SF News Day Around the Bay by Brock Keeling (who is currently having technical difficulties) Is Muni in a death spiral? [SF Weekly] Beth Spotswood lives the dream of calling, telling off a commenter. [SF Appeal] 49ers stadium vote:
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bring Your Travel Mug to Starbucks, Get Free Brewed Coffee Tomorrow Get up to 20 ounces of free brewed Starbucks coffee tomorrow when you bring in your travel mug. Starbucks is encouraging people to switch from the wasteful paper cups to reusable ones, for
Arts & Entertainment Kids' Pajama Party Tonight at Cover to Cover Booksellers This is a cute idea! In honor of Noe Valley Celebrates the Book Week, Cover to Cover Booksellers (1307 Castro St) is hosting an hour-long Pajama Party geared toward 3- to 8-year-olds this
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Milkgap (aka Geoffrey Porter) will be showing some of his new and old ink and watercolor pieces tonight. Grab some beverages at Pirate Cat Cafe and check them out. 8 to
Arts & Entertainment Record Store Day on Saturday Saturday is the annual Record Store Day, wherein music geeks will unite while scoring some sweet deals on vinyl and watching in-store live acts at over 700 participating venues internationally. Both Amoeba locations
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Blue Scholars, currently one of the top West Coast independent hip hop acts, bring their "soulful beats, poetic yet political rhymes" and a "dynamic live performance" to Slim's tonight. Bambu and Jern
Arts & Entertainment Silhouette Artist Karl Johnson at Small Frys on Friday We received a tip from a reader that third-generation silhouette portrait artist Karl Johnson will be creating one-of-a-kind likenesses of local tykes at Small Frys in Noe Valley on Friday from 2 to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Tonight's edition of the weekly Cinema Drafthouse -- The Best of 2009 will feature the incorrigible Robert Downey Jr. in Sherlock Holmes. 7:30 p.m. // The Independent (628 Divisadero St) // free
misc Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day Via M.L.G.: "saw someone weaving their bike thru city traffic. Thought they were wearing cat ears on their head, like a headband, or a hat, or one of those hoodies with
Arts & Entertainment Many Chose Couch Over Sunday Streets Today SF Citizen illustrates that many San Francisco residents evidently opted for staying on their couches or attending the rained-delayed Giants game, anywhere but Sunday Streets. (It looks like SFist's bold declaration that rain
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: As part of the Lynne Sachs Retrospective in San Francisco, 10 Short Films by Lynne Sachs (1986 -2010), curated by Stephen Parr, will be screened. 7:30 p.m. // Oddball Films (275
misc SFist Out and About Twenty-six years after opening their first store off Polk Street, then later moving to Van Ness, American Rag, purveyors of questionably-priced vintage and new fashions, has called it quits in San Francisco. There
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Over 20 artists will exhibit work ranging from photography, paintings, sculptures, and collage at Guerrero Gallery's April Group Show. 7 to 11 p.m. // Guerrero Gallery (2700 19th St) // free TALK: Amy
Arts & Entertainment More Events for Kids This Weekend As noted in SFist This Weekend and The Baby-ry Coast, there are lots of family activities to be had this weekend. Here are a couple of more that are happening tomorrow: The hugely
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FASHION: Tonight's edition of Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young will include a sneak preview of the upcoming 5th Annual Discarded to Divine event, which showcases this year's designers and their
misc Giants' Eugenio Velez in Delightful Ignorance of Misspelled Jersey At Wednesday night's game against the Houston Astros, the Giants' Eugenio Velez sported a jersey with misspelled embroidered stitching that said, "San Francicso." The goof went unnoticed until the 7th inning when Velez
misc The Baby-ry Coast We haven't posted a column in a few weeks, but we're still here! Parents, we want to hear from you. Keep sending us your links, stories, and tips. Tell us: What do you
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Film screening Streets of San Francisco: Filmic Journeys will feature experimental films and videos from the late 1950s to the present, which offer evocative records of individual experiences of San Francisco street
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend It's supposed to rain on Sunday, but that won't stop the Sunday Streets and the two-weekend long Cherry Blossom Festival fun. Also happening on Sunday is the Festival of the Mandolins, which has
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The group art exhibition, The Anxiety Show, curated by Christine Kristen, explores the uncertainty and free-floating anxiety that are generated by the current economic crisis, global warming, and war. 8 p.m.
Arts & Entertainment Sunday Streets Along Great Highway This Sunday The second Sunday Streets of 2010 is this Sunday along the Great Highway route from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event will be in conjunction with the World Health Organization's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: World-renowned Mexican poet and environmentalist Homero Aridjis will read from Solar Poems, his collection of poems that "range from the humorous to the poignant, transcending the boundary between life and death." Lawrence
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The San Francisco Film Society presents SFFS Film Arts Forum: Tales from Terror Town, "an appreciation, dissection and dismantling of the popular but misunderstood horror genre and its ties to the Bay
misc Video: The Tenth Annual Bring Your Own Big Wheel Race The rain couldn't stop the Tenth Annual Bring Your Own Big Wheel Race that went down today on Vermont Street in Potrero Hill. It looks like the slick pavement provided an additional challenge.
misc SFist Out and About Do people still go to tanning beds anymore? Especially in SF? Although, it doesn't sound half bad on a day like this.
