Arts & Entertainment SF Ballet Receives Anonymously Donated $60 Million Gift, Largest In Organization's History The majority of the gift will go to SF Ballet's endowment, which helps fund new shows, a major priority for new artistic director Tamara Rojo.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Attn Burners: Drop Off Your Food On Your Way Home As hordes of revelers prepare to head to Burning Man (starting this Sunday!), we'd like to remind them that there's a choice way to donate leftover non-perishable camp food. It goes to the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Free Ice Cream Cake At Haight Street Ben & Jerry's The fine folks at FuncheapSF bring word that—sweet sinewy Jesus!—free ice cream cake can be yours for the taking this evening. All you need to do is donate an item of
SF News Watch this Video Featuring a Little Girl Screaming in Horror During Japan Tsunami, Then Donate $10 Using Your Phone By now most of you have seen ample footage of the tsunami that followed Friday's massive earthquake in Japan. We want you to look at one more, please. According to RussianToday: "[the footage
SF News Scholarship Fund Created To Honor UC Santa Cruz Grad Killed In Tucson Shooting Two UCSC alumni and The University of California at Santa Cruz have set up a scholarship in the name of Gabriel Zimmerman, the former banana slug/congressional staffer who was shot and killed
misc Streetsblog Is Dying ...but you can help! The site that brings you pertinent, jam-packed articles covering local transit, bicycling, pedestrian safety, and which SUV best suits your family -- ok, not the last one which is
SF News Balboa Cafe Offers Free Burger & Fries for Your Blood Ok. Here we go. We're going to attempt this post without fainting. And, if talk of blood makes you just as queasy, you might want to brace. See, Gavin Newsom/The PlumpJack Group's
SF News Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger's Pilot Hat On Auction Block Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger -- the pilot turned hero who safely landed crippled US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River this past January, which resulted in saving the lives of all 155
SF News Donor Wants Refund After Newsom Quits Gov. Race Geo Fanelli is upset. A onetime Gavin Newsom supporter, the San Jose man plunked down $500 donation to see the SF mayor at a "Green for Newsom" event in Los Angeles, which was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Urgent: SF Food Bank Needs Your Help We know. Money is tight. Very tight. But people are starving in San Francisco. Not just the homeless, but people you might even know. People close to you. Your friends and family and
SF News Friend of Gang Rape Victim Slams School Officials Brace yourselves. This one is hard to watch. Mainly because they're so young. Because they shouldn't have to be doing this. However, we cannot commend high school student Kami Baker (friend of the
Arts & Entertainment This Is A Good Cause: Reason To Party Haven't you heard? Medjool is the new Zeitgeist. It's true. (Well, what with the good folks at 7x7 Magazine now waxing poetic over the Mission cyclist bar these days, even the Routunda at
misc Help a Mother Out This Mother's Day By now, many of us have read about the saga of a local mother's efforts to find a spot in a homeless shelter for her and her three children. We all feel kind
SF News Help One Woman and Her Family Find a Home While Gavin Newsom tours California to tout his successes as mayor of San Francisco -- not to mention spending the weekend at the insider-baseball-y Democratic Convention in Sacramento, along with practically every other
misc Get This On Television Now With this week's slew of court filings, the post-Prop-8 fight for civil equality is still hot hot hot. And even though some of the 15-minutes-of-fame organizers may be losing focus, the pros aren't
SF News We Also Know California Must Do Better Oh, Gavin. You know on some level we love Newsom. But we suspect deep down he doesn't like being in politics. So it always bums us out when he makes the call for
misc Only 8,444 of you Have Donated to No on 8 -- What Are You Waiting For? And it's not just individuals; four SF companies have have launched attacks on local families, too: - Blackford Construction gave $200 - Visionary Electronics gave $99 - Large Format Computing gave $1500 -
