Arts & Entertainment Litquake Kicks Off Tonight The annual week-long Litquake festival starts tonight, featuring a daunting line-up of events. Below is a list of our picks featuring one event per day (otherwise this post would take us all weekend)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Art Edition SF ARTS COMMISSION GALLERY: Recipients of the 2009 Murphy and Cadogan Fellowships in the Fine Arts will showcase their recent works in Immediate Future, the SFAC Gallery's biggest event of the year. The
Arts & Entertainment Staged Readings of <em>The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later</em> on Monday The recent hate crime legislation coincides with the 11th anniversary of Matthew Shepard's death after he was robbed and beaten outside of Laramie, Wyoming, in 1998. On Monday, staged readings of The Laramie
SF News House Passes Addition of Sexual Orientation to Hate Crimes Law The definition of the federal hate crimes law might finally get expanded to include sexual orientation, as the House of Representatives approved the bill yesterday, which was an attachment of the $680 billion
misc Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day: Blue Angels Edition Via M.K.: " today was not a good day for an entire morning of meditation. Thanks Blue Angels."
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: For their new Echo exhibit, Frey Norris Gallery suggested a painting or sculpture by eight important Surrealists to eight Bay Area artists, asking them to respond or invent a piece around the
misc Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day Via E.B.: "The east bay is one big sex pigeon post to me anymore."
Arts & Entertainment SF Open Studios Starts This Weekend This weekend is Weekend 1 of SF Open Studios, the first and largest open studios program in the country, which showcases the work of hundreds of artists of different styles and media, including
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Punk at the library? Who would've thought. As part of their ongoing exhibit, Punk Passage: San Francisco First Wave Punk 1977-1981, the SF Public Library will screen three films celebrating San Francisco's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Soul Food Farm Benefit at Oakland's Pizzaiolo and SF's Il Cane Rosso on Sunday Soul Food Farm of Vacaville, who provide the Bay Area with delicious eggs and chickens via various locations and through their brand-spanking new CSA, encountered a devastating fire last month. One thousand baby
misc Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day Via Kevin McCracken: "The Muni driver just got done lecturing commuters on the virtues of saying thank you." (We say thank you if the driver is nice, but we would refrain from thanking
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Filmmaker Ken Jacobs is making a rare Bay Area appearance to present Shocked by Existence, a series of his new works in digital video format, some of which feature animated stereographs of
SF News UC Berkeley to Pay Consultants $3M to Find Ways to Cut Costs Facing a $150 million budget deficit this year due to cuts in state funding and higher operating costs, UC Berkeley has hired Bain & Co., a Massachusetts-based consultant with offices in San Francisco,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, which consists of women from all four corners of the world who joined together out of concern for the planet, will be honored tonight with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The San Francisco Zen Center hosts an evening of food, literature, and film with Alix Lambert. Lambert's new book, The Silencing, is a bi-lingual case account of six murdered Russian journalists, paired
misc Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day Via Brock Keeling: "LovElution partiers have invaded my neighborhood. Fuzzy cowboy hats as far as the eye can see."
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: It's the bi-monthly Mission Arts and Performance Project (MAPP), in which 100 artists transform garages, cafes, studios, gardens, street corners, and local businesses into makeshift arts and performance spaces. The event occurs
Arts & Entertainment Day One of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass What a great music tradition that brings all walks of [shirtless] fans together. We hope the weather is great for you all in the park today and tomorrow! (See our preview here.)
SF News Helping Disaster Victims in Pacific, Southeast Asia Bay Area communities are organizing efforts to help victims of the four disasters that struck the Samoan Islands, the Philippines, and Indonesia this week. Below are a few places to drop off donations.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Foul Play presents The Bride of Frankenstein: Live on Stage as part of their Attack of the Killer B-Movie Series. Performed entirely in black and white, the play will feature the original
misc Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day Via M.A. (last night): 6:19 p.m. "At the Four Seasons. Lyle Lovett just walked in. Dare me to hit on him?" 7:38 p.m. "Heartburn; lyle totally left with
SF News Day Around the Bay Cops vs. Skaters, a cliché that will never die [NBC Bay Area] Illegal indoor pot farm = the new meth lab? [Curbed, SF Examiner] Sorry about that. [Mission Mission] Firmware upgrade might make TransLink
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: It's the opening night of the Open Source Embroidery exhibit at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art. The show brings together individual and collectively made artworks by artists, makers, computer programmers
SF News Santa Clara County Declares Swine Flu Emergency Santa Clara County declared a local emergency yesterday, setting aside $500k for free clinics, which will administer the swine flu vaccine to thousands of uninsured residents when the vaccine becomes available in mid-October.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Happy Hour Edition There seem to be some great happy hours going on tonight, so we figured we'd make it a theme! POLK GULCH: Via the Guardian's very handy events newsletter: "Bay Area rock legend and
