Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/31: Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema, a.Muse Photography Panel, 'Why We Have a Body' FILM: The Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema opens tonight with a great line-up of short films by local filmmakers, along with live music by Mister Odom and the Odom Poles, food, and an awards
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/29: 'Septien'/'Silver Jew', Pint-Sized Plays, Classical Revolution FILM: Director Michael Tulley will be in person at the Roxie to present a one-night-only screening of his new film, Septien, which follows Cornelius Rawlings, an enigmatic lost soul who returns to his
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/26: The Sedaris' 'The Book of Liz,' Non Stop Bhangra, Valencia Evening Fair THEATER: You have a little over a week left to catch The Custom Made Theatre Co's production of the Sedaris siblings' The Book of Liz, starring an under-appreciated cheeseball-making nun who encounters "Ukrainians
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Candida' at CalShakes The California Shakespeare Theater's four-play season always includes at least one non-Shakespeare work, and in both last season and this one that work has been by the great George Bernard Shaw. Last year's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/9: 'The Birds', Oscar Wilde Staged Reading, Laughing Matters FILM: Enjoy Top of the Mark's breathtaking views while sipping some MacMurray Ranch Pinot Noir and Ecco Domani Pinot Grigio and watching the Hitchcock classic, The Birds. (5:30 to 11:30 p.
Arts & Entertainment Kevin Spacey Coming to Town in 'Richard III' A hugely successful and critically acclaimed production of Shakespeare's Richard III, originally produced at the Old Vic in London, is on its way to the Curran Theater in S.F. October 19 to
SF News Prop 8 Play Coming to Broadway Dustin Lance Black, Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Milk and a board member of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, will bring California's same-sex marriage brouhaha to the Great White Way. His new Prop
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/17: 'Surrogate Valentine;' Shahrzad Sepanlou; 'Persepolis, Texis' FILM: SF-based musician Goh Nakamura will be performing before both of tonight's screenings of Surrogate Valentine, starring Nakamura playing himself. There's also a Q&A with director Dave Boyle after the film.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'The Verona Project' at CalShakes CalShakes continues their season exploring another of Shakespeare's earliest works, Two Gentlemen of Verona, which is thought to be the first play Shakespeare wrote, around 1590. (See also our review of Titus Andronicus,
Arts & Entertainment ACT's 'Tales of the City' Breaks Box Office, Attendance Records The American Conservatory Theater's world premiere production of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, the musical we reviewed last month, has turned out to be a great success for the theater and has
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/12: Jonathan Richman, SF Beta Mixer, 'The Book of Love' MUSIC: Feeling down? Then get your dose of "musical Prozac" tonight, as Jonathan Richman kicks off his three-day stint at the intimate Make-Out Room, along with Tommy Larkins on drums. (7 p.m.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/8: YBCA's Bay Area Now 6, 'OMFG! The Internet Dating Musical,' Literary Clown Foolery ART: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts kicks off its signature triennial Bay Area Now 6 (BAN6) exhibition with an opening night party, featuring live music by "critically-acclaimed 'dreamy synth-pop' quartet" Dominant Legs
Arts & Entertainment Red Vic to Close This Month After 31 Years After serving the stoned and extremely tripped out for three decades, Haight Street's Red Vic will officially close forever on July 25, the movie theater's 31st birthday. It was the kind of place
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Neko Case w/The Dodos at Stern Grove; Fillmore Jazz Fest; SF Mime Troupe; and More! Neko Case and The Dodos, Stern Grove Festival: It truly is Indie-pendence Day at Stern Grove on Sunday. Indie goddess Neko Case will abide with her one-of-a-kind voice and country/soul/rock-influenced sound,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/16: Frameline35 Opening Night, 'Toward A Human Face' Portraits, '4Giveness: In a Family Way' Play FILM: The 35th Annual Frameline Film Festival kicks off tonight with a screening of Gun Hill Road, "a tense and complex family drama about a teen embracing her gender identity and a father
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/11: 'Eye of the Beholder' Art Show, The Black Lips, Triple Shot Productions Staged Readings ART: This month's Root Division art event, Eye of the Beholder, explores the presence of the body in art "through parody, distortion and subversion, giving viewer the opportunity to look at the body
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Titus Andronicus' at CalShakes Titus Andronicus is one of those Shakespeare plays that doesn't get performed much and that nobody reads in school unless they're a Shakespeare scholar. And here's why: It's ridiculously bloody, and racist, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/10: Queer Women of Color Film Fest, Cal Shakes' 'Titus Andronicus' Shindig, Garrett and Moulton Dance FILM: Tonight kicks off the weekend-long 7th Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival at Brava Theater with a presentation themed, "Finger Sucking Good", "[f]rom smoldering glances on the train, to sizzling
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/5: Michael Scott Moore Reading, Cockettes' 'Vice Palace', and Imagery's Summer Season Benefit READING: Journalist, surfer and author Michael Scott Moore will be at Green Apple Books tonight reading from his latest book, Sweetness and Blood, in which Moore visits unlikely surfing destinations —Gaza, West Africa,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Veronica Klaus Sings Peggy Lee, Conversation with Tucker Nichols and Daniel Handler, and 'Bruja' at Magic Theatre MUSIC: San Francisco's Veronica Klaus is performing two encore performances of her new show with the Tammy Hall Trio, featuring some of her favorite Peggy Lee songs, both well-known and more obscure. Get
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/30: 'Pulp Fiction', Dustin O'Halloran w/ the Magik*Magik String Quartet & Conspiracy of Venus, and Theater Pub FILM: Tonight's the launch of Red Devil Lounge's new Free Monday Movie Night, featuring the ground-breaking classic that gave John Travolta a second shot in the business, Pulp Fiction. Enjoy some popcorn, mojitos,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Rolando B Rosler's Male Figure Drawings, Feast of Words Literary Potluck, and 'Three Sisters' at Berkeley Rep ART: Mark I Chester studio presents an exhibition of eighteen pastel drawings by Rolando B Rosler celebrating the male figure, including gesture drawings, figure studies, and facial portraits. Rosler says about his work,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: 'Swinging In The Shadows' (Beat Documentary), 'Plastic: A Toxic Love Story' (Book), and 'Thyroid Diary' (Staged Reading) FILM: Filmmakers Mary Kerr and Elaine Trotter present the first half of their documentary, Swinging in the Shadows, which is a work in progress chronicling the untold story of the California beat era.
Arts & Entertainment Where To Take The Kids This Weekend: Gustafer Yellowgold, CASAStars' 'Project Connect,' and Alphabet Rockers! The Bay Area is lucky to have a thriving "kindie" music scene, along with lots of other activities and programs for kids. Here are a few happening this weekend. Gustafer Yellowgold's Show at
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Uptown Almanac Comedy Night, David Liebe Hart, and 'The Lily's Revenge' COMEDY: The folks at Uptown Almanac present a cutting edge Locally-Sourced Pop-Up Comedy Night, which promises that no NIMBYs will be in attendance (but the Mission Mission crew will be) and complimentary PBRs
