Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Join established and emerging Bay Area artists for the monthly Sketch Tuesday, and score some original artwork for $5 to $30. And if there's room at the table, feel free to create
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: This month's Porchlight Storytelling Stories, "La Petit Mort: The Sex Show," embraces the "humor, irreverence, pain, humiliation, and inimitable array of sounds" involved in sex. Tonight's show benefits the Friends of the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Seminal goth/deathrock band Christian Death (fronted by Valor Kand, of course) are still at it, promoting their latest album, American Inquisition at the Red Devil tonight. 7 p.m. // The Red
SF News Photo: Yesterday's Two-Alarm Fire on Nob Hill A friend of SFist shot this photo of the two-alarm fire that took place yesterday afternoon on Bush Street between Mason and Powell. It was contained in one apartment (although it looks like
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Southern Exposure presents An Evening of Bollywood and Tabla with Robin Sukhadia, which includes a lecture focusing on RD Burman, the renowned film composer of Sholay, followed by a classical tabla performance
Arts & Entertainment SFist Out and About We picked up this gem the other day at Out of the Closet on Polk Street. We imagine it sat in someone's kitchen for decades, and we plan for it to do the
Arts & Entertainment Tomorrow Night: Episcodisco at Grace Cathedral Who knew that Grace Cathedral has a monthly nightlife event called Episcodisco, presented by Reverend Bertie Pearson and curatorial duo Paradise Now and featuring contemporary art installations, live performance, drinks and DJ’ed
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The San Francisco Bay Guardian presents cool blue thing, the opening night party for YBCA's new exhibition, Reneé Green: Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams. Green is a world-renowned artist and current Dean
misc The Baby-ry Coast This contributor recently had a baby, who is now two and a half months old. It's been quite a fun journey exploring the city with such a wee one. (We highly recommend the
SF News Teen Saves Family From Path of Folsom Train This story, which occurred in Folsom (east of Sacramento), reads like something right out of a movie. On Monday evening, 17-year-old Todd McHugh of Citrus Heights saw a car swerve, veer off the
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
