The correct way to honor Memorial Day. Semper fi, Snyder family. more ›

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We know: you're stuck at work and want to go home. Get this weekend started. Or are already dreading the melancholia you'll feel come Monday night knowing that the three-day weekend is over. more ›

139th Annual Memorial Day in S.F. more ›

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

Happy Memorial Day! Here's some stuff to do if you're not barbecuing. more ›

All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we've all had, we feel like the break is not only needed, but deserved. Just look at everything we've been doing! more ›

Well, you could either go to Carnaval this weekend -- or you could go to the State Green Party Convention. Ross Mirkarimi (seen here going into the dunk tank) is giving the keynote address, and the delegates plan to debate issues like ranked-choice voting, lowering the voting age to 17, and immigration. They may also get to issues about global warming. The convention starts at 11:30 a.m., goes through the Memorial Day weekend and is mostly at the State Building at 455 Golden Gate (x Larkin), though if you make it through all the sessions, they're doing a hike in Muir Woods on Monday. You have to pay to go, but the cost is, mysteriously, not listed on the website. more ›

It's Memorial Day, so it must be time for Carnaval! The two-day multicultural festival on 17th and Harrison, filled with big headdresses, drums, and tasty-smelling food! (note to self: is our car parked near there? Better move it.) This year's theme is LOVE HAPPENS, and, as you can see in the above YouTube clip, this year's Carnaval King and Queen can really shake it! more ›

going to reopen the Macarthur Maze by Memorial Day weekend! That construction company totally deserves their $5 million bonus. more ›

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While some consider Memorial Day the official start of summer, we know it is marked by a different occasion: the premiere of crappy summer TV shows! While last week was a nice little vacation from TV slavedom, complete with even more deletions from the TiVo Season Pass list, those empty spots are quickly getting filled up. Let's see what the evening has to offer, shall we? more ›

Last Monday, after we posted our blog round-up, we, along with what we can only assume was all of America, went outside and tried to start a fire. It was Memorial Day, which means the start of summer, which means the start of bar-be-cu'ing season. (What is the correct conjugation of "Bar-be-cue" anyways? Does it exist? Or are there multiple versions, like its spelling?) In any event, we tried to grill. It did not go well. We ran out of propane (heresy enough using that in some circles), had to use vegetable oil as lighter fluid, blackened the chicken, and the corn on the cob, and we bought our fruit salad at Albertson's. Luckily, for most of you in the blogosphere it went a lot better. Catherine at Albion Cooks shares her favorite potato salad recipe, While mostlymartha (welcome back!) at Two Tasty Ladies reveals her predilection for eating outdoors (gin optional). more ›

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An early morning fire on Market and 10th Street in San Francisco is now safely out, but a fire battalion chief suffered non-threatening injuries to his shoulder when he fell through a floor of the burning building. Market Street was closed for three hours, but has reopened to traffic now. more ›

Lots of people love Memorial Day weekend because of the three-day weekend and the non-stop binging on fleshy dead animals, but we love it because all the rock radio stations bust out their "Top 500 of All Time" lists. We love those lists. It's where we get to hear what the mass of radio listeners consider their favorite songs and not the lunk-headed snots at Pitchfork. Will "Stairway" still be on top? Will people finally realize just how God-awful the Eagles really are? And most importantly, how much radio do you have to listen to just so you can hear the classic rock goodness that is the Top 20 songs? This year, both Live 105 and 107.7 the Bone busted out their Top 500 lists and that made the weekend even that more exciting. It was a veritable smorgasbord of rock. It also meant we got to hear what the favorite songs of both forty-something mullet heads and the alienated youth are. It's like a parallel world thing-- one is a list of everything before 1990 and the other is a list of pretty much everything after 1990. If we had only gotten Top 500 lists from both Alice and KFOG it would have been that much better because we could have also have gotten the favorite songs of Marina Chicks and white-bred Yupsters too. But, alas. more ›

very once in awhile, we like to visit the other side as it were and cruise through the world of conservative blogs. Oh, the fun one can have at gawking at the alternate reality they live in, where the Stones, the Who and the Sex Pistols are stalwart conservative rockers, where Global Warming is some paranoid hysteria dreamed up by a bunch of tree huggers, and our President is a Great American Hero. Lately, we've discovered that their newest object of wrath is Google. Why? Because you know how Google always comes up with those cute little icons on holidays that they paste on their page? Well, they had no icon for Memorial Day. more ›

SFist goes to the Civil War Reenactment at Roaring Camp more ›

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SFist reviews Architecture in Helsinki at Great American Music Hall May 23, 2006 more ›

Saturday: We're taking in the first annual San Francisco Young Playwrights Festival, which showcases the winners of this citywide high school playwriting contest at 8 p.m. on May 26 and 27, and at 2 p.m. on May 28, at Diego Rivera Theatre at City College. Get tickets here to see the literary stars of tomorrow, today! more ›

The Chron's Leah Garchik gets all the good dirt -- she breaks the news in Friday's The In Crowd that Gavin Newsom has parted ways with Scientologist/actress Sofia Milos. Your gossip hounds at SFist are bereft. more ›

A very enthusiastic "HER MOTHER AND I DO!" of support to the genius tipster who passed along the Exclusive Details about the impending Kimberly Guilfoyle-Eric Villency (hereinafter, "the Guilfency") Memorial Day nuptials in Barbados, from Fashion Week Daily! more ›

Newsom, has announced that she's getting married in Barbados on Memorial Day, in three weeks! Who's the lucky mayor TV personality? Eric Villency, who hosts the TV show iDesign, a decorating show on the Fine Living network. Okay, Sofia Milos is kind of a C-list celebrity, but no doubt that CSI: Miami outranks cable channel 182. more ›

Okay, here's the thing. Like any fine, upstanding, patriotic, healthy, normal human American, we have always been completely disgusted by the unpleasant heap that is our body. Years of cute haircuts and frantic Jazzercise have done nothing to erase the anxieties that nag us (and you, and just about everyone who has ever lived) every time we take a shower, namely that we're utterly goofy-looking. We need work. Our body's a fixer-upper. When getting a physical, our doctor can barely maintain control over his gag reflex. And by piling on the layers, we're doing the world a favor. more ›

THIS EMAIL IS FOR YOUR EYES ONLY—PLEASE EAT EMAIL AFTER READING. more ›

Obviously you're going to spend a good portion of the holiday weekend doing holiday-type activities like going to the beach, scarfing down BBQ and tipping back a few beers in the sunshine. You might even head out to the Mission to catch the Carnaval parade on Sunday. SFist highly recommends all these things. That's what Memorial Day is all about afterall. Sort of. more ›

Our concert picks for the week of 5/26-6/1. more ›