Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Andrea Heimer, who hails from Bellingham, Washington, is exhibiting her latest series of watercolors in Fight!, which illustrates her fascination with “two halves of the same equation struggling against one another for
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DANCE: Enjoy a wine and appetizer reception preceding a special ODC/Dance Downtown one-hour performance, featuring Something About a Nightingale, River, and 24 Exposures. ODC will be performing at Yerba Buena through March
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Poet (who penned the now famous The Revolution Will Not Be Televised), activist, author, and pioneer of blues, jazz and funk, Gil Scott-Heron, will perform some of his classics along with new
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: In Den of Thieves, a pair of recovering kleptomaniacs, a drug dealer, and a topless dancer unsuccessfully join forces in order to pull off the perfect crime, resulting in a very long
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Copenhagen's Efterklang are touring the U.S. in celebration of the release of their new album Magic Chairs put out by 4AD. Local darlings Tartufi and New Zealander-transplants V.I.R. open.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SCIENCE: Harlan Emil Gruber will describe the math and "Earth energies" underlying his Portal installations that have been at Burning Man and other festivals over the last six years in Sacred Geometry + Earth
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Director Cathy Cook explores the life of poet Lorine Niedecker, who has been described as the 20th century's Emily Dickinson, in her film, Immortal Cupboard: In Search of Lorine Niedecker, which "weaves
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Happy Feet presents Defiant Proclamations: Radical Posters from the 1960s to the Present, an exhibit featuring old and new posters, handbills, and artifacts, "giving a glimpse of the broad range of opinions
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: In It All Came So Close to Never Happening, "a photographic exploration of human uprising and the world of tomorrow," photographer Anthony Kurtz presents two intertwining sets of photographs that blur "the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The U.K.'s The Clientele create moody psychedelic pop perfect for reminiscing on a rainy day or spacing out on a sun-drenched afternoon. The Wooden Birds, fronted by Andrew Kenny of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Violinist Jennifer Koh, whose "natural flair is matched with a probing intellect," "grabs the listener by the ears and refuses to let go." The concert also includes conversation with Koh. 6 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Poncho Sanchez, conga player and leader of the most popular Latin jazz group in the world today, spins "vivacious tales that pay homage to the glories of a half-century tradition that was
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: For the group photography show, I Got 5 on It, twenty photographers were asked to capture five seminal subjects: a chair, a flower, a window, a tree, and the road, in order
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Help restore the artwork that's part of the landmark Defenestration Building at the month-long Operation Restore Defenestration. Artist Brian Goggin has been given access to the building for a minimum of 18
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Xing Danwen's solo show, A Personal Diary -- China Avant-garde in 1990s tells Danwen's personal experience as a first-hand witness and participant in the avant-garde scene of 1990s China, as well
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: In his new exhibition Vulnerability, artist Philip Buller blends realism and abstraction in his depiction of bodies in transition, as if they're "experiencing a rebirth, or embarking on a new chapter in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Bay Area Women in Film and Media and Intersection for the Arts present "Clips and Conversation" featuring a sneak peak at two new soon-to-be released documentary films, The Heretics and Women Art
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Flamenco guitarist/singer/songwriter Freddy Clarke presents "Wobbly World," in which he brings together a wide range of musicians and singers from all parts of the globe, from Paraguay and Cuba to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: In conjunction with the Magnetic Fields’ closing the Noise Pop music festival, SF360 Film+Club presents a Sneak Preview of a New Documentary about the Stephin Merritt. The film follows Merritt over
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: fabric8 celebrates the revamping of their wood stain gallery with a new group collection of 6 in. x 12 in. originals focusing on the theme My Favorite Things. 7 to 10 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: RayKo’s Third Annual Juried Plastic Camera Show celebrates low-tech photography with an exhibit of imperfect yet beautiful photos shot with cheap film cameras, invoking a nostalgia for the latent image. 6
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Noise Pop and Hotel Biron present Outside the Crowd, a rock photography show that aims to "illustrate the musicians’ artistry and individual personalities through a single still photograph, and share the intimacy
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Grammy Award-winning classical/experimental group Kronos Quartet will be in San Francisco for four nights performing four different programs. Each performance will feature Jon Rose's Music from 4 Fences, along with a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Join established and emerging Bay Area artists for the monthly Sketch Tuesday, and score some original artwork for $5 to $30. And if there's room at the table, feel free to create
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Seminal goth/deathrock band Christian Death (fronted by Valor Kand, of course) are still at it, promoting their latest album, American Inquisition at the Red Devil tonight. 7 p.m. // The Red
