Here's what you can do for Valentine's -- head on up to the Legion of Honor... more ›

Dinner and a show at the Cinema Supper Club program more ›

Austinist gets arty with an interactive guide to SXSW, loved some local art galleries and a new art exhibit and lamented the possible loss of "Friday Night Lights" production to New Mexico. more ›

In case you don't think there's anything crafty about baking a batch of cupcakes, we've got the pictures to prove you wrong. And we've had so much sugar today, we doubt you would really want to argue with us. Maybe it was the decadent cakes and sweets we saw inMarie Antoinette, our hero Amy Sedaris's cupcake obsession, the new book Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World, cupcake blogs, or our own local cupcakeries, but we've been itching to make cupcakes for months now. Lucky for us we have a good friend who happens to be a pastry chef (not that you need a pastry chef in your life to make cupcakes, we're just less baking savvy then most). Sure, part of crafting is the satisfaction of planning, playing, and making something permanent with your hands. But baking is as much an art as any craft out there. And there's something just as satisfying in mixing, measuring, baking and then eating your creation. Cupcakes are the perfect palate for some edible artistry. more ›

If Hilary Duff's stirring portrayal of Marie Antoinette has taught us anything, it's that the downtrodden citizenry will only take so much s**t before they rise up against their lazy, useless oppressors. Take Muni, for example. Ordinary civilian internet users, once begrudgingly content with Muni's hopeless website and its tendancy to warp information in impossible confusion, have taken things into their own hands. Behold, a civilian-created FastPass-Vendor Google-Maps mashup! Oh, sweet Google map, how you soothe our fiery outrage. Mmmmm, tasty. more ›

Last week's winner, the East Bay Express: Hey, the EBX is starting a blog -- we hear those are very trendy. But they've got us listed as a link, right below the Culture Blog, so it's all okay! Bottom Feeder mocks the errors made by the Bay Guardian in its East Bay endorsements. Would you buy expensive organic meals prepared by these folks? Confrontational atheists meeting near Walnut Creek. Cover article: the woes of air traffic controllers in Oakland. Brazilian food in Richmond. Cheap wines for everyone! The Pacific Mozart Ensemble sings in Berkeley with Sufjan Stevens, who alienates the crowd briefly by cheering for the Tigers. And Lyrics Born is playing this weekend! more ›

We were so happy to hear that SFist Jackson is using the first SFPL branch we ever used in San Francisco, the North Beach library. He's even reserving books! Yay, Jackson. Meanwhile, SFist Derrick uses our fine local independent bookstores to get his Reads on. That's right, there's room for all sorts here at SFist. more ›