FOOD: The delectable Mission Minis celebrates its second anniversary by giving away their signature cupcakes along with "libations gratis" while supplies last. The event will also feature mobile food vendors including Brass Knuckle, We Sushi, Mama's Empanadas and Clairesquares. (6 p.m. to Midnight, Mission Minis, 3168 22nd Street) more ›

Time to shed this grizzly winter of ours, yes? Oh wait, no. It has not been a glacial winter. Not at all. It has, in fact, been downright balmy this winter season of ours, full of shorts, sun, and getting high at your neighborhood park. While that doesn't exactly predict the best fall harvest season for our artisanal brethren up north, it does mean that we are more than ready for spring. And with that, you should consider checking out Passport to Dry Creek Valley. more ›

Fitting for a neighborhood with a seedy past, North Beach will be the proud recipient of the Penthouse Club & Steakhouse, which we told you about in December. Well, now the location has been revealed. And the new Penthouse boob and burgers joint will feature more than just a buffet table and C-section scars. No, this place is going to be fancy-ish. Real nice like. As Grub Street points out, "There will be live performances, of course, but also 'intimate dining booths' and 'four-star dining' via executive chef Juan Martinez, as well as two full bars. The menu will be straight-up steakhouse fare, but made from the 'highest quality ingredients.' " more ›

Celebrate your successful immersion back into regular post-holiday life with a delightful Pop-Up Lunch Break at SFMOMA (151 Third Street) today. For two hours (11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.), the museum will be transformed into a neighborhood lunch break room, highlighting the final weeks of the Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break exhibition, which contemplates workers' activities during their lunch breaks through film, photography, and writing. more ›

MUSIC: Sunset Promotions and Mezzanine present a night of dubstep and bass with West Londoner Caspa, who was "brought up on a diet of jungle & hiphop," along with guests Antennae and the Ritual Dubstep DJs. (9 p.m., Mezzanine, 444 Jessie Street) more ›

The fine folks at FuncheapSF bring word that, sweet sinewy Jesus!, free ice cream cake can be yours for the taking today. All you need to do is donate an item of food—good food—for an icy slice of heaven. Your donated food will go to the SF Food Bank, who are pretty much doing God's work, so do it. Come on. Please. more ›

Glide Memorial Church's Rev. Cecil Williams showed up to the Occupy San Francisco encampment on Thursday to deliver soul food "and a strong message of support" to protesters. "I'm one of the 99 percent," Williams told the Mercury News, adding, "We serve a million meals to the poor every year. This here is part of our rhythm, this is what we do." more ›

Exemplary writer Joyce Slaton dares to go where some artisan half-baked food scribes should. Take, for example, the turkey she recently prepared as an assignment for CHOW, prepared using "Twinkling Turkey," a recipe from The Twinkies Cookbook of 2006. Yep. She made it. She ate it. It was horrific. more ›

FILM: Girls in Tech presents a screening of Jennifer Seibel's acclaimed documentary, Miss Representation, which "exposes how American youth are being sold the concept that women and girls’ value lies in their youth, beauty and sexuality," aiming to "break that cycle of mistruths." (6:30 to 9:30 p.m., Parisoma Innovation Loft, 169 11th Street) more ›

FESTIVAL: One of the best Mission events of the year is happening tonight with the annual Dia de los Muertos procession and Festival of Altars celebration. Bring candles in glass containers to honor your loved ones who've passed -- no open flame candles are allowed at the park. (7 p.m., procession starts at 22nd & Bryant, runs down to 24th and over to Mission, then back up to 22nd; 6 to 11 p.m., Festival of Altars, Garfield Park) more ›

Lots of folks will be heading to Treasure Island this beautiful weekend for some un-stressful concert-going. For those who want to stay close to home, there just might be a fair going on in your 'hood, or one nearby! more ›

FILM: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts kicks off its Mexico Rising: Films of Nicolás Peruda series, featuring the prolific work of acclaimed 27-year-old filmmaker Nicolás Peruda, with Summer of Goliath, "a quiet (at times unsettling) study of violence, masculinity and family, set against the sun-drenched beauty of its small-town, rural setting, which is preceded by the short film, Interview with the Earth, "a mesmerizing study of grief that traces the echoes of a child’s accidental death across the lives of his friends and their families." (7:30 p.m., YBCA, 701 Mission Street) more ›

MUSIC: L.A. indie hip-hoppers People Under the Stairs will be playing a free show at Amoeba, promoting their latest album, Highlighter, which "features everything from full string sections to vintage vibraphones and keyboards." (6 to 7 p.m., Amoeba San Francisco, 1855 Haight Street) more ›

