Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The 5th Annual San Francisco Int'l Animation Festival kicks off with a screening of Here Come the Waves: The Hazards of Love Visualized, featuring four animators' widely different interpretations of the epic
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Craig Baldwin presents Radical Light: Bay Area Found Footage -- From Junk to Funk to Punk, a celebration of found footage filmmaking, which has quite a history in our local heritage. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Organ Spectacular!, which has been bringing the organ out of the church and into underground dens since 1997, features "semi-improvised opulence, clanglorious classics and a smattering of blotpolished battletech electronics to settle
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: Intrepid literary journalist turned bona fide counterculture icon, Daniel Pinchbeck, celebrates the release of his highly anticipated Notes From The Edge Times, a collection of his most compelling writings on sex, money,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Southern Exposure and The San Francisco Film Society present Cross Cuts, a screening of experimental video and film by twelve Bay Area artists, as part of the Cinema By the Bay festival.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Iconic photographer Glen E. Friedman brings his touring collection of work, Fuck You All, to San Francisco for the first time. The exhibition features one of the most significant photographic contributions to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Designer Lil Tuffy, who has a vast portfolio of local and international rock show posters, presents his third annual exhibition of over 225 new pieces of work, including limited edition screenprinted art,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Badly Happy: Pain, Pleasure, and Panic in Recent Romanian Art, a new exhibit curated by Erwin Kessler, represents work by Romanian artists from "a generation which struggles to make sense out of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The Castro presents an Arthur Penn Double Feature screening of Bonnie and Clyde, starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the psychotic bank robbers who terrorized the midwest in the Great Depression,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Get ready for a one-night only screening of the new documentary, Iconoclast: Boyd Rice, an "off-the-rails roller coaster ride spinning four decades of pop culture, music, art and film through the mind
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Check out SFist Halloween Events post for lots more ideas! PARTY: Triple Cobra, who were described by Spin as "Of Montreal meets Hedwig in Scissor Sisters' orgy room," take the stage at the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Spoke Art presents Bad Dads, an art show tribute to the films of Wes Anderson at the new LoPo Gallery, featuring a huge line-up of artists. Tonight's opening includes a special Halloween
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight STORYTELLING: Tonight's the Halloween installment of Muni Diaries Live!, featuring story tellers Derek Powazek (Fray Magazine), comedian Bucky Sinister, and Isaac Fitzgerald (The Rumpus), along with author Andrew Lam (Perfume Dreams and East
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: At Electronic Cinema, sound artists myrmyr and Kadet Kuhne will perform live electronic scores for experimental films by Sue-C, Paul Clipson, and Maia Cybelle Carpenter, incorporating and celebrating "unexpected ingredients and impressions,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Attends: Tricycle Music Fest West The rain didn't stop dozens of families from swarming the library on Sunday afternoon for the fabulous 2nd Annual Tricycle Music Fest West grand finale show. The show, which was originally scheduled to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: SF Cinemateque celebrates both the late filmmaker Curtis Harrington and the late, great Dennis Hopper in Remembering Dennis Hopper, featuring Harrington's first feature film and Hopper's first leading role, Night Tide (1961)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Classical Revolution, Lyz Luke and Porto Franco Records present two performances featuring over fifty musicians in ten bands covering the legendary album by The Velvet Underground and Nico. Get there early to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: Reverend Billy returns to San Francisco with the Life After Shopping Choir for The Earth-a-llujah Earth-a-llujah Revival! 7 p.m. // Victoria Theatre (2961 16th St) // $12 MUSIC: The Bay Area's top three
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: When We Leave (Die Fremde), the Centerpiece film at the current Berlin and Beyond Film Festival, features a mother struggling with the old-fashioned values of her family upon returning home to Germany
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: It's the first preview night for the limited run performance of In Here, No One Will Hear You Scream..., which is part radio play, part blues show, part confessional - "a tale
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Talia Greene's new series of prints, Colony, were created by pairing weaver ants with altered portraits of 19th century Westerners with Orientalist postcards taken and traded by Westerners in the Colonial
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: It's opening night of All About Evil: The Peaches Christ Experience in 4-D, a special four-night extravaganza featuring live "music, spectacle, and gore couture," with Peaches Christ, the Midnight Mass Players, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Hesta Prynn (formerly of Northern State) brings her own blend of electro-hip-hop-art-rock to the stage, along with LA's Kenan Bell and SF's 40Love. 8 p.m. // Rickshaw Stop (155 Fell St) // $10-12
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: It's another installment of the monthly live art extravaganza, Sketch Tuesdays, featuring live sketching/art-making by local artists, who will offer their pieces for sale for around $25 or less, and Dr.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Comedy outsiders Jason Rouse, Chris Neff, Sam Tripoli, and Ari Shaffir have joined forces as The Monsters of Comedy, a touring renegade stand-up comedy collective taking the mainstream comedy world by storm.
