Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Chicago-based (and former San Francisco film school drop-out) Owen Ashworth, also known as Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, will bring his eclectic mix of forlorn beats-and-keys to Bottom of the Hill. Concern
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight GALA: Legendary Academy Award winner Patty Duke will be honored live and in-person in Sparkle, Patty, Sparkle! The event includes an interview with the zany Bruce Vilanch about Duke's stellar career, a screening
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The 8th annual Outsound New Music Summit, which is happening all week, invites you to Touch the Gear. The event is a free, hands-on, family-friendly environment that allows audiences to roam among
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The Afrofunk Music Festival presents Malian singer and guitarist Vieux Farka Toure, who combines traditional instruments with a modern sound. Luke Top and DJ Jeremiah open. 8:30 p.m. // The Independent
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Indie Industries is celebrating their one-year anniversary with We Are One. Art by Matt Atkins, Jason Raish, and Hella More Funner will be on exhibit, and food and beverages will be served.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SIDESHOW: Wrestling circus performers compete with wrestlers performing circus stunts in the When Legends Collide Tour: The Jim Rose Circus vs. Jake “The Snake” Roberts, with special guests Sinn Bohdi, Bebe the Circus
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Tonight is the start of The Crucible's 9th Annual Fire Arts Festival, an open-air exhibition of interactive fire art, performance and the largest collection of outdoor fire sculpture on the West Coast,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Happy Bastille Day! MEET-UP: The creators of Shitty Kitty are moving to Morocco, and this is Shitty Kitty's last meet-up for quite some time. So come by for their Bastille Day Partay and bid them adieu.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Rock veterans Tortoise, who defy categorization, are promoting the release of their first album in five years, Beacons of Ancestorship. Fellow Chicagoans and Thrill Jockey labelmates, Pit er Pat, open. 8 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Closing this weekend's Silent Film Festival is Lady of the Pavements, D.W. Griffith's last silent film -- a splendid romantic drama set in 19th century Paris. There will be piano accompaniment
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SPORTS: The San Francisco ShEvil Dead duke it out with the Richmond Wrecking Belles at the B.ay A.rea D.erby Girls' Duel on the Docks, a full contact, all female, flat-track
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Dennis McNulty of Infectious Art celebrates the '80s aesthetic in his latest exhibition 1981 Pervert by reappropriating the colors, shapes, and layouts of early 1980s men's magazine design, zeroing in on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: The Lab has been celebrating their 25th anniversary this month. Tonight, composers Miya Masaoka, founder of the San Francisco Gagaku Society, and Tomas Philips will perform. Phillips' performance will consist of an
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MOCK UP ON MU TRAILER - CRAIG BALDWIN FILM: The Bay Area's own Craig Baldwin, master of independent, experimental cinema, presents Mock Up on Mu, a feature-length "collage-narrative" based on (mostly) true stories
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight VARIETY: The Rumpus and Kink.com host a Sex, Music, Comedy Night with Jill Sobule, co-sponsored by The Center for Sex and Culture. The evening includes readings and performances from sex worker authors
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: This week's feature at Bad Movie Night is Rocky IV. Filmed at the height of the cold war, the statuesque Ivan Drago uses the highest technology to train for the fight of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Showcasing "the various extremes of human behavior and the bizarre worlds that surround them," the one-night show, Bazooko's Circus, will feature 50 dark and experimental pieces by Bay Area artists, including photography,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: It's the closing night party of Trace Elements, in which Bay Area artists were posed with questions such as "Does the urban environment hold secrets or codes that would provide a greater
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LIT: Novella Carpenter, author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, will be on hand to discuss her adventures with raising chickens, geese, ducks, turkeys, a beehive, rabbits, and pigs in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Bill Callahan, formerly known as Smog for the past 20 years, masterfully combines lo-fi folk/rock arrangements with his signature, smooth baritone. Callahan will play his lullabies for SF audiophiles at Bimbo's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Incredibly Strange Picture Show presents Wattstax, a documentary about a one-day concert put on by Stax Records in the summer of 1972 commemorating the 7th anniversary of the Watts riots in Los
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DANCE: Get your country-western dancing on at Sundance After-Pride Dance. Beginning lessons are from 6:00 to 7:30 pm, and open dancing is from 7:30 to close. 6 to 11 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Tyson Ayers, a Bay Area music composer, instrument builder, and multimedia installation and performance artist, presents the Sound Cave, a small room built out of piano parts. When someone crawls inside, the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Gary Hustwit, the director of the hip documentary Helvetica presents his second hip documentary, Objectified, which is about "our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LIT: In the newly released book Smash the Church, Smash the State: the Early Years of Gay Liberation, nearly 40 authors describe their involvement in the radical groups that took the fight for
