Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: San Francisco artist Micke Tong will be exhibiting a new series of site-specific conceptual art pieces, drawings, and installation sculptures in Micro-Habitat. Viewers can expect to find "low-rider inspired candy colored taxidermy
Arts & Entertainment Benefit for SF Music Venues in Oakland Tomorrow Night SonicLiving is ramping up its crusade against the Alcoholic Beverage Control's unreasonable crackdown on San Francisco's all-ages music venues with their first Stop the War on Fun benefit concert at the Uptown Nightclub
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: It's a double feature at the Castro with cult classic Repo Man, starring Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton, and Model Shop, about an American who receives a draft notice for the
SF News SF to Use Federal Funds to Provide 1,000 Jobs for Unemployed Parents for One Year Yesterday, Mayor Newsom's office announced a new initiative called JOBS NOW!, which aims to fund jobs using federal stimulus money for 1,000 San Francisco residents who have at least one child and
SF News Coming Soon: MUNI/BART to Track Your Every Move SF Appeal reports that Muni will be replacing all existing fare gates at its underground Metro stations with TransLink-only fare gates (PDF) by fall of 2010, and it's possible Fast Passes will only
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Tonight is the first preview night of Cal Shakes' production of Samual Beckett's Happy Days, directed by Jonathan Moscone. Beckett's astounding portrait of a woman buried up to her waist in sand
SF News Depeche Mode Cancels Tonight's Shoreline Show Due to Illness Times seem to be tough for aging rockstars scheduled to play in the Bay Area this summer. Depeche Mode has had to cancel tonight's show at Shoreline Amphitheatre because of doctor's orders that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Off-the-wall comedian Maria Bamford has a knack for introducing the audience to her myriad of multiple personalities/dysfunctional family members during her stand-up routine, and we especially enjoy her occasional appearances on
SF News BART to Run All Night on Labor Day Weekend Due to Caltrans closing the Bay Bridge in both directions over the upcoming Labor Day weekend for earthquake retrofitting, BART will be running hourly overnight service to 14 stations during the wee hours
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Japanese cowboy possessing amazing yodeling skills Toshio Hirano will perform his beloved bluegrass favorites for adoring fans as part of Amnesia's free Bluegrass Mondays. 8:30 p.m. // Amnesia (853 Valencia St)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FOOD: Explore the Slow Food movement with tapas, wine, and a film screening at Slow Food on Film: Mad City Chickens. Mad City Chickens tells the story of how more and more city
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PARTY: It's an all-out celebration of art, music, surfing, and skating at Surf Movie Party. Local bands Thee Oh Sees, Black Bow, and bands from the Bay Area Girls Rock Camp will kick
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMMUNITY: Celebrate the diversity of Lower Haight with an evening of live music, live painting, food, drink, merriment, and merchant discounts at the Lower Haight Art Walk. 7 to 10 p.m. // Haight
Arts & Entertainment Keep an Eye Out For Cut and Run on Muni Metro Tomorrow Muni Metro riders might encounter some extra special entertainment on their commutes tomorrow. The traveling Cut and Run tour will be projecting films on the N, L, and J lines randomly throughout the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Nine emerging artists sought out inspiring mentors to explore the collaborative experience for Ever Gold Gallery's Double Trouble exhibition. Mentor-student pairs include John Casey + Althea James, Jihaari Terry + Kale Cooley, Tara Foley
SF News The Dhaliwal Bros, aka The Three Stooges, Introducing Tarlok Are Kulbir Dhaliwal, 25, and Amritpal "Paul" Dhaliwal, 21, the two brothers involved in the 2007 tiger mauling for which they recently received a $900K settlement, crying out for attention, are they just
misc Depressing Empty Union Street Storefront Collage Curbed featured this photo montage sent in by reader Ben of storefronts that are empty or for lease along Union Street from Gough to Fillmore. Check out the larger version.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PARTY: Celebrate with the Bay Guardian at their 35th Annual Best of the Bay Party. There will be live music performances by Sila & The Afrofunk Experience, J-Boogie's Dubtronic Science, Sellassie, and The
SF News Field Poll: California Democrats More Tolerant Than in 1977, Republicans Less The Field Poll came out with their August 2009 California Opinion Index (PDF), which indicates that California Democrats and Non-Partisans have become more progressive on hot topics in the past thirty years, whereas
misc See's Candies Involved in 9/11 Conspiracy? Laughing Squid featured a photo of a rather poetic letter that's posted in the window of the former See's Candies in Nob Hill written by the building's landlord, which explains that the business
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: Joe Goode Performance Group presents Traveling Light, an installation combining dance, language, irony and reflection, which will take the audience on a journey through the vaults and chambers of the oldest stone
SF News Local Post Offices at Risk Facing a nearly $7 billion potential loss this fiscal year, The United States Postal Service selected 677 branches nationwide for either closure or consolidation, including more than a couple dozen in the Bay
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: The Thunderbird Theatre Company presents Aaron Trotter and the Incident at Bikini Beach, a coming-of-age comedy in which Aaron Trotter, boy wizard/surfer must win the respect of his classmates, overcome the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: There are still tickets available for the epic Sonic Youth show at the lovely Fox Theater tonight (in case you weren't lucky enough to score tickets to their surprise show at the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: San Francisco artist Brian Barneclo, whose colorful, retro-esque murals adorn high-profile locales, such as the SF Bay Guardian building, Kilowatt, and NoPa, will be showing his new body of paintings at the
