Arts & Entertainment Contest: Minipop @ Rickshaw Stop 11/3/07 Minipop, a San Francisco-based band, is releasing their much anticipated debut album, A New Hope next Tuesday. Lucky for all of us we'll be able to get their new CD
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
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
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
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Tease-O-Rama Meet 'N' Greet: Before the sluts of the weekend-long burlesque convention Tease-O-Rama have you sporting erections via cheeky performances, come meet them for an intimate
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Evil Dead 2 (1987): Sam Raimi's exquisite sequel to the equally-exquisite Evil Dead, minus any tree-rape. Screens at 7:15p.m., 9:15 at The Red Vic, 1727 Haight
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Jonathan Coulton: "Code Monkey" has gained a heavy, cult-of-nerd following. Yay! Join the club tonight at 9 p.m. at Great American Music Hall, 859 O'Farrell; $18.
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City Last Thursday night we went to Bimbo's to see Stereo Total at the behest of a good friend. We'd never seen the duo before but they charmed us with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Madcat Women's International Film Festival -- Frame by Frame: Experimental film festival's night focusing on animation, claymation, and digital shorts all directed by women. Starts at 8:30 p.m.
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City This week's show recommendations: Hurry up and head over to Amoeba at 6pm for a chance to see Okkervil River perform for free and then get a free, limited edition CD
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Exorcist: Linda Blair, pea soup, 360-degree head turn, Satan, "the power of Christ compels you...," blah, blah -- whatever, it's still a great movie. And besides, it stars
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- End of Summer Slam Jam for Teens: Are there words prettier than "back to school"? Maybe. But when we start seeing back-to-school commercials and such, we get ever so
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- HIJK, the Invisible Cities (voted "Best Indie Pop Band" by savvy SF Bay Guardian readers), and Show Me State: Oakland "math-rock" (!) art band HIJK celebrates the release of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- "Blow-Up": DJ Jefrodisiac and Emily Betty’s "indie-pop-disco-noir" (noir?) monthly dance club brings out hipsters of every ilk. But that doesn’t mean that you
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Marke B judges a damp jockstrap contest come midnight at ‘70s/‘80s retro dance club “The Rod.” Damn perverts. All of them. Goes from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. at Deco
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight The Asian Art Museum's monthly throwdown, Matcha, kicks off around 6pm with DJs, tours, workshops and cocktails. The Live Action Cartoonists, a performance troupe that combines comics and theatre, will perform
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Saturday.... in the park... wish it were the Fourth of July! (That's the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra performing the Chicago classic above). Here's your events for today: --Supervisor Dreamy,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Still don't have a date to the tomorrow's Dyke March? Find the perfect lady at Fairy Butch! Speed dating at 8pm, followed by an erotic cabaret & dance party.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Still plenty of shows for the Frameline , SF Improv, and the Hole in the Head festivals.... Inside Storytime, a monthly reading series at the Rickshaw Stop, features five local authors, reading from their
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight If you can't make tonight's reading (7 p.m.), they're in town through Friday, reading at Get Lost in SF tomorrow night and Book Passage in Corte
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Geek out! At Ask a Scientist SF, a monthly lecture slash happy hour with a guest speaker on some sciencey topic. This month's meet-up touches on everything you ever wanted
misc When The Lights Go Down In The City Our friend Will who runs New & Used Records is celebrating a CD release this week for The Passionistas. God's Boat, produced by Kelley Stoltz, may sound lo-fi, but the
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City Last Thursday night we squeezed into 330 Ritch to see Spoon, one of our favorite bands of all time. We'd just helped celebrate former SFist Eve's birthday at Tempest
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Other events: --Always mean to get out to Orinda to see the summer Shakespeare? This year, it's Richard III, and tonight's preview is the first performance. $32 for tonight,
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City Our second offering of prizes comes from two great bands playing on Tuesday night at the Independent: Great Northern and Loney, Dear. For a long time we had an irrational aversion to the
