This may come as news to most single women in town (at least if you buy into this 2010 piece by Ashley Harrell in SF Weekly), but according to the Daily Beast, San Francisco is the number-eight city on this list of Best Cities to Find a Date in 2012. What data are they using to create this highly scientific list? It has something to do with the percentage of single people, and the average price of a movie ticket. more ›

Say you're wandering around Hayes Valley, feeling a little lonely and blue, and you just want someone nice to share a plate of spaetzle with at Suppenkuche. Spoondate, a Mountain View-based start-up, would let you do just that with a few points and clicks on your phone. It's one of a new crop of pared-down dating sites geared toward our 140-character-limited lives, in which people post what food they're craving and wherefrom, and you have a chance to connect, just like that, and make a date. more ›

Valen-tiny Idea Night: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts hosts a night of "mingling, mating, and music," featuring live performances, dancing, and lots of art and activities, including postmodern elevator peepshows and Infatuated, an interactive cell phone game of love for couples or singles, who must solve the mysteries of love in the 21st century. more ›

This Weekend As SFist noted last week, SF Sketchfest starts on Thursday! The list of performers is endless. Let us name just a few: Candice Bergen, Dan Aykroyd, Michael Ian Black, Thomas Lennon Kristen Schaal, Peaches Christ & Cloris Leachman, Maria Bamford, Eugine Mirman, Rachel Harris, Neil Patrick Harris... Runs through February 5. more ›

Mission Mission has a thought-provoking comment thread in progress today. It's all about dating in San Francisco, and why it's so damn difficult. Which, yes. It is. more ›

New dating site helps Apple fans find love with other Apple die-hards. more ›

Since we're all broke around here, Johnny Funcheap has compiled a list of his Top Five Best Cheap Valentine's Day Dates for this weekend. (Personally, our s.o. is cashing in our beer stein full of coins to fund a grand sushi dinner for us tonight.) Thanks, Johnny! more ›

The Prop 8 lawsuit continues, but a different gay rights issue has been resolved. If a Los Angeles court approves the deal, dating website eHarmony will have to do more to welcome gay and lesbian members... more ›

After years of being blissfully ignorant of the homosexual lifestyle, eHarmony, the online dating site that uses highly intricate and futuristic technologies to find you that perfect match, will now be required to set up a special rainbow-flavored section for gays and lesbians looking for lifetime partners. This comes on the heels of a lawsuit filed by Eric McKinley, a New Jersey bear looking for a cub, accusing the online love portal of discrimination. The new very special section of eHarmony - who still maintains that they were "not found in violation of the law" - will be called "compatible partners." Hm. more ›

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. more ›

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• Lucas (1986), Say Anything (1989), My Bloody Valentine (1981): The first film has socially-retarded Corey Haim falling head over heels in love with a sensitive football player, Charlie Sheen, or something like that; Cameron Crowe's tale of teenage love and angst has John Cusack causing egregious noise pollution when he holds up a ghettoblaster pumping out a Peter Gabriel ballad; and the final film has a murderer in a small coal mining town killing those who celebrate Valentine's Day. They screen at 7:30 p.m., 9:45, and midnight, respectively, at the Castro Theatre; $6-9.
• Editors: Yeah, yeah. We screwed up. Again. The SSRIs are running low this week. Stupid shrink. Anyway, check out this English indie rock band along hipster favorites Hot Hot Heat and Louis XIV. Music starts at 8 p.m. at the Warfield; $23.
• The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition's Love on Wheels: As SFist Jim mentioned before, tonight's Dating Game parody in Hayes Valley should be divine. Starts at 7 p.m. at Rickshaw Stop; free for members of the SFBC ($10 for non-members).

