Arts & Entertainment This Is A Good Cause: Reason To Party Haven't you heard? Medjool is the new Zeitgeist. It's true. (Well, what with the good folks at 7x7 Magazine now waxing poetic over the Mission cyclist bar these days,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Incredibly Strange Picture Show presents Wattstax, a documentary about a one-day concert put on by Stax Records in the summer of 1972 commemorating the 7th anniversary of the Watts riots in
SF News Did Michelle Obama Inspire You to Volunteer? As we pointed out, First Lady Michelle Obama was in town yesterday to promote voulenteering. You know, working for a good cause pro bono? Donating your time and elbow grease Similar to writing
SF News Photos: Michelle Obama Helps Construct Bayview-Hunter's Point Playground In an effort to promote "volunteerism," First Ladies Michelle Obama and Maria Shriver kicked off a national community service campaign today (United We Serve) at the playground of Bret Harte Elementary
misc Help a Mother Out This Mother's Day By now, many of us have read about the saga of a local mother's efforts to find a spot in a homeless shelter for her and her three children. We all
SF News Help One Woman and Her Family Find a Home While Gavin Newsom tours California to tout his successes as mayor of San Francisco -- not to mention spending the weekend at the insider-baseball-y Democratic Convention in Sacramento, along with practically every
Arts & Entertainment Bonjour: Vintage Couture for a Cause Tonight at Torso Vintages We apologize for the last minute heads-up about tonight's charity event at Torso Vintages. We just read about it on SFIndieFashion.com. Shop for vintage clothing and accessories, while enjoying
SF News Outfit Worn by Penn in 'Milk' to Be Auctioned Off for Charity The shirt, suit, and tie donned by Sean Penn in Gus Van Sant's Milk will be auctioned off online to benefit Variety - the Children's Charity of Southern California and
misc Only 8,444 of you Have Donated to No on 8 -- What Are You Waiting For? And it's not just individuals; four SF companies have have launched attacks on local families, too: - Blackford Construction gave $200 - Visionary Electronics gave $99 - Large Format Computing gave $1500 - Malta and
SF News Photos: AIDS Walk Nets Crazy Millions (By Joe Kukura) It was good times yesterday at the AIDS Walk San Francisco (expect for the parts where we were freezing our asses off, or sobbing at the AIDS Quilt). The annual
misc SF Rescue Organization Needs Some Extra Help December has been an unfortunate month for Bernal Heights and fires. One fire that we haven't discussed yet is one that happened on December 22nd. In this Bernal Fire, Rocket Dog
misc Feed The Hungry, Everyone! Feel that? Why, those are your heart stings being tugged care of us and this cool little guy over here on the right. (Who like totally did not just make us completely tear
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The 2007 'Stache Bash: The regular world now knows what bears have known for a long time: mustaches are kinda cool. This even will show you just how cool they, in fact,
misc Thankful For Your Pets? Since this is the perfect time of the year to make a donation, we thought we'd help out those animal lovers among us by providing a list of local animal-related
Arts & Entertainment Drink for the Ducks at Doc's Clock Tomorrow Night The kind folks over at Doc's Clock are hosting a fundraiser tomorrow night from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. to benefit Baykeeper. One hundred percent of the sales of
SF News UPDATE: Safeway "Giving" We hear from our Safeway mole, that things did not stop there. As you may as well already know, the Safeway crusade of the month is breast cancer research. (For those heavy-drinking
SF News A New Brand of Canvasser Outside Whole Foods This young lady (the one on the right) was asking for "change for BART" while toting a fetching little purse outside of Whole Foods on 4th and Harrison. (We apologize for
SF News Maria Shriver Visits the Tenderloin For Family Day Destination Turk Street in the TL, our First Lady Maria Shriver is coming to town to celebrate Family Day ("a day to eat dinner with your children"), and in part for
misc Wow, a Whole $100,000. Gracias, America! We can only hope that every single news outlet has printed a typo when reporting the amount of cash the United States is sending Peru, which is still experiencing severe aftershocks. As the
SF News Remembering Bill Walsh A public memorial is all set to honor Bill Walsh. It'll be held at Candlestick at 11 AM on August 10th and among the speakers will be Joe Montana and Eddie
Arts & Entertainment Propaganda III: an Anti-American 4th of July Review Zombie Time has a chortle-worthy review of the Propaganda III art show -- a not-so-mildly anti-capitalist (and surprisingly anti-Semitic) exhibit -- which was held at, where else? The always-chic
Arts & Entertainment Ritual Roasters Event For Bikes To Rwanda This Saturday Ritual Coffee Roasters' two locations are only about three miles apart. Not so bad on a bike, right? Well, what if you're biking with 130 pounds of coffee? Yeah, a
Arts & Entertainment Good Magazine Will Do You Good (Block Party This Sunday!) We've been big fans of Good Magazine since their premier issue came out last fall. We love the inspiring stories they cover and the ways they present them -- graphics, design, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pinot Noir Aplenty: Pinot Days 2007 At Fort Mason Because some of us need a warm-up of sorts for July 4, "Pinot Days," a celebration of wine made from that particular varietal, is coming to Fort Mason June 29-
