Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker THEATER: Celebrating the New Year, the international troupe Shen Yun performs classical Chinese dance at the War Memorial Opera House. Evolved over five thousand years, classical Chinese dance includes both
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker BOOKS: San Francisco author Jason Myers discusses his second book, The Mission. It's the story of a young man who moves to San Francisco after his brother is killed in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker COMEDY: Jon Lovitz is more than just the “Yeah, yeah! That’s the ticket!” guy. He also, more importantly, convinced Lisa Kudrow to quit her job as a medical researcher
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker FILM: If the holidays are making you crazy, watch Psycho. That way, you'll be too scared to take a shower and you'll smell crazy too. If people sniff and ask,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker HOLIDAY: Oh come all ye faithful to the 80th Annual Golden Gate Park Christmas Tree Lighting. Put on by the San Francisco Parks Trust (sfpt.org), the free event will
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DANCE: RAW (resident artist workshop) presents choreographer Aura Fischbeck Dance, who will be sharing a new improvisational work entitled “moment studies, too,” which incorporates the expression of the body in the present moment,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DANCE: It's the last night of the 11th Annual Hip Hop Dance Fest, which has was the first event of its kind and has played host to dance companies throughout the world. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: CineKink: San Francisco, a touring version of NYC's "kinky film festival," has been at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts this weekend. Tonight's films include The Auteur at 7 p.m., a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The Oakland Underground Film Festival presents the San Francisco premiere of Black Dynamite, an action-packed comedy rooted in the traditions of American Blaxploitation and Kung Fu films, such as Shaft (1971), Super
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COCKTAIL PARTY: Wow, we're intrigued. Bold Italic presents 1939. Tog to the Bricks!, a decadent cocktail party from the 1930s, celebrating the opening of the World's Fair. The organizers promise "a raucous good
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LIT: One of the first performance artists and a New York Underground cultural icon, Penny Arcade (Susan Ventura), will make a rare appearance tonight in celebration of her new book, Bad Reputation: Performances,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Director Barry Jenkins joins SF Film Society Director Graham Leggat for a screening of Medicine for Melancholy and a conversation afterwards. M4M, which was shot in a mere three weeks and made
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Multimedia artist Carter riffs off of Robert Rauschenberg's iconic drawing Erased Willem de Kooning in Erased James Franco, in which contemporary actor, James Franco, is stripped of the sureties of his craft
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight VARIETY: The Devil-Ettes and The Mini Skirt Mob pay tribute to the great 60’s variety shows like Laugh-In, Shindig, and Hullabaloo in the action-packed Go Go Spectacular. Special guests The Barbary Coasters
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Paul Madonna will debut his annual publication, Album, along with an exhibit of his corresponding large-scale, pen-and-ink drawings of '70s and '80s era toys, which serve as a catalog to the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight GALA: AIGA San Francisco presents Hung up, its annual fall gala. This year, AIGA celebrates the art of skateboarding and has invited its members to contribute custom skate decks, which will be auctioned
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Soul legend Bill Withers (of "Ain't No Sunshine," "Lean on Me," and "Just the Two of Us" fame) is profiled in the new documentary Still Bill, which will be screening in San
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight HISTORY: As part of the SF Museum and Historical Society's 2009 "Neighborhoods of San Francisco" program, author and historian Woody LaBounty will reintroduce the community to Beachside Bohemia: Carville-by-the-Sea and the Birth of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Attention adventurous singles with some extra cash -- Improv Dating Scene might be for you. The event begins with a comedy show with Big City Improv performing sketches based on audience suggestions.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Filmmaker Nara Denning will be celebrating the release of her new DVD Neurotique with a premiere screening. Neurotique is a collection of six silent and tragic love stories set to live musical
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Alternative Tentacles have been celebrating their 30th Anniversary with an Incest-A-Thon this weekend. Tonight's line-up is Alice Donut, Victims Family, and Burning Image. 7:30 p.m. // Great American Music Hall (859
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Tonight's the monthly First Thursday Art Walk, in which local galleries are open late for casual open houses. Some exhibitions of note are Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Evolution of a Painter at George Krevsky
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight VIDEO: Check out the West Coast premiere of Target Video's SF Punk, as part of the SF Main Library's Punk Passages exhibit. The film features Bay Area early punk legends The Avengers, Dead
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Comedian and playwright Rick Reynolds presents his hilarious and gut-wrenching personal confessions and childhood remembrances in Love, God, Sex (and and other stuff I don’t have), which is directed by Jason
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight VARIETY SHOW: Tonight is the premiere of PianoFight's Monday Night ForePlays, a female-driven variety show that will run every Monday through November 23. Consisting of comedy sketches, original dance numbers, a rotating line-up
