Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Indiefest documentary Oh My God! It's Harrod Blank! about local artist Harrod Blank, creator of interactive art pieces such as the Camera Van and the Flash Suit, showcases twenty years of footage
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week at Heart of the City Farmers Market At this Wednesday's Heart of the City Farmers Market, located at the United Nations Plaza in Civic Center every Wednesday and Sunday, we bought Jalapeno/Garlic Pistachios, which are wonderfully spicy and flavorful,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Obscure Canadian metal band Anvil, whose comeback warmed the hearts of America (and Japan), in Anvil! The Story of Anvil!, will be turning it up to 11 at the Fillmore tonight. 8
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Does the Super Bowl: Sweet and Salty Brownies We came across these delicious-looking brownies by Jessie Oleson of Cakespy via Serious Eats the other day and thought they'd be a sweet ending to the Super Bowl themed recipes. The recipe was
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSICAL: The Marsh presents the Marsh Youth Theater’s (MYT’s) Teen Troupe in the premiere of The Wave, a musical by Ron Jones, based on his real-life classroom experiment on fascism that
misc Call For Submissions: Neighborhood Gems Photo Project Get out there and shoot some photos of your favorite neighborhood spots this weekend, or dig through your archives. Good Magazine, in partnership with Pictory Magazine, is looking for some great shots of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Does the Super Bowl: Deep-Fried Mac and Cheese It's hard to go wrong with Mac and Cheese, so we decided to pick the most gluttonous version we could find, Deep-Fried Mac and Cheese, by Ms. Paula Deen. (Well, actually, there's an
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The SF Independent Film Festival starts tonight with Opening Night film Wah Do Dem, about a solitary Brooklyn hipster on a cruise full of the middle-aged set en route to Jamaica. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight HISTORY: Check out the Authors' Forum at the Old Mint tonight and learn about Jewish immigrant, Isaias Hellman, "creator" of California; the Chinatown police department from the Gold Rush to present day; Juana
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Does the Super Bowl: Seven Layer Bean Dip Leave it to Martha to come up with a clever presentation to a classic dip by putting its contents in single-serving jars. Seven Layer Bean Dip is the sort of thing you can't
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Does the Super Bowl: Mini Sloppy Joes The big game is on Sunday, which for us non-sports fans means hovering over the snack table in between space-out sessions in front of the TV. (Except this contributor is a bit more
Arts & Entertainment Rock Benefits for Haitian Relief There have been a lot of benefits for Haiti in recent weeks that we missed. Here are a few upcoming events, in which all of the proceeds will go to various charities. Tomorrow,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DANCE: RAW (resident artist workshop) presents choreographer Aura Fischbeck Dance, who will be sharing a new improvisational work entitled “moment studies, too,” which incorporates the expression of the body in the present moment,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DANCE: It's the last night of the 11th Annual Hip Hop Dance Fest, which has was the first event of its kind and has played host to dance companies throughout the world. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: CineKink: San Francisco, a touring version of NYC's "kinky film festival," has been at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts this weekend. Tonight's films include The Auteur at 7 p.m., a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The Oakland Underground Film Festival presents the San Francisco premiere of Black Dynamite, an action-packed comedy rooted in the traditions of American Blaxploitation and Kung Fu films, such as Shaft (1971), Super
Arts & Entertainment This Weekend: Thread Fashion Event at Fort Mason Just in time for the holidays, Thread will be having a two-day shopping extravaganza this weekend at Fort Mason Center, featuring wares from the top 100 hand-picked independent fashion and art designers. Attendees
SF News Delayed Eastbound Flights From SFO, Oakland, Due to Previous FAA Computer Crash For anyone who might be reading this before heading to the airport, expect delayed flights today. Although the FAA's Atlanta-based computer system is back up after an earlier system crash, they expect a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bento415 Grand Opening Tomorrow Potrero Hill 9-to-5ers are in luck with this great new lunch place. Bento415, which offers cuisines from around the world packaged in cute, little bento boxes, will be making their official debut tomorrow
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COCKTAIL PARTY: Wow, we're intrigued. Bold Italic presents 1939. Tog to the Bricks!, a decadent cocktail party from the 1930s, celebrating the opening of the World's Fair. The organizers promise "a raucous good
Arts & Entertainment Brown Bag Lunch Lecture Today at SF Arts Commission Gallery Artists: Do you find it hard to get your pieces done? Then let San Francisco Art Institute MFA student and Immediate Future exhibiting artist, Daniel Yovino guide you through a crash course on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LIT: One of the first performance artists and a New York Underground cultural icon, Penny Arcade (Susan Ventura), will make a rare appearance tonight in celebration of her new book, Bad Reputation: Performances,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Director Barry Jenkins joins SF Film Society Director Graham Leggat for a screening of Medicine for Melancholy and a conversation afterwards. M4M, which was shot in a mere three weeks and made
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Multimedia artist Carter riffs off of Robert Rauschenberg's iconic drawing Erased Willem de Kooning in Erased James Franco, in which contemporary actor, James Franco, is stripped of the sureties of his craft
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight VARIETY: The Devil-Ettes and The Mini Skirt Mob pay tribute to the great 60’s variety shows like Laugh-In, Shindig, and Hullabaloo in the action-packed Go Go Spectacular. Special guests The Barbary Coasters
