SF News SFist Tonight CLUB: Tonight at dorkbot-sf, catch "people doing strange things with electricity." While we can't tell you what exactly goes on here, it sure sounds exciting. Tonight's lineup includes DV Rogers ("parkfield interventional eq
SF News SFist Tonight MUSIC: Head over to SOMA this evening to check out "Balkan Music Night" to hear Eastern European and Greek beats care of Black Olive Babes (a Balkan band featuring Juliana Graffagna) and The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Can't wait until Sunday? Well, check out this pre-Carnaval party, called Carnaval Fever, featuring Aphrodesia, Bayonics, Boco do Rio, and DJ Sep pumping out choice Afro-Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, Afro-Latin, Afrobeat, funk and reggae
SF News SFist Tonight MUSIC: SFBG describes "March Fourth Marching Band" as "a raucous, irreverent ... take on the half-time shows you hated in high school." They are also referred to as Portland's version of Extra Action Marching
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Last year's winner of the Palme D'Or at Cannes, the harrowing Romanian 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile), screens in the Upper Haight. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight RENT CONTROL: Save Rent Control! Please! Proposition 98 looms overhead and threatens all of us renters with possible Bakersfield relocations, and no one wants that. Anyway, la Swanhuyser has more in-depth on the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Nick Broomfield--famous for such jarring documentaries as Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer, Kurt & Courtney , and the insanely wonderful Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam--offers up a rare dramatic film this
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: '80s noir flick Body Heat--featuring Kathleen Turner, William Hurt, and a pane of glass standing between the two--screens at the Castro tonight. Rumor is it's "scorching." 7 p.m. // Castro Theatre (Castro
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight READING: You know the people who read aloud at the 16th and Mission BART station? Not the the ones espousing the virtues of baby Jesus, but the poets, loners, and college kids who
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Remember how , was the single most boring and excruciating piece of English language literature you were ever forced to read in high school? How it should be banned? Because it's will crush
SF News SFist Tonight DANCE: Stop peeling the yellow wallpaper, angst-ridden youth of suburbia! Tonight's "Swing Goth" will have you feeling better than if you were pumped full of morphine. Each Tuesday at Julie's Supper Club, rock-a-billy
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight READING: Head over to the Castro tonight to catch brilliant humor writer Augusten Burroughs reading from his latest piece of non(?)fiction, A Wolf at the Table. This latest effort is about his
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SOUL: According to the The New York Times' Stephen Holden--or so says SF Weekly--Ashford & Simpson audiences are made up of "singles, doubles, gays, straights, blacks, whites, all mixed together and singing along.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Even though she finds redheads atrocious, we still love us some Chelsea Handler. The comedienne, who's hosted several shows on E! and penned numerous books (Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FASHION/MUSIC: SF Weekly's Hiya Swanhuyser has word that tonight's fashion extravaganza/concert "The Ant Show’s 4th Annual Boxer Rebellion"--featuring rock beats care of Murder of Lilies, the Catholic Comb, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight While we're being asked by security to leave the premises at tonight's SFIFF Golden Gate Awards Party--we hear it's open-bar--check out one of these thrilling events happening tonight. Who knows? Maybe we'll run
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FIESTA, FOREVER: Cinco de Mayo is a holiday honoring "an initial victory of Mexican forces led by General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín over French forces in the Battle of Puebla," according to Wikipedia. And
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Photo from Thunderheist CLUB: Those zany and offensive Vice Magazine kids are back in town this evening to pour vodka down your throat, shove blow up your nose, and have you up until
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight *MUSIC: John Reis (best known as singer and guitarist for Rocket from the Crypt, who goes by such monikers as Speedo, Slasher, and The Swami) has yet another post-punk project to share with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight EXHIBIT OPENING: Fecal Face Dot Gallery opens its doors tonight with Kottie Paloma's work. According to SFBG, the show features "over 250 5-by-7-foot graphite portraits that San Francisco artist Kottie Paloma produced over
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight CLUB/MAGAZINE LAUNCH: DJ Vin Sol and LL Cool DJ man the decks at tonight's launch of Just One Entertainment's website, the Versus Net SF blog, and Versus Magazine SF online. We didn't
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Photo: Elbo Room *MUSIC: Head over to Valencia Street to hear some rockabilly beats. Perfecting the tricky fusion of Goth, surf, and garage rock sounds, Arizona's the Mission Creeps headline tonight in the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Photo credit by Wathana Lim for LAist/Flickr MUSIC: Adorning Bottom of the Hill with their much-loved pop "music with no pretense," we have the Magic Bullets. Both Spin and 7x7 both lavished
misc SFist Tonight *DINNER/DRAG: Over at supperclub, they having a festive party. "Supper Vision," a pajama party where, according to , is a place where you will find a "Burning Man theme camp, queer art collective,
SF News SFist Tonight *FILM: Tonight at the Castro it's "Dueling Divas" night. (Men, always pitting women against each other!) Alleged child abuser and MGM drunk, Joan Crawford, goes up against Susan Hayward with a double feature