Arts & Entertainment Happy Mother's Day! Check out photographer Franck Avril's lovely photo exhibition, Dahlias! A Photographic Tribute to San Francisco's Official Flower, at the Helen Crocker Russell Library at the San Francisco Botanical Garden between now and August
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Jacqueline Gallagher paints refreshingly sexy zombies who float "aimlessly through life, but they look good doing it." The pieces in Gallagher's delightfully named exhibition, Of Melancholy and Monkey Business reflect the
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour "Holy Cow" by Darwin Bell. Want to be a candidate for Photo du Jour? Tag your photos "sfist" on Flickr!
SF News Borderlands Owner Expresses Bitterness Over "Nanny State" Smoking Laws The owner of Borderlands Cafe and Borderland Books in the Mission is apparently not pleased about San Francisco's smoking laws. Here's what he has to say in the above sign: Our Nanny State
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: SF Sketchfest presents two new never before-riffed films in San Francisco at The Return of Cinematic Titanic with Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, J. Elvis Weinstein, Frank Conniff and Mary Jo Pehl from
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Mission Sunday Streets, Cinco de Mayo Festival, Thrasher Ramp Jam, Free Comic Book Day, and Competitive Swinging Sunday Streets: Take your mother on a tandem bike ride through the glorious Mission on Sunday for Mother's Day, unless it rains, that is. There's only a ten percent chance of that though,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The San Francisco International Film Festival wraps up tonight with a screening of On Tour, the risque and "unsentimental homage to the burlesque show" that "reminds us that women have real bodies—
Arts & Entertainment ¡Cinco de Mayo Events! Celebrate Cinco de Mayo, which marks this day in 1862 when an outnumbered and under-supplied Mexican army led by Texas-born General Ignacio Zaragoza kicked ass over French forces in what became known as
misc Happy Birthday, Oakland! Oaklandish reports that on this day, May 4, in 1852, the California state legislature incorporated the town of Oakland. Previously, according to Oaklandnet,com, the "hamlet" was previously known as Contra Costa and
Arts & Entertainment Score Some Local Artwork: SFMOMA's 18th Annual Artists Warehouse Sale, Tonight Through Sunday SFMOMA Artists Gallery opens its doors in the beautiful Fort Mason Center tonight for the 18th Annual Artists Warehouse Sale, featuring over 7,000 square feet of space filled with artwork by more
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The Rickshaw presents a night of female-led, garage/shoegazy pop, featuring Vivian Girls, who are celebrating the release of their third full-length album, Share the Joy, along with Montreal/LA's No Joy,
misc Relevant Facebook Status Update Of The Day Via MLG: "Yesterday's commute involved a "suspicious package". Today's involved a fainting woman. Bus driver drove bus to nearest fire station and parked so that she could get medical assistance. Every day another
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: There are a just a handful of tickets left to see the delightfully and uproariously trashy John Waters at JCCSF tonight (we hope that bomb threat doesn't mess things up!), who will
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC/FILM: Snatch up some tickets, while they're still available to Tindersticks: Claire Denis Film Scores 1996-2009, a special, live SFIFF presentation featuring the UK's Tindersticks performing works from an original score that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight CABARET: A diverse line-up of Bay Area divas and their friends will perform cabaret, Broadway, jazz, drag, Mo-Town, burlesque, and Latin numbers at Divas & Dames, a special one-night-only cabaret benefiting The Richmond/
SF News Teen Pepper-Sprays Alleged Assailant on 14 Mission, Plus Two Elderly Passengers, Driver A 17-year-old girl told police she was accosted by an older man on a crowded southbound 14 Mission bus this afternoon at 16th and Mission a little after 3:30 p.m. Acting
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: San Francisco Performances presents Dance, a groundbreaking revival of the 1979 minimalist masterpiece performed by its original collaborators -- choreographer Lucinda Childs' current company will recreate the dance piece on stage with
SF News [Updated] Breaking: The Return of the Laser Kitties! Generik11 / Erik Wilson spotted everyone's favorite Laser Cats in a new mural this morning. Tell us where they're located in the comments. Update: The mural's located in the Space Gallery window above the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Oakland-based Goapele (pronounced Gwa-pa-lay), who's inspired by a tradition of soulful singers like Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Bob Marley, and Miriam Makeba, "mixes sweet soul vocals, jazz funk instrumentation and hip hop
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: How Weird Street Faire, Art in the Alley, Noodle Fest, Dutch Queen's Day, Vagabond Craft Fair, and Glen Park Festival It's that glorious time of year again in which there are dozens of things going on over the weekend. Here is mere handful of choices. Enjoy! How Weird Street Fair: Pull out that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: SF Camerawork presents the second annual Looking Forward, Giving Back benefit, an evening of music, photography, and a silent auction benefiting First Exposures, which provides free weekly photography classes for underserved youth,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: New York-based artist group, The Bruce High Quality Foundation (BHQF), hits the Bay Area tonight on their national Teach 4 Amerika tour which is inspired by the spectacle and energy of a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: Take advantage of the fact that the Eagle Tavern is open for at least another month and head over to see Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Carletta Sue Kay and The Sandwitches
SF News Developments In German Tourist's Murder Case Coincide With Family's Visit To SF Interim Police Chief Jeff Godown announced yesterday that the case involving the shooting of Mechthild Schröer, the German elementary school headmaster who was killed by a stray bullet as the result of a
