-- Chapel/Chapter: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company's modern, intricate dance revue. Starts at 8 p.m. at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum; $38-50. -- Quintin Mecke for Mayor & the Tamale Lady Happy Hour: Progressives, tamales, and DJ Julian Mocine-McQueen! Goes from 6 p.m.-9 p.m. (pub crawl to follow) at Mecke for Mayor HQ, 544 Haight. -- Black Fag: Hardcore queer tribute to '70s punk band Black Flag. Tippers Gore, Warkrime, Sabertooth......

Friday night at the de Young never looked so good! Get a sneak peek into the closet of Nan Kempner, San Francisco native turned famous New York socialite as part of an upcoming exhibition. Drink, socialize and check out the galleries, which stay open until 8:45. Also - fashion lecture at 7pm by Harold Koda, curator-in-charge of The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Authors on Film - Always wondered what goes......

" class="imgright" src="http://www.sfist.com/attachments/sfist_matt/ladylistens-thumb.jpg" width="200" height="312" />Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. And! If you think you might forget your Yvesdropping, you can just call our special new Yvesdroppings voicemail hotline and leave your overheard conversation as a message for us: (415)-659-8720 ... Neato! And if you like overhearing things, check out Karl's Overheard World. A clean-cut teen to his tattooed, black-clad mother, "Mom, were you ever into the......

Have a grey suit? How about some cake make up? A red bow tie? If you do, then we recommend you turn out for tomorrow's Paul Reubens Day celebrations. That's right, fourteen years to the week after Paul was arrested in a Florida porn theater loving himself as much as we love him. Teaming up with the kids at the Center for Sex and Culture and San Francisco Superstar Peaches Christ, this year promises......

Always making the scene in Tux and Tails, the very picture of high class. Ok, fine, usually half an hour late having forgotten to wear pants, Barrespondent Drew wanders around in search of more aimless drunkitude. Perhaps the most comical thing you can come across during any pub crawl is a ‘scene that doesn’t know it’s a scene’. Nothing gets us giggling and pointing faster than people hanging out and posing while trying desperately......

Okay, we got a tip about this a while ago in our inbox, and while it's totally f**king awesome, were remiss in posting on it. As some of you may know, Google has actually been pretty open about letting people play around with their new Google Maps. First off, Paul Rademacher created a tool for browsing Craigslist housing listings via Google Maps -- you can even sort by price-range! So hott! But Michael Doeff......

Why is it that when people do readings, they get that weird This-American-Life tone in their voice? And what is it about the quality of polite clapping at bookreadings that makes it sound so poignant? Contemplate these thoughts as you hear your favorite local authors starting tomorrow and going all next week in San Francisco's local literary festival, Litquake. ...