If my husband walked in the door after work carrying a dozen red roses and a box of chocolate, I would roll my eyes and, sure, maybe even throw up a little in my mouth. This morning, as I culled through dozens of FB friend posts pronouncing their love for their partners on this, St. Valentine's Day of 2012, I realized that I have a confession to make: Valentine’s Day is for School Children, not adults. more ›

As gooey-romantic-at-heart Andrew Dalton dutifully pointed out, at noon today, Valentine's Day, Tony Bennett will return for a special Valentine's day performance of the city's unofficial theme song under the dome at City Hall. The event is free and open to the public. If you cannot make it, the city will also broadcast the Bennett's performance "in the plazas and parks around Union Square and over the radio waves like our very own honey-throated overlord." But best of all, our typically chilling emergency warning will belt out "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" at noon, or so says Gizmodo. more ›

A couple who had previously dated are dead in what investigators are calling a murder-suicide that happened just after 6:30 p.m. last night in Alameda. A 30-year-old woman was found dead outside her home on the 2100 block of Alameda Avenue after there were reports of shots fired. A 36-year-old man, suffering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, was found still alive inside the home. more ›

Some of you might remember Tammie Brown from RuPaul's Drag Race Season 1, or from this kooky Cinco de Mayo video. She's a little bit twisted! And here's her latest single, "Love Piñata." You'll see in the video how the piñata magically transforms into... Tammie Brown! "I'll be your love piñata/ hit me with your love stick if you can." There's some Valentine's sentiment for you. [via WOW] more ›

Fifty years after he debuted "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" at the Venetian Room in the Fairmont Hotel, noted San Francisco fan and former Belvedere mansion owner Tony Bennett will return for a special Valentine's day performance of the city's unofficial theme song under the dome at City Hall. The event is free and open to the public, of course. And because we can't all just drop what we're doing on a Tuesday and head down to Civic Center (or possibly because the city is testing out some sort of Tony Bennett mind control device), the city will also broadcasting the 85-year-old crooner's performance in the plazas and parks around Union Square and over the radio waves like our very own honey-throated overlord. more ›

Oh, brother. Valentine's Day is on its way. It's that time of year again when your coupled friends pretend not to celebrate the Hallmark Card holiday, which is merely their tissue-thin guise to do some stupid Cameron Crowe-esque indie-rock shit like split a veggie burrito and an Odwalla Superfood between them while sitting on 24th Street. It's also a day when single folks are terribly, terribly bitter and cynical. Ahem. Anyway, OpenTable's diners voted on the 100 most romantic restaurants in the United States — and San Francisco came up with only two. So, you know, grain of salt time. more ›

Last night's annual Valentine's Day Pillow Fight at Justin Herman Plaza was soggy, festive affair. Slap-happy folks braved the mist to smack complete strangers with pillows. Here are some scenes from last night's fluffy melee. more ›

Here ye! Here ye! The annual Valentine's Day Pillow fight - which will foresee turning into a gloppy, soggy mess - starts at 6 o'clock sharp at Justin Herman Plaza. Please, if you can, try cleaning up your mess. And, most importantly, take lots of photos, have fun, play nice, and meet someone rich to bring home to your mother. more ›

Do you know what airy expressions of love will get you? Powerlessness. Take, for example, what happened in Concord today. "A stray Valentine’s Day balloon drifted into power lines in Concord Monday morning, causing an outage that affected 1,775 customers, reports CBS 5. "The Mylar balloon hit the power lines at 8:15 a.m., knocking down one wire." more ›

The clever kids at the Bold Italic have done it again with their graphic design/illustration prowess and given us (via designer Jon Adams) this lovely Valentine's card detailing how San Franciscans share their love. There are a few funny bits, like "share a burrito, Lady and the Tramp-style" and "Build a lover's fort out of fixies in Dolores Park." See it all below, in a kind of lo-fi form. more ›

Ivan and Elizabeth, two long-distance lovers living in Amsterdam and San Francisco, respectively, came up with a public way of showing their love for each other. "San Francisco\Amsterdam," billed as "a collaborative poster project between lovers separated by circumstance," is like one of those broken heart necklace pairs but done with two posters. more ›

