Bay Area Sports 18-Year-Old East Bay Kid Wins $100,000 By Hitting Half-Court Shot During NBA All-Star Game Oakley teen Jaren Barajas stole the show at Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game, winning a half-court shooting contest against NBA star Damian Lillard, and earning himself a $100,000 prize in the process.
Arts & Entertainment Anh Phoong Having a Contest Where You Can Design Her Next Billboard If you think there’s “something wrong” with Anh Phoong’s ubiquitous billboards, here’s your chance to design a new billboard for the Phoong Law Corp, and win as much as $500 in prize money.
Arts & Entertainment What: Muni Contest To Name Tunnel-boring Machines After Historic Women Muni wants to name their tunnel-boring machines, and now is your chance to help name them! These state-of-the-art, 300-foot-long excavators will be named after historic San Francisco women. And because San Francisco is
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Carnaval, Golden Gate Bridge 75th, Treasure Island Flea, And More! The Long Shutdown be damned. Let's get this Memorial Day weekend started! Carnaval lights up the Mission all weekend with two days worth of live music, dancing, drumming and dance lessons, food, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 1/18: Rayko's Plastic Camera Show PHOTOGRAPHY: Rayko presents its 5th Annual Plastic Camera Show, featuring the work of local, national, and international photographers who were picked from thousands of entries, including Robert Holmgren, a past best-of-show winner. (6
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/5: Gay in America, Mr. Hyphen 2011, Hypothesis Art/Science Fair FILM: Photographer Scott Pasfield presents a slideshow, discussion and signing of his new book, Gay in America, featuring 140 gay American men in 50 states. Purchases of the book will benefit non-profit AIDS
SF News Call For Journalists: Gothamist Is Looking for More Long-Form Features Gothamist is interested in adding more long-form non-fiction features to our websites. Last month, we premiered the results of our first call for features, "Confessions of a 'Rape Cop' Juror", on our New
SF News Call For Journalists: Gothamist Is Looking for More Long-Form Features Gothamist is interested in adding more long-form non-fiction features to our websites. Last month, we premiered the results of our first call for features, "Confessions of a 'Rape Cop' Juror", on our New
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: IndieMart, Open Studios, Italian Heritage Parade, and More! IndieMart: IndieMart celebrates Indian Summer with a "full fledged metal & psych rock fest, loaded with short sleeves a plenty, foxy ladies in fringe, summer BBQ, one too many beers and oh yeah,
SF News '$2000 Rap Contest' Flyer Question Answered Like others, Andrew Dudley of Haighteration was baffled by the many, many, many $2000 Rap Contest flyers that seemingly popped up all over San Francisco this past weekend. To find our more, Dudley,
Arts & Entertainment Contest Asks Participants Why They Choose to Live in Oakland A photo/video contest called "Why I Choose Oakland" will award the grand prize winners two round-trip tickets and lodging if they can deftly and cleverly captured why they choose to live in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Giveaway: Tickets to Matcha This Thursday, 6/30 Update: Contest Closed. Here's a chance to win a pair of tickets to this Thursday's Matcha at the Asian Art Museum, featuring Balinese Jazz Guitar. Email your full name to [email protected]
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Easter Sunday's Hunky Jesus Contest Every type of Jesus came out for the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence's Hunky Jesus Contest. Everyone from naked Jesus to Sweet Baby Jesus competed in the annual ode to Christ's erotic side. (OK,
SF News Movie Ticket Contest Hopes to Draw More Blood Donors Want to watch movies in theaters for free? Want to help those in need? Well, you're in luck: those who donate blood in northern California during February "could be eligible for to win
misc November 2010 Election Contest The Usual Suspects (AKA Barbary Coast Consulting) is holding an election contest where you can win $500. It involves perceiving who will win the election after the Department of Elections runs their ranked
SF News Name the SF Zoo's New Anaconda, Win Stuff The SF Zoo is holding a naming contest for their new Anaconda snake. If your name is selected as the winner for the 16-year old snake, "you and ten of your besties will
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Contest: Win Dinner For Two At RN 74! If you follow SFist on Twitter, you can win a chance to win a dinner for two at Michael Mina's wine bar, RN 74. The meal, which includes wine, is for either October
Arts & Entertainment Win a Pair of Tickets to Gorillaz's 10/30 Show at Oakland Arena On October 30th, Gorillaz will hit the stage at Oakland Arena for one magnificent concert. To celebrate, SFist is giving away one pair of tickets to the show. On this post, enter for
SF News Dream House Raffle Winner Announced In lieu of trudging up those darned Noe Valley hills or having to deal with crazy neighbors, Anna Alberi, winner of this second annual Dream House Raffle, will receive $1.5 million in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: As SFist noted last month, the whole loveable Aqua Teen gang (except for that wet blanket Frylock or Err), aka Dave Willis and Dana Snyder, will be bringing the laughs at Aqua
Arts & Entertainment Win a Pair of Festival Passes to Coachella! (Contest Closed) If you want to go to Coachella and for whatever reason haven't snatched some tickets, here's your chance. SFist is giving away one pair of Festival Passes to this year's event, taking place
misc Call For Submissions: Neighborhood Gems Photo Project Get out there and shoot some photos of your favorite neighborhood spots this weekend, or dig through your archives. Good Magazine, in partnership with Pictory Magazine, is looking for some great shots of
SF News Pick The Red Newsom Campaign Logo Taking a cue from American Idol, team Newsom is having a contest where you, the voter, get to decide which logo will represent Gavin Newsom's crapshoot for Governor of California. Part of Newsom
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink NOPA: Apple Pie Contest This Sunday While we cannot stomach the taste and mouth feel of warm fruit, many of you love pie -- apple pie, especially. Some of you even have recipes. Grandma's famous apple pie recipes, if
misc Last Chance to Enter to Win the San Francisco Dream House, Deadline Friday Friday's the deadline for the last (Grand Prize) drawing of the San Francisco Dream House Raffle, which benefits Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Buy a $150 ticket, and you could win a
