Here's another chance to score a pair of tickets to the Asian Art Museum's popular Matcha series. The fifth person to email us at sfistevents@gmail.com wins -- be sure to include Matcha in the subject, along with your full name. Update: Contest closed. more ›

Update: Contest Closed. Here's a chance to win a pair of tickets to this Thursday's Matcha at the Asian Art Museum, featuring Balinese Jazz Guitar. Email your full name to sfistevents@gmail.com and include Matcha in the subject heading, and the fifth entrant wins the tickets. more ›

Tomorrow night is another installment of Matcha at the Asian Art Museum, and you can win tickets! Email sfistevents@gmail.com with MATCHA in the subject, and verify your full name while you're at it. The seventh entrant scores the tickets. more ›

The Asian Art Museum presents -- for just three days only (April 19-21) -- the exclusive Pure Views exhibition, a special installation of brand new works by some of China's most world-renowned and emerging artists. The closing night of the exhibit, which coincides with the museum's MATCHA event next Thursday, will feature a panel discussion about art in China today amongst four of the featured artists, along with critic Liu Chun and curator Lu Peng. more ›

Julie Michelle's fabulous I Live Here: SF retrospective show ends next Tuesday with a closing reception. Along with one-hundred eighty beautiful photographs and stories, the show includes some great props throughout the gallery including a Muni shelter, retired newspaper stands, and most magnificently, Wardell's SF-themed art car. more ›

Thursday night's Matcha: Ghosts & Golden Clouds is the last Matcha of the season. Email sfistevents@gmail.com with Matcha in the subject heading and include your full name. The seventh entrant wins the tickets! more ›

Contest Closed. Congratulations, M.W.! Here's another sweet giveaway to the Asian Art Museum's Matcha series. Email sfistevents@gmail.com with Matcha as the heading, and include your full name in the email for a pair of tickets to Thursday's event. The fifth entrant wins! more ›

Here's a chance to win two tickets to Joe Goode Performance Group's Traveling Light on July 9th at 10 p.m. at the historic Old Mint building, which is rarely open to the public. Email tickets@joegoode.org with "SFIST" in the subject line, and verify your full name while you're at it. The tenth entrant scores the tickets. Contest Closed. more ›

Next Thursday's edition of MATCHA, The Shanghai Dress, looks quite intriguing. On display will be the work of designer Jane Zhu, whose inspiration comes from the stylish, sophisticated form-fitting qipao dress that emerged in 1920s Shanghai. Zhu will give a talk on the history and craftsmanship of these iconic and surprisingly versatile dresses, and models will show the dresses in action. more ›

If you want to go to Coachella and for whatever reason haven't snatched some tickets, here's your chance. SFist is giving away one pair of Festival Passes to this year's event, taking place April 16th through 18th. more ›

We have another giveaway for a pair of tickets to next Thursday's MATCHA: Shanghai Jazz event. The fifth entrant to email us (sfistevents@gmail.com) their full name (and include MATCHA in the subject) wins! Update: CONTEST CLOSED. Congrats, L.W.! more ›

Thursday is the final installment of this season's Matcha series at the Asian Art Museum, and the theme is Thai River Festival, a very special Loi Krathong celebration. more ›

The Asian Art Museum presents Matcha: Way of the Sword next Thursday, which is the second event in their three-part MATCHA series. more ›

Feel like getting away to Tahoe this weekend for three days of beautiful scenery and an amazing line-up of bands, including Spoon, Broken Social Scene, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Gillian Welch, Jenny Lewis, Rogue Wave, Girl Talk, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, plus many more? Here's your chance to win a pair of 3-day, weekend Wanderer passes to the Wanderlust Music and Yoga Festival, happening Friday evening through Sunday. The Wanderer gets you into all music-related events throughout the weekend, but not the yoga. more ›

Your afternoon palate cleanser today -- "Everything With You" by The Pains of Being Pure at Heart -- comes along with a GIVEAWAY!! Yes, these spunky kids with an ear for late 80s jangle pop are coming to play a sold-out show at the Rickshaw tomorrow evening. You can bet they're going to be huge by next year, so this is a haiku contest worth pondering: please compose a haiku (that's 5-7-5 syllable lines, people) using the words "pains" and "pure" and put it in the comments. A panel of SFist judges will decide on the winner of 2 tickets. We are going to limit entries to 2 PER PERSON, since a lot of you poets out there just can't help yourselves, and we will announce the winner and inform them by email by tomorrow morning (7/21) at 9AM. more ›

