This weekend is gonna be ginormous, with Bay to Breakers,the Maker Faire, the Prince and Bjork shows - so dive right on in with tonight's top picks: Party with Viv! and celebrate the Jolika Collection at the de Young. Experience the art of the Polynesian islands, from 5-8:45. Sample Kiwi wines from 6-8pm and stay to check out a live dance performance by a professional Maori dance company at 8. The Vivienne Westwood exhibit......

There's so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it's almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don't have to! Londonist took a walk through Oliver Twist's London, thanks to a gorgeous map layer for Google Earth. They also caught up with modern-day fictional London, with the Fantastic Four and 28 Weeks Later. It was a week of insanity over at DCist. They started the week off with......

We're shipping off to SXSW on Saturday, and even though we're in for a ton of music in Austin we're really sad about what we'll be missing here in San Francisco. For instance, this weekend we're missing some of our favorite bands including Silversun Pickups, Virgil Shaw, and Electric Six at the Independent (say hello to our buddy John R. Dequindre for us). We're sending one of you to a show we wish we could......

Well, if you didn't win those passes to the Amusement Parks on Fire show, you can still win passes to Friday's show featuring The Futureheads. Or... You can check out one of SFist absolute favorite musical acts ever, Illadelphia's "The Roots" perform tonight at the Grand at the Regency Center. Tickets aren't cheap (and if they're sold out, check Craigslist if you 'Need tickets. Tickets. Anybody need tickets'). Another one of our favorite musical......

Valentine's Day is upon us, which means it's time to separate the lovers from the haters. Are those tiny red hearts shooting from your eyes, or little sharpened daggers? It's no matter, SFist promises to love you either way. Here are our picks for the this week's bay area music offerings. If you're aware that umlauts are the universal symbol for rock, you might already have your tickets for Thursday night's Queensrÿche show at......

In this special edition, we offer a cookbook review. Regular column after the jump. We're certainly not the types to indulge in the latest tome of unmanageable recipes from some celebrity chef. But the one man who we would trust to write a good celebrity cookbook has gone and done just that. That's right, from the man who brought you the coke-and-booze-and-sex-and-coke tell-all Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain, has made a study of his classic french......

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