SF News And The Walls Came Tumbling Down: Restored Palace Of Fine Arts Revealed After a renovation costing more than $20 million and taking several years, the glorious Palace of Fine Arts reopened this morning, to much fanfare, congratulations and rejoicing, plus snacks and peppy live music
Arts & Entertainment Holiday Snack and Gift Time with La Cocina What a feast! Friday evening was the second annual La Cocina Gift Fair, featuring an amazing array of local food and crafts. There were cupcakes, kombucha, Malaysian peanut sauce and coconut jam, Salvadoran
SF News Vote Early (But Not Often) It's always true, but never more than this year: the stakes in this election are huge. The City has lots of resources to help you look up your polling place and understand the
Arts & Entertainment Iron Cupcake: Spice It was a hard-fought battle Monday night, but everyone was a winner at the latest installment of Iron Cupcake, hosted each month by Leland Tea. The theme for this edition was "Spice," and
Arts & Entertainment This Ain't No Disco Iffy signage and occasionally haphazard organization were no match for the enthusiasm of the dancers and the hundreds of attendees who came to see this weekend's 7th Annual Trolley Dances at Duboce Triangle
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Napa's Annual Orgy of Butchery The weather this past weekend was especially hot in St. Helena, where meat enthusiasts made matters even worse by firing up the coals for another episode of Primal, the annual orgy of butchery,
Arts & Entertainment Up in the Air, Junior Birdman, 9/9 After seeing Pixar's "Up" did you dream about what it would be like to soar through the skies for real? Well this Thursday at Design Guild Gallery, the collective studio space, you can
Arts & Entertainment Being Analog at The Citrus Report Those lovable kids at The Citrus Report are throwing an on-going "office party" sporadically for the next two weeks in their e-mag's storefront space in the Lower Haight, featuring typewritten Google search results,
Arts & Entertainment Very Crafty: American Craft Council Show Once a year the venerable American Craft Council holds its only West Coast show of some of the most astonishing handcrafted jewelry, clothing, housewares, furniture, woodwork and other objets de drop-dead gorgeousness. This
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Like Burning Man for Street Food In just a short time the Friday evening Off the Grid street food frenzy at Ft. Mason has become a local institution. This week's treats focused mostly on Asian and Latin fare, with
Arts & Entertainment To the Dump, to the Dump, to the Dump Dump Dump Actually, here's your chance to skip the trip down 101 to the SF dump and instead check out "Art at the Dump: Twenty Years of the Artist In Residence Program" right downtown. Intersection
Arts & Entertainment Centennial of a San Francisco Treasure One of San Francisco's unique gems is the Mechanics' Institute, tucked away behind the McKesson building near the foot of Post Street. Originally created in the wake of the Gold Rush to offer
Arts & Entertainment Art in the Gardens It's going to be a gorgeous sunny day on Saturday, so there's no better time head down to the Metreon Yerba Buena Gardens for an afternoon Gallery Walk. More than a dozen galleries
Arts & Entertainment It's Not Over Until... Before James Cameron there was Richard Wagner as our leading triumphalist craftsman of overwrought epic entertainments. Since the blue face paint from your seventh trip to see has probably washed off by now,
Arts & Entertainment Carnaval! It's Carnaval time, and this year the weather gods have decided to celebrate, too. So get thee to the Mission for the street festival today and Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm
Arts & Entertainment New Mural at Mission and Chavez: Lipstick on a Pig? We're a big fan of the many wonderful murals scattered around the Mission, and it's always fun to see one being created. The latest neighborhood mural, though, is just lipstick on the big,
misc Midday Cowboy Yee hah! Right in front of SFist HQ on Stillman Street in SOMA, we spotted a daredevil who said his name is Troy taking advantage of the weekend emptiness to practice some of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Feed the Need: BBC Covers South Park Food Carts The Twittersphere was all aflutter today as the food cart (and food table) sensation hit South Park, because this time it drew media interest from BBC Radio, some unnamed video outlet and, yes,
Arts & Entertainment Fancy Food Fest Fends Off Famine It's for food industry pros only, but your humble narrator managed -- at great personal sacrifice, of course -- to wander the aisles at the annual Fancy Food Show at Moscone Center over
Arts & Entertainment All The World's a Stage To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Geary Theater, ACT held a giant open house, with demonstrations, discussions and -- best of all -- the chance to wander around nearly every corner of
Arts & Entertainment Eye Candy at Gallery 16 For a slice of sophisticated, playful eye candy, head on over to Gallery 16 near South Park this month and check out a fantastic new show of artwork from Emigre, the independent type
SF News Let's Do Shots: H1N1 Yes, the SF Public Health Department invites you to do shots with them, swine flu shots, that is. If you missed the big vaccination extravaganza at the Bill Graham Auditorium before the holidays,
SF News Swinestock! While we're on the subject of vaccinations, it seems the supply of H1N1 vaccine is starting to catch up with demand, so the San Francisco Department of Public Health is holding a free
SF News To Vaccinate Or Not To Vaccinate? So it seems even folks in the more wealthy, educated quarters of our fair city can succumb to superstition. The proprietors at the More Mojo clinic are throwing in their lot with the
SF News To the Barricades: Hotel Workers Strike The three-day strike by the Local 2 hotel workers against the Palace Hotel is coming to a close, with no obvious change in either side's position. The union's own account of their similar
