Arts & Entertainment Go See It: Kehinde Wiley At The Contemporary Jewish Museum Kehinde Wiley may be the most successful painter to come along in decades. His magnetic portraits of black and brown young men, painted with the precision of realism and wreathed in flowers, ornamental
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: The Hemlock Gets Reflective with Porchlight Open Mic It’s the last Monday of the month, which means the little stage in the music room at Hemlock Tavern is about to get a little sentimental. Tonight is Porchlight Open Door, an
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Judge John Hodgman Solves All Your Problems For your last-minute, late-night Friday plans, noted erudite funnyman and "Famous Minor Television Personality" John Hodgman will weigh in on your pressing issues in a live edition of his Judge John Hodgman podcast.
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: 'Sex And The City' Live! (And In Drag) After a successful run of live Roseanne episodes and Golden Girls Christmas Specials, the folks from Trannyshack return with their latest take on another classic (or classically trashy) piece of television: HBO's seminal
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tomorrow Night: 'So I Married An Axe Murderer' With Drinks Mike Myer's 1993 magnum opus So I Married An Axe Murderer may not have achieved the same critical acclaim as Wayne's World did a year before, but as a screwball comedy about the
Arts & Entertainment Go Do These Things Tonight: Party on SFMOMA's Rooftop, Get To Third Base In The Dogpatch, Laugh It Up In The Mission A trio of events deserve your attention and attendance around town this evening: One celebrating the arts on a rooftop sculpture garden, another celebrating an underrated neighborhood in the Dogpatch and a third
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Ali Wong At Punchline Comedy Club If you're starting to feel a post-holiday depression and Les Miserables just doesn't seem like the right thing to lift your spirits, then tonight's set from (formerly) local comedienne Ali Wong ought to
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: 'In Transit' Muni-Themed Photo Show Tonight in Duboce Park our pals from Muni Diaries and the Harvey Milk Photo Center present In Transit, a celebration of Muni-themed photography and commuter stories from some of our favorite local photographers
Arts & Entertainment Hi/Lo: Help The Rumpus Make a Movie or Help Yourself to Some Holiday Shopping For Camera Nerds Two artsy events: one free and one to support the nobel cause of indie filmmaking compete for your attention tonight. First up, local literary concern The Rumpus needs your financial help to make
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Social Studies Record Release At The Independent Tonight at the Independent on Divisadero, local guitar pop rising stars Social Studies will debut their new album Developer for an adoring local crowd in advance of the record's anticipated release next week.
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Re-Imagine Bikes & Public Space at SPUR Tonight, urban development think tank SPUR and (ahem) "slow bike movement" leaders PUBLIC Bikes will host the opening of Public Works, a new exhibition that looks to re-examine "the meaning and value of
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: 'Love In A Time Of Zombies' Tonight, in lieu of their usual Shakespearean fare, the SF Theater Pub presents an all-new romantic comedy about a neurotic gay boy, his roommate and their accidental dates trapped in a cabin in
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: 'Vampyr' With Steven Severin's Live Score Long before Twilight turned sex-crazed teenage vampires into a national fad, and even 25 years before Bram Stoker penned Dracula, there was Carmilla — a 1872 tale of a prototypical lesbian vampire that became
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Rock-N-Roll Carnival Tonight at Public Works in the Mission, noted local broke person Broke-Ass Stuart hosts a three-ring circus of live music, burlesque, comedy and skee-ball. Because there is not enough skee-ball in San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Hear A Literary Mixtape We were jazzed about Quiet Lightning's submission-based lit reading series when it debuted in the Conservatory of Flowers a few months back. Tonight, the local literary concern collides with LitQuake for the final
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Discount Laughs at The Dark Room Worried tonight's presidential debates will leave you feeling sad and depressed? Distract yourself with a trip to the Dark Room's divey theater on Mission Street tonight for The Business — a weekly alternative comedy
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Deerhoof At Slim's From their humble beginnings as a little-known nineties noise rock band to critical acclaim for one of Pitchfork's top albums of the 2000s, San Francisco's Deerhoof have made a name for themselves with
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Drinks And AT-ATs At The Walt Disney Museum Finally hopping on the after-hours museum trend, tonight the Walt Disney Family Museum in the Presidio hosts Animate Your Night: Where It's AT-AT. The informative drinking event promises to teach attendees a thing
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Django Django At The Independent Tonight at the Independent on Divisadero, Scottish electro-jangle-pop band Django Django makes their San Francisco debut at a show that is criminally undersold as of this publication. In the three years between the
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Pour One Out For Patrick Swayze In 'Road House' Tonight San Francisco's love affair with drinking and ironic movie watching gets another outlet at newly arrived Sixth Street art gallery Satellite 66. To christen the space the gallery will be screening Road
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This Thing Tonight: Mark Bittman Discusses 'How To Cook Everything' New York Times opinion columnist and New York Times Magazine lead food writer, Mark Bittman has been celebrated for his straightforward and unpretentious approach to cooking pretty much everything. Despite no formal training
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Shakespeare In A Bar Tonight at the Cafe Royale in Russian Hill, the San Francisco Theater Pub Company will end their summer season with a production of Bill Shakespeare's Measure for Measure while you get pleasantly drunk.
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Drink & Dance With Animals At The S.F. Zoo Nightlife events at normally sober venues are all the rage these days, but tonight's Noc'tails Silent Disco Party at the San Francisco Zoo is the first where attendees can party down with other
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Discover The History Of A-holes With A Linguistics Professor Tonight in the Commonwealth Club's Blue Room, UC Berkeley Linguistics professor Geoffrey Nunberg will give a talk on the "Ascent of the A-Word" from its roots with GIs in World War II, up
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Noise Pop Record Collective Tonight at Mr. Smith's in the heart of the city's Mid-Market revitalization district, local independent music concern Noise Pop and noted record store Amoeba Music join forces to present the latest edition of
