Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: Bread for the Journey San Francisco, a new community development organization, is having a fundraiser for Kid Serve, who are creating a four-story mosaic at 170 Otis Street with teenagers in foster
Arts & Entertainment Try Something Different for Lunch Today "Monologist extraordinaire" Josh Kornbluth, of Haiku Tunnel and Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews? fame, invites you to have lunch with him at the Contemporary Jewish Museum's Cafe on the Square for What's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Tenderloin Gets Trendier After much anticipation, artisan coffee shop, Hooker’s Sweet Treats Cafe, which serves Sightglass Coffee and gourmet confections and baked goods, officially opened yesterday at Hyde and O'Farrell. Tenderblog was at the grand
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: A garden party with projected multimedia art sounds like a lovely idea. SOMArts Cultural Center presents Night Light: Multimedia Garden Party, featuring abstract sound, video, and site-specific film installations "spilling through the
Arts & Entertainment To the Dump, to the Dump, to the Dump Dump Dump Actually, here's your chance to skip the trip down 101 to the SF dump and instead check out "Art at the Dump: Twenty Years of the Artist In Residence Program" right downtown. Intersection
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend Looks like it'll be a nice weekend. Enjoy! Saturday: Keep your wits about you at the big, annual, free Mission Creek Music Festival at McLaren Park. Put on your leather pants and let
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Happy Bastille Day! Looking for more events to celebrate this French holiday (in addition to the one below)? Then head on over to Eye on Blogs. ART: In Leave No Trace, artists Elisheva
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Magician Christian Cagigal's magic show, Obscura, which was created for "believers, skeptics, those who hate magic shows, and those who hate theatre," weaves magic, fairy tales, and dark fables into "an intimate
Arts & Entertainment Automatic Teller Machine Turned Into Art While we're not the most ardent fans of graffiti, we're huge fanboys of ATMs (they give us money!), and here we have one in Hayes Valley, which has been turned into a piece
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight CRAFT: Scissors for Lefty will perform at the opening night party for TechnoCRAFT: Hackers, Modders, Fabbers, Tweakers and Design in the Age of Individuality, which focuses on the intersection of technology and craft
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The annual Another Hole in the Head Film Festival kicks off tonight with Death Kappa, which takes a modern look at the Japanese mythical monster that possesses part animal and part human
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Photographer Jamie McHugh exhibits Seascapes, a series of natural abstract photographs of the Sonoma Coast’s tidal zone with unusual points of view. 6 to 9 p.m. // Dickerman Prints Gallery (3180
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: This weekend's installment of Peaches Christ's Midnight Mass savors all things Prince, and not to mention Apollonia, with '80s classic, Purple Rain. Singing and dancing in the aisles is encouraged. The event
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Cooperative art gallery and shared studio, Big Umbrella Studios, presents From The Beginning, featuring work from their newest members: Jessica Patrick, Vanessa Beckrum, Charlie Mirador, Annamarie Pabst, Chance Carstensen, Beja Tinsley, Chad
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Better Weather presents their first exhibition of the summer, featuring an array of "colourfully bright and stunning pieces" by contributing artists, Chrissy Angliker, Erin McCarty, Bill Dunlop, and Jessica Delorme, which will
misc Gremlins' Gizmo Visits Central Market Corridor SFist reader (and Editorial Director of Frommers.com) David Lytle snapped these pics of Gizmo (the lovable, hungry-after-dark star of Gremlins) dotting a boarded building along the Central Market Corridor. Lytle explains: A
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: California artist Ed Moses is exhibiting Airborne, his series of paintings from 2007 that explores atmosphere and abstraction through lush applications of paint in light, airy hues, "lending an ephemeral quality suggestive
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Tonight's installment of the monthly Snob Theater, which is organized by Bay Area comedian/music blogger Shawn Robbins, includes comedians Red Scott, Melanie O'Brien, Alex Koll, and DJ Real, and musical guests
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Creativity Explored's latest exhibition, Spectrum, explores psychedelic art, ranging from op-art paintings and obsessive drawings to historical references to the cultural revolution of the '60s and '70s, and responds to the current
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: StreetSmARTS celebrates the completion of their pilot-program murals with a Community Extravaganza, curated by Infin8 Sync, a resource for independent artists in the Bay Area. The event will feature food, live muraling,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Los Angeles based collaborative group Lucky Dragons, presents Wrong Spectrum, in which the audience interacts with projected light using reflective materials, such as cd-r’s, to cause a change in sound. 8:
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: French director Catherine Breillat revisits Bluebeard, the classic tale about young Marie-Catherine, child bride to an aristocratic ogre with a reputation for murdering his wives. 7:30 p.m. // Yerba Buena Center
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: The Lab and the Queer Cultural Center present Before We Were Named, a production using music, dance, media, performance, and ritual to chronicle the existence of queer/transgendered people of color via
SF News Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light, Arrested for DUI On this lackadaisical news day, we bring you word that Thomas Kinkade, painter of Christ's love reborn 10 million times over in picturesque cottage form, was recently arrested for alleged DUI. The California
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SOUND: The Bay Area Sound Ecology presents Phantom Power, a site‐specific concert in which composers will present short works that introduce a subtle layer of sound to the existing environment of Yerba
