Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/25: Philip Glass and Joanna Newsom with Tim Fain BENEFIT: The Days and NIghts Festival kicks off its season with a stellar show co-presented by Folk Yeah, featuring Philip Glass and Joanna Newsom with Tim Fain performing collaborative and solo pieces.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/16: '5 Lesbians Eating Quiche' THEATER: Tides Theatre presents the West Coast premiere of 5 Lesbians Eating A Quiche, an outrageous comedy about repressed desire, food politics and warm-blooded, cold war survival, featuring the "Susan B.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/14: Big Freedia MUSIC: Noise Pop and Hard French present Big Freedia, "a 6-foot-plus phenom powered by brash sexual energy and raw, self-made talent," who's described as the "
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/16: Giants Carnaval at the Park FESTIVAL: Arrive at tonight's Giants game early for The Giants Carnaval Festival at the Park, featuring live 2012 SF Carnaval King Roberto and Queen Ashlee, music, dancing, and food and drink
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/22: Pianist Monty Alexander, Radical Teaching Artists, The Dirty Gay Sex Comedy Show MUSIC: Pianist Monty Alexander, who some consider to be one of the top five jazz pianists of all time, brings his "Harlem-Kingston Express" tour to Yoshi's tonight. Alexander&
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: SF Cinemateque presents Radical Light: In Search of Christopher MacLaine -- Man, Artist, Legend, which provides an in-depth look at four films by San Francisco Beat poet Christopher Maclaine -- The End, The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FOOD: Get the latest scoop on the local food scene at City Art's, On Artisan Food, featuring a panel of folks in the local food industry, including The New York Times&
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight STORYTELLING: Porchlight Presents: Brushes with Fame, features Bay Area luminaries and "nobodies," including Edinburgh Castle barman Alan Black, Litquake co-founder Jack Boulware, burlesque performer Lady Monster, theater producer Bruce Pachtman,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight STORYTELLING: Creativity Explored studio artists, staff members, and volunteers take the mic at this month's Porchlight storytelling event Don’t Call Me Retard. Each guest will tell a ten-minute true
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BLOCK PARTY: This month's Bold Italic Microhood event will take place in a spot they've coined Mint Slope, "where Market Street runs through the shadow of the Federal
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BURLESQUE: In Have Tassels Will Travel, Satans Angel will share stories, slides, and costumes from her times performing at San Francisco's Condor Club, the Las Vegas Strip, Paris' Folies Bergéré,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: Join The Rumpus and SMITH Magazine for some Beautiful Beginnings, featuring music by Dave Smallen and Amores Vigilantes, comedy by Will Durst, and authors Richard Ferguson, Piper Kerman, Raina Bird, Lisa Brown,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight OPERA: San Francisco Opera presents Giacomo Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West) in celebration of its 100th anniversary, featuring a cast of the world’s leading singers
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Four-time Tony and two-time Grammy Award winning soprano, Audra McDonald, whom SFist Brock endorses as having "THE best voice in the industry," will sing standards, favorite showtunes, classic
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: As SFist noted last month, the whole loveable Aqua Teen gang (except for that wet blanket Frylock or Err), aka Dave Willis and Dana Snyder, will be bringing the laughs at Aqua
Arts & Entertainment SFist Attends Inforum's Future of SF New Media Panel We attended our first Commonwealth Club event last night, which was put on by Inforum, a hip, young division of the club. The topic was about how San Francisco is setting the stage
