SF News Former SFSU Student Wins Second Most Important Acting Award Former San Francisco State University student Annette Bening won last night's Golden Globe award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical for The Kids Are Alright, where she plays a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Moby, Martha Plimpton, and Thao Nguyen of Thao and the Get Down Stay Down will make guest appearances at SF Sketchfest's The Dave Hill Explosion, a variety show in which Dave talks,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>The Last Cargo Cult</em> at Berkeley Rep In theory, we enjoy one-person shows. A charismatic performer, alone on a stage, speaking truths and telling good stories, can captivate an audience in a way that multi-person performances can't. All you have
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Clue, "a play based on a movie based on a board game," has been adapted for the stage. The audience watches from six feet in the air as six guests and a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: SF Chamber Orchestra presents their Rush Hour Concert, featuring 17-year cello sensation, Nathan Chan, and the orchestra's principal bass player, Michel Taddei, along with lyric soprano Anja Strauss as the most beautiful
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The Oakland Interfaith Gospel Ensemble perform an intimate version of their annual Paramount Holiday Concert in a more relaxed setting, expressing "the power of spirit" and bringing "a message of faith, hope,
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Turkey Lurkey Time Burt Bacharach, Michael Bennett and Donna McKechine are a holiday tradition here at SFist. With Christmas just days away, we once again present "Turkey Lurkey Time," the most insipid song / greatest choreography ever
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: A onetime SF denizen and “One Woman Pixar” (as coined by Wired Magazine), Nina Paley, expands the artistic boundaries of animation with Sita Sings the Blues, which is animated in a dazzling
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Fire art sculpture mavens, Flaming Lotus Girls celebrate their ten-year anniversary at Lipstick & Kisses 2010: A Flaming Lotus Girls Extravaganza, featuring a gallery show and a signing of their new 2011-2012
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Back Alley Theater Company presents Beyond Therapy by Christopher Durang, one of his most popular and frequently performed plays, as well as one of his sunnier comedies. Runs through Monday. 8 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DANCE: It's the first night of the weekend-long 12th Annual San Francisco Hip Hop DanceFest, featuring hip hop dance companies, b-boys, and veteran dancers from France, South Africa, Belgium, Stateside, and the Bay
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 ART: Designer Lil Tuffy, who has a vast portfolio of local and international rock show posters, presents his third annual exhibition of over 225 new pieces of work, including limited edition screenprinted art,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Badly Happy: Pain, Pleasure, and Panic in Recent Romanian Art, a new exhibit curated by Erwin Kessler, represents work by Romanian artists from "a generation which struggles to make sense out of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: SF Cinemateque celebrates both the late filmmaker Curtis Harrington and the late, great Dennis Hopper in Remembering Dennis Hopper, featuring Harrington's first feature film and Hopper's first leading role, Night Tide (1961)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: Reverend Billy returns to San Francisco with the Life After Shopping Choir for The Earth-a-llujah Earth-a-llujah Revival! 7 p.m. // Victoria Theatre (2961 16th St) // $12 MUSIC: The Bay Area's top three
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: It's the first preview night for the limited run performance of In Here, No One Will Hear You Scream..., which is part radio play, part blues show, part confessional - "a tale
Arts & Entertainment SF Attends: 'Hamlet' on Alcatraz Get thee to Alcatraz. We Players artistic director Ava Roy brings the Prince of Denmark to The Rock, with chilling results. by Naomi Kirsten There were shades of drama as we waited to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Relationships between couples in crisis and the tensions between noise and silence take center stage at One-Act Fringe, an annual festival of student-penned plays. The festival has a track record for acting
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Grant Morrison, who's known as the "Rock Star of Comics," is profiled in Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods. The film features extensive interviews with Morrison, along with never before seen photos and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Spirit Games + Ruby Hawk Productions present Spirit Games Vol 4, featuring "unfiltered, deeply-grooved and intense Nigerian Afrobeat -- tribal break beats keeping you dialed in on the dance floor and sweating to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: It's opening night of Thrillpeddlers' 11th annual presentation of Shoctober Fest 2010: Kiss of Blood, a series of three one-act Grand Guignol terror plays and titillating farces. Plays include Kiss of Blood,
Arts & Entertainment Get Your Free Night of Theater Tickets Tonight The annual Free Night of Theater is almost here! It starts on Friday and runs through the entire month of October. The general giveaway for local tickets will begin tonight at 6 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Charles Ludlam, the visionary behind the notorious Ridiculous Theatrical Company from 1967-1987, created queer satires that embraced the "ridiculousness of high culture and the seriousness of the low with drag pastiche and
