Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Homespun Rowdy provide a toe-tapping good time at Amnesia's Bluegrass Mondays, bringing the banjo, mandolin, and fiddle to the mix. 8:30 p.m. // Amnesia (853 Valencia St) // free FILM: Here's another
Arts & Entertainment SFist Giveaway: Tickets to Matcha This Thursday Contest Closed. Congratulations, M.W.! Here's another sweet giveaway to the Asian Art Museum's Matcha series. Email [email protected] with Matcha as the heading, and include your full name in the email
SF News Another German Tourist Killed Last Week Just a few days after German tourist Mechthild Schroeer was killed by stray gunfire near Union Square, 21-year-old Nils Linke, who was also a tourist from Germany, was struck and killed on his
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Birmingham, Alabama's Dan Sartain, who "sounds as if Jonathan Richman wanted to be Hank Williams instead of Lou Reed or if The Voidoids were fronted by Hasil Adkins," will perform his "beautifully
SF News At Least 20 Displaced in Mission Fire Tipsters alerted us to a three-alarm fire that occurred in Caledonia Alley, near 17th and Valencia, tonight at around 6 p.m. According to Emergency in SF, at least one hundred firefighters responded
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Tonight's Big Idea Night at YBCA, DIYbca, enables you to "redesign your reality with the Bay Area’s pioneering brand of homemade, homespun, DIY weirdness" with a huge slew of performances and
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend All Weekend: Be sure to check out SFist Jay's Outside Lands User's Guide, especially the part about bringing a jacket. Over 250 artists showcase their work at the 35th Annual American Craft Council
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: At the group exhibition Black Lab, a diverse line-up of artists investigates the cultural connotations and psychological implications of the darkest color. There will be performances by Terrance Graven, Gerritt Wittmer &
Arts & Entertainment Get a <strike>$13</strike> $60 Tattoo at Tattoo 13 in Oakland All Day Update: Sorry for the misinformation. Tattoo 13 is still doing the Friday the 13th promotion, but the deal is now 13 choices for a minimum of $60, which are much larger than the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Radar This Weekend: The San Francisco Improv Festival starts tonight, and runs through August 21. The much anticipated Outside Lands Festival is here, and the fog will lend those special trippy effects again. (Stay
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: H.P. Mendoza, the creator of Colma: The Musical, brings us another acclaimed musical, Fruit Fly, which has been described as "flashy, trashy, and brazenly fun," about a performance artist who moves
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The darling young Yoshida Brothers, masters of the ancient tsugaru-shamisen, reinvent traditional Japanese folk music with the addition of modern pop, rock, and world music sensibilities. The bros. will be at Yoshi's
SF News SFPD Seeks Help in Locating Violent Robbery Suspect The mayor's office has issued a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Michael Douglas Nealy, 33, who is suspected of shooting a man several times during a
misc Weekend Vignettes It looks like Bay Area photographers were busy this weekend. Check out their shots.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Acclaimed indie hip-hop artist (and chemist) Psalm One headlines Elbo Room tonight. Art rapper Open Mike Eagle and up-and-comer and Bay Area native Moe Green open. 9 p.m. // Elbo Room (647
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: At this week's Bad Movie Night, which is having a video-game themed August series, hosts Mikl-Em, Tristan Buckner, and Sherilyn Connelly talk about Angelina Jolie's boobs because they suspect that's the only
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: In addition to Ferris Bueller's Day Off happening tonight, the Rolling Roadshow presents, Dirty Harry, "cleaning up the streets of San Francisco, eradicating any pusher, scumbag and lowlife that dared show his
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend All Weekend: Enjoy Pacific Islander music, Polynesian dance, arts & crafts, island cuisine, educational exhibits and workshops, and an `Ohana Korner with simple games for the kids at the 16th Annual San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment The Baby-ry Coast There are lots of kid-friendly events this weekend and beyond. Flax has all sorts of art classes (scroll down and see list of events at right) for the kiddos, including cartooning classes for
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Fabric8 presents Multifarious Tendencies, curated by Sandra Silvoy and featuring artists Adam Flores, Brett Amory, Micke Tong, and Kevin Earl Taylor, who explore their "mutual concern for the particularities of human tendency"
Arts & Entertainment Those Scammed By Rachael Smith to Meet Tonight The victims who signed fake leases with Rachael Smith, who then took off with their $5k, are meeting tonight at 6:30 p.m. at Calvary Presbyterian Church (2515 Fillmore St) to talk
Arts & Entertainment Upcoming Film Nights in the Park The Grease Sing-Along and Dirty Dancing have come and gone, but there are still a few more Film Nights in the Park this month and next. So, bundle up and head to the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: A group of diverse artists from California, Seattle, Toronto, Nevada, and New York will show their latest work at Hot Freaks. Live music by Pure Ecstasy, Sleep Over, Young Prisms, and oOoOO
SF News Armed Bank Robbery Suspect Nabbed at Job It looks like donning sunglasses and a Gene Simmons wig didn't deter the police from catching the armed robbery suspect who allegedly held up three Bank of Americas -- two in SF and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Designers and Artists and SF Station present Pop Up Pop Art, featuring a new series of work by artist Oliver Maxwell Kupper, The Beautiful and the Damned, and "pop up" fashions by
