Arts & Entertainment Tomorrow Night: Set Your Goals Set To Turn DNA Lounge Into A Stage Diving Contest by Erick Pressman While San Francisco continues to wage war on all ages shows, a lot of youth-oriented bands and tours seem to pass on playing the city entirely and end up hitting
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Modern Eden Gallery and the SF SPCA present Menagerie, showcasing inspired work by San Francisco's established and emerging artists incorporating the SPCA's mission. During the month of February, 20% of the proceeds
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: Beloved Bay Area bike dance group, Derailleurs, present Freak Bike Show, featuring live music by The Nerv and Thee Hobo Gobbelins, tunes by Dj 0.000001, aka Th’Mole, a performance by
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Top Five Least Schmaltzy Valentine's Events Valen-tiny Idea Night: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts hosts a night of "mingling, mating, and music," featuring live performances, dancing, and lots of art and activities, including postmodern elevator peepshows and Infatuated,
SF News David Lynch Helps S.F. Schools Meditate KALW reports on Visitacion Valley Middle School's implementation of the innovative Quiet Time program, which sets aside fifteen minutes at the beginning and end of each school day for students to meditate. All
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight HISTORY: City Lights and Speak Out celebrate the publication of Clarence Lusane's The Black History of the White House, which illuminates the central role the White House has played in advancing, thwarting, or
Arts & Entertainment Tickets On Sale For Last-Minute Dave Chappelle Performances Tomorrow Night At Cobb's Cobb's Comedy Club just announced a couple of last-minute Dave Chappelle performances for tomorrow night. (He's also there tonight, but the shows sold out fast.) Tickets were still available as of this posting,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The Rumble SF presents a Noise Pop warm-up show, featuring the sultry, trance-like sounds of eclectronic duo Blackbird Blackbird, the looped and layered lo-fi vibe of Phantom Kicks, and Letting Up Despite
Arts & Entertainment Calling All Photographers: Submissions For Next 200 Yards Due 2/14 Hey Photogs, get out your cameras, head toward Free Gold Watch (1767 Waller Street at Stanyon), and record what you see and what inspires you within the 200-yard perimeter of the gallery. Then
Arts & Entertainment Today: Scoot Over To Grand Prix For Free Coffee (Scooter Required, In Case You Didn't Get The Pun) Those who find themselves in Union Square on a regular basis now have a Blue Bottle option amongst the sea of Starbuckses and other un-artisan coffee spots. The folks behind coffee kiosks Cento,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: It's $7 Tuesday at the Red Vic, featuring the Steve Martin classic, The Jerk, in which a total imbecile manages to strike it rich. 7:15 and 9:20 p.m. // Red
SF News How The City Can Get The Most Bang For America's Cup Buck SPUR came out with a report today outlining how S.F. can use the large influx of money that the upcoming America's Cup will undoubtedly generate as an impetus to make major, much
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Beer Week 2011 Taps Keg on Friday Had such a great time this weekend that you're counting down the days 'til the next one? Take it easy this week and rest up for the big SF Beer Week 2011, featuring
SF News S.F.'s Most Dangerous Streets for Bikes The Bay Citizen has created a handy new interactive map pinpointing all of the reported bike accidents that occurred in San Francisco during the past two years. Crashes reported to SFPD increased from
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: IndieFest presents The Drummond Will, which pays homage to the classic British comedies of the '40s and '50s, featuring brothers who reunite after their father's death and encounter a colorful cast of
misc Photos: Giants FanFest 2011 Saturday's Giants FanFest event drew record crowds, upwards of 40,000 people, which was double the previous years' average of 20,000. The park filled up so quickly at the start of the
SF News Seven Injured in Taxi, Limo Collision At around 2 a.m. on Sunday morning, a taxi and limousine collided at the intersection of Jones and Sutter, causing the limo to hit a nearby light post. The bottom sleeve of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Watch Holly Golightly charm the pants off of New York City at the Castro's celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Breakfast at Tiffany's, the film that brings the classic Truman Capote novel
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM/MUSIC: IndieFest presents The Sight of Music, a shorts program showcasing a hybrid mix of live band performances, music videos, and music related shorts. Tonight's show features live sets by Jon Bernson
SF News "Egypt Remembers" Memorial Seeks Help Honoring Victims San Francisco-based company 1000Memories, a free site that provides a forum for friends and families to pay tribute to their deceased loved ones, has created its first group memorial page, "Egypt Remembers." The
Arts & Entertainment Tonight Addendum: Bam!Bam! Burst Onto Bay Area Scene And Make First Friday In Oakland Worth Crossing The Bridge For by Erick Pressman (who resides in Oakland) Hey San Francisco, meet Bam!Bam!. This all-female, lo-fi, garagey, pop punk duo are the greatest band in the Bay Area that you haven’t heard
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: The Bay Area Girls Rock Camp, in which girls aged 8 through 18 can go rock their butts off while bonding with other girls for a whole week, is having its 2nd
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: David Byrne, Cloris Leachman, Rooftop Concert, Coffee Crawl, Forage SF, and More! IndieFest opens (the Dude abides), and Sketchfest closes with back-to-back events at the Castro: True Stories 25th Anniversary with David Byrne, featuring a screening and tribute to the cool and quirky movie musical,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FOOD: Celebrate Tet Holiday with Rice Paper Scissors, a pop-up Vietnamese cafe, featuring "small tables, even smaller stools, fresh Vietnamese condiments, Cambodian pop music, and delicious food." The menu includes Dungeness Crab Glass
Arts & Entertainment Sebadoh And Quasi Show The Current Boring Indie Bands How It’s Done At Great American 2/8/11 by Erick Pressman These days it’s rare to find an indie rock tour with one band worth watching on it. So when you have two, no-bullshit, ground-breaking bands like Sebadoh and Quasi
