This lifted our sad, oil soaked hearts. The Craft Gym will be hosting their 2nd annual Craft-Off competition this Friday. Following the model of Iron Chef, there will be a secret 'ingredient' revealed to teams before the 30-minute DIY battle begins. A random assortment of craft supplies and tools will be available for teams to use in the creation of their creative masterpieces. Prizes will be awarded to the winning team, who will be......

Some organization we've never heard of and could probably care the less about, the American Institute of Architects, put together a list of the Top 25 Bestest Buildings in San Francisco. Look for attendant show on VH-1 featuring snarky comments from Hal Sparks, Ian Michael Black, and Rachel Harris. ...

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You know it's hard out here for a Wednesday..... Tonight: Jump out your own window for this one -- the new Defenestration Journal is throwing itself a launch party with the debut of its first issue. Defenestration Journal features art, fiction, and poetry from SF women, and the launch party will feature readings, drink specials, and a performance by burlesque cheerleader troupe the Cock-Ts. It's free at the Rickshaw Stop, 155 Fell (x Van Ness), 6-8:30 p.m. Thursday: The Alliance Francaise (sorry, SFist Ced, we don't know how to code a cedilla in HTML) is screening selections from the 7-hour silent film Les Vampires, with live musical accompaniment. You know, the silent movie with the famous Irma Vep! $7 Alliance members, $10 for everyone else. Movie starts at 7 p.m, at the Alliance (1345 Bush St, between Polk and Larkin). and Friday: Stop by the California College of the Arts for tonight's Small Press Traffic poetry reading: Poets Kazim Ali and Mark Wallace will read their new works. Ali is described as uniting "Near Eastern traditions" with "painterly minimalism" in his work, and Wallace is described as "John Hawkes dreaming of Paul Bowles having a gothic nightmare." Free to CCA students, $5-10 sliding scale, 7:30 p.m. at CCA, 1111 Eighth Street (between 16th and Wisconsin). Picture of what we think is issue 1 of the Defenestration Journal...

Five whole dollars buys you all the pizza you can eat at Poetry and Pizza on Friday....