SF Restaurants, Food & Drink DIY Brewhouse Diving Dog Opens In Oakland, Beer Nerds Rejoice Around 3 p.m. on Friday, Oakland's Diving Dog Brewhouse posted indisputable proof that they have officially opened and are serving at least one customer. According to Diving Dog's Facebook, the lucky first
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 Sunday: Indie Mart Returns To Thee Parkside This Sunday Indie Mart marks its seventh year of crafty people, cheap beer, and rock n' roll with an all-afternoon street fair on Wisconsin Street in Potrero Hill. This year the celebration includes
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink How To Make A DIY Cronut (Sort Of) Cronuts, the avant-garde brainchild from Dominique Ansel Bakery, have taken over New York City. What is a cronut, you ask? It's croissant dough, shaped like a donut, then fried in grape seed oil
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink For Your Halloween Party: The Human Torso Appetizer Plate Jessy Ellenberger of Oakland, California has concocted the perfect platter for your gory All Hallow's Eve party. See, it's a Human Torso Appetizer plate (aka the "ManWich"), and it sounds as delicious (screw
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Learn How To Cultivate Gourmet, Medicinal Mushrooms This Sunday Want to grow mushrooms to get sparkly high? Then go someplace else, Timothy Leary. This class isn't for you. Those of you who want to know more about real mushroom cultivation, listen up:
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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Afternoon Palate Cleanser: DIY Marshmallow Peeps While we would never endorse spending a whole afternoon making something you can buy at your nearest Walgreens and in much more uniform shapes in much brighter, more deliciously artificial colors the DIY
Arts & Entertainment Adorable, Laser-Cut Wooden Sutro Tower Models Now Available For Purchase Here's an enjoyable thing: a 1/1000th scale model of San Francisco's most well-loved, peak-topping TV tower. This adorable wooden version of the once hated landmark is cut from 1/8th inch plywood
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 Saturday: Kombucha Class "You know, you can make Kombucha yourself, right?" Yes. We know this. You don't have to tell us this every single time we spray a freshly opened bottle of Kombucha on our outfit
Arts & Entertainment This Weekend: Listen to These People at SF Zine Fest Although SF Zine Fest is all about tables and tables of choice zines, comics, phenomenal DIY doodads, and more -- psst, be sure to read Laura Beck's article on making her very first
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: Join The Rumpus and SMITH Magazine for some Beautiful Beginnings, featuring music by Dave Smallen and Amores Vigilantes, comedy by Will Durst, and authors Richard Ferguson, Piper Kerman, Raina Bird, Lisa Brown,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Maker Faire Bay Area 2010 Call For Pyros DIY geniuses, listen up: the 5th annual Maker Faire Bay Area, taking place May 22-23 in San Mateo, CA, is looking for a few good artists. Who like fire. And metal. And robots.
Arts & Entertainment Doing More With Less - Oakland’s DIY Bike Shop: The Bikery by Natalie Cadranel One upside to a lagging economy is that it encourages people to become more resourceful and creative about how they spend their time and money. After a recent move to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Recipe: DIY Starbucks Peppermint Mocha In September, Kathryn Hill of Apartment Therapy's "The Kitchn" brought to you a DIY Pumpkin Spice Latte, which was strikingly similar to Starbucks' famous autumnal treat. Now, Hill brings you a Starbucks-ish DIY
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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink DIY Pumpkin Spice Latte Although this week's weather might not agree, summer--at last!--is coming to an end. Soon we'll be busting out our fall line from the back of the closet, putting extra blankets on the
Arts & Entertainment SF Zine Fest This Weekend In addition to the SF Street Food Festival on Saturday and the Rock Make Street Festival on Sunday, there's also SF Zine Fest going on all weekend. The event is an annual celebration
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 Weekend Events DIY, fashion, cheese, and pride -- who could ask for anything more?! Here are just a few events going on this weekend: Maker Faire: The annual, family-friendly DIY fest, celebrating the arts, crafts,
Arts & Entertainment Haiku Giveaway: Tickets to F- the Recession Party on Wednesday Night Broke-Ass Stuart, the man behind Broke-Ass Stuart’s Guide to Living Cheaply in San Francisco and New York, is hosting a cheap-ass Fuck the Recession Party at the Rickshaw on Wednesday night. Sugar
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
