ART: Really, we can't sum up September 11 any better than SFist commenter extraordinaire fizzandpop, who today said, "On September the 10th most of the country thought that New York was full of fags, jews and spics and should just sail off into the Atlantic. By September 11th it was every hillbilly's personal tragedy." Well put, fizzandpop. And on that note, check out "We Remember the Sun: 9/11/1973," a performance piece/exhibit by L. M.......

MUSIC: Award-winning double bassist Lisa Mezzacappa throws down the jazzy beats in the Mission tonight. Her new latest music group, Before & After, featuring Aaron Bennett, John Finkbeiner, and Vijay Anderson, will have you snapping your fingers and pining for the days when jazz clubs had heroin and cigarette smoke intertwining with groovy beats. Read more about Mezzacappa here. 9 p.m. // Red Poppy Art House (2698 Folsom) // $10-$12 FILM: "A boy like......

THEATER: Through a grant given to him by the San Francisco Arts Commission, Kirk Read's latest show This is the Thing has garnered much buzz. Read tells SFIst that his latest show is: [A] 70 minute multimedia extravaganza. I work with Jeffrey Alphonsus Mooney, who plays live music on a banjo, electric guitar and keyboard. I tell stories about being a hooker, the Brady Bunch, computer addiction and other stuff. I do evangelical lip......

ECLIPSE: As we mentioned before, the Exploratorium is having a solar eclipse viewing slumber party. And for those of you non-agoraphobes who won't be watching it on Second Life, head over to Cow Hollow for a slumber party/eclipse viewing party. Be sure to pack your sleeping bag or blanket for an old-fashion camp out on the museum floor. The museum cafe will be open from 9 p.m.-midnight, but bringing a picnic lunch - especially......

MUSIC: The "heart-melting" Watson Twins (minus Jenny Lewis) headline a night a pretty ditties over on Potrero Hill. Tim Fite and Okay on Monday open for the two 9 p.m. // Bottom of the Hill (1233 - 17th Street) // $10 FILM: Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired screens in the Mission tonight. This documentary turns its lens on the (in)famous director of Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby, dipping into his marriage with Manson Family murder......

DATING: Those loopy dames over at Femina Potens are having a Queer Speed Dating night -- a bi-monthly benefit to increase visibility of women and transgendered artists -- which turns out not to be nearly as much fun as it sounded at first. Still, if you're a lonely fruit, head over to the Upper Market area tonight. Who knows? You might meet that special someone. 8 p.m. // Femina Potens Gallery (2199 Market Street)......

THEATER: All she ever needed was the music and the mirror, and a chance to dance.... for you. Check out the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical you may have heard of, A Chorus Line, playing through July 27. 8 p.m. // Curran Theater (445 Geary) // $25-$99 BENEFIT: Something or other is happening at Foreign Cinema about ranked choice voting/instant runoff voting," which will be on the ballot in Memphis, TN, Glendale, AZ and St. Paul,......

MUSIC: Holy crud, folks! Yaz (or, as known to all you backwards Brits out there, "Yazoo") is playing in the East Bay tonight. And if there ever was a reason to head over to Oakland, the sounds coming from this British synthpop duo would be it. Alison Moyet and Depeche Mode's Vince Clark reunite tonight. Read more about it here. 7:30 p.m. // Paramount Theater (2025 Broadway) // $39.50 - $75 FILM: Hunter S.......

FILM: Cult classic B-movie Little Shop of Horrors, a tale about bloodthirsty foliage, received the Broadway treatment in the '80s with a zany showtune-laced remake. A few years the musical got the Hollywood treatment. Broadway kept the gloomy ending in tact; Hollywood cut it out. But who cares. The 1986 version of LSH, screening tonight in the Castro, stands on its own with fun performances by Steve Martin, as a sadistic dentist, and Eileen......

MUSIC: If you dig jazz, hear why guitarist Terrence Brewer nabbed the 2007 SF Weekly Music Award for best jazz/blues artist. He throws down his groovy, guitar-y beats over in the Mission. 8 p.m. // Intersection for the Arts (446 Valencia Street) // $10 - $25 FILM: Another film festival? You betcha. And this one's a biggie. The 70MM Film Festival opens with a screening of the best helicopter movie ever made, Blue Thunder.......