On Valentine's Day, don't cry yourself to sleep with your cat sleeping on one side of you and your laptop showing a Netflix livestream marathon of Damages Season 2 on the other. Instead, here are two opportunities to vent your amorous frustrations the healthy way. more ›

Valen-tiny Idea Night: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts hosts a night of "mingling, mating, and music," featuring live performances, dancing, and lots of art and activities, including postmodern elevator peepshows and Infatuated, an interactive cell phone game of love for couples or singles, who must solve the mysteries of love in the 21st century. more ›

If you notice extra shreds of pink paper littering the sidewalks this week it's not because you missed another Susan G. Komen powerwalk for the cure - it's just our local weekly rags, tarting themselves up for Valentine's Day. Not that they don't tart themselves up already with those sexy back pages, but this week they're extra tarty. So, in the spirit of six traumatizing years of elementary school Valentine's card exchanges, we'll keep a tally of the best and worst moments: Who brought the officially licensed Ninja Turtles valentines? Who waited until the last minute and got sappy generic ones with pictures of cats? Who picked that oh-so-touching message that won us over? Most importantly: who will be our Valentine? more ›

Valentine's Day is just around the corner. If you don't have anyone with whom to celebrate the annual ode to love and intimacy, you are, presumably, worthless. If you do have someone with whom to celebrate the annual ode to love and intimacy, but would rather proudly declare that you and your paramour are simply too punk-rock to honor such a day, you are, most definitely, annoying and cruel. more ›

Like it or not, V-Day is coming, and with it another round of lovey-dovey listage detailing the Bests, Top 10s, and Most Romantics the city has to offer. Aside from the usual impossible-to-get-a-rezzie restaurants and prohibitively pricey getaways, here are some roundups that really get to the heart (pun intended) of what Valentine’s Day in San Francisco is all about. more ›

Keep an eye out for more tasty V-Day treats in the coming weeks! by Aislinn Fletcher Valentine’s Day is fast approaching and the obligatory heart shaped candy boxes are on the shelves in overwhelming numbers. more ›

Tight on cash and/or don't quite buy into Valentine's Day? Nevertheless, you're making a decent dinner tomorrow night and want to top it off with a special dessert? But this idea occurred to you at the last minute, and you don't want to buy/spend a whole lot of time or money on ingredients? more ›

Since we're all broke around here, Johnny Funcheap has compiled a list of his Top Five Best Cheap Valentine's Day Dates for this weekend. (Personally, our s.o. is cashing in our beer stein full of coins to fund a grand sushi dinner for us tonight.) Thanks, Johnny! more ›

While San Francisco may not have the reputation for romance as, say, Paris or a beach in Hawaii, plenty of great love stories have unfolded here. To help you celebrate Valentine's Day, we'd like to recommend a few films that are set in the jewel by the Bay. But be warned, much like the streets on which they take place, the course of these true loves does not run smooth.... more ›

The Erika Chong Shuch Performance Project will be celebrating the six-year anniversary of same-sex marriage with Love Everywhere, a free and interactive dance performance intended to bring strangers together, which will take place at various sites this weekend. [Update: Check out a great profile of Erika Chong Shuch over at SF Appeal!] The first performance, which will include approximately 60 dancers and 15 musicians (and you!), happens tomorrow at Noon where it all started -- at the City Hall Rotunda. more ›

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by Amy Crocker Who says Valentine's Day cards have to be all mushy and gooey and lovey and dovey? We highly recommend flipping through artist Brandon Bird's Law & Order SVU themed cards. (Yes, we know it's too late to order them, but they're still worth a peak. more ›

What with Valentine's Day around the corner, Nob Hill Gazette (a local publication whose motto, "...an attitude, not an address," lets you know that Nob Hill is the neighborhood in SF) released its Annual Eligibles List, a directory of crestfallen, lonely locals, which was made famous back in the day by SF Weekly's Laurel Wellman. more ›

Even with perilous weather looming overhead, Saturday's Great Valentine's Day Pillow Fight was an explosive success. Here are some scenes from the annual pillow fight at Justin Herman Plaza.
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"Museum of Broken Relationships" Popular Croatian art exhibit featuring love-stained artifacts from anonymous folks who failed at love. The exhibit showcases objects of heartbreak such as teddy bears and photos, but also bizarre examples like leg prosthesis and a gall stone. Read more about it here. more ›

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