SF News Yerba Buena's Dream House Raffle, First Early Bird Drawing Deadline Friday We had seen a bus ad for some weird house raffle a few weeks ago and were quite puzzled. Then we promptly forgot about it. Since then, news outlets have confirmed it's legit.
Arts & Entertainment What To Do During Earth Hour Tonight Millions across the globe are participating in Earth Hour tonight (and as we speak). For those who feel like being out and about tonight, here are some Earth Hour events going on in
Arts & Entertainment Free Screening of <em>Milk</em> at The Independent on Monday Night FuncheapSF alerted us to a free screening of Milk on Monday night at 8 p.m. at the Independent. We just might go and swoon over James Franco and Emile Hirsch some more,
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF Giveaway: Tickets to <em>Diamond Head</em> on Sunday This is our final SFIAAFF/Castro Theatre giveaway. Write a haiku using the word "interracial," and enter to win a pair of tickets to the epic Diamond Head on Sunday afternoon, which was
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF Giveaway: Tickets to <em>Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi</em> on Sunday Night Here is our fourth SFIAAFF/Castro Theatre giveaway. Write a haiku using the word "Bollywood," and enter to win a pair of tickets to Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi on Sunday night, which
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Eats: Stretch Your Dollar, Waistband, on Monday Nights at Jardinière Beginning this Monday, Jardinière will be catering to the value-conscious consumer (who wants to splurge every now and then) with a weekly prix fixe menu, which features dishes from a different region of
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF Giveaway: Tickets to <em>The Love of Siam</em> on Saturday And now for our third SFIAAFF/Castro Theatre ticket giveaway. Write a haiku using the words "gay," "teen," and "love," and enter to win a pair of tickets to The Love of Siam
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF Giveaway: Tickets to <em>The Equation Between Love and Death</em> Here's our second SFIAAFF/Castro Theatre ticket giveaway. Write a haiku with the words "love" and "death," and enter to win a pair of tickets to the Saturday afternoon screening of The Equation
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF Giveaway: Tickets to <em>Dirty Hands</em> on Saturday The San Francisco Int'l Asian American Film Festival starts tomorrow, and we have five pairs of tickets to give away to the Castro Theatre screenings this weekend. The first set of tickets is
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: International Theatre Ensemble's Production of Gogol's <em>The Nose</em> Tickets are still available for this Friday and Saturday nights' performances of Nikolai Gogol's The Nose, presented by the International Theatre Ensemble at the Phoenix Theatre. SFist attended the International Theatre Ensemble's production
Arts & Entertainment Haiku Giveaway: Win Tickets to Gogol's <em>The Nose</em> Friday and Saturday Night In celebration of Nicolai Gogol's 200th birthday, Phoenix Theatre and the International Theatre Ensemble present The Nose, the first installment of a multi-art experimental production of The Overcoat directed by Oleg Liptsin. The
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Launches "Art in the Atrium: Kerry James Marshall," Free to the Public For the next year, patrons and passersby can enjoy Kerry James Marshall's monumental mural exhibit in SFMOMA's Evelyn and Walter Haas Atrium. Marshall depicts the rarely represented slaves who inhabited Monticello and Mount
misc Cheap Pete's Will Do Your Noise Pop Posters Right Instead of letting your collectible Noise Pop poster fade in the corner for a year, like we did, head on over to Cheap Pete's for a "quick fit" to last a lifetime. This
Arts & Entertainment '80s Punk Band Zero Boys to Play 924 Gilman This Weekend Hailing from Indianapolis, old-school punk band Zero Boys will be making their only appearance on the West Coast this weekend with the re-release of their classic album Vicious Circle. When the album was
Arts & Entertainment "NightLife" at the California Academy of Sciences on Thursday Nights Starting this Thursday, the California Academy of Sciences will feature NightLife, a weekly event for visitors 18 and older, in which the space will be transformed into a lively venue filled with "provocative
Arts & Entertainment SF Sketchfest Closing Show: Bingo Grand Prize, Back-Cracking SF Sketchfest's closing show at Cobb's on Saturday night was an interesting night of comedy and Bingo, topped off with comedian-donated prizes and hosted by Bobby Tisdale. The grand prize was a good
Arts & Entertainment SF Sketchfest Review: The Hills: A Staged Reading + Invite Them Up SF Sketchfest presented two shows with great line-ups at Cobb's on Saturday night, which proved to be a double-double dose of Robs (Riggle and Huebel). "The Hills: A Staged Reading," featured Janine Garofalo
Arts & Entertainment SF Sketchfest Giveaway: Invite Them Up The fine folks at SF Sketchfest are offering another great giveaway -- a pair of tickets to tonight and tomorrow night's showing of "Invite Them Up." New York comics Eugene Mirman and Bobby
Arts & Entertainment Sketchfest Giveaway: Win Tix to "A Salute to Bud Cort with a screening of <em>Harold and Maude</em>" Write a haiku with the words "Harold" and "Maude," and be eligible to win a pair of tickets to a special onstage conversation with Bud Cort and a screening of Harold and Maude
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dine About Town Now Through the 31st For those with some spare change in their pockets and the urge to stuff themselves silly with delectable eats, check out Taste SF's eighth annual Dine About Town, which started last Thursday and
Arts & Entertainment Sketchfest Giveaway: Win Tix to "Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words" Tonight Write a haiku using the words "own" and "words," and be eligible to win a pair of tickets to tonight's 7 p.m. or 9 p.m. showings of Sketchfest's "Celebrity Autobiography: In
Arts & Entertainment The Obamas' Guide to National Day of Service In celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the Obamas are encouraging us to help our fellow citizens in need. The Obama website has a handy database and map of volunteer events in
Arts & Entertainment Free Dark Dance Party at the KnockOut This Saturday Had enough of the Christmas cheer? Laying low on amateur night, aka New Years Eve, with its $50 covers, vomit-saturated Muni buses, and good-luck-getting-a-cab b.s.? Then this Saturday night is where the
misc Haiku Giveaway: Modern Alchemy Dia De Los Muertos Candle from BellJar Local Mission boutique BellJar, purveyor of "gorgeous little things," is the perfect place to shop for one-of-a-kind, last-minute holiday gifts. The shop, which opened last spring, is decked out with awe-inspiring vintage furniture
Arts & Entertainment Haiku Giveaway: Win Tickets to ATA's Fundraiser on Sunday Write a haiku in the comments using the words "artist" and "televison" [Update: or "art" and "tv"] and enter to win a pair of tickets to the event! The winner will be notified
