Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Salute Day of the Dead: Before tomorrow's Dia de los Muertos celebration and march, be sure to check out this pre-party featuring music from Steve Taylor-RamÃrez, Theresa Perez, and Drew Harrison. Begins
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight (All Hallow's Eve Edition) So much to do, so much not to do. What's a girl to do? Well, here is just a smattering of what's going on tonight. (An aside, is there any reason to buy
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight (Eeek! Edition) -- Eraserhead (1977): More than just a t-shirt you saw all the art majors sport in college, it's one of David Lynch's first films. And it's sort of spooky in that David Lynch
Arts & Entertainment New Tunes Tuesday #7 Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. Win a free copy of Nicole Atkin's debut album release, Neptune City after the jump. Download: "War Torn"
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Pipettes: This all-female, British, Phil-Spector-sounding band gains more and more popularity by the day. See them tonight so that by next year when they're too big for SF venues, you can
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight (Spooktacular Edition) Boo. And behold: Halloween happenings for Saturday night, 10/27. -- Karla LaVey's Satanic Halloween Party & Unholy Variety Show: Satan reigns supreme tonight "thrashing black-metal bands, theremin warblers, psychobilly greasers, cruel electronic-noise
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Carmen Jones: Based off of Georges Bizet's famous French opera Carmen, the adaptation was made into a successful Broadway musical, and then a '50s film staring Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, and Pearl
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bye Bye, Barleycorn A campaign was started to save it, complete with petitions, a Great Pub Toast, and proposed legislation from Aaron Peskin. But it was all to no avail. In a city filled with mixed
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Grilled Cheese Invitational : What's better than a grilled cheese sandwich? Nothing, that's what. (Our apologies go out to all and any lactose-intolerant readers. You live a life of heartache we can only
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Laura Gibson: We'd hate to genre-ize her lovely sounds, but neo-folk songstress Gibson -- who uses such tools as trumpet, viola, and musical saw in addition to her sublime vocal cords-- sings
Arts & Entertainment Tonight: Sex & Song (& Talk) "A must for music lovers, musical comedy lovers, and in fact lovers of any sort," claims the Center for Sex & Culture about tonight's "Sex & Song". And, really, don't they deserve your
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Pogues: Like most music-taste education, our college roommate got us listening to these guys. And they're one of the few acts that we still dig after all these Britney-influenced years. Kudos,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Gay Geeks Saturday Night Social: "Fucking faggots," you scream? Ah, correction: "fucking nerd faggots," is more like it. Queers (not just Marys) who like to "geek out on the arts or science,
Arts & Entertainment Mini-View with Charlie M. from the Happy Hollows Do you have any Bay Area ties? Yes, our singer Sarah is from here. And she went to SF State. Actually, none of us are from LA. Chris and I are from DC.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Chapel/Chapter: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company's modern, intricate dance revue. Starts at 8 p.m. at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum; $38-50. -- Quintin Mecke for Mayor
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Interiors (1978): Woody Allen's tribute to Ingmar Bergman seems to have gotten lost in the fold over time (it came out between Annie Hall and Manhattan), but it really is one of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Breasts of Sherry Glaser: The protest-y Miss Glaser's comedy and peace activism show runs the gamut from her unsheathed mammary glands to an interpretation of 9/11 and the Twin Towers
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Passion of Anna and Shame : It's an Ingmar Bergman bonanza! The Castro Theatre's tribute to the famous director starts out with these two heavy gems. Anna screens at 7 p.m.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Figurines, Dappled Cities, Union Trade: Rock bands -- with a little easy-listening thrown in there for balance! -- bust it out starting at 9 p.m. at Bottom of the Hill; $10.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Shadow Circus Vaudeville Theatre: (In)famous night of underground "circus arts, burlesque, music, and puppetry" begins at 9 p.m. at Fat City; $10. -- Rogue Wave: Oakland indie-rock band performs with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Tastes of the City: Help raise money for the George Mark Children's House in San Leandro by attending this culinary bash. Young and "philanthropic-minded" guys and gals meet and mingle while binge
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Black Francis: Hefty former lead signer of the Pixies gets the Gen Xers up on their feet tonight, along with Eastern Conference Champions, starting at 9:30 p.m. at Cafe Du
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Lust, Caution (2007): Ang Lee's new espionage flick is rated NC-17 (i.e., the pretentious thinking person's X). Hot. Oh, and it's actually really good -- at least we think so, anyway.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Toshio Hirano: Local country music star -- alongside his trusty bassist, Kenan O'Brien -- croons tonight at 9 p.m. at Amnesia; free. -- San Francisco Contemporary Music Players: David Milnes leads