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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Free Delfina Pizza For A Year If You Come Up With A Brilliant T-Shirt Design Pizzeria Delfina, which is now known for its cool and clever promotional t-shirts, is reaching out to the pizza-loving community at large to design them a new shirt. The winning designer will win
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This Thing Tonight: Egg Nog & Ugly Sweater Party You know it's that time of year. You know what to do: drag out that fugly sweater from the closet and wear it with pride. And at what better place to where than
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pie Contest To End All Pie Contests This Saturday We are elated to bring you news that a non-professional pie contest, happening this Saturday at Party On Black 18, is poised to turn sister against sister, mother against son, and friend into
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Hunky Jesus, BYOBW 12, And More! Easter in Dolores Park: We imagine Dolores Park will be stuffed to the gills on Sunday as the beloved Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence host their annual Hunky Jesus / Easter Bonnet contests and much
Arts & Entertainment Half Moon Bay's World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off Happening Today If we had any ounce of adventurousness in us on this rainy morning, we'd be on the road to Half Moon Bay for the 38th Annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off, which we
SF News World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off In Half Moon Bay On Monday, "hundreds of spectators' gathered in Half Moon Bay to judge the World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off, the annual precursor to Art & Pumpkin Festival happening on Saturday and Sunday. "Using forklifts and
Arts & Entertainment Win Some Free Artwork at SFMOMA Today SFMOMA is having a fun contest today, in which three people will win a bag of artwork by Chris Sollars, who was SFMOMA's One Day Artist in Residence last month. Head over to
misc Halloween with the Heavy Castro shut down got you blue? We've got you covered. We're giving a pair of tickets away today and tomorrow to see Mr. Roboto's Halloween bash with the Heavy and a bunch of
misc Monday Madness We're here to help you beat the mean mondays. The Kook's latest album is one of our favorite of the year-- they'd like some SFists and their favorite +1's to see them this
misc Early Bird Contest Kate Nash (yes, she of the British music press hoopla) is playing at the Fillmore tonight, and one lucky SFist reader can win a pair of tickets simply by entering below. This contest
Arts & Entertainment New Tunes Tuesday #14 STANDOUTS: 1. Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street - Complete Edition Soundtrack: Though we aren't completely sold on the musical itself (we have only seen the new John Doyle production and
Arts & Entertainment Let Your Curiosity Shop If you haven't made it to the Curiosity Shoppe yet, what are you waiting for? It's one of our new favorite shops on Valencia Street. After having an e-commerce site for a year
Arts & Entertainment New Tunes Tuesday #8 Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. All bands this week featured in our Standout section are from the Bay Area. Arp, the brain-child of
Arts & Entertainment Contest: Great Northern @ BotH 11/9/07 Back in May, we were introduced to a great indie-pop band called Great Northern. We quickly fell in love with their latest release, Trading Twilight for Daylight and have been trying desperately to
Arts & Entertainment Contest: Trick or Tunng In light of it being Halloween, we thought instead of candy, we would give out two tickets to another concert. This week has been full of giveaways (see here and here), so why
Arts & Entertainment New Tunes Tuesday #7 Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. Win a free copy of Nicole Atkin's debut album release, Neptune City after the jump. Download: "War Torn"
Arts & Entertainment Contest: Minipop @ Rickshaw Stop 11/3/07 Minipop, a San Francisco-based band, is releasing their much anticipated debut album, A New Hope next Tuesday. Lucky for all of us we'll be able to get their new CD this Saturday, a
Arts & Entertainment New Tunes Tuesday #6 Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. Looking at the fact that Serj Tankian's concert at Slim's on October 28th is already sold out, we
Arts & Entertainment Contest: Sia @ Fillmore 10/25/07 If you fell in love with Sia when you were bawling your eyes out about the Fisher family then Thursday's night concert is for you. Sia, our favorite Australian pop singer, is coming
Arts & Entertainment New Tunes Tuesday #5 Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. The rage of fire is completely encapsulated in the first EP with its screaming vocals and huge guitar
misc Contest! Free Tickets To APATure's Film Night! Yay APAture! Tomorrow night is their film night at the Victoria Theater. This screening looks awesome: how can you not want to watch movies titled, among other things, "Since You've Been Ong," "Dick
Arts & Entertainment More Contests! Win Tickets To See Asian American Indie Rock! Update!: We accidentally screwed up our contest-o-meter, so we're embarrassed to say we're going to have to run the contest again! Sorry, sorry, sorry, APAture. Reenter away, and we'll pick a winner by
