Arts & Entertainment Shoppers, Don't Panic Yet: SF Holiday Bazaar Is Coming Do you procrastinate until the end of December, hoping against hope that a natural disaster will save you from holiday gift-giving duties? Conquer your crippling shopping phobia with the San Francisco Bazaar, an
Arts & Entertainment Your Weekend Craft Project: DIY Bike Hanger Made From Repurposed Bike Parts By Alissa de Vogel Faced with an internet full of uninspired Etsy shops, we here at SFist consider ourselves fairly jaded to the twee, DIY sensibilities that seemed so unique just a few
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Top 5: Chinese New Year Parade, Pet Adopt-a-thon Chinese New Year Parade and Festival: Festival-goers might actually enjoy a dry Chinese New Year extravaganza this year. Leave those umbrellas and ponchos as home! SF SPCA's Be Mine Adopt-a-thon: The SF SPCA
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/7: 'Teenage Gang Debs'/'Girl Gang', Hot 8 Brass Band, Cup Cozy Workshop FILM: Roxie Theater's Not Necessarily Noir series continues with a bad-girl flick double feature, including Teenage Gang Debs, about a "[a] tough doll" who blows into town and takes over “The Rebels” gang,
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Kidquake, Vagabond Craft Fair, Neighborhood Fairs Galore, and More! Lots of folks will be heading to Treasure Island this beautiful weekend for some un-stressful concert-going. For those who want to stay close to home, there just might be a fair going on
Arts & Entertainment Indie Mart Returns This Weekend After 8-Month Hiatus Put down the mouse and stop trolling Etsy.com for handmade accoutrements, San Francisco's original twee craft fair, hip goods bazaar and excuse to order bloody marys while shopping will return to Wisconsin
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 21: Mayoral Shrinky Dinks After taking a couple weeks off to go on Pigeon Safari, the Tenderloin Geographic Society returns to grace this space with their weekly wit and wisdom. This week's episode: getting crafty with the
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: How Weird Street Faire, Art in the Alley, Noodle Fest, Dutch Queen's Day, Vagabond Craft Fair, and Glen Park Festival It's that glorious time of year again in which there are dozens of things going on over the weekend. Here is mere handful of choices. Enjoy! How Weird Street Fair: Pull out that
misc Trend Alert: Yarnbombing Recent sightings of yarnbombings across the Bay Area indicate that the long relationship San Francisco has enjoyed (or not, it's up to you really) with various forms of street art is taking a
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend All Weekend: Be sure to check out SFist Jay's Outside Lands User's Guide, especially the part about bringing a jacket. Over 250 artists showcase their work at the 35th Annual American Craft Council
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend All Weekend: Go rogue at the Renegade Craft Fair. Saturday: Jam on your bike at the Bicycle Music Festival. While on your bike, take a lovely Social Justice Mural Ride with ThinkWalks. Celebrate
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend Looks like it'll be a nice weekend. Enjoy! Saturday: Keep your wits about you at the big, annual, free Mission Creek Music Festival at McLaren Park. Put on your leather pants and let
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend Not watching the World Cup this weekend? Don't worry, there's lots more for you to do. Going on all weekend are the Giants County Fair, the 34th annual San Francisco Free Folk Festival
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend Sorry for getting this posted late! There are lots of fun and unique events this weekend. Let's get down to it! Saturday: Calling all musicians, "buy, sell, exchange, trade, teach, learn, play, dance"
Arts & Entertainment SFist Out and About We picked up this gem the other day at Out of the Closet on Polk Street. We imagine it sat in someone's kitchen for decades, and we plan for it to do the
Arts & Entertainment Renegade Craft Fair by Rachel Brodsky Just when you thought you'd explored them all up pops another craft fair. It's a good thing these places offer interesting and unique wallet-friendly artwork; otherwise, we'd be forced to
Arts & Entertainment Etsy's Handmade Ho Down Craft Fair (Thursday, 12/3) by Rachel Brodsky There's no getting around it--the holiday season is upon us. And while you could hunker down in your apartment, grow a beard and hibernate till February, perhaps one of the
Arts & Entertainment Rock Make Street Festival on Sunday The Bay Bridged, Noise Pop,Tartufi, and WhizBang Fabrics bring you the 2nd annual Rock Make Street Festival this Sunday. The six-hour party will consist of approximately 60 Bay Area vendors selling their
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Events: Fairs and Festivals Another weekend full of fun events is soon upon us. FuncheapSF and The Squid List have exhaustive lists, and here are a few highlights. ALL WEEKEND: 59th Annual San Francisco Juneteenth Parade and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FLASH MOB: Ok, folks, it's apparently time for yet another flash mob. This one will last five minutes, and everyone will be singing the Beatles' "With a Little Help From My Friends" (in
misc Punk the Recession: Shop Handmade and Local The Lab (2948 16th Street) hosts its annual Post Card show beginning Friday night. For this small-format show artists submit a box full of work-- all priced below $30. In the past works
misc Best Crafts of 2007 We already decided to only leave the house for essentials this weekend, like liquor and toothpaste, so we were thrilled to stumble upon one last 'best of' list for 2007. Craftster, the hub
misc Honest Gift Tags So maybe you didn't have time to make any of your gifts this year. We didn't do so well in that department either. But that doesn't mean we're not going to wrap our
Arts & Entertainment Holiday Crafting Round-Up Craft blogs are full of inspiring handmade gift ideas this month, here's a round-up of some of our favorites. Ornaments are quick and easy gifts to make, plus they can be used year
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
