Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The 54th San Francisco International Film Festival opens tonight with a screening of the new film Beginners, starring Christopher Plummer as a senior who comes out of the closet in the wake
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SCIENCE: The saga of killer plants prevails at Conservatory of Flowers' new Wicked Plants: Botanical Rogues & Assassins exhibit, and tonight's after hours event, Plants Behind Bars, will provide an extra eerie take
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight TALK: Wired's Steven Levy speaks in conversation with journalist John Battelle at Inside Google: The Myths, the Culture and the Secret Sauce, about his book In the Plex, in which Levy dives deep
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Peptastic ensemble of super-star musicians, The New Pornographers, visits the Regency Ballroom to lift you out of your dreary, tax day doldrums and warm your weary heart, with special guests Menomena. 7
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Jackeline Rago directs Venezuelan Music Project, a dynamic ensemble that performs a wide range of music combining Indigenous-Venezuelan, West African and Spanish-European influences -- from folklore-driven songs (executed with traditional instruments) to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: The gorgeous and hilarious Aisha Tyler, former host of Talk Soup and the voice of sexy, superspy Lana Kane on FX’s animated series Archer, not to mention the reigning Celebrity Jeopardy
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Have you walked along Divisadero lately? It's pretty dang swank these days. Check out all it has to offer at the Divisadero Spring Art Walk. Peruse lots of great art and enjoy
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Musician Dina Emerson, who "combines voice, text, electronics, physical theater and specifically chosen physical objects/materials to create works that defy categorization," will perform a new collection of work that was inspired
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight CLUB: What will the hipsters think of next? Grab the nearest tutu and head over to the 222 Club for Tutu Tuesday, featuring Varsity All-Star DJ Mike Khoury, who melts the boundaries between
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: There are still some tickets available for the refreshingly inappropriate Sarah Silverman, who's at Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall for one night only, as she performs her trademark stand-up comedy along with a little
misc SFist Tonight ART: Tonight is the opening reception gala for the 11th Annual Art Explosion Spring Open Studios, which is happening all weekend. Over 140 artists, including painters, sculptors, photographers, fashion designers, jewelers and textile
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Explore the questionable world of anti-graffiti vigilantism with the new documentary, Vigilante Vigilante, which follows Berkeley's Jim Sharp and other anti-graffiti zealots who "stop at nothing to rid their neighborhoods and cities
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: Tonight kicks off Fantomas-By-The-Bay, a centennial celebration of pulp fiction writers Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain's ultimate anti-hero, who was as enigmatic as he was treacherous. Tonight's reception, Fantomas Strikes the Bay!
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Brooklyn-bred (Park Slope, to be exact) rap visionary, Talib Kweli, will be at the Fillmore tonight, stimulating your body and your intellect with his own brand of "conscious rap," in support of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: In the new "shocking and hilarious" documentary, Orgasm, Inc., filmmaker Liz Canner explores the medical industry as an employee at a pharmaceutical company that is simultaneously creating a new disease, Female Sexual
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Tonight's Bad Movie Night kicks off Blaxploitation Month with Shaft, starring Richard Roundtree as the quintessentially cool private eye and featuring opening credits that "make Times Square look awesome and gritty and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PRINTMAKING: At tonight's opening of Light/Dark, a group exhibition featuring one piece of artwork each by 53 members of the California Society of Printmakers selected by renowned Bay Area printmaker Enrique Chagoya,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SCIENCE: Drink cocktails served by actual robots and expect a "snarky" electronic bartender at the fourth annual BarBot 2011, a celebration of cocktail culture and man-machine interface. Drink up! 9 p.m. // pariSoma
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: SF Cinemateque presents Radical Light: In Search of Christopher MacLaine -- Man, Artist, Legend, which provides an in-depth look at four films by San Francisco Beat poet Christopher Maclaine -- The End,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: At the titillating The Reality Shows: Karen Finley Uncensored, Karen Finley, whose performance work is renowned for shattering taboos surrounding sex, gender, and celebrity, will perform excerpts from her new book, which
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Werner Herzog tells the true story of The Enigma of Kasper Hauser, one of his most compelling films, about a young man who had been held captive in a dungeon his whole
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: "Rollicking" garage jazz quartet, Bait & Switch, featuring bassist Lisa Mezzacappa, performs original music inspired by adventurous jazz masters like Ornette Coleman, Henry Threadgill, the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Eric Dolphy,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Brooklyn's Miniature Tigers, who are described as, "[a]side from the bread-and-butter combo of a tight rhythm section and jangly guitars, the Tigers include analog soft synths, distant slide guitars, and multi-layered
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FOOD: The second shift of ForageSF's ever popular Night Market will feature hot food from a big line-up of vendors such as Little Knock, The Grilled Cheese Guy, and SF Delicious, among many
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Tonight's Snob Theater, a series showcasing the best in the Bay Area's indie rock bands and stand-up comedians in a very small, intimate setting, features comedians Anita Drieseberg, Sam Davidoff, Sammy K
