Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: JD Samson, of Le Tigre and the art/performance collective Men fame, will be spinning a special DJ set in celebration of the release of Men's debut album, Talk About Body, on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: SF Sketchfest presents Airplane! Tribute to Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, the film's brilliant writing and directing team. Joining the team onstage will be their leading man Robert Hays ("Ted
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: Kentucky Fried Woman will perform at Hotties 4 H0m0 Health Care, tonight's benefit for Lyon-Martin Health Clinic, which is trying to raise $250k in order to stay open. Also on the bill
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Tickets are still available for SF Sketchfest's Music Night, hosted by Web Soup's Chris Hardwick, featuring an impressive line-up of comedic musicians turning it up to 11, including David Koechner (of Anchorman
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight EROTICA: Get to Orgasmic! early for some tasty free vegan cupcakes (while supplies last), and stay for the tasty erotica by local sexpert, author and editor Violet Blue and New York author, editor
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Veteran queer rockers Pansy Division play their first show in SF since 2009, with special guests The Minks, an all-female Kinks cover band, and Bad Backs, a new band formed by a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The 2010 documentary Two In The Wave examines the great friendship and rivalry of the fathers of French New Wave, François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, weaving revealing period footage of both men
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Classic 70s funk band, WAR, perform their characteristically funky blend of soul, Latin, jazz, blues, reggae, and rock played with "the sunny, laid-back vibe emblematic of their Southern California roots." 8 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Roots Reggae masters, Midnite, who combine the cultural lyrics of "old school" roots music with modern sensibilities, bring their "epic musical communion" to San Francisco for two nights at The Independent. SF's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Over several years, Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan filmed Last Train Home, which follows a couple who make the annual New Year's exodus, along with 130 million other migrant workers, from China's cities
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Need a pick-me-up tonight? Look no further than Kafana Balkan, who provide the biggest, "crazed Gypsy brass band dance party" in town, featuring "hundreds of swarthy men with dangling moustaches and pork-pie
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: See legendary hip hop artist and long-time Will Smith collaborator, DJ Jazzy Jeff, perform in the intimate setting of Mighty. Also on the bill are Apollo, Sake One, and The Whooligan. 9
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Viracocha hosts a night of acoustic indie folk with Foxtails Brigade, featuring classically trained duo, vocalist-guitarist Laura Weinbach and violinist Anton Patzner, along with Chloe Makes Music and Jascha Versus Jascha. 8
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Any animal-lover is sure to shed a tear at My Dog Tulip, an animated, bittersweet retrospective account of author J. R. Ackerley’s 16-year relationship with his adopted Alsatian bitch, Tulip. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: The SF Sketchfest 10-Year Reunion brings together the festival's original six groups that took the stage of the tiny Shelton theater a decade ago, featuring Colin Mahan and Mike Spiegelman of The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Moby, Martha Plimpton, and Thao Nguyen of Thao and the Get Down Stay Down will make guest appearances at SF Sketchfest's The Dave Hill Explosion, a variety show in which Dave talks,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Japantown Peace Plaza Outdoor Cinema & Karaoke presents a free screening of Hong Kong comedy classic, Shaolin Soccer. The film stars Stephen Chow as a young shaolin follower who forms a soccer
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Tickets are still available for "indie-rock supergroup' sideshow" Sweet Apple, featuring J. Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.), Tim Parnin and John Petkovic (Cobra Verde), and Dave Sweetapple (Witch). Dead Meadow and Carlton Melton are
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Clue, "a play based on a movie based on a board game," has been adapted for the stage. The audience watches from six feet in the air as six guests and a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: Bob Dylan's foremost interpreter, Greil Marcus, will read from his eponymous collection, Writings 1968-2010, compiled of dozens of pieces that are "the result of a more than forty-year engagement between an unparalleled
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: FunCheapSF informs us of the folkYEAH! Winter Residency at Slim's, as part of the venue's $5 Concert series. Tonight's show features Sweet Chariot, Sparrows Gate, Montra, and Nico Georis & Matt Baldwin.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Get a taste of Seattle hip-hop tonight with the gritty yet smooth Champagne Champagne, along with Seattle's Mad Rad, and the Bay Area's C U Next Weekend and Moe Greene. 9 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: It's night two of the Castro's epic Hitchcock Double-Feature Marathon, which runs through Thursday. Tonight's films include the classic Rope, which was Hitchock's first color film, and the "humorless and uncharacteristically noirish"
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Gallery Hijinks presents As It Was Before an exhibition of new works by Martin Machado and Todd Freeman with installations by Aleksandra Zee, who use "nature and science to reinterpret memories, fables
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: sfSound's San Francisco Tape Music Collective kicks off the trippie-sounding San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2011, featuring three nights of classic audio art and new fixed media compositions. Twenty local and international
