Arts & Entertainment Bicycle Film Festival, Tonight Through Sunday The ninth annual Bicycle Film Festival begins with a stellar Bikes Rock show tonight and tomorrow night at the Independent, featuring performances by Blonde Redhead and Thee Oh Sees, followed by an after-party
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Happy Bastille Day! MEET-UP: The creators of Shitty Kitty are moving to Morocco, and this is Shitty Kitty's last meet-up for quite some time. So come by for their Bastille Day Partay and bid them adieu.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Rock veterans Tortoise, who defy categorization, are promoting the release of their first album in five years, Beacons of Ancestorship. Fellow Chicagoans and Thrill Jockey labelmates, Pit er Pat, open. 8 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Closing this weekend's Silent Film Festival is Lady of the Pavements, D.W. Griffith's last silent film -- a splendid romantic drama set in 19th century Paris. There will be piano accompaniment
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SPORTS: The San Francisco ShEvil Dead duke it out with the Richmond Wrecking Belles at the B.ay A.rea D.erby Girls' Duel on the Docks, a full contact, all female, flat-track
Arts & Entertainment Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival, Tonight Through July 25 The 13th annual Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival starts tonight with an Opening show at the Knockout. The Fest will then be concentrated in Oakland tomorrow through Monday, and will continue it's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Dennis McNulty of Infectious Art celebrates the '80s aesthetic in his latest exhibition 1981 Pervert by reappropriating the colors, shapes, and layouts of early 1980s men's magazine design, zeroing in on
SF News SF Judge to Hold Hearing on Federal Illegal Wiretap Case U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker will hold a hearing on September 1 regarding the federal government's illegal wiretapping of former charity, Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation of Ashland, Oregon, in 2004. The charity
SF News Update on Tandem Bike Hit and Run Streetsblog SF reported today that SFPD has issued a rare press release for the hit and run involving cyclist Andrew Bennett and his 4-year-old son while riding a bike with a tandem extension,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: The Lab has been celebrating their 25th anniversary this month. Tonight, composers Miya Masaoka, founder of the San Francisco Gagaku Society, and Tomas Philips will perform. Phillips' performance will consist of an
Arts & Entertainment SF Frozen Film and Music Festival This Weekend, Opening Party Tonight The annual San Francisco Frozen Film and Music Festival, which was founded in 2006 and was named after the famous (and alleged) Mark Twain quote, "The coldest winter I ever spent was my
misc Oakland Tourism Video This hilarious Oakland! "promo" by SF sketch comedy group/film production company Killing My Lobster has been making the rounds in recent weeks. Topics such as slow jaywalking, ghostriding, Zachary's vs. Little Star,
misc Last Chance to Enter to Win the San Francisco Dream House, Deadline Friday Friday's the deadline for the last (Grand Prize) drawing of the San Francisco Dream House Raffle, which benefits Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Buy a $150 ticket, and you could win a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MOCK UP ON MU TRAILER - CRAIG BALDWIN FILM: The Bay Area's own Craig Baldwin, master of independent, experimental cinema, presents Mock Up on Mu, a feature-length "collage-narrative" based on (mostly) true stories
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight VARIETY: The Rumpus and Kink.com host a Sex, Music, Comedy Night with Jill Sobule, co-sponsored by The Center for Sex and Culture. The evening includes readings and performances from sex worker authors
SF News Abstinence-Only Group Battles Department of Education Over Sonoma County Schools CBS5 reports that despite the California Department of Education's strict laws that sex education programs be medically accurate and objective, abstinence-only group Free to Be has been teaching their scientifically-inaccurate curriculum in Sonoma
misc Stockton Residents Gather to Witness Image of Michael Jackson on a Tree Stump Apparently, the image of Michael Jackson appeared on a Stockton tree stump, pictured at right, the day the pop icon passed away, and crowds have begun to gather ever since. Owner of the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Raunchy rockabilly fave Reverand Horton Heat will heat up the Great American tonight with Danish psychobilly band The Nekromantix, who describe themselves as "Elvis meets the Wolfman." 7 p.m. // Great American
misc Video: Geniuses Throw Fireworks at Cars Mission Mission posted this video from July 4th around last call at 16th and Albion in the Mission, which shows fireworks being aimed at cars. Rumor has it that cyclists were also targets.
misc Overzealous Park Rangers? SFist posted last week about the lovely Huntington Park on Nob Hill, and commenter hthoms responded with an account of some pushy park rangers "abusing their power" by harassing park-goers with off-leash dogs,
misc The Haight Street Underworld Flickr photographer Andertho captured this shot of an alley off Haight Street, which provoked quite a bit of HDR love-"haight" in the comments. Well, we love it.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: This week's feature at Bad Movie Night is Rocky IV. Filmed at the height of the cold war, the statuesque Ivan Drago uses the highest technology to train for the fight of
misc Happy 4th of July! Inexhaustible photog, Plug 1 of What I'm Seeing, snagged this shot, entitled "Talking in Circles" at Albany Bulb. Certainly a head-scratcher. Here's hoping the fog stays away tonight so we all can enjoy
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Showcasing "the various extremes of human behavior and the bizarre worlds that surround them," the one-night show, Bazooko's Circus, will feature 50 dark and experimental pieces by Bay Area artists, including photography,
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend The 3- or 4-day weekend is upon us. FuncheapSF has a full list of 92 Bay Area July 4th celebrations that keeps growing. Here are a few hand-picked weekend events, in addition to
