Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: It's a punk extravaganza with the legendary Toys That Kill, Fleshies, and Rank/Xerox. 9 p.m. // The Hemlock Tavern (1131 Polk St) // $7 FILM: Gary Busey, Corey Haim, and Keanu Reeves
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Mark Warren Jacques will exhibit a new series of work, I’m Here Now, which unveils a new direction in concept and theory in Jacques' work, inspired by his newly acquired
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Relationships between couples in crisis and the tensions between noise and silence take center stage at One-Act Fringe, an annual festival of student-penned plays. The festival has a track record for acting
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: At the Exquisite Book Project Signing Party & Live Drawing event, co-author Julia Rothman will be signing copies of The Exquisite Book, which features work created by 100 artists while taking part
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Several Bay Area artists will be showing their work at the group exhibition, Above the Plane, which will "navigate the viewers through a habitat of art away from the traditional wall hangings
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Grant Morrison, who's known as the "Rock Star of Comics," is profiled in Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods. The film features extensive interviews with Morrison, along with never before seen photos and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Capsula, from Spain, bring their mix of "straight-up scuzzy garage punk and like Death Valley 69-era Sonic Youth" sound to the Elbo Room. SF's Blammos and The Angel & Robot Show (a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Local artists Chor Boogie, Jacqueline Norheim, Rose Smith, Kirsten Harkonen, and many others will be selling their work at The Restoration Art & Music & Fundraiser. One hundred percent of art sales,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: SOMArts presents its annual Day of the Dead exhibit, Honoring Revolution with Visions of Healing, featuring altars and installations that will honor the dead and provide offerings to the living. Tonight's opening
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: The refreshingly goofy Kristen Schaal, most notably known as Flight of the Conchords' biggest fan and a regular correspondent on The Daily Show, will be at Cobb's all weekend. Schaal's new book
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Bay Area artist John Belingheri will exhibit his calming and mesmerizing collection of oil and mixed media paintings on canvas, which "express an interrelationship of form, process, contradictions and turmoil". 5:30
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The original members of the legendary Guided By Voices (aka, Guided By Beer) will perform GBV's classic songs from 1992 to 1996 off of the albums Propellor, Bee Thousand, Alien Lanes and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Japanese garage punk power trio Guitar Wolf, who coined the phrase "jet rock 'n' roll", which they also use to describe their musical style -- an energetic cross between the Ramones, rockabilly,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Fresh celebrates the farmers, thinkers, and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system and confronting the consequences of industrialized agriculture: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Spirit Games + Ruby Hawk Productions present Spirit Games Vol 4, featuring "unfiltered, deeply-grooved and intense Nigerian Afrobeat -- tribal break beats keeping you dialed in on the dance floor and sweating to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART/FASHION: Velvet da Vinci presents The Plastic Show, featuring work by 75 jewelry designers employing a variety of plastic materials such as resin, latex, rubber, epoxy, and thermoplastics, many of which are
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: It's opening night of Thrillpeddlers' 11th annual presentation of Shoctober Fest 2010: Kiss of Blood, a series of three one-act Grand Guignol terror plays and titillating farces. Plays include Kiss of Blood,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight TALK: Illustrator, artist, designer, and author Maira Kalman, whose delightful work appeals to adults and kids alike and is currently on exhibit at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, has come out with a new
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The Wattis Institute presents Huckleberry Finn, the third show in a trilogy of exhibitions that are based on canonical American novels. The Huckleberry Finn exhibit features the work of several established and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Hal Hartley fans can enjoy a double feature tonight and tomorrow night. Films include Surviving Desire, about a handsome young college professor smitten with a beautiful female student, and The Book of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PHOTOGRAPHY: Can You See Me? - A Life through the Lens features a 40-photo exhibition, some of them never before seen, featuring the legendary Jimi Hendrix, including his debut at the 1967 Monterey
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Charles Ludlam, the visionary behind the notorious Ridiculous Theatrical Company from 1967-1987, created queer satires that embraced the "ridiculousness of high culture and the seriousness of the low with drag pastiche and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The Museum of Craft and Folk Art celebrates the Mexico’s Bicentennial Anniversary of Independence and the Centennial of the Revolution, with Volver: Mexican Folk Art into Play, in which the artists
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The SF Maritime Nat'l Park Association presents an encore screening to their popular Floating Films: Cinema At Hyde Street Pier series, featuring the epic Moby Dick. Watch the movie aboard the world's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: A lush and diverse sampling of artistic European erotic short films that blur the line between art and porn, is awaiting you at Sexy Euro Cinema. The event features the award-winning Matinée;
