Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Carnaval, Golden Gate Bridge 75th, Treasure Island Flea, And More! The Long Shutdown be damned. Let's get this Memorial Day weekend started! Carnaval lights up the Mission all weekend with two days worth of live music, dancing, drumming and dance lessons, food, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/10: Photolucida's Top 50 Photographers PHOTOGRAPHY: Photolucida, an international arts nonprofit, presents Contents: Love, Anxiety, Happiness and Everything Else Critical Mass 2011 (not any relation to Critical Mass, the bike event), a juried exhibition featuring the contest's top
Arts & Entertainment Astoundingly Super Super Moon Photos The spectacular Super Moon didn't disappoint on Saturday night, as photographers throughout the world captured breathtaking shots of the once-every-decade-or-so occurrence. A few unfortunate locales missed out on the visuals due to too
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 3/24: 'Intimacy and Voyeurism' PHOTOGRAPHY: San Francisco artist Todd Hido will announce the best in show winner tonight for his juried exhibiton, Intimacy and Voyeurism: The Public/Private Divide in Photography, featuring the work of members of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 3/21: George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic MUSIC: Hall-of-Famer, funk innovator, and godfather of urban music, George Clinton, is in the house with Parliament Funkadelic at Regency Ballroom tonight. Queue the "Give Up the Funk" earworm; "Gotta have the funk.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 3/17: Sickboy ART: Be one of the first 100 guests to arrive at the U.K.'s Sickboy's first U.S. solo show, Wonder Club, and get a free gift bag assembled by Sickboy himself,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 3/15: History Of AIDS Activism Photography PHOTOGRAPHY: The GLBT History Museum presents Life and Death in Black and White: AIDS Direct Action in San Francisco, 1985-1990, a photography exhibit featuring the work of five queer photographers who documented the
Arts & Entertainment Video: Aerial Footage Gets Up Close With SF Landmarks, Taunts Bison Using an HD camera strapped to a remote-controlled helicopter, (a new cinematography technique that's been popping up everywhere from protests in Poland to local real estate listings) visiting videographer Robert Mcintosh filmed this
Arts & Entertainment 14 Reasons To Love Arthur Tress' San Francisco 1964 In the summer of 1964, just before San Francisco turned into the epicenter of groovy vibes and summer luvin', a 23-year-old Arthur Tress traveled by bus from Mexico to San Francisco to visit
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/10: 200 Yards PHOTOGRAPHY: Tonight's installment of the popular 200 Yards is centered around Satellite 66, in which photographers showcase the shots they captured within — you guessed it — 200 yards of the gallery. (6 to 9
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Top 5: White Elephant Preview, From A To Zin SFist already mentioned the sure-to-be-popular All You Can Dance For $5 event happening at LINES Dance Center tomorrow. Here are five more of our top weekend picks, along with a lovely gallery. White
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 1/18: Rayko's Plastic Camera Show PHOTOGRAPHY: Rayko presents its 5th Annual Plastic Camera Show, featuring the work of local, national, and international photographers who were picked from thousands of entries, including Robert Holmgren, a past best-of-show winner. (6
Arts & Entertainment The Abandoned Couches of San Francisco: Volume 2 It's been over a year since we first took a look at San Francisco's abandoned living room furniture. After local photographer Erik Wilson introduced us to the Sofa Free Flickr Pool, he and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/29: Metal Mother MUSIC: Oakland's Metal Mother, aka Tara Tati, will bring her "fresh bath of melancholic emotion, bubbled with loud tribal drums, futuristic synth leads, and sweetly haunting Celtic-inspired vocals" to Cafe Du Nord, along
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/21: Annie Leibovitz, Marc Horowitz, <em>Public Speaking</em> PHOTOGRAPHY: Legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz will be Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland signing copies of her new book of photographs, Pilgrimage, which starts at Emily Dickinson’s house in Amherst, Massachussetts, travels to
Arts & Entertainment Couple's Rad 'Star Wars' Engagement Photo Shoot In related Star Wars news, photographer Michael James recently took part in an engagement photo shoot, one that breathes new life and (ahem) force into a stale tradition. Specifically, these pre-wedding photos of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/15: Celluloid Salon, Dawes/Blitzen Trapper, Photographer Barbara Traub FILM: Head over to Public Works early for some free Drambuie at Celluloid Salon, a series which "breathes new life into the audio-visual experience, pairing obscure silent film shorts with soundtracks curated (and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/27: Ann Magnuson, Zombie NightLife, Plato's Home Movies ART: Performance artist, musician, and actress Ann Magnuson, who defined 1980s downtown New York, brings her new tribute cabaret to SFMOMA with a nod to Bowie featuring a song cycle of his early
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/20: Open Show, Queer Literati at Occupy SF, Burlesque for the Shy and Awkward PHOTOGRAPHY: Open Show, which organizes live events worldwide featuring the work of photographers, filmmakers, and multimedia producers in high-profile spaces, is celebrating its two-year anniversary with a special print exhibition featuring more than
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 SFist Tonight, 9/24: 'Top Gun,' Hell's Belles Pinewood Derby, 'Moholy Ground' Launch Party FILM: Homoerotic gem, Top Gun, will screen at the last Film Night in the Park of the season. Be sure to catch that delicious volleyball scene (if the inflatable screen doesn't blow away,
Arts & Entertainment Ye Olde Transit Porn This goes out to all of you who get clammy-palmed as soon as you see your favorite F-car rolling up to your stop. Oh Milano, you come on smooth with that designy orange
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/13: ReGeneration Photography Show, Bootie 8th Anniversary, Opera Early & Ancient PHOTOGRAPHY: The group exhibition, ReGeneration, will feature eight artists who occupy either side of the “generation gap.” Each of the veteran photographers from the Baby Boomer generation have been paired up with an
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/4: 200 Yards, Hard Shorts, 'Ratatouille' PHOTOGRAPHY: The latest edition of 200 Yards, which is centered around Cafe Royale, opens tonight with a party co-hosted by The Tender. Check out all the interesting scenes that the artists captured within
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/2: The Kinsey Sicks, Maria Bamford, National Night Out DRAG: Tonight kicks off the legendary Kinsey Sicks' 13-day “GreatesTits,” show at the Rrazz Room, in which the group showcases the "harvest of their 17-year Mary-making" featuring their trademark "rich, four-part harmony, biting
