Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Southern Exposure presents An Evening of Bollywood and Tabla with Robin Sukhadia, which includes a lecture focusing on RD Burman, the renowned film composer of Sholay, followed by a classical tabla performance
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The San Francisco Bay Guardian presents cool blue thing, the opening night party for YBCA's new exhibition, Reneé Green: Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams. Green is a world-renowned artist and current Dean
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: In celebration of Chinese New Year, Creativity Explored will showcase works by artists of Chinese descent in Tiger Leaping Gold Mountain. 7 to 9 p.m. // Creativity Explored (3245 16th St) // free
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PARTY: At BarBot 2010: "Get a drink from an actual robot. Chat up a snarky electronic bartender. Listen to some graceful tunes being played by robotic music makers. And, after downing your sixth
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: Silicon Valley visionary Jaron Lanier shares his expertise in his new book, You Are Not a Gadget. He'll discuss how programming decisions made decades ago have had enormous—and often unintended—consequences
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Fantastic Fest programmer and Twitch Film critic Rodney Perkins has compiled a collection of gems from the back catalogs of now-defunct public access stations from the Bay Area and beyond in Access
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Real couples tell the stories of how they first met while improv actors reenact the scene through sketches and songs at How We First. 8 p.m. // Herbst Theater (401 Van Ness
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Explore the underside of love this Valentine's Day Eve at Oddball Films' Love, Sex + VD! Classic social guidance and avant garde films and gender-bending cartoons will be screened. 8 to 10 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Using hand-and-rod puppets, masks, and original music created and performed by New York City’s Wakka Wakka Productions, Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitz tells the story of a Polish Jew who
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: In his latest exhibition Alex, artist Topher Chin depicts mescaline-enhanced experiences from a brief period during his teenage years with some appealingly trippy Op-Art. Get to the opening early -- the Fecal
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC:Gillian Welch and members of Old Crow Medicine Show will accompany bluegrass guitarist and harmony singer Dave Rawlings as part of the Dave Rawlings Machine at the Fillmore tonight. Rawlings will also
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The San Francisco and Shanghai Conservatories of Music will celebrate the creation of their sister-school relationship with their Shanghai Celebration Concert, which coincides with the 30th anniversary of the signing of the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Indiefest documentary Oh My God! It's Harrod Blank! about local artist Harrod Blank, creator of interactive art pieces such as the Camera Van and the Flash Suit, showcases twenty years of footage
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Obscure Canadian metal band Anvil, whose comeback warmed the hearts of America (and Japan), in Anvil! The Story of Anvil!, will be turning it up to 11 at the Fillmore tonight. 8
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker CLUB: Without being facetious, it's safe to say Ishi Hideaki is huge in Japan. Under the moniker DJ Krush, he has released a dozen albums as a hip hop producer
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker FILM: In 2009's Paranormal Activity, a young couple puts a video camera in their home to discover what's making strange noises in the night. And boy, don't they wish it
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker MUSIC: The Winter Music Festival, presented by SF Indiefest, begins tonight with a show at Bottom of the Hill. Moody, lounge-y, goth singer Rykarda Parasol performs. Daughter of a Swede
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker MUSIC: Oakland rappers, The Souls Of Mischief, will play a live set at "Left Fest" to promote their new album Montezuma's Revenge. The night also features performances by Crown Royale,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker FILM: The 8th Annual Film Noir Festival continues at Castro Theatre with a double feature of "bad girl" themed films. In One Girl's Confession from 1953, Cleo Moore plays a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker FILM: The stock market wasn't the only thing that crashed in October 2008. In Conart Confidential: The Great Contemporary Art Bubble, critic and filmmaker Ben Lewis chronicles the swelling and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker THEATER: If you missed the film version with Meryl Streep, or if you just can't get enough of behind-the-cloister scandals, catch the New Conservatory Theater production of Doubt: A Parable.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker SCIENCE: Ever been to a cocktail party and wished you had some bit of information to share that would be so fascinating, so relevant, and so unique that you'd be
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker DANCE: Returning for six encore performances after a sold out run in April 2009, The Illustrated Book of Invisible Stories. Presented by Janice Garrett and Charles Moulton, the show features
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Ever been in a movie theater and thought, "This film would be so much better drunk"? Shattuck Cinemas has heard your whispered asides! Screenings this week of A Serious Man and An
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker FILM: Quentin Tarantino's Holocaust re-imagining Inglorious Basterds screens at The Independent as part of their "Best of 2009" Monday night film series. The revenge fantasy features Nazi scalping. 8 p.
