Arts & Entertainment Thursday: Annual Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz Island The Annual Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving: Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz Island will take place bright and early on Thursday morning. Boats depart Pier 33 every fifteen minutes starting at 4:45 a.m. through
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: German film, Soul Kitchen, which screened at the SF Int'l Film Festival this year, is described as "a deliciously overstuffed comedy" about a failing restaurant in Hamburg that suddenly gains a cult
misc What Would You Do With Your Own Muni Shelter? Julie Michelle's fabulous I Live Here: SF retrospective show ends next Tuesday with a closing reception. Along with one-hundred eighty beautiful photographs and stories, the show includes some great props throughout the gallery
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Holiday Events Here are a few holiday events happening this week, if you're into that sort of thing. Sugar Castle: This Wednesday morning (November 24) a twelve-foot rotating holiday Sugar Castle created by the Westin
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Mario Bava's Blood and Black Lace (1964), featuring "a shadowy killer in black murdering fashion models through brutal methods," is the first film in Cineforum's three-part series, Giallo: a Retrospective on Italian-Style
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Nine Nation Animation, a compilation of recent award-winning animated short films from the world’s most renowned festivals, including Cannes, Berlin, Annecy, Clermont-Ferrand, and others, "proves that there’s a lot more
SF News Berkeley Police Search for Home Invasion, Rape Suspect Berkeley Police are searching for Omar Sosa, a man suspected of invading a home in North Berkeley and raping a teenaged girl. The hunt is now focused on Southern California, as Sosa is
SF News Weekend Wrap-Up Who knew the laser kitten mural could get any better? [Justin Beck] The Outer Sunset: "Bleak" no more. [NYT] Police on the look-out for man who broke into North Berkeley home, sexually assaulted
SF News BART Passenger Gets Leg Caught Between Train and Platform Bay City News tells us (via SF Appeal) that on Saturday evening, a BART passenger got his leg stuck between the train and the platform when exiting at the Walnut Creek station. It
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Back Alley Theater Company presents Beyond Therapy by Christopher Durang, one of his most popular and frequently performed plays, as well as one of his sunnier comedies. Runs through Monday. 8 p.
misc Video: Proof That Lightning Does Strike in S.F. Crazy weather we're having, eh? We don't know about you, but we didn't leave the house today. We read there was a Double Rainbow earlier, and we experienced the thunder and lightning for
Arts & Entertainment Reindeer Arrive at SF Zoo Reindeer Holly, Velvet, Peppermint, and Belle arrived at the San Francisco Zoo this morning for the annual Reindeer Romp, which runs through New Year's Day. See more photos on Flickr and Facebook.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Learn all about body dysmorphic disorder in the gay community through a comedic lens at Between Sizes: An Evening with Skinnyfat, featuring a one-night only encore screening of the film Skinnyfat, along
Arts & Entertainment Did You Know Today Is "Make Someone Feel Uncomfortable Day?" Notice more people than usual clipping their toenails on Muni today? Receive any random hugs on the street, or prank phone calls asking for Seymour Butz? Well, it could be because 446,505
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DANCE: It's the first night of the weekend-long 12th Annual San Francisco Hip Hop DanceFest, featuring hip hop dance companies, b-boys, and veteran dancers from France, South Africa, Belgium, Stateside, and the Bay
Arts & Entertainment Today: Embarcadero Center Winter Carnival, Lighting Ceremony The holidays are fast approaching! Along with Macy's big Holiday Adoption Window Display unveiling happening this afternoon, Embarcadero Center is having their 24th Annual Winter Carnival and Holiday Building Lighting Ceremony tonight. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Filmmaker and historian Brecht Andersch introduces Bay Area Ecstatic, a program of short films exploring the Bay Area's history as the epicenter of a branch of mystically inclined experimental filmmaking that seeks
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: It's the West Coast premiere of the musical production of Coraline, in which a latch-key kid dreams up a new reality with a loving Other Mother and a kindly Other Father, which
Arts & Entertainment Friday: Macy's Christmas Window Displays Rain Kittens, Puppies Attention Animal Lovers: This Friday at 5 p.m., Macy's will unveil their annual holiday window displays filled with scampering adoptable kittens and puppies from the San Francisco SPCA. The selection of pets
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: It's the 50th Sketch Tuesday event, featuring live art-making by a huge line-up of seasoned, local artists, which will be for sale for cheap at the show. DJ Pre-K will be spinning
misc New S.F.-Based Social Network Boasts 50-Friend Maximum Path, a new "personal" network being touted as somewhat of an anti-social network, launched today. The San Francisco-based start-up limits your friend list to fifty people, enabling users to more freely share their
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight STORYTELLING: Creativity Explored studio artists, staff members, and volunteers take the mic at this month's Porchlight storytelling event Don’t Call Me Retard. Each guest will tell a ten-minute true story, which will
SF News Weekend Wrap-Up Why so glum? [Caliber] Cable car operator stabbed Sunday afternoon. [Bay City News/SF Appeal] Thousands of jelly fish wash ashore at Ocean Beach on Saturday. [Ocean Beach Bulletin, SF Appeal] Fisherman's Wharf
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PARTY: Ambrosia Salad celebrates her 30th birthday at her Doble Quinceanera extravaganza, featuring mariachi band Trio Sol de Mexico, vocal performances by Glamamore, Paige Sargent, and Maki Noguchi, special guest performances by Putanesca
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PHOTOGRAPHY: For Show 2 of Lightbox SF's brilliant 200 Yards, participants were asked to shoot photos of the 200-yard radius surrounding Dirty Thieves. You have until December 10 to check out what they
