SF News So Many Victorian Homes Are Being Modernized That This Traditional Interiors Restoration Business Had To Close This past April, San Francisco Victoriana Inc., a company that restored period details in Victorian houses, experienced such a decline in business that its proprietors closed ahead of their planned retirement. “People are
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Sexy, Sparkly Carnaval 2013 Splendor WIth a meme-ridden theme of "Harlem Shake" this year, the 35h Carnaval, one of the remaining remnants of the old Mission, still stands as the city's most bombastic annual parades, featuring music and
Arts & Entertainment The Best Cultural Events In San Francisco While San Francisco is best known for its acclaimed food scene and unyielding political righteousness, it is also known to hold some pretty swank and artful events boasting worldwide talent. Highbrow enrichment, if
SF News SF Nabs 'Smart, Eloquent' New Cultural Affairs Director Tom DeCaigny After Luis Cancel's disastrous tenure—which, among other things, included telecommuting from Brazil, reports of horrid behavior to underlings, and "questionable granting practices"—the city made a spot-on decision by hiring Tom DeCaigny
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Sunday Streets and Tricycle Music Fest West, Pistahan Parade and Festival, Nihonmachi Street Fair, and More! Not doing the Outside Lands thing this weekend? As it would happen, there's plenty of other stuff going on! Sunday Streets and Tricycle Music Fest: Sunday Streets hits Civic Center and the Tenderloin
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Chinese New Year, TechShop Opening, Tulipmania, Bluegrass Workshops Chinese New Year Parade and Fair: Does it rain during every Chinese New Year Parade? Find out tomorrow. There's also a community fair on Saturday and Sunday, featuring dance and music from throughout
SF News Restore The 74X? We put this in yesterday's Day Around the Bay, but since so many of you reacted with pure, unadulterated rage, we feel it necessary to give it its very own post. What we're
Arts & Entertainment Ticket Giveaway: "Matcha" at the Asian Art Museum Thursday Learn all there is to know about sake and tea at the Asian Art Museum tomorrow Thursday night, which kicks of their bi-monthly Matcha series. Kirsten Shilakes, art history lecturer, will lead a
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Weekend Events: Festivals Galore As always, funcheapSF has an exhaustive list of great stuff to do this weekend. For those who feel like staying in or getting out of town, there are street festivals and such all
Arts & Entertainment <em>American Hwangap</em> at Magic Theatre Through May 3 American Hwangap, a world premiere comedy written by Lloyd Suh and directed by Trip Cullman, is currently showing at Magic Theatre. The play tells the story of a Korean immigrant returning home to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Dance Tonight: Aire y Gracia At Project Artaud Theater In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Andanza Spanish Arts and ODC Theater present an invigorating, original work, showcasing the eclectic and rich music and dance traditions of Spain/Mexico. Zarzuela, Classical, Folkloric
SF News It's Got to be the Protest After The decision, however, did not come without much in the way of mayhem. Four protesters were arrested, one of them for allegedly bitch-slapping a pig cop, another for busting out a knife (which
misc Day Around the Bay The Washbag shuts its doors for good. (But didn't they, like, invent drinking? Or something like that?) [Culture Blog] Beware of the guerilla knife sharpener. [Curbed] Tetris cookies are good cookies. [The Snitch]
misc Day Around the Bay Top alt-flick cinema houses. [Gridskipper] Clinton takes it in New Hampshire. [Oakland Tribune] Rocchi on Chinatown vis-à-vis There Will Be Blood. (An aside: Any specific details about Faye Dunaway's behavior on the set
misc Grote Kunst Voor Kleine Mensen: Chocolade haas Speaking of animal cruelty, the third chocolate bunny murder almost brought us to tears. Of laughter, sorrow, or both we're still not sure. This film, above, is described as "an episode from the
misc Day Around the Bay -- Those rectangular glassy lofts on Folsom and Fourth Streets are, in fact, award-winning rectangular glassy lofts. Also, love the windows. [Curbed] -- What to do in SF when it pours. [Gridskipper] --
misc Ask a Librarian New feature alert, folks! Ever want to know more about your local library? Or anything about libraries of the world. The art of receiving a masters in library sciences? Or why people use
Arts & Entertainment Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder Sure Jager makes things all surreal, tequila makes you do things you normally wouldn't do, and whiskey makes things all sh---kicking but if you really want something that brings the crazy, there's absinthe.
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Today is Yelp Day. How did you celebrate? Yeah, same here. (With all due respect to Yelp, Newsom will declare anything _____ Day these days, won't he?) [Eater SF] -- Ooooh! Those apartments
Arts & Entertainment Video Games Live 2008 Now that we have that out of the way, gaming has become a huge part of culture and has even affected the music industry. Video Games Live 2008 merges the music and gaming
Arts & Entertainment Kook Out Did you hear? Surfer, skateboarder, artist, and occasional Paul Frank designer Thomas Campbell has a new show. This one, it seems, highlights his brand-spanking new work, which he describes as "surf-centric doodles, sculpture,
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Why, it's our very own SFist Rita kicking it in the comfy confines (and breaking down the latest season of Project Runway) over at SFGate. Awesome. [Culture Blog] -- Japantown's J-Pop Center,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV At the beginning of the episode we were put through the always boring selection-of-the-models ritual. This could be a more entertaining aspect of the show if the models were given the chance to
SF News RIP: Mr. Whipple Chastises His Final Squeezer Born Riccardo DiGuglielmo, Wilson changed his name while working as an actor in efforts to avoid typecasting as an Italian-American. Little did he know that he would be typecast as America's favorite, um,
misc Week Around the -Ists SFist witnessed a new apartment building tszuj the skyline with spectacular, gaudy turquoise aplomb, the (informal) renaming of the Mission/SOMA neighborhood border, the return of the Maltese Falcon, the Mayor Gavin Newsom