Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: Channel your inner Sue Sylvester at the Lesbian Gym Teacher Costume Contest, as part of the release party for Monica Nolan's pulp satire, Bobby Blanchard, Lesbian Gym Teacher. There will also be
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>In the Wake</em> at Berkeley Rep On paper, we'll admit, this was not a play we were necessarily excited to see: multiple lesbian characters, one woman's struggle to choose between a man and another woman set in New York
Arts & Entertainment SFist Mini-Reviews: 'Rhino' at the Boxcar Theater It's a truncated play, and we figure we'll give it a truncated review, despite the fact that our enthusiasm for this new work playing at the Boxcar Theatre (Natoma near 6th) is huge.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: SF ex-pat Jack Stevenson is celebrating the launch of his new book, Scandinavian Blue, a lushly illustrated history of Scandinavian erotic cinema, with a screening of the Danish film, Venom, from 1966,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Giant Bones</em> It was pointed out to us that the seating at Exit Theater down in the Tenderloin is reminiscent of one of those Medieval Times restaurants, where suburban crowds are treated to Applebee’s
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Round and Round the Garden</em> at A.C.T. A.C.T.'s latest production, which falls generally into the annual slot they seem to reserve for an English drawing room comedy or similar, is Alan Ayckbourn's 1973 play Round and Round
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: In Broadway to Brecht, Julia Migenes, who has starred on Broadway, in film and television, and in major opera houses throughout the world, will cover several types of music from her life
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: At SHOWNUFF, 111 Minna's free weekly Friday live music happy hour series, eleven-piece funk/soul band Stymie and the Pimp Jones Luv Orchestra will kick start your weekend, along with Chris Orr
SF News <em>American Idiot</em> Nabs 3 Tony Award Nominations To the handful of you who care about the Tony Awards -- those trinkets awarded annually to theatrical productions taking place in a select few Manhattan theaters -- Green Day's American Idiot received
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight TALK: Andy Bichlbaum, leading member of The Yes Men will speak with the Chronicle's Joe Garofoli about The Yes Men's latest documentary, The Yes Men Fix the World, which has been hailed as
Arts & Entertainment <em>Wicked</em> to Close, Finally, in September The reign of tourist terror at 8th and Market will finally end, or at least ebb, come September as SHN announces the closing date of Wicked. The musical, centered on the friendship between
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Girlfriend</em> at Berkeley Rep Following on the success earlier this season of American Idiot (which just premiered on Broadway this week to a NYT accolade of "thrillingly raucous and gorgeously wrought"), Berkeley Rep returns with another rock
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Milkgap (aka Geoffrey Porter) will be showing some of his new and old ink and watercolor pieces tonight. Grab some beverages at Pirate Cat Cafe and check them out. 8 to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FASHION: Tonight's edition of Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young will include a sneak preview of the upcoming 5th Annual Discarded to Divine event, which showcases this year's designers and their
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The Hot 8 Brass Band, straight out of New Orleans, will steam up your cold, rainy night. DJ Concerned will start the night out spinning soul, funk, and hip hop. 8:30
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Vigil</em> Starring Olympia Dukakis at A.C.T. Oh, we are starved for celebrity around here, aren't we... so much so that the A.C.T. will probably see a great turnout for their latest play Vigil, despite word probably already
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: "Sons of the Golden Era of Hip Hop," Kidz In The Hall will be tearing The Independent up tonight, along with 88-Keys, Izza Kizza, and Donnis. 7:30 p.m. // The Independent
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: It's the preview night of Scalpel!, a killer comedy featuring wealthy New York socialite and soon-to-be divorceé Jacquelyn Blithers, whose nightmares start coming true after her new face lift. 8 p.m.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COCKTAILS: The mixologists at Cocktail Lab will re-imagine your favorite drinks of the '80s in a stripped down "ludicrously culinary fashion" at Cocktail Lab 6: 80’s Shades and Switchblades. 10 p.m.
Arts & Entertainment A.C.T. Announces Their 2010-2011 Season, Incl. the Premiere of the <em>Tales of the City</em> Musical The American Conservatory Theater announces their upcoming season today, which includes a couple of exciting highlights: master clown Bill Irwin brings his adaptation of Molière's Scapin first thing in the fall; and come
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight GAMES: Help Homefrys continue their experiment in connecting people by playing games together in person at Homefrys Game Night. Party games, word games, trivia games, and classic games -- "60 pounds of games"
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Andrea Heimer, who hails from Bellingham, Washington, is exhibiting her latest series of watercolors in Fight!, which illustrates her fascination with “two halves of the same equation struggling against one another for
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DANCE: Enjoy a wine and appetizer reception preceding a special ODC/Dance Downtown one-hour performance, featuring Something About a Nightingale, River, and 24 Exposures. ODC will be performing at Yerba Buena through March
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Poet (who penned the now famous The Revolution Will Not Be Televised), activist, author, and pioneer of blues, jazz and funk, Gil Scott-Heron, will perform some of his classics along with new
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: In Den of Thieves, a pair of recovering kleptomaniacs, a drug dealer, and a topless dancer unsuccessfully join forces in order to pull off the perfect crime, resulting in a very long