MUSIC: Homosexuals who play musical instruments -- i.e., Pansy Division, Winsome Griffles, and gay Christian cow-punk crooner Glen Meadmore -- kickoff Gay Pride with a most rockin' night on SOMA. (Note: leave the ice at home, boys.) 9 p.m. // Eagle Tavern (398 12th Street) // $7 READING: Amy Sedaris' brother reads his latest, most "realish" book so far, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, to his man adoring and adoringly rabid fans. 7......

FILM: The San Francisco International Queer Film Festival continues with a Spanish bisexual (MFF) love romp XXY (dir. Lucia Puenzo) and the Israeli, coming-of-age story Japan Japan (dir. Lior Shamriz). The latter film, we're told, is heavy on the nudity, so... there you have it. 7 p.m. ("XXY") & 9:30 p.m. ("Japan Japan") // Castro Theatre (Castro & Market) READING: Irreverency abounds in SOMA tonight when (non)fiction writer Harmon Leon -- AKA The Infiltrator......

CLUB: This evening's club night over at Pink (oh, by the way, do hit Bar Bambino before going over! It's just next-door and the area's best new restaurant, in our opinion) called "Buffet" should be re-titled "Buffet of Vagina." Why? Because they're serving up a night of all-female DJs. Kate Kelly hosts DJs Chelsea Starr, Pony P, and Mama Hen as they spin electro and rock sounds. And this is one of the venue's......

THEATER: Homosexuals liven up old episodes of The Golden Girls when they reenact '80s geriatric hilarity on stage with "The Golden Girls: The Gay Episodes." Local drag luminaries Heklina, Cookie Dough, and Pollo Del Mar, and Matthew Martin take on the roles of Dorothy, Rose, Blanche, and Sophia. 7 p.m. // Mama Calizo's Voice Factory (1519 Mission) // $20 MUSIC: Ting Tings, an electro-indie-pop outfit, plays a few ditties for the 18-and-over set at......

MUSIC I: Indie rock runs rampant like a skinny-jean sporting hipster with its head cut off when Society of Rockets, Carta, and Odessa Chen perrform. 9 p.m. // Bottom of the Hill (1233 - 17th Street) // $8 FILM: Back before the anti-war moment turned into elitist popularity contest full of self-serving faux-altruism, you know back when they actually made an effort to stop war?, the 1968 Democratic Convention became a sizzling affair after......

THEATER: Gays from other states are always so charmingly angry and amusing once they land in the California Republic. Take, for example, noted San Francisco homosexual, Kirk Read. His latest theatrical show, starting tonight and running through Saturday, creates "an evening of stories about sex work, hallucinations, and the apocalypse." Having grown up in some far off place called "Virginia" as part of an evangelical youth group, he mow has firm roots in SF,......

COMEDY: Danny Dechi hosts a night of stand-up hilarity, featuring Blinky the Rock God (the world's premier pencil musician) and the Danny Dechi Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. // The Marsh (1062 Valencia) // $7 FILM: Don't forget about Another Hole in the Head Film Festival, which celebrates the fake-blood genre of film making. On the bill tonight? The Vanguard where oil and corporations have reduced mankind to "a primitive ape-like state;" Alone, a creepy tale......

FILM: Those crazy bitches at Femina Potens Gallery are at it again. This time they plan on teaching you prudes out there how to make your very own blue movie at Hot Queer Film & Porn. Shine Louise Houston of Pink and White Productions, Dana Dearmond director for Vivid Alt, Julie Simone director for Abigail Productions and Julie Simone Productions, Trouble Royale for Trannywood Productions, Madison Young director for Madison Bound Productions, and Morty......

FILM: Starting tonight, the San Francisco Black Film Festival, entering its 10th year, will be in full swing. Kicking of the week-long film fest is Ngozi Onwurah Shoot the Messenger (2006). Messenger is about "a black teacher who has to steer his careening life back on track after he is fired." Clinical depression and racism in England follows. This film screens at 7 p.m. at Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, 1881 Post. (Open bar party at......

MUSIC: The Godfather of Goth, Peter Murphy, brings his very special brand of glam, gloom, rock, and overzealous use of eyeliner to SF. And he's playing all of his old stuff to boot! Ali Eskandarian opens the show. 8 p.m. // The Regency Center (1290 Sutter) // $32.50 FILM: Huh. Who knew women could sing more than showtunes and arias? Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein did. And you can watch as she "uses young women through......

