Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DRAG: It's the 14th Annual SF Drag King Contest, the biggest and longest running drag king contest in the world. This year's event is beach-themed, and proceeds will benefit P.A.W.S.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: San Francisco artist Micke Tong will be exhibiting a new series of site-specific conceptual art pieces, drawings, and installation sculptures in Micro-Habitat. Viewers can expect to find "low-rider inspired candy colored taxidermy
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: It's a double feature at the Castro with cult classic Repo Man, starring Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton, and Model Shop, about an American who receives a draft notice for the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Tonight is the first preview night of Cal Shakes' production of Samual Beckett's Happy Days, directed by Jonathan Moscone. Beckett's astounding portrait of a woman buried up to her waist in sand
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Off-the-wall comedian Maria Bamford has a knack for introducing the audience to her myriad of multiple personalities/dysfunctional family members during her stand-up routine, and we especially enjoy her occasional appearances on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Japanese cowboy possessing amazing yodeling skills Toshio Hirano will perform his beloved bluegrass favorites for adoring fans as part of Amnesia's free Bluegrass Mondays. 8:30 p.m. // Amnesia (853 Valencia St)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FOOD: Explore the Slow Food movement with tapas, wine, and a film screening at Slow Food on Film: Mad City Chickens. Mad City Chickens tells the story of how more and more city
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PARTY: It's an all-out celebration of art, music, surfing, and skating at Surf Movie Party. Local bands Thee Oh Sees, Black Bow, and bands from the Bay Area Girls Rock Camp will kick
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMMUNITY: Celebrate the diversity of Lower Haight with an evening of live music, live painting, food, drink, merriment, and merchant discounts at the Lower Haight Art Walk. 7 to 10 p.m. // Haight
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Nine emerging artists sought out inspiring mentors to explore the collaborative experience for Ever Gold Gallery's Double Trouble exhibition. Mentor-student pairs include John Casey + Althea James, Jihaari Terry + Kale Cooley, Tara Foley
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PARTY: Celebrate with the Bay Guardian at their 35th Annual Best of the Bay Party. There will be live music performances by Sila & The Afrofunk Experience, J-Boogie's Dubtronic Science, Sellassie, and The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: Joe Goode Performance Group presents Traveling Light, an installation combining dance, language, irony and reflection, which will take the audience on a journey through the vaults and chambers of the oldest stone
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: The Thunderbird Theatre Company presents Aaron Trotter and the Incident at Bikini Beach, a coming-of-age comedy in which Aaron Trotter, boy wizard/surfer must win the respect of his classmates, overcome the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: There are still tickets available for the epic Sonic Youth show at the lovely Fox Theater tonight (in case you weren't lucky enough to score tickets to their surprise show at the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The Heavenly States, along with French Miami, Railcars, 60 Watt Kid, Anderson Congress and Vitiligo, rally the troupes at tonight's DorkFest. 7:30 p.m. // Cafe Du Nord (2170 Market) // $10-$12
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Our favorite part of the Kill Bill magnum opus? Daryl Hannah as Elle Driver. Which is surprising since she's never been good in anything, ever. (Quentin Tarantino, if we may snit, is
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: San Francisco artist Brian Barneclo, whose colorful, retro-esque murals adorn high-profile locales, such as the SF Bay Guardian building, Kilowatt, and NoPa, will be showing his new body of paintings at the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The SF Bike Coalition is kicking off their summer Bike-In Movie Series with the beloved BMX cult classic Rad, featuring "the amazing and infamous bike dance scene" with a young Lori Loughlin
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: He might appear rather nerdy to those who haven't been fortunate enough to hear his music, but Jarvis Cocker's titillating voice and songwriting are sure to throw his fans into quite a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight CLUB: The traveling Soul Clap/Dance-Off event hosted by New York City's "maximum rock and soul DJ" Mr. Jonathan Toubin is stopping in San Francisco for one epic night of soul 45s with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Golden Thread Productions presents the world premiere of Ecstasy | a waterfable, which was Inspired by the 9th century Sufi fable, "When the Waters Were Changed," where stories are "written in water, spells
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Tonight's Kafana Balkan party, which is a benefit for Hleb i Sir Cirkus (Bread and Cheese) who provide free circus shows and workshops for refugee children in Kosovo, will feature high-energy Balkan
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Hayes Valley Art Coalition is celebrating the installation of Adaptations, a site specific sculpture created by San Francisco artist Mark Baugh-Sasaki, which is constructed of a steel skeleton filled with locally-sourced salvaged
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Tonight's San Francisco Film Society's bi-monthly 360 Film+Club event is a "special edition, double-barreled mash-up program," featuring a screening of the documentary RiP: A Remix Manifesto directed by Web activist and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LIT: Did someone say free Scotch tasting? Enjoy a free tasting of Balvenie scotch with some light snacks, along with raffle prizes, as author Howard Miller celebrates the release of his book You’
