Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: In celebration of Chinese New Year, Creativity Explored will showcase works by artists of Chinese descent in Tiger Leaping Gold Mountain. 7 to 9 p.m. // Creativity Explored (3245 16th St) // free
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PARTY: At BarBot 2010: "Get a drink from an actual robot. Chat up a snarky electronic bartender. Listen to some graceful tunes being played by robotic music makers. And, after downing your sixth
misc SF City College Launches "Cost-$aving$ Ideas Contest" Upon losing $18 million of its operating budget, CCSF is searching for ways to cut costs. They've already implemented many cost-saving measures, including canceling their summer session, to the disappointment of many, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: Silicon Valley visionary Jaron Lanier shares his expertise in his new book, You Are Not a Gadget. He'll discuss how programming decisions made decades ago have had enormous—and often unintended—consequences
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: In the Life and Style of DJ Ts by Micke Tong Artist Micke Tong spoke with inveterate DJ Tony Sison (Ts) about growing up in San Francisco, the club scene throughout the '90s and '00s, and Club Life/Style, Ts' latest
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Fantastic Fest programmer and Twitch Film critic Rodney Perkins has compiled a collection of gems from the back catalogs of now-defunct public access stations from the Bay Area and beyond in Access
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Real couples tell the stories of how they first met while improv actors reenact the scene through sketches and songs at How We First. 8 p.m. // Herbst Theater (401 Van Ness
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Easy, Last Minute Valentine's Day Dessert for the <strike>Lazy</strike> Busy Folks Tight on cash and/or don't quite buy into Valentine's Day? Nevertheless, you're making a decent dinner tomorrow night and want to top it off with a special dessert? But this idea occurred
SF News Video: Huge Wave Injures Thirteen at Mavericks Show A huge wave crashed into a crowd of 200 people this morning at the Mavericks Surf Contest north of Half Moon Bay. Many people were swept off their feet, and thirteen suffered injuries,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Explore the underside of love this Valentine's Day Eve at Oddball Films' Love, Sex + VD! Classic social guidance and avant garde films and gender-bending cartoons will be screened. 8 to 10 p.
misc Johnny Funcheap's Top Five Cheap Valentine's Day Dates Since we're all broke around here, Johnny Funcheap has compiled a list of his Top Five Best Cheap Valentine's Day Dates for this weekend. (Personally, our s.o. is cashing in our beer
Arts & Entertainment Video: Love Everywhere at City Hall Today's Love Everywhere dance performance at City Hall, put on by the Erika Chong Shuch Performance Project in celebration of the sixth-year anniversary of same-sex marriage, was a huge hit. We got there
misc SFist Out and About How much is that doggie in the window (who's inadvertently superimposed with the reflection of this contributor)? Spotted at Kayo Books on Post near Leavenworth, purveyors of paperbacks from the 1940s to 1970s,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Using hand-and-rod puppets, masks, and original music created and performed by New York City’s Wakka Wakka Productions, Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitz tells the story of a Polish Jew who
misc SFist Out and About We always walk by MishaSF at Polk and Pine and make a note to ourselves that we'll go there the next time we need to obtain a gift. (They need a bigger sign
Arts & Entertainment Tomorrow at Noon, This Weekend: Love Everywhere, Celebrating Gay Marriage The Erika Chong Shuch Performance Project will be celebrating the six-year anniversary of same-sex marriage with Love Everywhere, a free and interactive dance performance intended to bring strangers together, which will take place
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: In his latest exhibition Alex, artist Topher Chin depicts mescaline-enhanced experiences from a brief period during his teenage years with some appealingly trippy Op-Art. Get to the opening early -- the Fecal
misc SFist Out and About We were one of about three people snapping photos of this peachy electric vehicle with our phones today, which was spotted at Sutter and Leavenworth. After doing a little research, we found out
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: Head over to Elixir tonight for the Drink Up for Rocket Dog Rescue fundraiser, and get served by guest bartenders/local internati (we just made that up) Eve Batey from SF Appeal,
misc Goats Doing Their Part Got lots of dry grass in hard to reach places? Call Goats R Us, [update] City Grazing, or Living Systems! It's always a treat to see these "kids" out doing what they enjoy
SF News Cat and Owner Reunited Daniel Harlan, the homeless man who had been searching for his cat Samantha for weeks, was reunited with her this evening. Tom Neville had rescued the cat from what he perceived as a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC:Gillian Welch and members of Old Crow Medicine Show will accompany bluegrass guitarist and harmony singer Dave Rawlings as part of the Dave Rawlings Machine at the Fillmore tonight. Rawlings will also
misc SFist Out and About We're starting a new series in which we capture photos of places of interest as we're out and about. The above photos are from the Goodwill at Post and Fillmore. We've scored lots
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The San Francisco and Shanghai Conservatories of Music will celebrate the creation of their sister-school relationship with their Shanghai Celebration Concert, which coincides with the 30th anniversary of the signing of the
misc Muni Bus Nails a Fire Hydrant Update II: Sorry, y'all, last night's update needs an update -- we were a little out of it from the Super Bowl imbibing. It's not clear whether the person using the wheelchair lift