THEATER: "Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool Dry Place" -- a jail cell drama, written by Megan Terry -- features the delightful tale of three men (played by dames!) who rape, kill, plot, and dream. Hot. (But don't worry if you can't make it tonight, the theatrical shanking happens tomorrow night as well.) 8 p.m. // Mama Calizo's Voice Factory (1519 Mission) // $15 ART: Head on downtown to catch "Trigger" - a show......

MUSIC: Indie-comedy team, Flight of the Conchords, performs in SF's swankiest digs. This New Zeland duo uses "a combination of witty observation, characterization, and acoustic folk guitars to work the audience" into fits of hilarity and, well, indie-ness. They've also won a Grammy Award. but don't hold that against them. They're highly entertaining. Read more about the two here. 8 p.m. // Davies Symphony Hall (201 Van Ness) // $32.50 CLUB: We love, love,......

CLUB: Tonight at dorkbot-sf, catch "people doing strange things with electricity." While we can't tell you what exactly goes on here, it sure sounds exciting. Tonight's lineup includes DV Rogers ("parkfield interventional eq field work"-- i.e., earthquakes), Jeff Wishnie ("harsh computing"), Jeremy Bornstein ("soapmaking with genetic algorithms"), and David Calkins ("robogames"). This could very well be the most exciting thing, ever. Food and drinks will be served as well. (Read more about it here.)......

MUSIC: Head over to SOMA this evening to check out "Balkan Music Night" to hear Eastern European and Greek beats care of Black Olive Babes (a Balkan band featuring Juliana Graffagna) and The Helladelics. 8 p.m. // Climate Theater (285 - 9th Street) // $7-$12 FILM: What with The Strangers hitting theaters this Friday, the home-invasion horror genre is sure to be the next big thing (we look forward to the The House on......

MUSIC: Can't wait until Sunday? Well, check out this pre-Carnaval party, called Carnaval Fever, featuring Aphrodesia, Bayonics, Boco do Rio, and DJ Sep pumping out choice Afro-Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, Afro-Latin, Afrobeat, funk and reggae beats for your all of your butt-shaking needs. 10 p.m. // 12 Galaxies (2565 Mission) // $15 COMEDY/AIDS BENEFIT: Head over to the Clubhouse tonight -- BYOB, kids! -- where Debbie Campo, a finalist in Nick at Nite's America's Funniest Mom......

MUSIC: SFBG describes "March Fourth Marching Band" as "a raucous, irreverent ... take on the half-time shows you hated in high school." They are also referred to as Portland's version of Extra Action Marching Band, which means that they must be dirtier. Kid Beyond and Loyd Family Players also perform. 9 p.m. // Rickshaw Stop (155 Fell) // $12 CLUB vs. CLUB: Over at newly re-open330 Ritch, it's "Popscene vs. Club N.M.E." featuring UL......

FILM: Last year's winner of the Palme D'Or at Cannes, the harrowing Romanian 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile), screens in the Upper Haight. The tight-paced film tells the story of a college girl on the search for a late-term abortion. The Maltese Falcon, though, this is not. ...

RENT CONTROL: Save Rent Control! Please! Proposition 98 looms overhead and threatens all of us renters with possible Bakersfield relocations, and no one wants that. Anyway, la Swanhuyser has more in-depth on the prop here, but tonight you can help fight the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association with tonight's literary and musical festival in Bernal Heights--"Take the Initiative to Save Rent Control"--featuring Andrew Foster Altschul, Stephen Elliott, Alvin Orloff, Richard Loranger, Jonathan Segel, and Victor......

FILM: Nick Broomfield--famous for such jarring documentaries as Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer, Kurt & Courtney , and the insanely wonderful Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam--offers up a rare dramatic film this time around. His latest effort, Battle for Haditha, is about one of the many massacres committed on innocent civilians by U.S. troops (the same troops we're inexplicably asked to support regardless of our views on the war) over in Iraq.......

FILM: '80s noir flick Body Heat--featuring Kathleen Turner, William Hurt, and a pane of glass standing between the two--screens at the Castro tonight. Rumor is it's "scorching." 7 p.m. // Castro Theatre (Castro & Market) // $6-$9READING: Oooooh, James Frey the LIAR is over at Slim's tonight. (Come on, regardless of the fibs and Oprah-gate, A Million Little Pieces was a fun read. It was. Let's all move on, yes? Yes.) Catch the bear......