Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Peck the Town Crier will perform his unique fusion of "P-Funk-era party jams, old school boogie woogie, hand drum grooves, and marching band music," with support from Roy G Biv & The
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend ALL WEEKEND: The annual Iranian Film Festival will showcase independent feature and short films made by or about Iranians from around the world. Vintage enthusiasts can be found at the Vintage Fashion Expo
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Ray of Light Theatre kicks off their 10th Anniversary Season with the West Coast premiere of Jerry Springer The Opera. The opera, which was awarded "Best Musical" honors by all four major
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BURLESQUE: Bombshell Betty and Fromagique present Sci-Fi Burlesque, featuring robots, aliens, space cowgirls, time travelers, and much more, along with Star Trek and Star Wars acts. 9 p.m. // Elbo Room (647 Valencia
Arts & Entertainment Bye, Bye, 'Wicked' After a blockbusting, 20-month reign at the Orpheum Theatre, Wicked has left the building. SFist was at the Heart of the City farmers' market yesterday and spotted the set being transported out of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Macbeth</em> at CalShakes We can't stop being impressed with CalShakes. No matter how many productions of Shakespeare they churn out (on average, two per season, with two 50+-year-old, non-Shakespeare works in repertory as well), they
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Inspired by the lives of women such as Andrea Yates and Susan Eubanks, The Penny Dreadful Project uses expressionist, experimental, and politically charged theatre to intimately explore the tragedy and state of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: At the group exhibition Black Lab, a diverse line-up of artists investigates the cultural connotations and psychological implications of the darkest color. There will be performances by Terrance Graven, Gerritt Wittmer &
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend All Weekend: Enjoy Pacific Islander music, Polynesian dance, arts & crafts, island cuisine, educational exhibits and workshops, and an `Ohana Korner with simple games for the kids at the 16th Annual San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: A group of diverse artists from California, Seattle, Toronto, Nevada, and New York will show their latest work at Hot Freaks. Live music by Pure Ecstasy, Sleep Over, Young Prisms, and oOoOO
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: The Thunderbird Theatre presents Agnes the Barbarian, the story of Conan the Barbarian's plain, bookish daughter, who's forced to go on a quest to prove her worth. Runs through August 14. 8
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The dynamic trio made up of seasoned musicians, John Dieterich (Deerhoof), Scott Amendola (Nels Cline), and Thollem McDonas (soloist), will perform together alongside New York filmmaker Martha Colburn's 16 mm stop motion
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: Bread for the Journey San Francisco, a new community development organization, is having a fundraiser for Kid Serve, who are creating a four-story mosaic at 170 Otis Street with teenagers in foster
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight WORKSHOP: Well, that looks pretty cool. Learn how to make your own cardboard synthesizer at the Outsound New Music Summit's How to Build Your Own Skatchbox Demo. San Francisco veteran instrument builder Tom
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Tonight's Bad Movie Night feature, in which the hosts continue their celebration of the "Giant Floating Head" poster, is Days of Thunder (audio), featuring some "streaky cars down below" and Tom Cruise's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Mrs. Warren's Profession</em> at CalShakes The Bay Area, sadly, does not have the same vibrant, well supported stream of new work on its theater stages as New York does Off-Broadway, but then again no American city really does.
Arts & Entertainment Hey, you! Clown! Troubles at home? Out of work? Feel like people just can't pick up what you're laying down when you smash them in their gaping maws with delicious cream pies before waddling away in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Nymph O' Mania, a modern twist on A Midsummer Night's Dream, opens tonight and runs through August 15. Set in a redwood forest in Northern California, the play features a wedding, an
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Magician Christian Cagigal's magic show, Obscura, which was created for "believers, skeptics, those who hate magic shows, and those who hate theatre," weaves magic, fairy tales, and dark fables into "an intimate
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend That 3-day weekend is almost here (or are you off today, too?)! All Weekend: The Frozen Film Festival is happening Friday and Saturday night. The month-long LaborFest kicks off this weekend with a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: As part of the Frameline Film Festival, Bear Nation shares the stories of bears' "second coming out:" finding other big, hairy guys, and explores the transformation of the bear movement into a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>The Tosca Project</em> at A.C.T. The latest production at A.C.T. is less a theater piece than it is a dance piece, and it's not quite the experimental, genre-blurring work that it aspires to be as it
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: Theater company Mugwumpin presents Get This Go, which takes place in three rooms at the Pacific Heights Inn. The performance focuses on the victims of natural disaster, and the audience will move
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: As part of VIZ Cinema's Untold Legend series this month, 3rd i Films presents 3rd i’s Queer Eye, a South Asian lens on the LGBT experience, featuring a line-up of queer
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: Get ready for the upcoming World Cup tournament with Alan Black's The Glorious World Cup: A Fantatics Guide, in which he and co-writer David Henry Sterry "take the piss from past to
