SF News SFPD Finds Similarity Between Alleged Mission Rape And Previous Attempted Assault San Francisco Police Department released a Community Crime Prevention Advisory informing the public that upon investigating Sunday night's unreported sexual assault at 19th and Capp, the department discovered that some of the details
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/22: Drag Yourself To Pride's Disney Prom DRAG: Get out your Disney gear for Drag Yourself to Pride's Disney Prom, featuring Disney Prom Queen, Prom King, and Prom Villain walk-offs, DJ B.Urmanita on Beats, and Go-Go Boys & Girls
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/21: Creativity Explored's 'Fabulous' ART: Creative Explored pays tribute to Pride with Fabulous, a group exhibition that celebrates fashion, fame, identity, and queer culture with glamorous portrait paintings, wearable, multi-media hats, gender-bending drawings, and a full-size hot
SF News Woman Allegedly Dragged Off Sidewalk And Raped By Two Men At 19th and Capp; Reports Crime To Local Blogs [UPDATE] [UPDATE 4:40pm: According to Sgt. Michael Anderaychak, "The police department has not received a report of a sexual assault of the morning in june 18th on 19th and Capp. However, we strongly
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/20: Will Durst At The Commonwealth Club COMEDY: Famed political satirist, Will Durst, who once ran for mayor of San Francisco, will give an "undoubtedly entertaining" account of his life and work in a talk titled, "The Truth, The Whole
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/19: 'Call Me Kuchu' FILM: Frameline presents Call Me Kuchu, which explores the life and brutal death of veteran activist and the first openly gay man in Uganda, David Kato, in his undeterred fight for the rights
Arts & Entertainment Help Make This Tom Hanks Statue A Reality! Wonderment Consortium, who describe themselves as "An Oakland Based Arts Collective Concerned With Uplifting Oakland Public High School Students Everywhere," have started a Kickstarter campaign that pokes a little fun at the types
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/18: Pride Flag Raising PRIDE: Mayor Lee & San Francisco Pride present the San Francisco Pride Flag Raising this afternoon on the City Hall steps, which kicks off the official 2012 pride week. The flag raising will
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/17: Japanther MUSIC: Brooklyn art project, Japanther, who run "the gamut from performance art to punk rock and back again," headline the late show at the Hemlock tonight, along with guests Pharmacy. (9:30 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/16: '5 Lesbians Eating Quiche' THEATER: Tides Theatre presents the West Coast premiere of 5 Lesbians Eating A Quiche, an outrageous comedy about repressed desire, food politics and warm-blooded, cold war survival, featuring the "Susan B. Anthony Society
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/15: Fresh Meat Festival PERFORMANCE: The 11th annual Fresh Meat Festival, the nation’s premiere transgender and queer performance festival, kicks off at Brava Theater tonight, featuring the world premiere collaboration by Vogue Evolution and Emily Vasquez
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/14: Big Freedia MUSIC: Noise Pop and Hard French present Big Freedia, "a 6-foot-plus phenom powered by brash sexual energy and raw, self-made talent," who's described as the "queen diva of bounce music." The organizers advise
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Concerned' Citizen Petitions Against Richmond's Soda Tax, Neglects To Mention She's Funded By Lobbyists Here's a good reason we tend to avoid signing random petitions: As California Watch reports, Richmond resident, Rosa Lara, has been going door to door identifying herself as an organizer with the Community
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/13: Beastie Boys - 'Awesome I F*ckin' Shot That!' FILM: The Roxie screens a night of Nathaniel Hornblower flicks, including the Beastie Boys' Awesome I Fuckin' Shot That!, in which the band gave fifty camcorders out to attendees at their Madison Square
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/12: Uptown Almanac's Comedy Night COMEDY: Back by popular demand, Uptown Almanac presents their third installment of Locally-Sourced Pop-Up Comedy Night hosted by Sean Keane and featuring eight stellar Bay Area comics and 8,640 ounces of cold
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/11: Marriage Equality Plays THEATER: Tom Bruett and BATS Improv hosts Marriage Equality Plays, an evening of short, original plays benefiting the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), featuring new short plays by William Bivins, Michelle Carter,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/10: Still Flyin' Album Release Party MUSIC: San Francisco megagroup Still Flyin' (60's era rock steady meets DIY indie-pop) celebrates the release of their new album, which the band describes as "Lots of rototoms. Epic snare drums. Huge chorus
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/9: Queer Women of Color Film Festival FILM: The 8th Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival, which runs all weekend, presents its featured short film screening, I Do And I Don't: From the family values of queer API women
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/8: 12th Annual Monster Drawing Rally ART: Head over to the Verdi Club tonight for the mother of all live drawing events, Southern Exposure's famous Monster Drawing Rally, which features more than 120 artists working side by side and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/7: Casey Weldon's 'New World Hoarder' ART: We're riveted by the delightfully creepy work of Los Angeles-based artist Casey Weldon, who makes his debut in San Francisco with his solo exhibition, New World Hoarder. Weldon's paintings take you on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/6: La Quebradora ART: MCCLA presents La Quebradora, an exhibition of Contemporary Art from Mexico curated by Amy Pederson that uses lucha libre, or Mexican professional wrestling, as a platform for mapping Mexico’s cultural history
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/5: Dustin Lance Black/LGBT Pride Celebration PRIDE: Academy Award-winning Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black hosts an LGBT Pride Celebration featuring comedian Marga Gomez, SF Gay Men’s Chorus, and more, and honoring 2012 LGBT Local Heroes Dr. Jei Africa
Arts & Entertainment Get Out Your Viewers: Transit Of Venus This Afternoon Does it feel like we've been looking up in the sky at various planetary rarities a lot lately? Well, add another cool event to the list. Transit of Venus, which occurs when Venus
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/4: Justin (Sh*t My Dad Says) Halpern LITERARY: Bestselling author of Shit My Dad Says fame, Justin Halpern, celebrates the release of his latest collection of stories, I Suck at Girls, "an exploration of Halpern’s romantic adventures (read: mostly
