SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This: Spark's Sugar Rush Fundraiser We here at SFist are always on the lookout for ways to stuff out faces with treats, especially if it's guilt-free and for a good cause. Enter the 6th annual Sugar Rush, a
Arts & Entertainment Tonight: Happy Hour And Men's Clothing Drive In The Marina The fine folks at the San Francisco Social will host a bar-based benefit tonight that will a) help at-risk youth and b) help you purge your closet of unwanted attire. Right now, Larkin
SF News Concert, Fundraising Underway For Family Who Lost Daughter To Treasure Island Fire When blazes erupt in the Mission or that Castro, ones that displace residents, the community jumps at the chance to support the fire victims with fundraisers at local hipster bars. And we love
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This Thing Tonight: Thrillist Boys At Blackbird Thirllist gets gay tonight for a good cause when editors Grant Marek and Joe Starkey guest mix at Blackbird for healthy prostates. And to get you drunk, naturally. But mainly for prostates. Your
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Sugar Rush' Sweet Feast at Sir Francis Drake Tomorrow Save the salty for Thanksgiving. Tomorrow you shall unleash your inner child and all the sugar craving that goes along with adolescence at the annual Sugar Rush. What is Sugar Rush? It's an
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/25: Philip Glass and Joanna Newsom with Tim Fain BENEFIT: The Days and NIghts Festival kicks off its season with a stellar show co-presented by Folk Yeah, featuring Philip Glass and Joanna Newsom with Tim Fain performing collaborative and solo pieces. Proceeds
Arts & Entertainment It Gets Indie: Teens Put On Benefit Concert For Gay Youths What were you doing at 14? Or 16? Probably not helping organize the second annual It Gets Indie benefit concert at Great American Music Hall. That's just what Noah Hornik, 14, and his
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 3/31: Southern Exposure Art Auction And Fundraiser ART/BENEFIT: Buy some cutting edge art at a live and silent auction of work from over 150 established and emerging artists at The Silver Era, Southern Exposure's annual fundraiser and art auction,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ame Honors Anniversary Of Japanese Tsunami-Quake With Prix Fixe Benefit From now until March 18th, St. Regis' Michelin-starred food joint Ame honors the one-year anniversary of the tsunami and earthquake in Miyagi, Japan, with a special prix fixe dinner option. Dishes inspired by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fight For Fat Liver: Foie Gras Dinner Benefit For Humane And Ethical Farming Standards We've got a small rain-on-your-wedding-day quandary for you: Are you conflicted about humane and ethical farming standards yet love the taste of soon-to-be-banned foie gras? We sure are. Which is why we love
Arts & Entertainment Fundraisers For Noted DJ Toph One, Victim Of Weekend Hit-Run Christopher Evans, as known as DJ Toph One, sits in the Intensive Care Unit at San Francisco General Hospital with a broken pelvis. The well-known DJ fell victim to a hit-run while riding
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 1/2: 'Bill Cunningham, New York' FILM: The delightful documentary, Bill Cunningham, New York, makes a brief stint at the S.F. Film Society, which explores the life of elusive 80-year-old New York Times Style photographer and unlikely man-about-town.
Arts & Entertainment Hiya & Heklina At Rebel For Occupy SF Benefit Doing anything on Sunday? No? Yes? Well, even if you are, you should fix your janky calendar and instead head over to Rebel (a gay bar) and have former SF Weekly scribe Hiya
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 12/4: Amy Sedaris FILM: There will be a handful of tickets at the door to the Roxie's Evening with Amy Sedaris, which follows the lead of last year’s successful John Waters' Sleighful of Smut. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/28: Horrible Bosses, Porchlight Open Door FILM: This week's free Cinema Drafthouse film is Horrible Bosses, which is centered around the questionable plot point involving three people who decide to kill their bosses instead of just quitting their jobs
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/25: Turkey Trot, Haight Fire Benefit, 'Swell Season' MUSIC: Get some heaping helpings of "Southern-fried honky-tonk, creamy country swing, sweet old-time bluegrass, and extra spicy hillbilly-grass" at the 9th Annual Turkey Trot 2011, featuring The Whisky Richards, Windy Hill Bluegrass Band,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/18: Club Chuckles, Urban Art Auction, Dance Brigade COMEDY: Club Chuckles presents its 8-year anniversary show, featuring "a not-to-be-missed lineup" of heavy-hitters, including Neil Hamburger (Drag CIty), Natasha Leggero, Tim Heidecker (Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job), Duncan Trussell, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/10: Blek le Rat Retrospective, EndHIV.com Masquerade Ball, JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound ART: SFMOMA is hosting a reception celebrating the release of Blek le Rat: The 30 year Anniversary Retrospective, featuring private family photos, point and shoot images of the Parisian-born artists graffiti artwork from
Arts & Entertainment Watch Jane Kim, Drew Altizer, Twitter Employees Get Tossed Into a Pool The annual Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation’s (TNDC) charity pool toss happens tonight. What does that mean, exactly? It means local notables get pushed into a pool for money. Weren't you paying attention?
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/4: John Lithgow, Haight/Fillmore Fire Relief Fundraiser, Dum Dum Girls LITERARY: There might still be tickets available at the door to see the multi-talented John Lithgow at the Kabuki Theater talking about his new memoir, Drama, which Steve Martin says, "tells of transgressions,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/2: Too $hort; 'Film Socialisme;' Avatars, Aliases, Alter-egos MUSIC: Legendary Bay Area hip-hopper, Too $hort, headlines The Labor Day Shakedown, a benefit to raise funds to cover the medical costs of a toddler from South San Francisco fighting a deadly form
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/28: Los Rakas, Bollywood Dance Party, 'Drive Angry' MUSIC: Oakland-based Los Rakas, who hail from Panama, blend "hip-hop, reggae and dancehall music with Spanish and English lyricism creating songs that leaves your head noddin' and body rockin' for more, tag teaming
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/24: Pete Escovedo, SF Cocktail Week Preview Party, Drink Good Do Good Carnival MUSIC/ART:The Mission Cultural Center for the Arts presents Talking Art and Music with Pete Escovedo, in which Escovedo will talk about his esteemed musical career and his lifelong interest in the
Arts & Entertainment Friday: 826 Valencia's 8/26 Day Write-a-Thon This Friday, 826 Valencia is hosting 8 hours and 26 minutes of non-stop writing as part of their 2nd Ever 8/26 Day Write-a-Thon to benefit the organization's free student programming. We can
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/17: Jay Reatard Doc, Litquake's Epicenter Burns, Drink Like a Fish Mixer FILM: Noise Pop and The Roxie present the West Coast premiere of Better Than Something, the new documentary about the controversial and prolific Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr, aka Jay Reatard, which intimately captures
