lisa Brown,

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OPERA: San Francisco Opera presents Giacomo Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West) in celebration of its 100th anniversary, featuring a cast of the world’s leading singers

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MUSIC: Four-time Tony and two-time Grammy Award winning soprano, Audra McDonald, whom SFist Brock endorses as having "THE best voice in the industry," will sing standards, favorite showtunes, classic songs from the movies,

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COMEDY: As SFist noted last month, the whole loveable Aqua Teen gang (except for that wet blanket Frylock or Err), aka Dave Willis and Dana Snyder, will be bringing the laughs at Aqua

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SFist Attends Inforum's Future of SF New Media Panel

We attended our first Commonwealth Club event last night, which was put on by Inforum, a hip, young division of the club. The topic was about how San Francisco is setting the stage

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