Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival, Art Showcase at City Hall, and ATA/Other Cinema Screening & Benefit for Dara Greenwald CABARET: The San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival kicks off tonight with Love for $ale: A Sweet Talking, Street Walking Burlesque Cabaret, featuring an exciting and arousing evening of "hookers, hustlers,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: 'Camille 2000' at YBCA, ArtPad SF at Phoenix Hotel, and Nightlife on Mars Comedy FILM: You really can't go wrong with a flm series featuring classic vintage erotic gems. Camille 2000, ("softcore sexploitation at its most stylish and sophisticated)" kicks off YBCA's Three-Way: A Trilogy of Vintage
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: We must say, The Fiery Furnaces have the best band bio we've ever read. Catch an intimate show with the clever and talented brother and sister duo, Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger tonight
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 SFist Tonight COMEDY: Tickets are still available for the delightfully inappropriate Chelsea Handler, bestselling author, talk show host, comedian, and actress who has redefined the talk show format, at Oakland's Paramount Theatre. Handler is promoting
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The laser kitten mural sighting from a couple of weeks back turned out to be for tonight's stellar Apocalypse Meow show at Space gallery, which examines the dominance of all things feline
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Central Market Art in Storefronts, Femi Kuti & The Positive Force, and 'Apocalypse Maybe' ART: The Mid-Market revitalization keeps on truckin' as the SF Arts Commission's latest Art in Storefronts project heads to central Market Street, presenting six storefront installations and five murals. Tonight's opening event will
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Countess Katya Cabaret, Bike From Work Party, and Good Magazine's Good Design SF Competition CABARET: It's opening night of The Countess Katya Smirnoff-Skyy's Katya Takes You Home, a comedic romp around the world with "San Francisco's favorite Russian countess opera diva turned Macy's cosmetic counter lady," who
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMICS: Daniel Clowes, of Ghost World fame, is at City Lights tonight celebrating the release of Mister Wonderful, a newly published collection of his Eisner Award-winning comic series that originally appeared in The
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
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Kung Pao Kosher Comedy, Monthly Rumpus, and 'Hair' COMEDY: Shazia Mirza, award-winning British Muslim stand up comedian who "could have married a rich man and lived in a mansion with servants, bidets, and horses, but instead she chose to drive up
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Jacqueline Gallagher paints refreshingly sexy zombies who float "aimlessly through life, but they look good doing it." The pieces in Gallagher's delightfully named exhibition, Of Melancholy and Monkey Business reflect the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: SF Sketchfest presents two new never before-riffed films in San Francisco at The Return of Cinematic Titanic with Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, J. Elvis Weinstein, Frank Conniff and Mary Jo Pehl from
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The San Francisco International Film Festival wraps up tonight with a screening of On Tour, the risque and "unsentimental homage to the burlesque show" that "reminds us that women have real bodies—
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The Rickshaw presents a night of female-led, garage/shoegazy pop, featuring Vivian Girls, who are celebrating the release of their third full-length album, Share the Joy, along with Montreal/LA's No Joy,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: There are a just a handful of tickets left to see the delightfully and uproariously trashy John Waters at JCCSF tonight (we hope that bomb threat doesn't mess things up!), who will
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC/FILM: Snatch up some tickets, while they're still available to Tindersticks: Claire Denis Film Scores 1996-2009, a special, live SFIFF presentation featuring the UK's Tindersticks performing works from an original score that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: San Francisco Performances presents Dance, a groundbreaking revival of the 1979 minimalist masterpiece performed by its original collaborators -- choreographer Lucinda Childs' current company will recreate the dance piece on stage with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Oakland-based Goapele (pronounced Gwa-pa-lay), who's inspired by a tradition of soulful singers like Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Bob Marley, and Miriam Makeba, "mixes sweet soul vocals, jazz funk instrumentation and hip hop
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: SF Camerawork presents the second annual Looking Forward, Giving Back benefit, an evening of music, photography, and a silent auction benefiting First Exposures, which provides free weekly photography classes for underserved youth,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: New York-based artist group, The Bruce High Quality Foundation (BHQF), hits the Bay Area tonight on their national Teach 4 Amerika tour which is inspired by the spectacle and energy of a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: Take advantage of the fact that the Eagle Tavern is open for at least another month and head over to see Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Carletta Sue Kay and The Sandwitches
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Set in a circular system of labyrinthine streets, much like the film’s twisting narrative, Asleep in the Sun, which is "a wildly inventive mix of Kafkaesque nightmare and political allegory," delves
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight STORYTELLING: Celebrate three years of the fabulous Muni Diaries at Muni Diaries Live 5 tonight. Bring a Muni tale with you and hit the stage with H.P. Mendoza, screen writer and composer
