SF News Sutter Street Between Kearny and Grant Temporarily Closed SF Appeal tells us that the KTVU broadcast is reporting that a window washer caused the sidewalk along Sutter Street in the Financial District to collapse last night at 2 a.m. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Smile presents a Save KUSF Benefit, featuring performances by The Trifles, The Twinks, The Danger Babes, and Hate Factory, along with DJ Neil Martinson spinning psych, soul, glam, bubblegum, and laserboogie. All
Arts & Entertainment Free IHOP Pancakes Tomorrow Speaking of IHOP, tomorrow is the annual IHOP National Pancake Day, in which those who like to stand in long lines receive free pancakes. The event is also a fundraiser for Children's Miracle
SF News Man Trapped On Lands End Cliff Overnight A 25-year-old man, who spoke with a foreign accent, was trapped on a cliff near Lands End for over twelve hours on Saturday night. He had fallen and broken his ankle while climbing
SF News At-Risk Elderly Man Missing SFPD are asking for help in the search of 73-year-old Kenneth Chin, who suffers from dementia. According to KTVU, Chin was escorted by caregivers at his Richmond District assisted living home, Nacario Care
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The acclaimed We Were Here is playing at the Castro through March 3. The film takes an intimate - and epic - journey through the arrival and impact of AIDS in San
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Crab-Cracking 49ers, Park Branch Library Reopening, Amoeba Artists, Edible Perfume, And Noisy Pancakes 9th Annual Celebrity Crab Festival: See which San Francisco 49ers and local chefs can crack the most crab on Saturday at Union Square, preceded by a crab-cracking demo. There will also be a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: YBCA celebrate Chinese New Year with the opening of Dad and Mom, Don’t Worry About Us, We Are All Well, a solo exhibition by Chinese conceptual artist Song Dong, which features
Arts & Entertainment SFist Attends: UnderCover Presents Pixies 'Doolittle' Monkey's Gone to Heaven? by Daniel Phifer A good cover song is no simple achievement. It requires a very delicate balance. An artist has to add their own stylistic viewpoint to the song
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: San Francisco Film Society presents Fever Dreams, featuring the work of Laurel Nakadate, a photographer, video artist, and filmmaker, which explores the collision of feminine adolescent fantasy with masculine angst and repression.
Arts & Entertainment Oops! Missed One! Judgment Day, Street Eaters, Bam!Bam! Play Amoeba/Noise Pop's Pop N Shop Today At 5PM! by Erick Pressman When you have a fest as vast as Noise Pop, inevitably, even those with trained eyes may miss a killer show when getting their preview for a blog together. Lucky
SF News Oakland Man Seeks Stolen Prosthetic Leg If you come across a prosthetic leg featuring an Oakland Raiders design somewhere on the black market, it belongs to Oakland resident Darryl Turner. Turner filed a police report and wrote to KTVU
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Noise Pop presents The Extraordinary Ordinary Life Of José González, which uses a video diary, surveillance camera, concert footage, tour documentation and animation, to convey the inner workings of the life and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Members of the Bay Area Derby Girls are tonight's models at the titillating monthly Dr. Sketchy series. See the work people have done at past shows, and also be sure to check
SF News Ross Mirkarimi Announces Run For Sheriff Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, plastic bag-banning politico and California Green Party co-founder with a great head of hair, announced yesterday that he'll be running for sheriff. Sheriff Michael Hennessey, whose eighth term expires next
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The lovable and "other-worldly" surf/new wave band, Man or Astroman? land at the Independent tonight, with guests, Austin's Octopus Project, "a group of young noise-rock musicians" who specialize in "blasts of
Arts & Entertainment The Official SFist Noise Pop Preview and Day By Day Festival Planner: Do It Right or Be Bummed by Erick Pressman Ah yes, its the end of February. The weather is awful, the Giants are in Arizona, which means its time for the annual Noise Pop Festival! Now in its nineteenth
SF News Bomb Squad Called To Fort Funston on Sunday The San Francisco Police Department’s bomb squad was called to Fort Funston on Sunday when someone found a box of military flares marked U.S. Navy below the hang glider deck. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Expect to see "full-frontal puppet nudity" at Avenue Q, the hit Broadway musical about real life in New York City, as told by a cast of people and puppets through a hilariously
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LAUNCH PARTY: Celebrate the re-launch of Fruitflylife.com, which explores the notion of gender and normalcy through the lens of pop culture. Tonight's event will highlight interactive art projects, music, food, and surprises,
Arts & Entertainment Odd Future Make Hip Hop Interesting For The First Time In Years; Prepare To Wreck Slim’s On 2/22 by Erick Pressman For the most part, Jimmy Fallon’s late night television show leaves a lot to be desired, but Wednesday night he may have put himself on the historical map forever
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Mark Growden celebrates the release of his tenth album in fifteen years, Lose Me in the Sand, which is a tribute to Growden’s rural mountain roots, "a hats-off to the roughshod
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Chinese New Year, TechShop Opening, Tulipmania, Bluegrass Workshops Chinese New Year Parade and Fair: Does it rain during every Chinese New Year Parade? Find out tomorrow. There's also a community fair on Saturday and Sunday, featuring dance and music from throughout
Arts & Entertainment Live KUSF Broadcast At Amoeba Today, Noon To 3 P.M. KUSF fans can stream a live broadcast happening at Amoeba via the legendary WFMU.com from Noon to 3 p.m. today featuring KUSF DJs Irwin, Carolyn, Stereo Steve, Jantine, and DJ Schmeejay,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FUNDRAISER: 826 Valencia presents their first-ever Spelling Bee for Cheaters, a tournament that tests not only the word-wisdom of the contestants, who include Daniel Handler, Tracy Chapman, and Mythbuster's Adam Savage, but also
