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
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend Looks like it'll be a nice weekend. Enjoy! Saturday: Keep your wits about you at the big, annual, free Mission Creek Music Festival at McLaren Park. Put on your leather pants and let
Arts & Entertainment SFist Radar Here's a new feature we're trying out wherein we give you a heads-up about some events that are on our radar. SFist is not omniscient though -- so let us know about other
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Nymph O' Mania, a modern twist on A Midsummer Night's Dream, opens tonight and runs through August 15. Set in a redwood forest in Northern California, the play features a wedding, an
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Happy Bastille Day! Looking for more events to celebrate this French holiday (in addition to the one below)? Then head on over to Eye on Blogs. ART: In Leave No Trace, artists Elisheva
misc Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day Via R.B.: "exciting bus rides today... one guy decided to put his body under the back bus tire after getting thrown off for smearing ravioli on all the seats, and seriously almost
SF News SFPD Releases Sketch of Sexual Assault Suspect SFPD has released a sketch of a suspect who attacked and sexually assaulted a female victim at Jones and Sutter Streets on May 29, 2010 at around 2:22 a.m.. The suspect
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: In Yatterman, Takashii Miike "takes the audience for a wild ride of robotics and animation in an adolescent battle of good vs evil with some cheeky elements of young lust tossed in
misc Relevant Twitter Update of the Day Via Brittney Gilbert (she's had some good ones lately!): "San Francisco: The clerk was smoking pot *in* the market while on the clock."
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 38 Geary (1996) 38 Geary, directed by Dave Gebroe (1996) from Mike Spiegelman on Vimeo. Artsy short film from the mid-90s, 38 Geary, was shot on Super 8 by Dave Gebroe, starring Mike Spiegelman (who will
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Folk Yeah presents a line-up of folk/psychedelic bands at the Rickshaw, featuring Farmer Dave Scher (Beachwood Sparks and All Night Radio), Seventeen Evergreen, Tim Cohen (The Fresh & Onlys), and Night
misc Happy Outcome Plays Out on Lost Cat Flyer The one and only Brittney Gilbert spotted this uplifting flyer yesterday letting the world know that Moose the cat has been found. It's quite a refreshing change from the sad, outdated lost pet
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: San Francisco Mixtape Society presents their third event, which is themed Foreign vs. Familiar. Assemble a mix according to the theme in any format (cassette, CD, or USB) and trade with someone
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Magician Christian Cagigal's magic show, Obscura, which was created for "believers, skeptics, those who hate magic shows, and those who hate theatre," weaves magic, fairy tales, and dark fables into "an intimate
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight CRAFT: Scissors for Lefty will perform at the opening night party for TechnoCRAFT: Hackers, Modders, Fabbers, Tweakers and Design in the Age of Individuality, which focuses on the intersection of technology and craft
misc Walgreens: Paranoid Much? In great anticipation of the big riots last night, the Union Square Walgreens locations decided to be paranoid proactive and board up their windows. A few other locations were boarded up as well.
misc Currently in Craiglist's Free Section Act now, and you could be the lucky owner of the following for free! Hi Fi Stereo Radio 8 track Record player Want to listen to those sweet 8-tracks and LPs again? Ping
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The annual Another Hole in the Head Film Festival kicks off tonight with Death Kappa, which takes a modern look at the Japanese mythical monster that possesses part animal and part human
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Photographer Jamie McHugh exhibits Seascapes, a series of natural abstract photographs of the Sonoma Coast’s tidal zone with unusual points of view. 6 to 9 p.m. // Dickerman Prints Gallery (3180
