Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Meridian Gallery hosts an opening reception for Latitudes|Longitudes by Isabelle Sorell, featuring a letterpress artist book in response to poems by Bill Berkson, along with selected drawings and paintings, and Text
SF News Today in SFPD PR: The Brazen Embezzlers SFPD PR is so cute, we're going to make this a regular thing. Today's case involves Maria Lourdes B. Dionisio, a payroll clerk from Pacifica, and Hannah Yau, a financial analyst from Fremont,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PHOTOGRAPHY: (Por)trait Revealed, a juried exhibition of portrait photography, features Mark Menjivar's You Are What You Eat, a series of interior shots of refrigerators taken "as is" in homes across the US
misc Baby Penquins' First Swim at SF Zoo The San Francisco Zoo posted these photos yesterday of three Magellanic Penguin chicks' first day swimming. Those penguins look pretty darn fluffy. Be sure to also check out juvenile penguin, "Sparkles," going through
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BLOCK PARTY: This month's Bold Italic Microhood event will take place in a spot they've coined Mint Slope, "where Market Street runs through the shadow of the Federal Mint building." Enjoy all-night eats,
SF News SFPD Arrests Muni Mechanic in Illegal Transfer Sting SFPD's Twitter and Facebook feeds garner many fascinating reports, such as the previously mentioned unsolved armed robbery case. Another recent report boasts of a successful sting operation geared toward combating illegal Late Night
misc Never Fear, You CAN Recycle Mr. Potato Head Recycling technology sure has come a long way, and it looks like San Francisco's Recology might be leading the charge. After noticing the forlorn Mr. Potato Head pictured on the "Recyclable" label of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The Cat's Pajamas presents The Songbird Festival's Sin + Sass, featuring Mr Lucky, Ramshackle Romeos, Cabaret Nouveaux with Allison Lovejoy, Dusty Rose, and Linda Robertson, of The Trifles. 8 p.m. // Make-Out Room
Arts & Entertainment SFist Radar Let us know what we missed in the comments! This Weekend: Squeeze and the English Beat play the Fillmore, Macy Gray spins a DJ set at Yoshi's SF, Tracy Morgan will be at
SF News SFPD Seek Help Identifying Female Armed Robber, Possibly Wearing Gene Simmons Wig The San Francisco Police Department is asking citizens to be on the lookout for a rather bad ass suspect of two Bank of America armed robberies, the first of which was on July
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The dynamic trio made up of seasoned musicians, John Dieterich (Deerhoof), Scott Amendola (Nels Cline), and Thollem McDonas (soloist), will perform together alongside New York filmmaker Martha Colburn's 16 mm stop motion
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: At tonight's installment of the Soundwave Festival (4), The Archives of the Natural World in the Illuminated Forest, singer-songwriter Odessa Chen will collaborate with sound artist [ruidobello] and visual artist Samuel Leshnick
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend All Weekend: The San Francisco Buddhist Church presents its annual Ginza Bazaar, which includes lots of food, dancing, and swords. The 30th Anniversary San Francisco Film Festival, which features Jewish mobsters, banana-laden donkeys,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Gallery Hijinks is hosting their first event, which includes two opening receptions, Free Life Center, a mobile art center crafted from salvaged material by Portland artists Mark Warren Jacques and Seth Neefus,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The Long Now and the SFMOMA Artist’s Gallery present Wondrous Strange: A Twenty-first Century Cabinet of Curiosities, an exploration of time through art, whimsy, music, and mechanics, which will feature work
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: Bread for the Journey San Francisco, a new community development organization, is having a fundraiser for Kid Serve, who are creating a four-story mosaic at 170 Otis Street with teenagers in foster
misc Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day Via A.G.: "Willie brown is on my flight. he looks like a pimps dad." With a response from R.B.: "He was seated in front of me and E at the movie
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: It's another Hayes Valley Farm Film Night, featuring PBS "plant's eye view" documentary, Botany of Desire, which is based on Michael Pollen's book. The documentary is a "sensuous and eye-opening exploration into
Arts & Entertainment [Updated] Call for Entries, Night/Light: Bay Area Photographers Take Aim After Dark The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery (SFAC Gallery) and PhotoAlliance are inviting photographers to submit work for their upcoming Art at City Hall exhibition, Night/Light: Bay Area Photographers Take Aim After Dark.
misc RocketBoat, Where Have You Been All Our Lives? We just noticed the bus ad for RocketBoat at Pier 39 the other day and went home and looked it up right away. How long has this thing been around, and why hadn't
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight WORKSHOP: Well, that looks pretty cool. Learn how to make your own cardboard synthesizer at the Outsound New Music Summit's How to Build Your Own Skatchbox Demo. San Francisco veteran instrument builder Tom
Arts & Entertainment Try Something Different for Lunch Today "Monologist extraordinaire" Josh Kornbluth, of Haiku Tunnel and Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews? fame, invites you to have lunch with him at the Contemporary Jewish Museum's Cafe on the Square for What's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Tenderloin Gets Trendier After much anticipation, artisan coffee shop, Hooker’s Sweet Treats Cafe, which serves Sightglass Coffee and gourmet confections and baked goods, officially opened yesterday at Hyde and O'Farrell. Tenderblog was at the grand
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Tonight's Bad Movie Night feature, in which the hosts continue their celebration of the "Giant Floating Head" poster, is Days of Thunder (audio), featuring some "streaky cars down below" and Tom Cruise's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: A garden party with projected multimedia art sounds like a lovely idea. SOMArts Cultural Center presents Night Light: Multimedia Garden Party, featuring abstract sound, video, and site-specific film installations "spilling through the