A handy roundup of notable food news, including: first looks at the San Francisco Umami Burger, Morton's attempt to overcome the zero-star stigma with booze, Absinthe's meatball recipe, Biergarten updates, pot wine and the worst food writing of 2011. more ›

TALK: Noise Pop and City Arts presents an onstage conversation between Bob Mould, formerly of Husker Dü fame, and counter-culture hero, Shepard Fairey, as part of City Arts "On Arts" series, which benefits 826 Valencia's Scholarship Program. (8 p.m., Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Avenue) more ›

Food news you can use: Discolandia signage stays, the new Old Clam House fails to impress, La Boulange opens Union Square store, Bauer on the increasingly popular $13 cocktail, and... more ›

This coming Wednesday, Heart of the City, the best farmers' market on Earth, will celebrate its 30th year of bringing an impressively wide variety of affordable, high-quality produce and other farm-fresh items to the under-served Civic Center population. more ›

The disparity between real life and the city's increasingly out-of-touch gastronomic set came to light over the weekend when Mission Local published a revealing article about the overlap of foodies and gangs in the Mission. After Gaspar ‘Tio’ Puch-tzek, a line cook at Hog & Rocks, was shot and killed last month in a case of mistaken identity, Mission Local asked neighborhood food fans for their thoughts on the recent spat of shootings. The answer may not surprise you. more ›

Hello there. It's me, Brock Keeling, editor of SFist. I'm coming at you in the first-person since I will starve to death (presumably) next week when I take and then report on the San Francisco Food Bank's Hunger Challenge. See, more than 237,000 residents in San Francisco and Marin struggle to put food on the table for themselves and their families. With the aid of Electronic Benefit Transfer cards (AKA "food stamps"), these people, most of whom who are just like you or me, spend an average of $4.72 per day ($33.04 a week) for edible nourishment. That's it. That's all. And while it's better than nothing, it's not much. more ›

Meklit Hadero: Meklit Hadero, who's described as "[i]f Joni Mitchell were East African and met Nina Simone for tea in the Mission," will be performing at Yerba Buena Gardens on Saturday. more ›

MUSIC/ART:The Mission Cultural Center for the Arts presents Talking Art and Music with Pete Escovedo, in which Escovedo will talk about his esteemed musical career and his lifelong interest in the visual arts with radio personality Sterling James (often heard on KBLX). (6 p.m., Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, 2868 Mission Street) more ›

For us, nothing is more Californian than Mexican food. So I was very excited to attend The Great Salsa Championchip hosted by SF Food Wars this last Sunday. The competition is a partnership between Food Wars and CUESA to showcase some of SF's best salsa makers. more ›

We've already told you all you need to know about tomorrow's Street Food Festival. Here's other stuff that might be less crowded. more ›

FILM: Noise Pop and The Roxie present the West Coast premiere of Better Than Something, the new documentary about the controversial and prolific Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr, aka Jay Reatard, which intimately captures Jay just months before his untimely passing amidst his complicated punk-rock world in Memphis, Tennessee. (7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street) more ›

FILM: Vigilante Vigilante, the documentary featuring Berkeley's infamous anti-graffiti cleaner-upper among others, will be at the Roxie for a couple more days. Ironically, the filmmakers have royally pissed off the city, whose crews have had to clean up dozens of wheat paste posters for the film throughout the city. (7 and 9 p.m., Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street) more ›

MUSIC: Yoshi's brings together poetry and music at Talking Taiko, celebrating the release of Yuri Kageyama's The New and Selected Yuri Writing From Peeling Till Now, and featuring guest poet Ishmael Reed, accompanied by taiko drumming. (8 p.m., Yoshi's San Francisco, 1330 Fillmore Street) more ›

MUSIC: Oakland's groovy Bare Wires, "who like to drive around in a van a lot," hit the Hemlock for the late show tonight, along with equally edgily groovy-sounding Nashville's Natural Child and New Jersey's Liquor Store. (9 p.m., Hemlock Tavern, 1131 Polk Street) more ›

Kindie rock, jazz, and blues at Sunday Streets in the Tenderloin/Civic Center, Filipino culture and cuisine at Yerba Buena Gardens, Nihonmachi Street Fair in Japantown, Cuban and Brazilian music at Stern Grove, and a 10K to benefit San Francisco AIDS Foundation. more ›

MUSIC: Punkgrass band, The Avett Brothers, a high-flying ensemble that "tears through tunes with unbridled energy, popping banjo and guitar strings right and left," are at Fox Theater in Oakland tonight and tomorrow night as part of their nonstop tour through the U.S. and Europe, along with special guest Jessica Lea Mayfield. (8 p.m., Fox Theater, 1807 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland) more ›