SF News S.F. Public Library Makes Super Bowl Bet With Baltimore Library In what's being called a "cross-country battle of the libraries," the fine folks at San Francisco Public Library have placed a bet with the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore. Both of them
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Litquake Speakeasy at Public Works Get your 1920s on at a speakeasy party in the Mission care of the fine scribes at Litquake. Hear excerpts of biting authors read by some of your favorite Bay Area writers, including
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/8: Ferlinghetti Reading & Film Screening POETRY/FILM: Peter Coyote will be at Meridian Gallery tonight reading poetry by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, followed by a screening of Ferlinghetti, the 2009 documentary by Christopher Felver, which is "an incisive, sharply wrought
Arts & Entertainment Macworld's Close Reading Of iPad Invite Text While we wait for the new iPad reveal at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts today at 10 a.m., we've been looking back at rumor-mill coverage of the next generation iPad. Our
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 3/5: The Driftwood Singers MUSIC: Tonight's edition of the monthly Communion club will feature The Driftwood Singers, who are in their early 20s and sing folk songs "that could have been written ages ago but were more
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 3/3: Roky Erickson With The Night Beats MUSIC: Flavorpill paints an intriguing picture of the come-back of Roky Erickson, '60s psychedelic rocker whose struggles with schizophrenia stalled his music career: "Tonight, revel in Erikson's gravelly, whiskey-soaked voice mingling with Okkervil
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 12/12: Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa MUSIC: Expect to get a contact high at the Warfield tonight as Snoop Dogg takes the stage with Wiz Khalifa, in support of their new soundtrack for the film, Mac & Devin Go
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/28: Horrible Bosses, Porchlight Open Door FILM: This week's free Cinema Drafthouse film is Horrible Bosses, which is centered around the questionable plot point involving three people who decide to kill their bosses instead of just quitting their jobs
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/17: Robyn Hitchcock, <em>An Age of Monsters</em>, Turk+Taylor MUSIC: The legendary Robyn Hitchcock will be at Slim's tonight performing his 1990 solo album in its entirety, Eye, which Hitchcock says concluded his stint on the college radio air waves. Also featuring
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/14: Stephen Kaltenbach, Laughter Against the Machine, GuyWriters ART/LECTURE: Visiting artist Stephen Kaltenbach with speak about his lengthy and diverse career most notably "creating conceptual gestures, magazine advertisements, diagrammatic propositions, 'Street Works,' time capsules, and photorealistic paintings," as part
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/4: Radiolab Live, Lawrence Ferlinghetti Reading, 'Urbanized' FESTIVAL: The Bay Area Science Festival kicks off continues tonight with Radiolab Live in Berkeley, which explores being In the Dark with a night of "gripping stories, wonder-inducing demonstrations, and jaw-dropping illustrations." Also
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/5: Go the F**k to Sleep, Poetry World Series, Penny Arcade READING: Author Adam Mansbach will be at City Lights performing a complete reading of Go the F**k to Sleep, a kids book that's just for adults. (It's a phrase that SFist finds
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/14: 'The Strange History Of Don't Ask Don't Tell'; Ben Fong-Torres; White Hills, Carlton Melton, Dirty Ghosts FILM: There might still be seats available to Frameline and GLAAD's special sneak peek at the new documentary, The Strange History of Don't Ask Don't Tell, before it premieres on September 20 on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/13: Jimi Hendrix Winterland Day, 'Inside Scientology', SF Beta 6.0.0 MUSIC: Amoeba will be hosting a Winterland Day Celebration, commemorating the worldwide release of Jimi Hendrix Experience Winterland, a four-CD box set documenting the band’s six historic performances at San Francisco’s
Arts & Entertainment Friday: 826 Valencia's 8/26 Day Write-a-Thon This Friday, 826 Valencia is hosting 8 hours and 26 minutes of non-stop writing as part of their 2nd Ever 8/26 Day Write-a-Thon to benefit the organization's free student programming. We can
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/22: Katya Back in the USSR, Sheila McClear 'Last of the Live Nude Girls', Mister Heavenly CABARET: Countess Katya Smirnoff-Skyy is at the Rrazz Room tonight and tomorrow night performing her "voyage into the Beatles song book,"Back in the USSR, which is described as "Abby Road meets the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/18: Oriana Small, YBCA's Wildcard Film Night, 'The Other View' READING: Porn star Oriana Small, AKA Ashley Blue, will be reading from her new book, Girlvert: A Porno Memoir, which offers an intimate view of her last decade in and out of the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/11: 'The Big Uneasy,' 'Hell on Wheels,' Toshio Hirano FILM: In The Big Uneasy, humorist and New Orleans resident Harry Shearer speaks to the tireless investigators and experts who studied the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and uncovers a courageous whistle-blower from the
Arts & Entertainment Litquake 2011 Lineup Announced Jeffrey Eugenides, Susan Orlean, James Ellroy, Mary Roach, Ishmael Reed, Adam Mansbach, Jane Smiley, Chris Adrian, Thomas McGuane, Christopher Moore, Daniel Woodrell, Deepak Chopra, Cyra McFadden, and Guillermo Gomez-Peña are just a few
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/14: Aesop Rock and Kimya Dawson, Rick Prelinger Screening, Author Pat McMahon MUSIC: Aesop Rock and Kimya Dawson bring their collaborative sound, which might be described as "folk-hop" to the Independent tonight, along with Rob Sonic and DJ Big Wiz. (8 p.m., The Independent,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/3: Arj Barker at Cobb's, Sara Shelton Mann's 'Zeropoint', Nightlife on Other Planets Fashion Show COMEDY: Arj Barker, most notably of Flight of the Concords fame, brings his witty observations and even cleverer delivery to Cobb's this weekend, along with special guest Tony Camin. (8 and 10:15
Arts & Entertainment Home Run! Baseball Tonight at SF Main Library Esteemed writer and bartender Alan Black will host a bevy of local baseball writers at Home Run! Baseball at the Library. Jason Turbow reads from his book The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Graham Central Station, ConFunkShun, Tower of Power, and lead singer Ashling Cole will perform at the Teena Marie Birthday Tribute as 6 Piece & a Biscuit, commemorating what would've been Teena Marie's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Smile presents a Save KUSF Benefit, featuring performances by The Trifles, The Twinks, The Danger Babes, and Hate Factory, along with DJ Neil Martinson spinning psych, soul, glam, bubblegum, and laserboogie. All
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Expect to see "full-frontal puppet nudity" at Avenue Q, the hit Broadway musical about real life in New York City, as told by a cast of people and puppets through a hilariously
