SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco Street Food Festival on Saturday Finally, a food festival that we can afford! San Francisco Street Food Festival 2009, which is a benefit for La Cocina, is a free, day-long block party full of micro-entrepreneurs, informal food vendors,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: This month's Incredibly Strange Picture Show features the zany Zach Galifianakis: Live at the Purple Onion. Filmed in 2005, Galifianakis' performance at SF's famed Purple Onion is said to still be his
misc Google Doesn't Like 11th St, DNA Lounge Apparently, most of 11th Street (between Mission and Bryant Streets) was deleted from Google's Street View a few months ago, which was not fixed in yesterday's update. It also appears in the above
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: It's $3 Movie Night, featuring A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil, an inspirational documentary about environmental innovations that transformed Curitiba, Brazil, into one of the most livable cities in the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Jazz quartet Yellowjackets are promoting, Lifecycles, their first album in 15 years, which was recorded in collaboration with high-energy guitar virtuoso Mike Stern and received a Grammy nomination. The five players will
SF News UPDATE: Strike Canceled, BART and ATU Reach Tentative Deal UPDATE: BART announced at 7 p.m. today that they have come to a temporary agreement with the Amalgamated Transit Union, and tomorrow's strike has been canceled. The following terms will remain in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The legendary M-E-T-H-O-D Man, aka "Cheese" from The Wire, joins the equally legendary Redman and Ghostface Killah. 8 p.m. // Mezzanine (444 Jessie St) // $35, 21+, buy tickets COMEDY: Experience a night
Arts & Entertainment Hit and Run Hula Ambushes the Apple Store It's been a busy day for the Nā Lei Hulu I Ka Wēkiu Dancers, who started their Hit and Run Hula at Pier 39 this morning, bused over to the Ferry Building, made
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DRAG: It's the 14th Annual SF Drag King Contest, the biggest and longest running drag king contest in the world. This year's event is beach-themed, and proceeds will benefit P.A.W.S.
misc "All You Need is a Crane" This photo on Curbed seriously made our afternoon. Apparently, a long-time Curbed lurker discovered this rooftop streamliner while doing a building inspection for a housing project in the Tenderloin. Blogger 40Goingon28 confirms it's
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend Wow, there's a lot of day-time events happening this weekend. We are fried from putting this all together. Time to get outside! ALL WEEKEND Homo A Go Go A whirlwind of music, art,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: San Francisco artist Micke Tong will be exhibiting a new series of site-specific conceptual art pieces, drawings, and installation sculptures in Micro-Habitat. Viewers can expect to find "low-rider inspired candy colored taxidermy
Arts & Entertainment Benefit for SF Music Venues in Oakland Tomorrow Night SonicLiving is ramping up its crusade against the Alcoholic Beverage Control's unreasonable crackdown on San Francisco's all-ages music venues with their first Stop the War on Fun benefit concert at the Uptown Nightclub
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: It's a double feature at the Castro with cult classic Repo Man, starring Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton, and Model Shop, about an American who receives a draft notice for the
SF News SF to Use Federal Funds to Provide 1,000 Jobs for Unemployed Parents for One Year Yesterday, Mayor Newsom's office announced a new initiative called JOBS NOW!, which aims to fund jobs using federal stimulus money for 1,000 San Francisco residents who have at least one child and
SF News Coming Soon: MUNI/BART to Track Your Every Move SF Appeal reports that Muni will be replacing all existing fare gates at its underground Metro stations with TransLink-only fare gates (PDF) by fall of 2010, and it's possible Fast Passes will only
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Tonight is the first preview night of Cal Shakes' production of Samual Beckett's Happy Days, directed by Jonathan Moscone. Beckett's astounding portrait of a woman buried up to her waist in sand
SF News Depeche Mode Cancels Tonight's Shoreline Show Due to Illness Times seem to be tough for aging rockstars scheduled to play in the Bay Area this summer. Depeche Mode has had to cancel tonight's show at Shoreline Amphitheatre because of doctor's orders that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Off-the-wall comedian Maria Bamford has a knack for introducing the audience to her myriad of multiple personalities/dysfunctional family members during her stand-up routine, and we especially enjoy her occasional appearances on
SF News BART to Run All Night on Labor Day Weekend Due to Caltrans closing the Bay Bridge in both directions over the upcoming Labor Day weekend for earthquake retrofitting, BART will be running hourly overnight service to 14 stations during the wee hours
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Japanese cowboy possessing amazing yodeling skills Toshio Hirano will perform his beloved bluegrass favorites for adoring fans as part of Amnesia's free Bluegrass Mondays. 8:30 p.m. // Amnesia (853 Valencia St)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FOOD: Explore the Slow Food movement with tapas, wine, and a film screening at Slow Food on Film: Mad City Chickens. Mad City Chickens tells the story of how more and more city
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PARTY: It's an all-out celebration of art, music, surfing, and skating at Surf Movie Party. Local bands Thee Oh Sees, Black Bow, and bands from the Bay Area Girls Rock Camp will kick
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMMUNITY: Celebrate the diversity of Lower Haight with an evening of live music, live painting, food, drink, merriment, and merchant discounts at the Lower Haight Art Walk. 7 to 10 p.m. // Haight
Arts & Entertainment Keep an Eye Out For Cut and Run on Muni Metro Tomorrow Muni Metro riders might encounter some extra special entertainment on their commutes tomorrow. The traveling Cut and Run tour will be projecting films on the N, L, and J lines randomly throughout the
