Arts & Entertainment SF Zoo Launching ‘Sunset Fridays’ Happy Hour Event Every Friday This Summer, Starting This Weekend A “cocktails with animals” series kicks off Friday night at the San Francisco Zoo, as Sunset Friday lets you mingle with animals whilst enjoying a drink to the live music of SFJazz, every Friday night through the end of August.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Do This Tonight: Boozy Gelato Happy Hour Mondays can be rough, and sometimes it takes a stiff drink or a creamy pint of ice cream to shake off the beginning-of-the-week blues. Tonight, you won't have to choose between alcohol or
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco's Best Happy Hours Despite the city's recent trend towards artisanal cocktails and high-end food, San Francisco is still a town that will always know a good place to get a drink on the cheap. Throw in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hopscotch Happy Hour Boasts $2 Drinks, Jam-packed Menu If you're heading to Oakland for Labor Day Weekend -- and why shouldn't you? -- get lit right and good at Hopscotch. One of the East Bay's newest restaurants, it opened in June
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/13: Beastie Boys - 'Awesome I F*ckin' Shot That!' FILM: The Roxie screens a night of Nathaniel Hornblower flicks, including the Beastie Boys' Awesome I Fuckin' Shot That!, in which the band gave fifty camcorders out to attendees at their Madison Square
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society: Larkin & O'Farrell Welcome to a new chapter of Urbane Studies, in which our agents suss out the finer points of city lore by scrutinizing its individual street corners. This week: Halal pizza, strip clubs, playgrounds
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Leah Garchik & Paolo Lucchesi Guest Bartending at Jardinière Oh boy, oh boy: Leah Garchik and Paolo Lucchesi will make cameo appearances Wednesday night behind the bar at Traci Des Jardins' Jardinière. It's all part of the restaurant's monthly guest-bartending series. See,
Arts & Entertainment ¡Cinco de Mayo Events! Celebrate Cinco de Mayo, which marks this day in 1862 when an outnumbered and under-supplied Mexican army led by Texas-born General Ignacio Zaragoza kicked ass over French forces in what became known as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cheap Deal: Bill's Kitchen's Insanely Cheap Happy Hour What with Fourth Street hogging all of the gourmet glory as of late, Third Street is all but ignored. (Think of Third Street as the Gurerreo to Fourth's Valencia, only minus the insufferable
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: Surrealistic one-man band, Andrew Goldfarb (aka The Slow Poisoner) and absurdist writer/performer Dan Carbone, have merged as The Wounded Stag, a "psychotronic vaudeville," in which they "sing from their hearts and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Noise Pop presents The Extraordinary Ordinary Life Of José González, which uses a video diary, surveillance camera, concert footage, tour documentation and animation, to convey the inner workings of the life and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Epic Happy Hour at Epic Roasthouse This Thursday In honor of their third anniversary, Epic Roasthouse will offer all offering all happy hour drinks for $3 from 3 - 6:30 p.m. That is to say, all cocktails, beer and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Filmmaker and historian Brecht Andersch introduces Bay Area Ecstatic, a program of short films exploring the Bay Area's history as the epicenter of a branch of mystically inclined experimental filmmaking that seeks
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Happy Hour Spotlight: Cup A Joe Coffeehouse, Sign the Petition We've been avoiding posting about the sweet happy hour deal at Cup A Joe Coffeehouse for fear of it getting too popular, but we need your help to keep the deal going (read
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: French filmmaker Chris Marker's lesser-known essay film from 1963, Le joli mai, features spontaneous, on-the-street interviews with Parisians from all walks of life, thanks to the brand-new development of lightweight, synch-sound film
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Happy Hour Edition There seem to be some great happy hours going on tonight, so we figured we'd make it a theme! POLK GULCH: Via the Guardian's very handy events newsletter: "Bay Area rock legend and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Portland's Pierced Arrows brings their cult, raw, scratchy, "high-desert country gunslinging" sound to Bottom of the Hill. The Sermon and Burnt House will provide '60s garage rock and maxed-out rhythm and blues.
SF News Day Around the Bay Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier sues City Hall over wheelchair ramplessness. [Curbed] Beth Spotswoodle [sic] hits up SFO's gay night. [SFGate] Valleywag 's happy hour watering hole, Moose's, comes to an end. Might we suggest
SF News Cream Pie Cuteness Makes Pie Fight a Success Laughing Squid has an brilliant comment commencing their post on the same topic. Someone classically bitching about the mess made and the mass selfishness on the pie fighters' end. And we couldn't agree
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bye Bye, Barleycorn A campaign was started to save it, complete with petitions, a Great Pub Toast, and proposed legislation from Aaron Peskin. But it was all to no avail. In a city filled with mixed
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Chapel/Chapter: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company's modern, intricate dance revue. Starts at 8 p.m. at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum; $38-50. -- Quintin Mecke for Mayor
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Breasts of Sherry Glaser: The protest-y Miss Glaser's comedy and peace activism show runs the gamut from her unsheathed mammary glands to an interpretation of 9/11 and the Twin Towers
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- hey willpower at Glitterbox: At this "funk punk thrash electro discotheque" (what, no show tunes? Bah), local pop/R&B/dance band performs. DJs Javier Natureboy and Junkyard spin funk, punk,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Film School, Pela, Union Trade: What's your flavor? Tell me, what's your flavor? (Damn you, earworming Popeye's Chicken commercial!) Windswept indie and psychedelic rock are served up beautifully tonight at this Potrero
Arts & Entertainment Happy Hour 3 = Film + Theater + Kookiness (Ticket Giveaway!) Do you like film? Do you like theater? Do you like film and theater mixed together? Also, do you like happy hours and after-parties? Then you might be inclined to check out Happy
