SF News George Lucas Proposes Presidio Museum To Showcase His Stellar Collection You know that Sports Basement near Crissy Field? It's going to become a museum of visual storytelling, if George Lucas has his way. According to The Chronicle, the 68-year-old
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Reveals More Expansion Renderings Just heads up that, despite their vehement claims that they're truly not closing for three years, SFMOMA is really kinda closing the museum as we know it on June 2 in
Arts & Entertainment Look At The Bay Bridge All Gussied Up With Lights! Just in time for a romantic stroll along the Embarcadero come Valentine's eve, the Bay Bridge peacocks these lovely vertical lights. Glorious. It's all part of the new LED
Arts & Entertainment Expect Lines To See 'Girl With A Pearl Earring' At DeYoung Starting this weekend, the DeYoung Museum becomes the exclusive West Coast venue for a tour of Dutch masters paintings from the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis at The Hague. The centerpiece of the exhibition
Arts & Entertainment New Art Installation Offers A Place To Sit At Church & Duboce That messy Muni Metro stop/treacherous intersection at Church Street and Duboce Avenue? The one where there's never anywhere to sit after your outbound N-Judah just kicked you off? Well,
Arts & Entertainment Video: See the New Light Installation on the Bay Bridge Getting Tested Installation has begun on the new light sculpture thing we told you about in September on the cables of the Bay Bridge. It's an LED art installation by artist Leo Villareal,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rainy Day Colombian Lunch At SF MOMA Today is a go-to-the-mall-and-watch-movies kind of day, isn't it? 'Tis. 'Tis, indeed. But instead of bracing the bridge-and-tunnel cockroaches at the
Arts & Entertainment Traumatic Brain Injury Meets Art At Ridgway Gallery This Saturday Ridgway Gallery has unleashed some of the most exciting yet original exhibits in town these days. Take for example, their current exhibition, On a Clear Day We Were Lightning, which boasts the work
Arts & Entertainment Mona Lisa In Golden Gate Park? San Francisco Art Museums Sign Deal With The Louvre Art-seeking tourists can cancel their tickets to Paris now that The Louvre and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco have struck a deal to allow for open sharing and collaborative exhibitions
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Party with SFBG and Drag Queens for Cindy Sherman The SF Bay Guardian will join creative forces with SFMOMA for a rooftop party tonight marking the end of the Cindy Sherman show: "A toast to Cindy Sherman." Details? We have
Arts & Entertainment Larry Ellison Will Proudly Show Off Even More Of His Expensive Things Next Summer In conjunction with the marquee races of the Oracle-sponsored America's Cup (coming to a waterfront near you in Summer 2013) bajillionaire boating enthusiast and suspected evil villain Larry Ellison will
SF News Astounding, Awesome Bay Bridge Light Sculpture Project Announced Former Mayor Gavin Newsom and still reigning Mayor Willie Brown announced a glorious new light project that's set to make everything better. Why? Because tiny LED lights make everything better. Inspired
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: 'A Year in Polaroids' at 111 Minna Bruce Scott and William Westley, the shutterbugs behind Polaroid SF, took one instant snapshot a day of the city for an entire year. Tonight at 111 Minna, they're hosting a one-
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Latte Art Competitions Are A Thing Many local artisan baristas are considered the most horrible people on the planet due only to the fact that they still refuse to make iced espresso. (It bruises the flavor, we're
Arts & Entertainment New Artwork Coincides With This Weekend's 'Vertigo' Screening To go along with this Labor Day weekend's screening of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo at the Castro Theatre, Spoke Art unveiled two new screen prints by artists Chuck Sperry and
SF News Artists Use Salvaged Solyndra Stuff in Artwork, Cause Right-Wing Media to Go Ballistic Everyone knows conservatives hate art. They especially hate contemporary art that was funded by any source other than one's parents' old money, especially if that source is the NEA. Well,
Arts & Entertainment Look at These Whimsical Art Fliers We Found in North Beach We came across these fliers on Thursday in North Beach at Columbus and Taylor. We're not sure who created them, but they sure are exciting. Also, as Haighteration has pointed out,
Arts & Entertainment 'One-Man Star Wars' Guy Returns to San Jose With 'One-Man Lord of the Rings' Canadian performer Charles Ross, who delighted the geeks of geekdome down in Silicon Valley last year with his One-Man Star Wars, returns to San Jose Rep to do his other show, a
Arts & Entertainment Astute Shark Fin Mural Inspired By 'Me and My Shark Fin' Video, Shark Art Tour As Mission Mission pointed out last week, this oddly elegant yet telling shark-fin mural, which depicts a dead shark strewn next to its freshly sliced-off fin, was inspired by Kool Kid
SF News Video: Watch Nancy Pelosi Dancing at Barney Frank's Gay Wedding House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi cut a rug over the weekend at the wedding of Barney Frank and Jim Ready in Newton, Massachusetts. Here she is dancing with co-Best Man Terry Bean,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/3: 'C.R.A.Z.Y' FILM: The Alliance Française of San Francisco's French Cinema Night kicks off family-themed month with C.R.A.Z.Y., which tells the story of Zac, a young gay man
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/29: Viva Frida At The De Young FASHION: This week's Friday Nights at the de Young event is themed Viva Frida: From the Blue House to the Catwalk, which celebrates both the Gaultier-inspired “Frida” and the traditional
Arts & Entertainment Local Artist To Decorate Valencia Street With Easily Removable Art Starting Sunday July 1st, a local artist who goes by the frustratingly postmodern tag "_g", will either decorate Valencia Street with her artwork, or simply give it all away with a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/23: Mark Gardener (Of Ride) MUSIC: Mark Gardener of Ride brings his 20th Anniversary celebration tour of Going Blank Again to Cafe Du Nord, in which he'll be backed by a full band, Silver Parade, performing
