SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Out and About Not in the mood to cook and only have $5 or so? One dish at Tu Lan will hit the spot for 2-4 meals. The Vegetarian Chow Mein is heavy on the vegetables
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: It's the first night in the Blue Bear School of Music Showcases, going on through Wednesday. Jack Black's School of Rock was based on Blue Bear. There will be two stages --
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COCKTAILS: The mixologists at Cocktail Lab will re-imagine your favorite drinks of the '80s in a stripped down "ludicrously culinary fashion" at Cocktail Lab 6: 80’s Shades and Switchblades. 10 p.m.
misc Earth Hour Tomorrow Night at 8:30 p.m. It's that time of year again when lots of people across the world participate in Earth Hour by turning their lights off at 8:30 p.m. PST, sending "a clear message that
misc Relevant Twitter Update of the Day Via BARTfail, njudah: "FYI If you just boarded sf/millbrae line in Berkeley, watch out for tall guy with 711 coffee cup. Cup is full of urine, ewwwww."
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Soulfood no.2, the second event in a quarterly music series organized by Griff Williams, Tommy Guerrero and Marc Capelle, is raising money for local charity, MuST (music in the schools today)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Attends Inforum's Future of SF New Media Panel We attended our first Commonwealth Club event last night, which was put on by Inforum, a hip, young division of the club. The topic was about how San Francisco is setting the stage
Arts & Entertainment SFist Giveaway: Tickets to MATCHA Next Thursday We have another giveaway for a pair of tickets to next Thursday's MATCHA: Shanghai Jazz event. The fifth entrant to email us ([email protected]) their full name (and include MATCHA in the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Los Angeles-based painter, illustrator, and costume designer Kime Buzzelli is exhibiting her work at Candystore Collective, featuring fantastical portraits of women inspired by "fashion, film, music, make believe, mysteries and voyeurism." 7
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Out and About Many, um, parts of the bull are well represented in Mi Ranchita Produce's awning. And who knew leeks could do the job so well?
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: LA/NYC's High Places new record, High Places vs. Mankind, features "an imaginative and spacious amalgamation of sounds with a unique, almost Caribbean undertone that is as immediate as it is refreshing.
Arts & Entertainment Dance Anywhere Friday at Noon Dance Anywhere has been embracing the flash mob model since 2005, way before it got trendy. On Friday at Noon PST, they invite people across the world to take a minute to dance
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight GAMES: Help Homefrys continue their experiment in connecting people by playing games together in person at Homefrys Game Night. Party games, word games, trivia games, and classic games -- "60 pounds of games"
misc San Franciscans Fifth Biggest Tax-Filing Procrastinators in 2009 Apparently Turbo Tax, for the past nine years, has been doing an annual tally of which cities have the largest number of procrastinating citizens when it comes to filing their taxes. San Francisco,
misc Pigeon Takeover at Sixteenth Street BART Station? Yesterday we encountered a ridiculous amount of pigeon poo covering the floor of the 16th Street BART Station. That can't be healthy. What gives, BART?
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Watch Michael Jackson's This Is It for free with a two-drink minimum at the Independent's Cinema Drafthouse -- Best of 2009 Movie Night. 7:30 p.m. // The Independent (628 Divisadero St)
misc SFist Out and About We spotted this inappropriate kids' t-shirt at the Walgreens on Powell near O'Farrell.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Zog's Dogs' "The Greatest Hot Dog Story...Ever Told" Zog's Dogs, maker of delicious gourmet sausages like the The Prop 8 Dog and The Moral Conundrum, recently put out this epically and delightfully over the top commercial, "The Greatest Hot Dog Story.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: SeaweedSway Sunday presents local choir, Conspiracy of Beards, which is comprised of 30 men performing exclusively Leonard Cohen songs a capella in complex four- to five-part harmonies, and Beards' sister band, Conspiracy
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: In the spirit of dreaming and the dream world, Roots and Wires Sound Dimensional present Dreamplay, an evening of performance art, interactive art installations and soundscapes. All proceeds will benefit Haitian Children.
misc The Baby-ry Coast We received a heads-up about another great blog, Cry It Out, by SF stay-at-home dad Mike Adamick, who was also featured on Eye on Blogs the other day. Mike's a high-profile writer --
misc SFist Out and About They were finishing up the installation of the new sculpture at Patricia's Green in Hayes Valley yesterday. Anyone know who the artist is? Update: The sculpture is called Ecstasy, and the artists are
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Andrea Heimer, who hails from Bellingham, Washington, is exhibiting her latest series of watercolors in Fight!, which illustrates her fascination with “two halves of the same equation struggling against one another for
Arts & Entertainment The Second Annual Dream House Raffle We got the pretty flyer in the mail yesterday for the second annual Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Dream House Raffle, and Curbed and Socket Site already have the scoop. This year's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DANCE: Enjoy a wine and appetizer reception preceding a special ODC/Dance Downtown one-hour performance, featuring Something About a Nightingale, River, and 24 Exposures. ODC will be performing at Yerba Buena through March
