Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight *CRAFT: Knitters and crocheters come together in harmony tonight over at the (newly remodeled!) Three Dollar Bill Cafe. Don't know how? No worries. Someone will be there to teach you. Happens every Monday.
misc The Philistine Has An SFist Polyphony We had a little San Francisco Polyphony of our own on our way to the SF Symphony concert yesterday night to see Gyorgy Ligeti's shimmerily-dissonant orchestral piece of the same name -- the
misc Grisly Mission Murder Egads. This one is almost out of a horror movie, except that it's, well, real. Last night San Francisco welcomed in another murder, this time at 26th Street and Mission a little before
misc Mission St. Closure MUNI-related pneumonia-seekers may want to try waiting for the 14 Mission -- Mission Street is closed between 20th and 21st. It looks like something involving the former Tower Theatre -- a fire truck
SF News 7th and Mission Building Still Ablaze Although no longer in danger of collapsing, the Irish fraternal organization on San Francisco's Mission Street is still on fire, ten hours after it started. Yikes. Rita reported on this earlier today, but
Arts & Entertainment Buy Handmade This Holiday In case you missed the packed ReadyMade party last night or were too distracted by all the cute people and free drinks to actually get any holiday shopping done here are some more
Arts & Entertainment Art + Cake = Yum They're having a launch party where you can ooh and aah: Friday, the 7th, from 7 to 11pm at the Michelle O'Connor Gallery at 2111 Mission Street (near 17th), 4th floor. Will they
SF News Day Around the Bay -- "Not guilty," says you know who. [Chron, Examiner, ABC 7] -- Beautiful, steel, and glassy Rincon Hill (and its streets) want a little love, too, you know? [RinconHillSF] -- The Cesar Chavez/
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight It's that time of the year again for San Francisco magazine's Best of the Bay party. The annual bash features lots of eats, drinks and chances to win prizes. Be prepared to fork
Arts & Entertainment Welcome to SFist, Sparkletack-Richard! We are giddy with glee to welcome Richard, author of the Sparkletack blog and podcast, to the SFist family. Richard's encyclopedic knowledge of San Francisco's past makes his history podcast mandatory listening for
SF News Explosion On Mission And to tie this all to two other hot topics at SFist: 1) one of the people injured was a bicyclist, who was hit by an inattentive gawker in a car. Chalk one
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight This weekend is gonna be ginormous, with Bay to Breakers,the Maker Faire, the Prince and Bjork shows - so dive right on in with tonight's top picks: Party with Viv! and celebrate
SF News Goodbye, Jessie; Hello, Mint Opening the street to pedestrians (aka "humans") has some opponents; some folks claim that it'll make it harder to valet their cars when frequenting the nearby hotels and malls. And to be fair,
Arts & Entertainment Haight Ashbury Free Clinics’ Integrated Care Center Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, Inc.CEO John Eckstrom, Board Chair Eric Flowers, and Barbara Garcia of the S.F. Department of Public Health all addressed the crowd of over 100 on Mission Street
SF News Injunction Junction, What's Your Function? A Gang Injunction is basically a restraining-order banning any known gang members from doing any gang related activity. And that goes for everything from tagging to dance offs. While the constitutionality of injunctions
SF News Update on Josh Wolf Oh wait, where were we. The event will start 7:30pm at the Balazo Gallery on 2183 Mission Street. Speaking will be Assemblyman Mark Leno, SF Bay Guardian Publisher Bruce Brugmann, (attention SFist
SF News Open Air Oracle A reader attending the Oracle OpenWorld convention, who wants to be credited as "someone who's there," passed along these pictures of the scene under the tents on Howard Street. Yes, people, they closed
Arts & Entertainment Opening Day At The Mall We're thinking there is no one in the Chronicle offices this afternoon, as they all seem to have raced over to the grand opening of the Westfield San Francisco Centre mall. Check out
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beard Papa Brings Cream Puffs To SF As we were cadging a ride home from SFist Eve on Saturday night, we squealed with delight as we drove down Mission Street. Right by Yerba Buena Lane, there's a big sign: BEARD
Arts & Entertainment Let's Go See Some Art Lisa Dent Gallery (660 Mission Street, 4th Floor) Hank Willis Thomas March 3rd – April 8th, Wednesdays through Saturdays 12-6 In his second solo exhibition in San Francisco Willis Thomas presents “Unbranded: Reflections in
Arts & Entertainment The Bay Area Is CopyFighting So a bunch of anarchist yutzes from the suburbs decided to protest G8 at that hotbed crossroads of capitalism, 23rd Street and Bartlett, and in the melee, threw a hammer at a cop's
misc E to Zed In which SFist eats our way around the Bay Area in alphabetical order. Emmy's Spaghetti Shack, in Bernal Heights is somewhere we've wanted to try for a while. So when the time came
SF News Disillusionment at 6th and Mission On our way up Mission Street to the Metreon on Saturday, we saw a billboard that incited our curiousity. It showed a kitten peeking out of a cage and reads, "10 out of
