Arts & Entertainment SFist Radar Let us know what we missed in the comments! This Weekend: Squeeze and the English Beat play the Fillmore, Macy Gray spins a DJ set at Yoshi's SF, Tracy Morgan will be at
SF News SFPD Seek Help Identifying Female Armed Robber, Possibly Wearing Gene Simmons Wig The San Francisco Police Department is asking citizens to be on the lookout for a rather bad ass suspect of two Bank of America armed robberies, the first of which was on July
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The dynamic trio made up of seasoned musicians, John Dieterich (Deerhoof), Scott Amendola (Nels Cline), and Thollem McDonas (soloist), will perform together alongside New York filmmaker Martha Colburn's 16 mm stop motion
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: At tonight's installment of the Soundwave Festival (4), The Archives of the Natural World in the Illuminated Forest, singer-songwriter Odessa Chen will collaborate with sound artist [ruidobello] and visual artist Samuel Leshnick
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend All Weekend: The San Francisco Buddhist Church presents its annual Ginza Bazaar, which includes lots of food, dancing, and swords. The 30th Anniversary San Francisco Film Festival, which features Jewish mobsters, banana-laden donkeys,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Gallery Hijinks is hosting their first event, which includes two opening receptions, Free Life Center, a mobile art center crafted from salvaged material by Portland artists Mark Warren Jacques and Seth Neefus,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The Long Now and the SFMOMA Artist’s Gallery present Wondrous Strange: A Twenty-first Century Cabinet of Curiosities, an exploration of time through art, whimsy, music, and mechanics, which will feature work
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
misc Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day Via A.G.: "Willie brown is on my flight. he looks like a pimps dad." With a response from R.B.: "He was seated in front of me and E at the movie
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: It's another Hayes Valley Farm Film Night, featuring PBS "plant's eye view" documentary, Botany of Desire, which is based on Michael Pollen's book. The documentary is a "sensuous and eye-opening exploration into
Arts & Entertainment [Updated] Call for Entries, Night/Light: Bay Area Photographers Take Aim After Dark The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery (SFAC Gallery) and PhotoAlliance are inviting photographers to submit work for their upcoming Art at City Hall exhibition, Night/Light: Bay Area Photographers Take Aim After Dark.
misc RocketBoat, Where Have You Been All Our Lives? We just noticed the bus ad for RocketBoat at Pier 39 the other day and went home and looked it up right away. How long has this thing been around, and why hadn't
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight WORKSHOP: Well, that looks pretty cool. Learn how to make your own cardboard synthesizer at the Outsound New Music Summit's How to Build Your Own Skatchbox Demo. San Francisco veteran instrument builder Tom
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 FILM: Tonight's Bad Movie Night feature, in which the hosts continue their celebration of the "Giant Floating Head" poster, is Days of Thunder (audio), featuring some "streaky cars down below" and Tom Cruise's
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 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 Radar Here's a new feature we're trying out wherein we give you a heads-up about some events that are on our radar. SFist is not omniscient though -- so let us know about other
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Nymph O' Mania, a modern twist on A Midsummer Night's Dream, opens tonight and runs through August 15. Set in a redwood forest in Northern California, the play features a wedding, an
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
misc Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day Via R.B.: "exciting bus rides today... one guy decided to put his body under the back bus tire after getting thrown off for smearing ravioli on all the seats, and seriously almost
SF News SFPD Releases Sketch of Sexual Assault Suspect SFPD has released a sketch of a suspect who attacked and sexually assaulted a female victim at Jones and Sutter Streets on May 29, 2010 at around 2:22 a.m.. The suspect
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: In Yatterman, Takashii Miike "takes the audience for a wild ride of robotics and animation in an adolescent battle of good vs evil with some cheeky elements of young lust tossed in
misc Relevant Twitter Update of the Day Via Brittney Gilbert (she's had some good ones lately!): "San Francisco: The clerk was smoking pot *in* the market while on the clock."
