Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: H.P. Mendoza, the creator of Colma: The Musical, brings us another acclaimed musical, Fruit Fly, which has been described as "flashy, trashy, and brazenly fun," about a performance artist who moves
SF News Farallones Scientists Report Having Same Dreams Biologists at the Farallones, a group of islands 27 west of the Golden Gate Bridge, have been documenting more than just endangered birds and sea life. According to a fascinating article in penned
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The annual Another Hole in the Head Film Festival kicks off tonight with Death Kappa, which takes a modern look at the Japanese mythical monster that possesses part animal and part human
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SCIENCE: As part of the Down to Science series, Thomas Goetz, Executive Editor of Wired, presents The Decision Tree: Gameshow Version!, in which participants will learn about "emerging tools to track and combine
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PHOTOGRAPHY: Hamburger Eyes Photo Magazine presents the release of their latest issue, Casual Abyss, an "exhibition of modern artifacts that provide clues into the chasm hovering in another dimension beneath our own." 6
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Dr. Sketchy's presents the 2nd Annual Cute Girls on Bicycles, in celebration of Bike to Work Day on Thursday and coinciding with the monthly Sketch Tuesday. Three females and four bikes will
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART/SCIENCE: At tonight's installment of Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous, discussion topics will include custom software tools that embrace Middle Eastern styles, an investigation of the sciences, the natural world, and contemplative
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presents On Tour with Pina Bausch (Un Jour Pina A Demandé), as part of their To the Limit: Pina Bausch on Film series. Bausch, a German
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Four-time Tony and two-time Grammy Award winning soprano, Audra McDonald, whom SFist Brock endorses as having "THE best voice in the industry," will sing standards, favorite showtunes, classic songs from the movies,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Drift off to exotic, faraway places lost in time, while viewing early travelogues in shimmering black and white, 1950s travel in stunning Kodachrome color, and swinging sixties go-go holidays at Bon Voyage!
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Filmmaker Al Jarnow, whose hypnotic work many might be familiar with from Sesame Street, will be in person at the Red Vic to present his newly released compilation, Celestial Navigations: The Short
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The legendary Echo & the Bunnymen will bring on the dancing hipsters, performing classics and new songs from their latest album, The Fountain. 8 p.m. // The Fillmore (1805 Geary Blvd) // $27.
misc Meanwhile, In Berkeley... Half a human brain at Saturday's TEDxBerkeley, a "gathering world-leading thinkers, makers, and doers at UC Berkeley to discuss doing the unprecedented."
misc SF Mice Heading to Outer Space Next Monday, reports BCN (via SF Appeal), 16 San Francisco-based mice will be blasted into space to test the furry little critters' immune system response to zero gravity. The sweet 16, if you
Arts & Entertainment March Madness for the Mind, 4/27 Get your science fair-geek on this Saturday afternoon at March Madness for the Mind, a showcase of student innovation in San Francisco that's not to be missed. More than fifteen teams will display
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SCIENCE: Harlan Emil Gruber will describe the math and "Earth energies" underlying his Portal installations that have been at Burning Man and other festivals over the last six years in Sacred Geometry + Earth
SF News Exploratorium Receives $90M Gift from Anonymous Donors Recently approved to start building a $175 million waterfront museum on Piers 15 and 17, the Exploratorium (the city's finest hands-on museum) just received a whopping $90 million donation care of two anonymous
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Violinist Jennifer Koh, whose "natural flair is matched with a probing intellect," "grabs the listener by the ears and refuses to let go." The concert also includes conversation with Koh. 6 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: Silicon Valley visionary Jaron Lanier shares his expertise in his new book, You Are Not a Gadget. He'll discuss how programming decisions made decades ago have had enormous—and often unintended—consequences
SF News Sarah Palin Calls Global Warming Studies 'Snake Oil Science' During a rare Northern California appearance on Monday, the increasingly bizarre and camera-whorish Sarah Palin opened her mouth, with self-consciously controversial results. It all happened at a media-banned logging conference in Redding, a
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Maker Faire Bay Area 2010 Call For Pyros DIY geniuses, listen up: the 5th annual Maker Faire Bay Area, taking place May 22-23 in San Mateo, CA, is looking for a few good artists. Who like fire. And metal. And robots.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker SCIENCE: Ever been to a cocktail party and wished you had some bit of information to share that would be so fascinating, so relevant, and so unique that you'd be
SF News Dark Matter Matters There is a 75% chance that physicists analyzing tests results from a Minnesota mine found dark matter particles. The rumored substance is believed to make up 80% of the universe, but heretofore evaded
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COCKTAIL PARTY: Wow, we're intrigued. Bold Italic presents 1939. Tog to the Bricks!, a decadent cocktail party from the 1930s, celebrating the opening of the World's Fair. The organizers promise "a raucous good
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight HISTORY: As part of the SF Museum and Historical Society's 2009 "Neighborhoods of San Francisco" program, author and historian Woody LaBounty will reintroduce the community to Beachside Bohemia: Carville-by-the-Sea and the Birth of
