"Tales Of Mere Existence" By Levni R. Yilmaz Esq HEY! I'll be selling books at the SF Zine Fest Friday & Saturday. Friday, October 5 from 2:00pm - 8:00pm Saturday, October 6 from 11:00am - 7:00pm The Women's Building 3543 18th St. (between Valencia and Guerrero) in the Mission District of San Francisco Email Lev. Buy a Comic/DVD set from Lev! http://www.ingredientx.com/buy/main.htm For more comics, animations and correspondence, kindly visit http://www.ingredientx.com If you gravitate......

-- Bad Boys of Runway: Project Runway enfant terribles Santino Rice and Jeffrey Sebelia help host and judge a fashion show along with the fascinating Denise Hale and the hilarious Marga Gomez. Juanita MORE! performs an opening number that’s not to be missed. (Like, seriously, don't.) The pre-show prefaces a screening of The Women (1939), with a VIP reception afterwards. Partial proceeds benefit CUAV (Community United Against Violence), so…yay! Show starts at 7:30 p.m.......

We've been slightly afraid of Tribe 8 lead singer Lynn Breedlove ever since she crashed into us in a riotgrrl mosh pit, causing us moderate injury -- but that shouldn't stop you from checking out her short film "Godspeed," based on her book about speed freak bike messengers, which is screening next Wednesday, April 11, as part of the Third Annual SF Women's Film Festival! The Women's Film Fest has put together an eclectic group......

The annual SFist Holiday Gift Guide returns today with five passes to the Celebration of Craftswomen this weekend at the Herbst Pavilion at Fort Mason Center. The show is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and features a changing roster of more than 150 different artists each weekend and benefits The Women's Building....

SFist is more Kraftwerk than Craftsworker. At our mid-century ranch headquarters, there's a rather large cupboard with various scraps of fabric and yarn, paint and glue and all manner of funky specialty tools. This is the area known as the Island of Dead Crafts. Every so often we remember the pride we had making that macaroni owl at summer camp and decide that our lives would be much more fulfilling if we could make......

Finally, our holiday film season begins. There are so many great movies opening this weekend that we don't know where to begin. On the bigger-budgeted side of things, we are embarassed by the twin riches of The House of Flying Daggers, a Tang-dynasty-set police drama with all the breathtaking martial arts we've come to expect from any movie starring the lovely Ziyi Zhang, and the film version of San Francisco novelist Daniel Handler's A Series......