Recent Entries in Arts+Events
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SFist Tonight, 10/30: The Lemonheads, Donnie Darko Halloween ’80s Party, Being Impossible
MUSIC: The prolific Evan Dando takes the stage with the latest incarnation of the Lemonheads, in which they'll be performing It’s a Shame About Ray in its entirety. (7:30 p.m., Independent, 628 Divisadero Street) PARTY: Donnie Darko fans should get thee to 50 Mason Social House for the Donnie Darko Halloween ’80s Party, featuring a live tribute to the Donnie Darko soundtrack, by His Name Is Frank, , Adam Ant tribute band Madam and...
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Photo du Jour
"Plantrees" by Troy Holden....
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Thousand-Plus Turn Out for "Tax the 1%" Banner at Ocean Beach
Over a thousand participants showed up at Ocean Beach today to be part of the human banner spelling out "Tax the 1%," which had a better ring to it than the initial plans to spell out "Tax the Rich". The banner was created to show support of the “Buffett Rule,” in which Obama is proposing that those who earn $1 million a year or more should pay at least the same percentage of their income and investments as middle-class Americans.
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SFist Tonight, 10/29: The Mumlers, Ghost Walk at Palace Hotel, 'Four Lovers'
Credit: Mario Guel MUSIC: San Jose indie folk collective, The Mumlers, who are named after the "scandalized 19th century spirit photographer" William H. Mumler, will perform at Brick and Mortar tonight, along with guests He's My Brother She's My Sister and The Soft White Sixties. (9 p.m., Brick & Mortar Music Hall, 1710 Mission Street) WALKING TOUR: City Guides presents its annual Ghost Walk at Palace Hotel, which explores tales of kings and presidents...
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Tomorrow: Human "Tax the Rich" Banner at Ocean Beach
The "Impeach Now" banner from 2007 drew 1,500 participants. In concurrence with the Occupy movement, folks will be forming a human banner at Ocean Beach tomorrow morning, which will spell out "TAX THE RICH!" Over 600 people -- and counting -- have signed up to take part in the event. Update: See how it turned out in our follow-up post! The message will consist of human-formed letters 100 feet tall and 10 feet wide...
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The SFist Guide To Locally Relevant Halloween Costumes
Halloween approaches. Scratch that. Halloween weekend approaches. So that could mean you require more than one costume over the next three days. But what to wear, you locally-minded folks ask? SFist can help.
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SFist Tonight, 10/28: 'You Will Gonna Go Crazy,' 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' w/Yara Sofia, World Music Fest
THEATER: Kularts presents You Will Gonna Go Crazy, "a hilariously sad and lyrical semi-autobiographical multimedia dance-theatre play" and coming-of-age story exploring the traumatic impacts of racist history on the Filipino American family, based on interviews, unpublished diaries, memoirs, and personal archives. (8 p.m., Bayanihan Community Center, 1010 Mission Street) DRAG: Yara Sofia of Rupaul's Drag Race fame will host a special screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, featuring performances throughout the night. Come...
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Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Awesome Halloween Claymation
In honor of Halloween weekend, here's an amazing piece of claymation from British animator Lee Hardcastle entitled "Postman Pat's Pet Sematary." It involves a dead cat, a lot of claymation blood, and spliffs. You're welcome. Please be advised, this is not for children, and might maybe be a little NSFW, in a claymation sort of way. [via WOW]
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Halloween Weekend Events: 'The Hunger'/Twin Peaks', Trannyshack, Waldo Pub Crawl, and More!
There's certainly no shortage of frightful Halloween events going on this weekend for adults and kids alike. Here are a few choice happenings.
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Jonathan Nolan Is Awesomely Paranoid About Facebook
Jonathan Nolan, who wrote the short story "Memento Mori" (which later his brother, Christopher, turned into Memento) and helped pen The Prestige and The Dark Knight, has created some of the greatest cinematic works over the last few years using paranoia as a key theme. It should come as no surprise, then, that the envy-inducing writer has some major concerns with social media and Facebook -- brilliantly paranoid concerns, we might add. From a...
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Photo du Jour
"Engrossed' by Bob Horowitz....
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Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A 2000 Foot Long Hot Wheels Race Track
This is like the Hot Wheels Race Track we had as a kid, only not nearly as long or rad, and it doesn't jump off the track every five seconds. O the envy, it burns! The "Mother of All Hot Wheels Tracks" here is a 2000 foot long Hot Wheels track that races through a suburban home, a sidewalk, and around a pool.
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SFist Reviews: 'Hair' at the Golden Gate Theater
It's amazing how the 1960s, which much of the culture has grown tired of making reference to over the years, have managed to become way more relevant in recent weeks than they felt during the anti-war protests of 2003. Even as we watched the Public Theater's revival of Hair in its premiere run at Shakespeare in the Park three years ago, directed by Diane Paulus, we thought to ourselves, "Huh. The new generation of twentysomethings can probably relate to this in a way that Gen X really couldn't, at least when we were in our 20s."
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Extreme Sporting Event Coming to Civic Center this Saturday
Unfortunately for fans of snow, steep streets and bone-shattering aerial maneuvers, the city's original urban snowsports competition never did get to return to Fillmore street after the Pac Heights crowd booted all the unruly ski and snowboard enthusiasts off their stoops and in to some kind of extreme sports festival inside the fences of AT&T Park. But today we have news that fans of snowboards and railings will once again have a free public event where they can watch athletes attempt to injure themselves on the city's streets. Behold: The Downtown Throwdown, an urban snowboarding, rail jam competition, happening Saturday in Civic Center Plaza.
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From The Inbox: To The Women Of SF, We Apologize In Advance For This Letter
We receive tons--tons!--of reader fan mail. We also receive the occasional piece of hate mail. It comes with the territory of having your name out there and writing for a wildly successful site like SFist. Anyway, this most recent piece of fist-shaking correspondence has us reeling. And confused. But mostly aghast. This person, an elderly vice president and general manager of sales and marketing somewhere in downtown San Francisco (whose name we redact for his own safety), responds this photo in SFist's most recent 7 Reasons to Love SF. His reaction is depressing. But mostly just wrong.
