Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/25: Male Bonding, 'Counterfeits' Launch Party, 'Shaheed: The Dream & Death of Benazir Bhutto' MUSIC: Male Bonding, whose music is "animated by an infectious, evangelical zeal that reflects their roots in the D.I.Y. indie rock community," takes the stage at the Rickshaw, along with Water
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/22: Afrofunk Fest, Roller Disco Costume Party, Zombie Bar Crawl MUSIC: Kenyan-born, San Francisco-based musician-activist Sila headlines the 2011 Afrofunk Festival, which benefits CARE, a humanitarian aid organization working to improve conditions in the horn of Africa. Black Nature, an original member of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/8: Pam Ann, Rock Photographer Lynn Goldsmith, 'Better a Live Ass Than a Dead Lion' COMEDY: There will be a few tickets available at the door to see Pam Ann aka Australian comedienne Caroline Reid, "the fashion-flying, hard-drinking, A-list hostess to the stars," who's "touching down" in San
Arts & Entertainment Pop-Up Magazine Issue No. 5 Tickets on Sale Tomorrow Pop-Up Magazine fans, get your fingers ready -- tickets to Pop-Up Magazine Issue No. 5, which takes place on November 9th at Davies Symphony Hall, go on sale tomorrow at Noon. The event,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/2: Toro Y Moi, 'We Don't Belong Here', 'Night of the Living Dead 3D' MUSIC: Toro y Moi, which started in 2001 as Chaz Bundick's bedroom project and was "born from a plethora of different genres, from freak-folk to R&B to French House," hits Great
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/17: The People: San Francisco, 'Bound(less)', 'The Reverse Side' PERFORMANCE: YBCA presents New York-based performance troupe Big Art Group's The People: San Francisco, a site specific, outdoor extravaganza that combines live theater with large scale, real time video projection, focusing on the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/9: Mortified, Mission Block, 'Vertical Hold' PERFORMANCE: Travel back to the most awkward and painful moments of your life at Mortified Live, as "[g]rown men and women confront their past with tales of their first kiss, first puff,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/30: Butthole Surfers, Pete Asher Musical Memoir, Cockyasians Comedy MUSIC: The infamous Butthole Surfers bring their "sicko" "shock rock antics" and "distinct and chaotic mishmash of avant-garde, hardcore, and Texas psychedelia" to the Regency Ballroom tonight. (8 p.m., The Regency Ballroom,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/5: 'Between Two Worlds,' Friday Night at the de Young, Friday Night Skate Party FILM: Directors Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman will be attending the 7 p.m. screenings all weekend of Between Two Worlds, their new documentary that exposes the polarized debates over tradition and change,
Arts & Entertainment Contemporary Jewish Museum to Host "Hand Holding Day" This Sunday The folks at Contemporary Jewish Museum are pretty smart cookies when it comes to putting out fires. In response to the controversy that SFist wrote about earlier this week regarding a security guard
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/7: Sharon McKnight at The Rrazz Room; The Walls Project Performance; 'Slap Shot' Cult Cinema MUSIC: Tony-nominated Sharon McNight, whose voice is "as brassy and beautiful as ever," kicks off gay pride month in a career retrospective, “The First 30 Years ... From Moose Hall to Carnegie Hall,” featuring
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight 6/1: SFAC Gallery's 'Aftermath,' Penny Arcade 6th Anniversary, 'Wicked Plants' Book Signing ART: The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery presents Aftermath, celebrating the launch of Bay Area artist Ernest Jolly's new installation, Natural Reaction. The event, which was inspired by recent natural disasters and those
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Elizabeth Taylor Memorial, 'Worst Horse' Multimedia Show, and LINES Ballet BENEFIT: Donna Sachet hosts White Diamonds -- Memorial for Elizabeth Taylor, which kicks off at the Castro Theatre with a screening of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, a champagne toast, and a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: 'Corner Store' Doc at Red Vic, John Sayles at Tosca Cafe, and City Circus Cabaret at Supper Club FILM: The new documentary, Corner Store, which was produced in San Francisco, follows beloved San Francisco corner shop owner and Palestinian immigrant, Yousef Elhaj, as he returns to Palestine to reunite with his
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The laser kitten mural sighting from a couple of weeks back turned out to be for tonight's stellar Apocalypse Meow show at Space gallery, which examines the dominance of all things feline
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The San Francisco International Film Festival wraps up tonight with a screening of On Tour, the risque and "unsentimental homage to the burlesque show" that "reminds us that women have real bodies—
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: San Francisco Performances presents Dance, a groundbreaking revival of the 1979 minimalist masterpiece performed by its original collaborators -- choreographer Lucinda Childs' current company will recreate the dance piece on stage with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: New York-based artist group, The Bruce High Quality Foundation (BHQF), hits the Bay Area tonight on their national Teach 4 Amerika tour which is inspired by the spectacle and energy of a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SCIENCE: The saga of killer plants prevails at Conservatory of Flowers' new Wicked Plants: Botanical Rogues & Assassins exhibit, and tonight's after hours event, Plants Behind Bars, will provide an extra eerie take
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Peptastic ensemble of super-star musicians, The New Pornographers, visits the Regency Ballroom to lift you out of your dreary, tax day doldrums and warm your weary heart, with special guests Menomena. 7
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Celebrate the fact that Tax Day isn't until Monday by shaking your "assets" to the unbelievably infectiously poppy Scissor Sisters at the Warfield tonight. Tickets are still available as of this posting!
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight CABARET: Tony Award nominee Justin Vivian Bond, who has been described by the New Yorker as "the greatest cabaret artist of his generation.....an artful truth telling illusionist," celebrates the release of his
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: At the titillating The Reality Shows: Karen Finley Uncensored, Karen Finley, whose performance work is renowned for shattering taboos surrounding sex, gender, and celebrity, will perform excerpts from her new book, which
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Week: Rotunda Dance with Fauxnique, Yoga for an Honest Change, Thursday Film at Noon, St. Stupid's Parade Looking for a fun lunch-time activity this week? Or perhaps you're a non-9-to-5er? Check out a few day-time events happening this week. Rotunda Dance Series/Friday: The fabulous Monique Jenkinson/Fauxnique will spice
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: Sister Spit co-founder Michelle Tea and lesbian author Ali Liebegott host the Sister Spit: The Next Generation, an all-gendered and trans-inclusive national tour, in other words "a vanload of multimedia, queer-centric brilliance"