Gus Van Sant isn't the only one who might make you a shiny, coke-addled star here in San Francisco. Take, for example, MTV and NBC who want to use you for their up-and-coming reality programming. more ›

Oh la la. The reportedly very prickly Reese Witherspoon and rubenesque Vince Vaughn -- whatever, we'd hit it. Hit it hard -- are in town filming their new divorce-themed romcom, Four Christmases. (According to IMBD, it's about a "couple struggle to visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas Day." If you're not in tears already, then clearly you have no soul.) And here they are at a....downtown locale of some sort? We... more ›

It seems the world of dating has moved beyond breaking up on post-its into the new world of breaking up via Facebook status. That's rough. Breakups are hard enough to go through without spreading the news in front of all your virtual friends. more ›

-- Emmy-winner Al Gore might also win the Nobel Peace Prize. Weren't Bono and Princess Diana supposed to win that at some point, too? (You know, before she...vroom.) [Wired News] more ›

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A new blog purports to document cougar sightings from the S.F. dating scene. more ›

Seattlest watches as a S.L.U.T. is born and Seattle Flickr users go nuts over a local art installation. A restaurant critic demands a Diner's Bill of Rights over a gnat next to her drink, and, in lieu of a Portlandist, Seattlest debates with itself over the identity of the Northwest's crown jewel. Seattlest also joins the guys from Fantagraphics for an ill-fated gun party in the woods. more ›

The premiere offerings tonight are limited, with the 8 p.m. return of "Beauty and the Geek" on the CW being the only new show in the line-up. The show maintains its "hot girls, geeky guys" convention once again this season, but they will be adding one geeky girl and one hot guy to the "social experiment" this time around. That's right, this isn't a dating show, although there have been hook-ups in the past. Instead, the geeks try to expand the girls' minds, while the girls try to help the geeks up their game. Ha ha ha! Look how dumb the girls are! Ho ho ho! Look how socially inept the geeks are! Lather, and repeat. We have no idea if any of the geeks or beauties hail from the Bay Area, as their bios don't give out that info, but we hope so, because the reality TV locals pickings are slim this season! more ›

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Hey, all you singles in San Francisco/Oakland, looks like you live in the right place. Our fair city was tops in Forbes 7th Annual Best Cities for Singles Report. more ›

Kathy Griffin seems to prefer the techie geeks. (And just who wouldn't?) more ›

For $25 a pop, you can attend iPhone-only iDating marketing schemes parties. "The iPhone makes speed dating more user-friendly, because you're rejecting a photo, not a real person," says iDating party thrower Niko Atuna. (But what if, like us, you've been repeatedly told that you're a two-dimensional ass? Ouch is right.) more ›

Derrick Schneider has an excellent food-focused blog called "Obsession With Food." He also wrote for SFist regularly for quite a long time, most notably his still-popular SFist in the Kitchen series. So of course we were very pleased to see that he wrote an article appearing in the Wine Section of today's Chron. He writes all about "fruit wine," or wine made with fruit other than grapes. more ›

its a big weekend folks! here's where to jumpstart your Pridealicious weekend: more ›

Remember Edith Delgado, the girl who accidentally killed two members of the royal family of Tongo Tonga about a year ago on 101 in a speeding accident? She was found guilty of misdemeanor manslaughter (but not the more serious felony version), which has a maximum penalty of 3 years. The prosecutors alleged that Delgado had a history of reckless driving and was drag-racing at the time of the accident, but her lawyers disputed that. In any event, Delgado has been in jail for a year because she was unable to post her $1,000,000 bail, but after the verdict, bail was reduced to $40,000 and she was released last night. more ›

--At Intersection for the Arts, an evening of performances, readings, and conversations with formerly-incarcerated youth in The Prison Project, their year-long artistic exploration of the California penal system. $5-15, 7 p.m., 446 Valencia (x 15th). more ›

We really love these guys, and you should love them too! The Del Sol Quartet performs works by 20th and 21st century women composers in Berkeley tonight (and one male composer too) in their "Umbilical Chords: Women Composers and the Creative Process" program. And in interesting modern music trivia, one of the women composers (Ruth Crawford) is folk singer Pete Seeger's mother. Del Sol plays at the Ashby Stage (1901 Ashby, x MLK, right across from the Ashby BART), $20, 8 p.m. They'll also be playing at the DeYoung this Sunday and the SF Main Library next Tuesday. more ›

SFist gives away tickets and album for Voxtrot at Great American Music Hall on 5/30/07 more ›