Arts & Entertainment Richard Avedon Exhibit Opening at SFMOMA On Saturday, the first major retrospective of the photographs of Richard Avedon since his death in 2004 opens at SFMOMA. San Francisco is the only U.S. stop on the tour for this
Arts & Entertainment Nick Cave's Sound Suits in Motion In case you missed last weekend's Big Idea party at Yerba Buena, or in case you still haven't made it over to see the amazing exhibit "Meet Me at the Center of the
Arts & Entertainment Photos: 'What's the Big Idea?' at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (6/6) Last Saturday night, the YBCA opened its doors for a large-scale, mixed, queer-friendly, *very* San Franciscan party called "What's the Big Idea?" featuring food from the Mission Street Food "taco" truck, galleries open
Arts & Entertainment King Tut Exhibit Tix Now On Sale Get 'em now! For those who like to plan ahead (we do not) tickets for the exhibit of Egyptian stuff at the deYoung Museum are on sale now, even though it doesn't open
misc Interview: Misako Inaoka One such is artist Misako Inaoka. We stumbled onto her website a few months ago, and were pleasantly surprised to find out she was located here. We like the way Misako’s work
Arts & Entertainment Marie-Antoinette and San Francisco: Match Made in Bourgeoisie Heaven? While the pairing seems unlikely (despite San Francisco being the "Paris of the West"), the Legion of Honor has received the, uh, honor of hosting the Marie-Antoinette exhibit. The show specifically focuses on
SF News It's Official: SF Required to Issue ID Cards to Immigrants See what happens, conservative counties of California? Whenever you do something like this, we then have to do something like this. It's the way we balance things out. Tis the circle of life.
misc Week Around the -Ists This past week, Phillyist got a little naughty, snapped a few pictures of Bigfoot (or maybe it was just a skinny bear...), and sized up the Sixers (the short version? Maybe next year)
Arts & Entertainment Your Crafty Map of the City View Larger Map Talented local designer and fiber artist, Leslie Yang of Feisty Elle, created a Google Map marking favorite local crafty spots, from boutiques that sell handmade wares to yarn and art
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight What happens when nearly 30 local artists create works of art made entirely from reclaimed and recycled materials? Head over tonight (or sometime this month) to find out at the Market Street Gallery
SF News Swells By The Numbers It's a short Swells this week! Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 85. Number of people pictured whom we recognize: 2: Dede Wilsey and Frank Jordan. Minority count:
SF News Cars And Bikes Work It Out (No Way!) Peace in our times! Bikers and car drivers, with the help of none other than the Honorable Gavin Newsom, have worked out a permanent solution to the Golden Gate Park Healthy Saturdays impasse.
SF News Supes Making Moves on Healthy Saturdays in Golden Gate Park(ing Lot) In two weeks, Healthy Saturday comes on a Monday! April 9, City Hall, 1pm: those party animals on the Land Use and Economic Development Committee will be throwing a sure-to-be-fun public hearing about
Arts & Entertainment Compromise Can Be Healthy Too The battle over Healthy Saturdays was sort of at a stalemate until a study was released saying that attendance to the museums were up on Sundays when John F. Kennedy Drive was closed.
SF News Will Saturdays Be the New Sunday? Of course, the big question is what will Gavin do (WWGD). Yesterday, a press flak for the Mayor said: "Our position remains unchanged...we’re using the data as a starting point to
misc Saturdays Are Healthy Too All of this means the proverbial ball is in Gavin's proverbial court. He said he'd listen to the study even if it went against what he thought and the study went against what
SF News Political Junkie: Thin Veneer Of Something Sulky, sulky -- Gavin Newsom was sober and mad after yesterday's Board of Supervisors inaugural ceremony, which the Chronicle tactfully described as having a "tone of political contentiousness running just beneath a veneer
Arts & Entertainment Shake, Rattle, and Browse You may want to metaphorically brace yourself under a solid table (and not in a doorjamb, for crying out loud!) -- 2006 is not only the year of the Congressional midterm elections, but
SF News SFist Checks Out the 510: The Space-Faring Edition Out in Sacramento -- classified as "Bay Area" for KQED's fund-raising purposes, anyway -- the Discovery Museum will be holding a memorial for the astronauts, then turning the focus toward continued space exploration
SF News Keep Keith In SF Doesn't anyone in the 415 want a Keith Haring mural? A local SoMA day care center for underprivileged youth puts its Keith Haring mural on the block, with no local takers. Back in
Arts & Entertainment Family Day! Childless curmudgeons, gnash your teeth in anger over another way in which society prefers folks with kids over you! Gavin Newsom and the San Francisco Dept. of Children, Youth, and Families are sponsoring
Arts & Entertainment Ring In The New Year At The Asian Art Museum Tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. they're having their 20th Annual Japanese New Year's Bell Ringing Ceremony, which is free to atttend with paid admission to the museum. "Based on
Arts & Entertainment The New de Young Building The original museum was built as the Fine Arts building for the California Midwinter International Exposition. The exposition made a profit, and the building and money were donated to The City and named
Arts & Entertainment The Daily Show: Not So Much With The Daly Well, it's come to this. Remember the brouhaha over docking the USS Iowa at Fisherman's Wharf? It was DiFi's idea to send $3 million worth of pork our way. Nevermind pacifist sentiment, the
SF News Meet Dick. He's a Local Congressman Dick, you see, as head of the House Resource Committee, is in charge of the committee overseeing the care of our environment. Things like poor endangered Fairy Shrimp or some of our national
