Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The dynamic trio made up of seasoned musicians, John Dieterich (Deerhoof), Scott Amendola (Nels Cline), and Thollem McDonas (soloist), will perform together alongside New York filmmaker Martha Colburn's 16 mm stop motion
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: At tonight's installment of the Soundwave Festival (4), The Archives of the Natural World in the Illuminated Forest, singer-songwriter Odessa Chen will collaborate with sound artist [ruidobello] and visual artist Samuel Leshnick
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Gallery Hijinks is hosting their first event, which includes two opening receptions, Free Life Center, a mobile art center crafted from salvaged material by Portland artists Mark Warren Jacques and Seth Neefus,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The Long Now and the SFMOMA Artist’s Gallery present Wondrous Strange: A Twenty-first Century Cabinet of Curiosities, an exploration of time through art, whimsy, music, and mechanics, which will feature work
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: Bread for the Journey San Francisco, a new community development organization, is having a fundraiser for Kid Serve, who are creating a four-story mosaic at 170 Otis Street with teenagers in foster
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: It's another Hayes Valley Farm Film Night, featuring PBS "plant's eye view" documentary, Botany of Desire, which is based on Michael Pollen's book. The documentary is a "sensuous and eye-opening exploration into
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight WORKSHOP: Well, that looks pretty cool. Learn how to make your own cardboard synthesizer at the Outsound New Music Summit's How to Build Your Own Skatchbox Demo. San Francisco veteran instrument builder Tom
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Tonight's Bad Movie Night feature, in which the hosts continue their celebration of the "Giant Floating Head" poster, is Days of Thunder (audio), featuring some "streaky cars down below" and Tom Cruise's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: A garden party with projected multimedia art sounds like a lovely idea. SOMArts Cultural Center presents Night Light: Multimedia Garden Party, featuring abstract sound, video, and site-specific film installations "spilling through the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Open Post New mom and SFist editor Leanne Maxwell is out for the day doing worldly things, so we're trying to tackle "Tonight' today. Our pick? Go see Inception. It looks like it could be
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Nymph O' Mania, a modern twist on A Midsummer Night's Dream, opens tonight and runs through August 15. Set in a redwood forest in Northern California, the play features a wedding, an
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Happy Bastille Day! Looking for more events to celebrate this French holiday (in addition to the one below)? Then head on over to Eye on Blogs. ART: In Leave No Trace, artists Elisheva
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: In Yatterman, Takashii Miike "takes the audience for a wild ride of robotics and animation in an adolescent battle of good vs evil with some cheeky elements of young lust tossed in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Folk Yeah presents a line-up of folk/psychedelic bands at the Rickshaw, featuring Farmer Dave Scher (Beachwood Sparks and All Night Radio), Seventeen Evergreen, Tim Cohen (The Fresh & Onlys), and Night
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: San Francisco Mixtape Society presents their third event, which is themed Foreign vs. Familiar. Assemble a mix according to the theme in any format (cassette, CD, or USB) and trade with someone
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Magician Christian Cagigal's magic show, Obscura, which was created for "believers, skeptics, those who hate magic shows, and those who hate theatre," weaves magic, fairy tales, and dark fables into "an intimate
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight CRAFT: Scissors for Lefty will perform at the opening night party for TechnoCRAFT: Hackers, Modders, Fabbers, Tweakers and Design in the Age of Individuality, which focuses on the intersection of technology and craft
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The annual Another Hole in the Head Film Festival kicks off tonight with Death Kappa, which takes a modern look at the Japanese mythical monster that possesses part animal and part human
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Photographer Jamie McHugh exhibits Seascapes, a series of natural abstract photographs of the Sonoma Coast’s tidal zone with unusual points of view. 6 to 9 p.m. // Dickerman Prints Gallery (3180
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Correction: Black Crown Stringband will perform "fiddle driven old-time numbers, twisted up bluegrass standards and plain old straight ahead mountain music at Belle Monroe and Her Brewglass Boys bring their clever name
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The Roxie has it going on with a double summer comedy feature today, One Crazy Wet Hot American Summer, featuring sleeper classic, Wet Hot American Summer (Michael Ian Black is our fave)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: This weekend's installment of Peaches Christ's Midnight Mass savors all things Prince, and not to mention Apollonia, with '80s classic, Purple Rain. Singing and dancing in the aisles is encouraged. The event
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Cooperative art gallery and shared studio, Big Umbrella Studios, presents From The Beginning, featuring work from their newest members: Jessica Patrick, Vanessa Beckrum, Charlie Mirador, Annamarie Pabst, Chance Carstensen, Beja Tinsley, Chad
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Better Weather presents their first exhibition of the summer, featuring an array of "colourfully bright and stunning pieces" by contributing artists, Chrissy Angliker, Erin McCarty, Bill Dunlop, and Jessica Delorme, which will
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Elbo Room presents a night of rootsy rock with Buxter Hoot'n, Mark Matos & Os Beaches, and Glenn Labs. 9 p.m. // Elbo Room (647 Valencia St) // $5 COMEDY: Catch Eddie's brother,
