Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Gallery Hijinks presents As It Was Before an exhibition of new works by Martin Machado and Todd Freeman with installations by Aleksandra Zee, who use "nature and science to reinterpret memories, fables
SF News Two Convicted of Posing as San Bruno Fire Victims Speaking of recent San Bruno fire news, 42-year-old Lisa Justin and 44-year-old Sonya Smith were convicted on Tuesday of trying to pass themselves off as victims in an effort to get relief aid.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: sfSound's San Francisco Tape Music Collective kicks off the trippie-sounding San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2011, featuring three nights of classic audio art and new fixed media compositions. Twenty local and international
SF News San Bruno Still Deciding How To Distribute Donations Four months after the San Bruno blast, city officials are still trying to figure out how to best distribute the $395,000 worth of donations to the victims. The issue is pretty complicated
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PHOTOGRAPHY: SF Camerawork presents As Yet Untitled: Artists and Writers in Collaboration, which blurs the boundaries between photography and writing and suggests possibilities for what exists beyond the confines of each, featuring works
SF News Teen Joy Rides Through Downtown S.F. With Dachshund SF Appeal has details on quite a thrilling story that came up on the wire yesterday afternoon involving a 15-year-old girl who was pulled over on Wednesday for driving recklessly through downtown. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ROAST: Start your new year right by bidding Sayonara to the supervisor everybody loves to hate at The Roast of Chris Daly, hosted by the lovely Beth Spotswood and Melissa Griffin. Proceeds benefit
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Revel in all things dark with a night of goth/punk/psychobilly, featuring Switchblade Riot, Plan 9 (Misfits tribute act), and Blasfemme. 9 p.m. // Bottom of the Hill (1233 17th St)
SF News CA Supreme Court Allows Cell Phone Searches Without Warrant The California Supreme Court made a controversial 5-2 ruling yesterday allowing police to search arrestees' cell phones without a warrant. This finding is said to be in line with decisions made in the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Based on a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go features the coming of age of three friends who leave the shelter of their idyllic English boarding school and discover a
SF News Giants' World Series Trophy at City Hall This Week In case you missed the Giants' World Series Trophy's brief stop at City Hall a couple of weeks ago, it will be back for a stint this Tuesday and Wednesday from 4 to
SF News 48 Displaced After North Beach Fire Early New Year's Day A two-alarm fire broke out in a North Beach apartment building early New Year's Day, displacing 48 residents, two-thirds of whom only speak Cantonese and many of them low-income. The fire was reported
SF News It's Official: America's Cup 2013 To Be Held in S.F. Suck it, Newport, Rhode Island. San Francisco has been chosen to host the next America's Cup. Our fair city was chosen much in part due to our "natural amphitheater" in which spectators can
SF News New Year's Eve Fatalities Up, DUIs Down The CHP made 64 DUI-related arrests in the Bay Area during New Year's Eve this year, as opposed to 92 last year. Four fatal collisions occurred in the Bay Area between 6 p.
SF News S.F.'s First Homicide of 2011 Yesterday San Francisco's first homicide of 2011 occurred on Saturday afternoon in the Tenderloin at Turk and Taylor Streets. The victim has been identified as Larry Lacy, aged 20, who was sitting with a
SF News Tips on Catching a Cab Tomorrow Night The Examiner came out with some handy tips on catching that elusive cab tomorrow night, or any busy night, for that matter. The biggest suggestion is to learn the city's traffic patterns and
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Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: SF Chamber Orchestra presents their Rush Hour Concert, featuring 17-year cello sensation, Nathan Chan, and the orchestra's principal bass player, Michel Taddei, along with lyric soprano Anja Strauss as the most beautiful
SF News Stamp Advisory Committee Considering Milk Stamp Speaking of cool postage stamps -- Remember when Bay Area Reporter talked about an effort that's underway to get San Francisco artist Jim Leff's stamp memorializing Harvey Milk made into an official U.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Persephone's Bees return to the Bay Area for a special S.F. Food Bank Benefit Fundraiser show. Marc & the Casuals and Virgil Shaw w/Peacock Gap and the Wagoneers will also
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Legendary L.A. punk band X rock Slim's tonight and tomorrow night with X-mas with X, along with special guest Ray Manzarek (just don't get him talking about The Doors). 8 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: It's a night of classic indie rock performed by a couple of its originators, Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven. Get a double-dose of David Lowery and Frank Funaro. 7:30 p.m.
SF News Couple Safe After Falling Overboard Near Bodega Bay A man and a woman who were crab fishing off of Bodega Bay on Sunday morning were thrown overboard after a large wave hit their 15-foot boat. They were both wearing life jackets
SF News Take BART Until 3 a.m. on New Year's Day BART will extend its service until 3 a.m. on New Year's Day to accommodate the large number of people attending the New Year's Eve fireworks show along Embarcadero. Trains will be running
SF News Heading Northeast Out of SFO? Check Flight Status Beforehand. Holiday travel has been particularly hellish this year for lots of folks, and it's not getting better any time soon. Incessant rain in the Bay Area caused delays for passengers traveling out of
