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SFist Tonight, 5/13: SFJAZZ High School All-Stars Orchestra

MUSIC: SFJAZZ presents its annual High School All-Stars performance featuring improvisations by the top young musicians in the Bay Area performing the work of classic American jazz artists, including Oliver Nelson, Duke Ellington,

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SFist Tonight, 5/12: ESKMO And Love & Light

MUSIC: Sunset SF presents "'[S]izzling' Ninja Tune phenom" ESKMO at Mezzanine along with Reno duo Love & Light and locals DJ Dials and U9Lift. (9 p.m., Mezzanine, 444 Jessie Street)

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SFist Tonight, 5/11: SFAI MFA Graduate Exhibition

ART: Head over to Phoenix Hotel for the opening reception of San Francisco Art Institute's limited-engagement MFA Graduate Exhibition featuring nearly 100 students working in painting, photography, printmaking, film, sculpture, installation, digital media,

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SFist Tonight, 5/10: Photolucida's Top 50 Photographers

PHOTOGRAPHY: Photolucida, an international arts nonprofit, presents Contents: Love, Anxiety, Happiness and Everything Else Critical Mass 2011 (not any relation to Critical Mass, the bike event), a juried exhibition featuring the contest's top

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SFist Tonight, 5/9: Folk Yeah Presents Sweet Chariot

MUSIC: Folk Yeah presents quartet Sweet Chariot, who perform "timeless power-pop, classic biker rock, and dusty desert jams trimmed in the bygone tones of west coast canyon-twang," along with folk singer-songwriter Joseph Childress.

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SFist Tonight, 5/8: Ferlinghetti Reading & Film Screening

POETRY/FILM: Peter Coyote will be at Meridian Gallery tonight reading poetry by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, followed by a screening of Ferlinghetti, the 2009 documentary by Christopher Felver, which is "an incisive, sharply wrought

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SFist Tonight, 5/7: The Wombats

MUSIC: British trio, The Wombats, who SPIN declares to be "Echo & The Bunnymen for the internet age," play the Great American tonight in support of their sophomore album, This Modern Glitch. Also

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SFist Tonight, 5/6: Liquid Theatre's 'Antidot'

THEATER: The San Francisco International Arts Festival and the Society of Living Traditions present Moscow's Liquid Theatre's West Coast debut with their award winning performance of Antidot, the company’s humorous physical theatre

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SFist Tonight, 5/5: Master Artist, Stanislav Szukalski

ART: Varnish Fine Art presents Szukalski, a solo exhibition of works by the forgotten master artist, Stanislav Szukalski, who was hailed as an artistic genius from the age of six and lauded as

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SFist Tonight, 5/4: 'FAX' At SFAC Gallery

ART: As part of FAX, an evolving exhibition from the Independent Curators International that began in New York in 2009, 22 Bay Area artists were invited to reconceive the fax machine as a

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SFist Tonight, 5/3: Surrealist Tribute

ART: Project One Gallery presents Ceci n’est pas une Galerie, a group tribute to Surrealism that invites viewers to ask themselves, "if this is not a gallery, what is it?," featuring works

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Girl About Town: Black Keys/Arctic Monkeys, Drake, Morrissey's Birthday

by Veronica de la Mora It's a party this week. We're super amped for Washed Out. Morrissey's birthday! Drake is in town. We've got two concerts with tv show connections. Let's do this!

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SFist Tonight, 5/2: Jeremy Fish Talk

TALK: S.F. Art Institute presents alumnus and local artist Jeremy Fish, who will be discussing the development of his career as a painter and illustrator. Aesop Rock describes Fish's work as "rooted

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SFist Tonight, 5/1: Queens Of Boogie Woogie

MUSIC: The 12th Annual Queens of Boogie Woogie, featuring pianists Lady Bianca, Doña Oxford, Sue Palmer & Wendy DeWitt, hit Yoshi's Oakland for a night of "unpredictable, rollicking and soulful entertaining at the

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SFist Tonight, 4/30: Circus Finelli

PERFORMANCE: Circus Finelli shares the stage with evil-puppet superstar, Blinky Winky, in Blinky Winky's Presidential Fundraiser, which combines a live cartoon band performance with comedy, circus, and acrobatics: "Accordions, steel-bodied strings, stand-up bass,

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SFist Tonight, 4/29: 'Diana Vreeland - The Eye Has to Travel'

FILM: Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel explores the life of a "preeminent 20th-century aesthete" and style-spotter, who is mostly remembered as the "rip-roaring" editor at Harper’s Bazaar, then Vogue, and

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SFist Tonight, 4/28: Muni Diaries 4th Birthday Party

PARTY: The folks at Muni Diaries are celebrating their fourth birthday with a free party tonight, thanking "every single person who has ever tweeted, commented, contributed a story, or LOL’d at the

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SFist Tonight, 4/27: 'Hit So Hard' Rock Documentary

FILM: The new documentary, Hit So Hard, which opens tonight at the Roxie, tells the true story of the "hell-and-back" life of Patty Schemel, the openly gay, hard-hitting drummer of Courtney Love's band

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SFist Tonight, 4/26: Ben Kweller

MUSIC: "Power-pop wunderkind" Ben Kweller hits The Great American tonight in support of his new record, Go Fly A Kite, which is "filled with catchy piano riffs, lush harmonies, big guitar lines, and

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SFist Tonight, 4/25: Literary Death Match

LIT: Literary Death Match! "The star readers on the night will be the inimitable Carolyn Cooke (author of The Bostons, a PEN/Bingham Award for fiction, and Daughters of the Revolution, a Top

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SFist Tonight, 4/24: Neon Indian

MUSIC: Neon Indian, who, as Flavorpill reports, derived his name from an acid trip, performs his brand of synth-pop that's "been making a big splash in the indie chillwave scene." Also featuring guest,

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SFist Tonight, 4/23: Merrill Garbus, Buster Keaton Shorts

FILM/MUSIC: The acclaimed Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs fame will be performing a live score to a series of Buster Keaton shorts, as part of the S.F. International Film Festival's hugely popular

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SFist Tonight, 4/22: SFIFF's 'Robot & Frank'

FILM: Frank Langella stars in Robot & Frank, as an aging and isolated cat-burglar quietly battling dementia from his rustic home in upstate New York, who receives a robot helper and friend from

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SFist Tonight, 4/21: Matthew Sweet Performs 'Girlfriend'

MUSIC: Matthew Sweet will perform in its entirety his classic 1991 album, Girlfriend, in which his "bone-dry, caterwauling sonics" opened up a "wild and picturesque new terrain for restless singer/songwriters to inhabit

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SFist This Weekend: Record Store Day, Naked Bike Ride & More!

Record Store Day 2012: Iggy Pop is the ambassador of this year's nationwide Record Store Day happening on Saturday, featuring a special Iggy And The Stooges Record Store Day release, plus many more

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