It's time for another haiku contest, dear and loyal readers! You so consistently impress us with your poetic prowess and wit, so we look forward to rewarding one of you with a pair of VIP passes to our very own MicroChella, The Treasure Island Music festival (the amazing lineup of which was just announced today). The festival promises to be a glorious and mellow time, and will feature headliners MGMT, Girl Talk, The Flaming Lips, The Decemberists, and new indie darlings Grizzly Bear. more ›

On Sunday night, the irreverent Lewis Black will tear into his favorite subjects, such as politics, religion, and "other American foolishness," live and uncensored in Back in Black, a conversation with former Air America Radio host and "sometime feral cat wrangler" Marc Maron. Black will also discuss his book We of Little Faith, and there will be an audience Q & A and book signing. All proceeds will benefit Litquake, which is celebrating its 10-year anniversary. more ›

Litquake is celebrating their 10th anniversary tonight with a fundraiser called, "Cocktails with Canin." Author Ethan Canin, who is currently promoting the paperback release of his epic novel, America America, which was described by the late John Updike as “a complicated, many-layered epic of class, politics, sex, death, and social history,” will be sharing cocktails and conversation onstage with former San Francisco Chronicle book editor Oscar Villalon and the audience. more ›

Just in case the giveaway fell under your radar yesterday: Check it out. You have until 5 p.m. today to enter. Performance artist and dancer, Monique Jenkinson/Fauxnique will be putting on a one-of-a-kind performance at Climate Theater April 23 through May 9. Enter to win tickets to this Thursday or Friday nights' performances. more ›

And now for our third SFIAAFF/Castro Theatre ticket giveaway. Write a haiku using the words "gay," "teen," and "love," and enter to win a pair of tickets to The Love of Siam on Saturday afternoon. The winner will be notified tomorrow morning. more ›

The San Francisco Int'l Asian American Film Festival starts tomorrow, and we have five pairs of tickets to give away to the Castro Theatre screenings this weekend. more ›

OK. Put on your tinfoil thinking caps for this one, kids. more ›

Write a haiku using the words "own" and "words," and be eligible to win a pair of tickets to tonight's 7 p.m. or 9 p.m. showings of Sketchfest's "Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words." Comedians will read the autobiographical "masterpieces" of celebrities, such as Mr. T and Vanna White, with deadpan hilarity. Two winners will be notified by 4:30 today (sorry for the last minute notice)! Be sure to check your email. more ›

Local Mission boutique BellJar, purveyor of "gorgeous little things," is the perfect place to shop for one-of-a-kind, last-minute holiday gifts. The shop, which opened last spring, is decked out with awe-inspiring vintage furniture and curios and features a lovely assortment of unique collectibles, housewares, and clothing. You might just find SFist there this weekend! more ›

Artists' Television Access will be celebrating their 25th year of independent and experimental media art on Sunday with their annual fundraiser extravaganza "Banquette Sauvage." The event will feature performances by Conspiracy of Beards, Ash Reiter, Manicato, Los Fulanos, Eats Tapes, Moe! Staiano, The Downer Party, and Grimace and the Fakers, along with various surprise performances throughout the day/night. There will also be a raffle of cool gifts. more ›

Free bicycle lights will be handed out at five service stations throughout San Francisco tonight. This is all a part of "Light Up the Night," a darkness awareness event, if you will, brought to you by SFMTA and the SF Bicycle Coalition. Since December is the darkest month of the year and bike commuters must deal with an earlier nightfall, volunteers will install front and back bicycle lights at Market Street at Duboce Avenue, Howard Street at 8th Street, Valencia Street at Cesar Chavez Street (St. Luke's Hospital), McAllister Street at Webster Street (Ella Hill Hutch Center), and Polk Street at California Street. Remember: it happens from 6 p.m. - 7 p.m. tonight. more ›

A funny thing happened on the way to our last improv class taught by SPF7's Sammy Wegent (with SPF7's Bob Brindley filling in) last December. We fell flat on our face and had an epiphany: Comedy--and dare we say life--is all about falling on your face and turning your misery into entertainment. (We also learned we should never walk swiftly down a slight incline while wearing those dang chef shoes that always make us twist our ankles.) We highly recommend the class, BTW. more ›

Moshe Kasher, Alex Koll, and Brent Weinbach. more ›