Arts & Entertainment SFIFF Giveaway: <em>A Woman Under the Influence</em> at Castro Theatre on Sunday Here's our third giveaway for the SFIFF Sunday screenings at the Castro Theatre. Email us (sfistevents @ gmail.com) with your full name, and please include "A Woman Under the Influence" in the subject
Arts & Entertainment Art of the City: Weekend Gallery Openings The always informative Fecal Face has a comprehensive list of all the weekend gallery happenings. Here's a round-up of just a few. All Weekend Art Explosion Open Studios The Art Explosion is celebrating
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF Giveaway: <em>Le Amiche</em> at Castro Theatre on Sunday And now for our second giveaway: Write a haiku with the words, "cult" and "housewives," and enter to win a pair of tickets to the 3 p.m. screening at Castro Theatre on
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF Giveaway: <em>The Tiger’s Tail</em> at Castro Theatre on Sunday The San Francisco Film Festival starts tonight! We have four giveaways that we'll be posting throughout the day for the Castro Theatre screenings on Sunday. For our first giveaway, write a haiku with
Arts & Entertainment Sport Animal Print or Safari Gear, Join The Cougar Run Tonight Hot off the funcheapSF presses: Wear your animal print or safari gear and meet at El Rio tonight at 7 p.m. for the ever so quirky Cougar Run bike ride, which is
Arts & Entertainment Fisherman's Wharf Fitness, Health & Safety Fair This Sunday In conjunction with Sunday Streets, there will be a Fitness, Health & Safety Fair this Sunday at Fisherman's Wharf from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (for those who want to brave
Arts & Entertainment Sunday Streets Starts This Sunday This Sunday will kick off six Sundays of car-free Sunday Streets, which will take place in various parts of the city. This Sunday's route will extend along the waterfront from South Beach Park
Arts & Entertainment Discarded to Divine 2009 Panel Discussion Tomorrow Night at FIDM Attention fashion enthusiasts: Fashion Group International San Francisco will host a panel of fashion experts from the upcoming Discarded to Divine 2009 fashion show tomorrow night at the Fashion Institute of Design and
Arts & Entertainment "An Evening with Francis Ford Coppola & Friends" at SFIFF on May 1 Francis Ford Coppola is this year's recipient of the San Francisco International Film Festival's Founders Directing Award. The evening will start off with an on-stage conversation between Coppola and his longtime colleagues and
Arts & Entertainment You Still Have 6.5 Hours to Enter the <em>Faux Real</em> Haiku Giveaway Just in case the giveaway fell under your radar yesterday: Check it out. You have until 5 p.m. today to enter. Performance artist and dancer, Monique Jenkinson/Fauxnique will be putting on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Free Ben & Jerry's Cone Day is Here! It's that time of year again, and what great weather for gobbling down a free Ben & Jerry's cone. Help them celebrate 31 years of "scooping the chunkiest, funkiest ice cream, frozen yogurt
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Cherry Blossom Anime Costume Contest Did you check out the Cherry Blossom Festival and Parade yesterday? Or did the heat send you running for the beach? As usual, Jim Herd from San Francisco Citizen got some great shots
Arts & Entertainment Haiku Giveaway: Tix to <em>Faux Real</em> with Monique Jenkinson/Fauxnique This Thursday and Friday Performance artist and dancer Monique Jenkinson will don her alter ego Fauxnique for the next three weekends at the Climate Theater, April 23 through May 9. Faux Real poses the question, "Can a
Arts & Entertainment <em>A Sea Change</em> Documentary at SF Int'l Film Festival Saturday A Sea Change is the first documentary about ocean acidification, "the underbelly of climate change, a little-known but potentially devastating threat to ocean life." The film is making its West Coast premiere at
misc Jonesing There's nothing worse than the smell of a fresh cigarette stub on Muni (aside from the less frequent bodily functions or a burrito in the process of being eaten). We have to admit
Arts & Entertainment Photos: PostSecret Show at Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek We're sorry, dear readers, the PostSecret exhibition at Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek totally fell under our radar until today. The show has been up since March 1, and it ends tomorrow, April
Arts & Entertainment “Party for the Planet” at SF Zoo Tomorrow, Free Admission for E-Waste Recyclers We can always rely on funcheapSF! In celebration of Earth Day, the San Francisco Zoo will be having a “Party for the Planet” from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. tomorrow, which
Arts & Entertainment Attention Audiophiles: Record Store Day Tomorrow We just got this scoop from Eyes on Blogs, who got it from ipickmynose. Visit participating record stores tomorrow for international Record Store Day and be privy to over 100 limited edition vinyl
misc Steve and Kate's Summer Camp Starts in June at Six Bay Area Locations Steve and Kate's Summer Camp, which "reinvents summer camp for the modern era," sounds like a dream camp for kids in kindergarten through 7th grade that's customized for each child. It's something we
SF News Five Million Year Old Whale Bones Discovered on Santa Cruz Beach Santa Cruz County construction crews spotted a fossilized vertebrae sticking out of the ground at Mid-County beach last month, which paleontologists have since identified as the remains of a whale, likely dating back
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Eats: Pearl's Deluxe Burgers Just the thought of Pearl's Deluxe Burgers (708 Post St, at Jones, SF) gets our mouth watering, which is dangerous, since we live in close proximity to their TenderNob location. In addition to
SF News EPA to Officially Declare Greenhouse Gases Threat to Human Health Treehugger informed us of the breaking news that the EPA will be moving forward with plans to declare that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases are harmful to our health and to
misc Take a Free Walking Tour Today, This Weekend, Any Day We recently discovered San Francisco City Guides' free walking tours last fall, which have been around for 30 years. They offer seasonally-themed tours throughout the year, including their annual Scavenger Hunt in the
Arts & Entertainment <em>Point Break Live!</em> Every Friday Night at Cellspace After a successful six-month reign in San Francisco last year, Point Break Live!, the "internationally lauded absurdist stage adaptation" to the Keanu Reeves gem, came back to our fair city in March and
Arts & Entertainment Small Space Gardening Demonstration by Flora Grubb at Design Within Reach Tonight Tonight at Design Within Reach (1913 Fillmore St., SF) from 6 to 8 p.m., Flora Grubb will offer her gardening expertise to us urban dwellers, including climate-appropriate planting tips for apartments, balconies
