This weekend, spend some time with a great detective, watch dancers take over 24th Street, and celebrate St. Patrick's Day.

Friday: Veronica Mars

Look, I need to be honest with you. I don't go to every event I've listed in SFist Tonight since I started doing it (with, obviously, a big intermission) in 2006. However, I always list things I would go to, if I didn't have multiple jobs, dogs and a spouse to attend to. Tonight what I would do and what I am doing converge with the notoriously-Kickstarted Veronica Mars movie. Tonight I will be going to either the Metreon or 1000 Van Ness (local showtimes are here), will put down my own actual hard earned money, and will reunite with all my friends from Neptune High one more time. Won't you join me? (And before you argue that VM's only for teens/ladies, I'll tell you that I know a guy who says it's his favorite TV show, ever, and he can bench press you.)

Saturday: Inhabitant
In this free, outdoor dance event, "performers blend in and out of the crowd"at 24th and Mission Streets, "drawing attention to the everyday encounters and movement of people through the site that creates a shifting lightscape beginning at dusk and continuing through nightfall."

The Ntsoana Contemporary Dance Theatre asks that Inhabitant audience members meet at 6:45 PM at La Taqueria (2889 Mission Street) or Arizmendi Bakery (1268 Valencia Street). You'll be given a program at the meeting place, and will be led to the site at 6:50, for a performance to begin at 7 PM.

St. Patrick's Day Parade

This year's San Francisco St. Patrick's Day Parade will include a first-time contingent from the San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Celebration Committee. While other parades celebrating this booze-soaked holiday in New York City and Boston have been boycotted by their mayors due to LGBT discrimination, local organizer United Irish Societies of San Francisco has welcomed SF Pride and the queer community. Head down to Market Street between Civic Center and Second Street starting at 11:30 AM to catch the festivities. -- Brock Keeling