Arts & Entertainment Local Baby Birds Land In Hand-Knitted Nests This isn's a storyline out of Portlandia season 5, though it could be: Orphaned baby birds are being rehabilitated in hand-knitted nests created by local residents. San Rafael nonprofit WildCare put the call
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
misc SFist Giveaway!: <i>Make Your Own Sex Toys</i> Crafting meets, uh.... in today's giveaway, which has instructions not only for a variety of tube-shaped objects, but also how to make certain electric accessories, a knitting pattern for a sensitive male organ,
Arts & Entertainment Inspired, Piercing "U Can't Touch This" Routine Our sister site over in Shanghai notified us to this. Sure, on the surface it seems like a viral, isn't-that-darling clip of a Chinese man executing a well-choreographed tribute to "U Can't Touch
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork Gets Soft It's been a productive year for us. Between knitting and cupcakes, we've been crafting up a storm. Our favorite new craft has absolutely no function other than looking cute. We're talking about softies,
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork Plays in the Kitchen In case you don't think there's anything crafty about baking a batch of cupcakes, we've got the pictures to prove you wrong. And we've had so much sugar today, we doubt you would
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork: Happy Kitschy Crafting. One of our personal favorites this year was Leah Kramer's 'The Craftsters Guide to Nifty, Thrifty and Kitschy Crafts'. Kramer, a craft maven by every definition of the word, is responsible for starting
misc The Winner Is Deceitful Above All Things We have a winner in our Fake Tales of San Francisco contest! As you may recall, we're giving out "The Heart Is Deceitful" movie swag to the person who came up with the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews- The W. Kamau Bell Gets a Haircut Show What we did see was several comedians, an impressionist, a magician, some slam poetry, cartoon projections, songs about the penis, and ladies knitting. Yes, ladies knitting, although they were part of the audience,
Arts & Entertainment Get Your Knit On Hark! Do you hear the hosannas of angels wearing roomy striped ponchos and the clicking of bamboo sticks? That's right -- the hipster goddess of knitting, Debbie Stoller, is in town promoting her
misc Purl-oined We usually save these things for the blotter, but this one can't wait until Friday. Six students and a knitting instructor at the Knitting Basket in the Montclair Village in Oakland were held
SF News SFist Cares... About Cold People in Other Countries And now we can put our skills to greater use. Afghans for Afghans is an organization that takes handmade afghans (duh), scarves, mittens and sweaters and distributes them to people in Afghanistan (duh,
Arts & Entertainment Grrrl Riot Calling all feminist hipsters (and those looking to pick up the same) the second Ladyfest Bay Area will be hitting the Mission this weekend (July 29-August 1). Ladyfest is the feminist DIY post-riotgrrl
