Arts & Entertainment "Tenderloin USA": Astounding, Black-and-White Look at the 'Loin Over the last year, photographer Travis Jensen and fellow All-City photographer Brad Evans worked on a remarkable photo documentary book about San Francisco's Tenderloin called Tenderloin USA. Their work takes a black-and-white look
Arts & Entertainment Harvey Milk Photo Center Seeks Entries for Open Studio Most savvy photographers about town probably already know about the fabulous, decades-old Harvey Milk Photo Center (50 Scott Street), which is nestled at the top of Duboce Park and housed within the equally
Arts & Entertainment Thursday: Photo Show 'The Streets of San Francisco' Opens You've seen their work featured here on a regular basis. Now see them and their images in person. On Thursday, Travis Jensen and Josh Sullivan will hold a reception for their new photo
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Deemed 'Too Serious,' Ritual Coffee Bans Artist's Work In what could be seen as the continued Starbucks-ification of Valencia Street, brick-and-mortar coffee purveyors Ritual Coffee Roasters recently pulled the work of photographer Varese Layzer. It was considered "too serious" for the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/24: Annual Pride Concert, 'A Floorless Room Without Walls,' 200 Yards PRIDE: Have a gleeful evening with fabulous host Trauma Flintstone at the 33rd Annual Pride Concert, featuring five groundbreaking ensembles -- Bay Area Rainbow Symphony, Lesbian/Gay Chorus of SF, SF Lesbian Gay
Arts & Entertainment I am (Not) a Camera: Photo Exhibits The Haines Gallery is showing work by a wide range of alt-photographers, including images by Abelardo Morell, who converts full-sized rooms into camera obscuras, photograms by Shi Guorui and Wendy Small, pinhole pictures
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/9: Jonathan Richman at Readers Cafe, Dirty Diaries at YBCA, Black Boots Ink Photo Panel Discussion MUSIC/POETRY: Head over to the beautiful Fort Mason for an intimate poetry reading and music performance as part of the weekly Thursdays at Readers 2011 Poetry Series, featuring the legendary Jonathan Richman
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Wall Ball Dance Performance, Jake Shears at Books Inc., and Conspiracy of Beards DANCE: Flyaway Productions premiered their new work, WALL BALL/throw yourself in, a "site specific dance for flying hula hoops, balls and jump rope propelling public school activism," at the Sunnyside Elementary School
Arts & Entertainment Happy Mother's Day! Check out photographer Franck Avril's lovely photo exhibition, Dahlias! A Photographic Tribute to San Francisco's Official Flower, at the Helen Crocker Russell Library at the San Francisco Botanical Garden between now and August
Arts & Entertainment Modern Vermeers: Photo Exhibit A particular highlight of this week's First Thursday open galleries at 49 Geary (and elsewhere around town) is a show of exquisite, large-scale color photo portraits by Richard Learoyd at the Fraenkel Gallery.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: SF Camerawork presents the second annual Looking Forward, Giving Back benefit, an evening of music, photography, and a silent auction benefiting First Exposures, which provides free weekly photography classes for underserved youth,
Arts & Entertainment Photo Show Tomorrow Night: #Thankyou Hey, you know Travis Jensen? He's a regularly featured photographer on SFist. In fact, this image was today's Photo du Jour. (Psst, tag your photos with "sfist" in Flickr for consideration on the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC/ART: Experience the Sights and Sounds of Punks in Contemporary Mexico tonight with an artist’s talk by Juan Luna-Avin, who traces the history of punk music in Mexico from the late
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PHOTOGRAPHY: The ever-popular 4th Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show showcases the ninety top photos from the contest's Bay Area, national, and international entries. Come celebrate the joy and simplicity of the latent
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PHOTOGRAPHY: Robert Tat Gallery presents a group exhibition of vintage and contemporary photographs, Sign of the Times, celebrating the special qualities that are captured when images incorporate existing signage into their compositions. 5
Arts & Entertainment Calling All Photographers: Submissions For Next 200 Yards Due 2/14 Hey Photogs, get out your cameras, head toward Free Gold Watch (1767 Waller Street at Stanyon), and record what you see and what inspires you within the 200-yard perimeter of the gallery. Then
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Tickets are still available for SF Sketchfest's Music Night, hosted by Web Soup's Chris Hardwick, featuring an impressive line-up of comedic musicians turning it up to 11, including David Koechner (of Anchorman
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Get a taste of Seattle hip-hop tonight with the gritty yet smooth Champagne Champagne, along with Seattle's Mad Rad, and the Bay Area's C U Next Weekend and Moe Greene. 9 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PHOTOGRAPHY: SF Camerawork presents As Yet Untitled: Artists and Writers in Collaboration, which blurs the boundaries between photography and writing and suggests possibilities for what exists beyond the confines of each, featuring works
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PHOTOGRAPHY: After this month, cult-favorite Kodachrome slide film, which stopped being manufactured in 2009, will no longer be processed (which brings a fat tear to this photography-loving contributor's eye). RayKo Photo Center celebrates
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight 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
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PHOTOGRAPHY: For Show 2 of Lightbox SF's brilliant 200 Yards, participants were asked to shoot photos of the 200-yard radius surrounding Dirty Thieves. You have until December 10 to check out what they
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Julie Michelle, I Live Here:SF by Naomi Kirsten Back in March 2009, San Francisco photographer Julie Michelle launched I Live Here:SF, an ever-growing collection of beautiful, lush portraits shot in various San Francisco locales and paired with
Arts & Entertainment The Decisive Moment: Get a Free Henri Cartier-Bresson Poster at SMOMA Today SFist is super excited to see the upcoming Henri-Cartier Bresson exhibit at SFMOMA, which opens on October 30 and runs through January 30 -- we'll be hitting the museum's First Tuesday next month.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PHOTOGRAPHY: Can You See Me? - A Life through the Lens features a 40-photo exhibition, some of them never before seen, featuring the legendary Jimi Hendrix, including his debut at the 1967 Monterey
