SF News San Francisco Homeless Stay Connected The Wall Street Journal reports that many of San Francisco's homeless are savvy at finding ways to go online regularly. Shelter attendants say the number of overnight visitors with laptops is growing, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The 2009 Ypulse Youth Marketing Mashup Conference presents a free screening of DARE, which follows three very different teenagers through the last semester of high school. The screening will be followed by
SF News Latinos Targeted in Recent Kidnappings, Muggings in the Mission Mission Loc@l reports that there have been three documented cases this month of Latinos being forced into a vehicle with the intent of mugging them, while walking in isolated parts of the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: CASA (Children’s After School Arts) is having a musical theatrical extravaganza, Adventures at Camp Itchy Scratchy, starring 85 kindergarten through fifth graders. "Looking to escape their school-year stresses, a group of
misc Tough Times at the DMV With budget cuts, and long lines, apparently this is the easiest way for disgruntled patrons at the Fell Street DMV to get out their frustrations. The colors are very harmonious though.
SF News Journalists Detained in North Korea Go on Trial Thursday, Lisa Ling to Speak Out This Week CurrentTV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who were detained for illegally crossing the North Korean border and accused of "hostile acts," are set to go on trial on Thursday. They were working
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: It's the closing weekend of Boleros for the Disenchanted, written by The Motorcycle Diaries screenwriter José Rivera, which is a love story set in Puerto Rico that spans several generations and is
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Events DIY, fashion, cheese, and pride -- who could ask for anything more?! Here are just a few events going on this weekend: Maker Faire: The annual, family-friendly DIY fest, celebrating the arts, crafts,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Check out the original Inglorious Bastards by Italian director Enzo Castellari, which inspired the partial premise of Tarantino's upcoming version. Incidentally, Tarantino is a very bad speller. The original remains perhaps the
misc UPDATE, Old Meme -- Help Find Beloved Labs a Home Together Update: Ha, it looks like we've been had, kind of -- it is a true story though. According to Snopes, this story actually happened down in LA in February, and the dogs did
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts concludes its 2008-2009 season with Nick Cave Soundsuits Collaboration, which combines the movement of New York-based choreographer Ronald K. Brown and the shimmering Soundsuits of Chicago-based
SF News Alameda Schools Approve Curriculum on Gay Tolerance Parents of students in the Alameda School District are split down the middle regarding the district's decision to proceed with a new set of classes aimed at curbing anti-gay bullying. Starting next year,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LECTURE: The Commonwealth Club hosts an enlightening discussion with Michael Eric Dyson: Can You Hear Me Now? Known as the "hip-hop" intellectual, Dyson examines issues of class, race and poverty, and political strife.
misc Photos: Tonight's Prop 8 Rally There was a huge turnout tonight at both the City Hall and Yerba Buena rallies, and then a large chunk of people branched off toward the Castro. Stop8.org's Twitter feed informs us
SF News Mission Neighborhood Centers in Trouble The Mission Neighborhood Centers, Inc., one of the oldest nonprofits in the neighborhood, which is responsible for putting together the annual Carnaval and Cinco De Mayo festivals, along with many other invaluable programs,
SF News Sixth Grader's Project About Harvey Milk Censored by School Embedded video from CNN Video Natalie Jones, a sixth-grader in Ramona, California, created a Powerpoint presentation about Harvey Milk's life and activism, for which she received a near-perfect score. The day before the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: It's a night of high-energy indie. So, get up there and shake your skinny butts, hipsters. Passion Pit, Harlem Shakes, and Cale Parks will not let you down. 7 p.m. // Bimbo's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: There's still a few remaining nights of film noir at I Wake Up Dreaming. Tonight's double feature is Women in the Night (8 p.m.), "one of the rarest of 40s B
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: In celebration of Harvey Milk's birthday this past Friday, the Castro is screening both Rob Epstein’s Academy Award-winning 1984 documentary, The Times of Harvey Milk and Gus Van Zant's feature film
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Sarah Applebaum's Soft Core exhibit features her technicolor costumes, paintings, installations and fabric work, which were aptly described by SF Weekly as "visual LSD." Check out Fecal Face's recent visit to Applebaum's
SF News Remember to Buckle Up This Weekend, Take Muni, Cab if Drinking Yeah, wearing a seatbelt and refraining from drinking/driving both seem like common sense, but California Highway Patrol officers arrested 1,450 drivers statewide for DUIs during Memorial Day weekend last year. Also,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: StageWright presents Beatboxing Beasts & Cafeteria Feasts, in which fifth graders from Starr King Elementary School have written six original plays inspired by works of visual art at the de Young Museum.
Arts & Entertainment Carnaval and Other Weekend Events There's lots to do on this foggy three-day weekend coming up! ALL WEEKEND We have the annual Carnaval shaking up the Mission District on Saturday and Sunday. The Festival runs both days on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: As part of SFMOMA's Robert Frank Retrospective, Program 3 will be a screening of three of Frank's short films. Keep Busy is a spontaneous, improvised story of a group of people living
SF News San Francisco's Sweet Hetch Hetchy Deal Changes in June San Franciscans will soon have to learn how to ration our precious Hetch Hetchy Reservoir water after a 25-year long deal with twelve other suburban cities expires in June. According to SF Weekly,
