Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/20: Open Show, Queer Literati at Occupy SF, Burlesque for the Shy and Awkward PHOTOGRAPHY: Open Show, which organizes live events worldwide featuring the work of photographers, filmmakers, and multimedia producers in high-profile spaces, is celebrating its two-year anniversary with a special print exhibition featuring more than
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/19: The Fine Art of Poisoning, HIV Community Mayoral Candidates Forum, ATA Film & Video Fest CABARET: The Conservatory of Flowers presents The Fine Art of Poisoning, a night inspired by San Francisco's "femme fatale for the thinking man" Jill Tracy. "Vacked by members of her Malcontent Orchestra, she
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/18: The Monster Show, Art & Social Change, Tin Cup Serenade ART: Project One Gallery presents The Monster Show, featuring work by an impressive line-up of artists paying tribute to classic monsters, ghouls, villains and horror movie characters, as well as sci-fi and cult
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/17: 'The Sleeping Beauty,' Laura Cunningham, Cello Bazaar FILM: S.F. Film Society presents French auteur Catherine Breillat's The Sleeping Beauty, which delves into yet another "piquant" fairy tale of Charles Perrault, creating "a reverie and rumination over slumbering lives and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/16: Thao With The Get Down Stay Down, 'Adventures in Plymptoons!', 'The Birds of the Nile' MUSIC: Kill Rock Stars' Thao With The Get Down Stay Down will rock the Independent tonight at the Treasure Island night show, along with Bare Wires and The She's. (8:30 p.m.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/15: 'Bad Seed'/Patty McCormack Live, Yerba Buena Night, Non Stop Bhangra 7th Anniversary FILM: Actress Patty McCormack will be live in-person at Marc Huestis' tribute and screening of The Bad Seed, starring McCormack as "one of the most evil child characters ever to grace the screen.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/14: DocFest, 2 Blocks of Art, Beats for Boobs FILM: DocFest kicks off tonight with Dirty Pictures, about Dr. Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin, "the rogue chemist who discovered the effects of MDMA (aka Ecstasy) and over 200 other mind-altering drugs," earning him the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/13: 'Summer of Goliath', Lightbox SF Mixer and Artist Talk, Hot Mess 2011 FILM: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts kicks off its Mexico Rising: Films of Nicolás Peruda series, featuring the prolific work of acclaimed 27-year-old filmmaker Nicolás Peruda, with Summer of Goliath, "a quiet
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/12: People Under the Stairs, Jean Harlow Double Feature, Free Jazz/Sushi Party MUSIC: L.A. indie hip-hoppers People Under the Stairs will be playing a free show at Amoeba, promoting their latest album, Highlighter, which "features everything from full string sections to vintage vibraphones and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/11: The Renderers, Ariel Dorfman/Ilan Stavans, Bioneers Film Night MUSIC: New Zealand's The Renderers will fill the Hemlock with their psychedelic noise rock, which they've been making since before the 90s, along with folk psych-rockers Sore Eros from Northampton, Massachusetts and the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/10: Kal Spelletich Lecture, The Rileys, SORYA! A Minor Miracle (Part 1) ART: Berkeley Center for New Media presents a lecture entitled, Fear and Fun, by San Francisco based artist Kal Spelletich, who builds interactive machines, robots and installations, putting people in touch with intense
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/9: Girls/Sonny and the Sunsets, 'The Underpants', 'American Teacher' MUSIC: SF's Girls, who are said by the New York Times to have an "Elvis Costello, Buddy Holly, and The Beach Boys" sort of vibe take the stage with SF's Sonny and the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/8: Pam Ann, Rock Photographer Lynn Goldsmith, 'Better a Live Ass Than a Dead Lion' COMEDY: There will be a few tickets available at the door to see Pam Ann aka Australian comedienne Caroline Reid, "the fashion-flying, hard-drinking, A-list hostess to the stars," who's "touching down" in San
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/7: The Fresh & Onlys, First Friday on 24th, Get Sketchy at the de Young MUSIC: Local faves, The Fresh & Onlys, will rock the Great American tonight with their signature sound, which takes "a little from here and a little from there, sometimes from fifties rock, or
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/6: 'You Look Familiar,' Craft Bar, Alonzo King Talk ART: The SFAC Gallery and PhotoAlliance present You Look Familiar, an exhibition that depicts groups of people who share activities, identities, locations or some form of common ground -- "[f]rom fashionistas to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/5: Go the F**k to Sleep, Poetry World Series, Penny Arcade READING: Author Adam Mansbach will be at City Lights performing a complete reading of Go the F**k to Sleep, a kids book that's just for adults. (It's a phrase that SFist finds
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/4: John Lithgow, Haight/Fillmore Fire Relief Fundraiser, Dum Dum Girls LITERARY: There might still be tickets available at the door to see the multi-talented John Lithgow at the Kabuki Theater talking about his new memoir, Drama, which Steve Martin says, "tells of transgressions,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/3: Legends of Horror Go Noir, SF Mayoral Candidates Forum, Geoff Manaugh/Jeannene Przyblyski FILM: The Roxie continues its "block-busting, face-melting" TV Noir series with Legends of Horror Go Noir, a double-feature of "never-seen ragers and chillers," featuring horror heavy-hitters such as Bela Lugosi, Vincent Price, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/2: Toro Y Moi, 'We Don't Belong Here', 'Night of the Living Dead 3D' MUSIC: Toro y Moi, which started in 2001 as Chaz Bundick's bedroom project and was "born from a plethora of different genres, from freak-folk to R&B to French House," hits Great
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/1: ShEvil Dead, The Great SF Read-Out, Night School THEATER: It's opening night of Primitive Screwheads' month-long comedic theater production of ShEvil Dead, in which "[f]ive girls vacation at a cabin in the woods and inadvertently unleash powerful demons and monsters
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/30: Killing My Lobster, One Night Bookstand, Chicken John Block Party COMEDY: You have two weekends left to catch beloved local comedy troupe Killing My Lobster's latest sketch comedy show, Killing My Lobster Conquers the Galaxy, which includes "the real story of how Dr.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/29: 'The Beat is Law' Film, 'Lunatic Fringe' Book, 'Portrait of the Ground' Installation FILM: Watch Pulp make their legendary debut at 1995's Glastonbury Festival in the SF premiere of The Beat is Law: Fanfare for the Common People, in which the band delivered a set "regarded
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/28: Muni Diaries Live Reunion, Richie Spice, Banned Books Talk STORYTELLING: The talented folks at Muni Diaries, who are seriously funny people in person, are hosting their first Muni Diaries Live Reunion and Open Mic, featuring Muni Diaries Live alumni telling the stories
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/27: Sketch Tuesday, The Sound Of Cinema, SF Comedy Competition Semi-Finals ART: It's another installment of Sketch Tuesdays, your monthly golden opportunity to score cheap one-of-a-kind art ($5-30) that's created before your eyes by highly talented Bay Area artists. (7 p.m., 111 Minna
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/26: Django by the Bay, Dr. Ruth, 'Farmageddon' MUSIC: SF Bay Area Django Rheinhardtophiles unite at tonight's Django by the Bay celebration, featuring Le Jazz Hot (the quartet of the Hot Club of SF), Doug Martin's Avatar Ensemble, and Vic &
