Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/27: Thao & Mirah, Jeremy Bailenson: Infinite Reality, Guerrila Cabaret Open Mic MUSIC: RSVP now to attend a free outdoor show featuring an acoustic performance by local, Kill Rock Stars duo, Thao & Mirah, at Americano at Hotel Vitale as part of the Soundcheck 2011
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/7: Exploratorium After Dark: Red, Bit Shifter, Laura Kimpton's 'Flying Solo,' SCIENCE: At tonight's installment of Exploratorium After Dark, which is themed Red, explore color chemistry, discover surprising uses for insects and vibrant vegetables, and get a crash-course in making your own paints. (6
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 MUSIC: We must say, The Fiery Furnaces have the best band bio we've ever read. Catch an intimate show with the clever and talented brother and sister duo, Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger tonight
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: There are a just a handful of tickets left to see the delightfully and uproariously trashy John Waters at JCCSF tonight (we hope that bomb threat doesn't mess things up!), who will
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 FILM: The 54th San Francisco International Film Festival opens tonight with a screening of the new film Beginners, starring Christopher Plummer as a senior who comes out of the closet in the wake
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 SCIENCE: Drink cocktails served by actual robots and expect a "snarky" electronic bartender at the fourth annual BarBot 2011, a celebration of cocktail culture and man-machine interface. Drink up! 9 p.m. // pariSoma
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SCIENCE: At Nerd Nite SF #9: Real Estate Shenanigans, Dirty Archaeology, and Roller Derby Fundamentals, learn all about how the $10 trillion world of "shadow banking" went boom, and why it’s not
misc Photo Du Jour 774 "Foucault's Polishing" by thezacstone. Behold the cleaning and polishing of Foucault's pendulum at the California Academy of Sciences before opening to the public.
SF News Reminder: Total Lunar Eclipse Tonight, on this unreasonably cloudy Monday night, you will be able to, um, sense the total lunar eclipse happening in the sky above. See, while the eclipse starts at 10 p.m.-ish
SF News Total Lunar Eclipse On Dec. 20 Next week on December 20, a total eclipse of the moon will be visible from San Francisco. (Of course, fog and clouds will most certainly get in the way, so: ha, ha, not
SF News Researchers from U.C. Berkeley Trap Antimatter, Universe Fails to Implode Researchers from U.C. Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley Labs were part of a team of scientists from CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) who reported yesterday that they had successfully created and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: It's the West Coast premiere of the musical production of Coraline, in which a latch-key kid dreams up a new reality with a loving Other Mother and a kindly Other Father, which
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Craig Baldwin presents Radical Light: Bay Area Found Footage -- From Junk to Funk to Punk, a celebration of found footage filmmaking, which has quite a history in our local heritage. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Classical Revolution, Lyz Luke and Porto Franco Records present two performances featuring over fifty musicians in ten bands covering the legendary album by The Velvet Underground and Nico. Get there early to
SF News Exploratorium Breaks Ground at Pier 15 At 10am this morning officials from the Exploratorium held a groundbreaking ceremony for the $300 million project which will transform Piers 15 and 17 on the northern waterfront into a state-of-the-art, 9-acre science
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Several Bay Area artists will be showing their work at the group exhibition, Above the Plane, which will "navigate the viewers through a habitat of art away from the traditional wall hangings
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The SF Maritime Nat'l Park Association presents an encore screening to their popular Floating Films: Cinema At Hyde Street Pier series, featuring the epic Moby Dick. Watch the movie aboard the world's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Montage artist Winston Smith, who has created some of punk rock’s most lasting and iconic symbols, will be exhibiting select retrospective works spanning thirty years at Deep Dimension in his first
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artists Kyle Ranson and Daniel Higgs present Morph Traits, an exhibition of 44 drawings that are the result of a collaborative exercise between the two that started in 1991. The Morph Traits
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: KCRW, Americano at Hotel Vitale, and Om Records present Soundcheck, a free outdoor show featuring a stripped down set by Brooklyn's Si*Se, who have a Latin, downtempo, and soul vibe. Space
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artists Jennifer Judd-McGee and Mati McDonough celebrate the bold, graphic punch of vintage board games in Spin, in which they've incorporated elements from the old games like winding pathways, typography, colors, characters,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: Contemporary Jewish Museum hosts their second MILTON, part of a series of conceptual spaces for "whimsy and exchange" developed by artist Maira Kalman, whose solo exhibition is currently on view. Daniel Handler
