Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Free Rides For Cinco de Mayo Revelers Yes, it's offensive to call Cinco de Mayo "Mexican St. Patrick's Day." And yet, that's how many people treat it, as an excuse to drink themselves blind then to stagger on home before
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Pick Up Some Poop Friday: Jeremy Jordan "Breaking Character" Jeremy Jordan had a thankless job portraying one of the creators of Hit List, the imaginary musical featured in Smash, a drama about Broadway that one of my
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Dracula Twilight's for teens, The Vampire Diaries is basically just a soap opera, and True Blood's not back until June 22. That's just fine, because tonight you can sink your teeth (groan, sorry) into
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: The SF Giants' Irish Heritage Night Even if you don't have tickets to tonight's sold-out Irish Heritage Night game between our SF Giants and the San Diego Padres, you can still join in the pregame fun at their annual
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Game Night At NOW! NOW!, the community festival that kicked off Sunday, touts themselves as "a cross between [freespace] and SXSW," except for the Panhandle area. The schedule for the festival, which runs through Saturday, includes events
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Feria de Sevillanas "Half The Road" trailer from kevin tokstad on Vimeo. Friday: The Bicycle Film Festival Friday night, the 13th international Bicycle Film Festival rolls (ha!) into the Victoria Theatre (2961 16th Street) with a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Cocktails For A Cause Tonight, it's time to break up your cycle of work-Muni-home-bed by thinking about some of the issues that face women around the world. Don't worry, this is easy, and there will be drinks!
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: 'Watershed' Though the San Francisco Green Film Festival doesn't kick off until the end of May, you'd be very silly to think that they'd let Earth Day slide by without some sort of event.
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Play For The Planet Friday: Post-Media Work by Xavier MTW Xavier MTW describes himself as "Artist. Nerd. Porn actor." Friday night he's focusing on the first of those, as it's the opening night of his "Life in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Sleeping Cutie You're confronted with dark, bitter reality every day, from the moment you get on Muni to your last sweep of Twitter before you drift off to sleep at night. Tonight, take a break
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Medical Drama Most of us don't think much about hospitals unless we're watching a TV show filled with doctors who look like model/athletes, or because a major medical issue has stricken ourselves or a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: San Francisco Comics Stand Up for Campos I don't have a dog in the Campos vs Chiu fight for State Assembly (I'm in Phil Ting country), and maybe you don't either. But if you got a kick out of the
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Afternoon: Late Night Transit Hearing Anyone who's stood/swayed for 45 minutes waiting for a packed and barf-smelling N Judah knows firsthand that getting around San Francisco's late at night can be quite a challenge. This afternoon, move
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Dumpling Wars Friday: Take Five For only $5 (paid at the door), get a behind-the-ODC Theater-scenes look at works in progress from dance artists Zach Sharrin, Marina Fukushima and Sarah Bush. Afterwards, ODC Theater Director
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Tonight: Urban Air Night Market Thursday nights can be tough: starting the excesses of the weekend early is so college, but you need to get out and do something, right? That's where the Urban Air Night Market comes
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Estrogen Entree With A Side Of Balls It's been nearly a year since Estrogen Entree With a Side of Balls, San Francisco's monthly showcase of local female comedians, first hit the stage. Don't you think tonight's a great night to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: The Pet Shop Boys Thirty years later, it's still not entirely clear what the Pet Shop Boys' smash hit "West End Girls" was really about. There's something about TS Eliot, something else about the British class system,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today: Snap Up Some Plants Macy's The Secret Garden Flower Show wrapped up yesterday, and we're sure it was great. But now, what's happening to all the plants used in displays like “The Abandoned Estate,” “Maze Garden,” “Junkyard
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: BARTmobile Birthday Friday: IndieFest Roller Disco From 8 PM on Friday night, lace up your skates and get rolling at SF IndieFest's Roller Disco party at the Women's Building (3543 18th St at Valencia). You
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Exploring Choreographic Thinking You're an educated person. You know that dance is more than just people flailing and throwing themselves around. But how much more? Ponder that tonight at Dance Discourse Project #18: Exploring Choreographic Thinking.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Everything That Remains Of course you have watched Hoarders, we all have. I'm not like that person, you think, as your mind flickers over that VCR you have yet to toss out, those jeans that you
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today: Free Museum Admissions Across SF It's the first Tuesday of the month, which means free admission to a bunch of great local museums. So fall ill, take a long lunch, whatever it takes to hit one or two
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Transgender Day of Visibility Billed as a "substance-free" (that means drugs, dummy) and family-friendly event, tonight's celebration of Transgender Day of Visibility (TDoV) is an evening of performances and speakers to be enjoyed by anyone supportive of
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: de Young Fun, Vampire Lesbians, Fl[Easter] Friday: Friday Nights at the de Young Season 10 of Friday Nights at the de Young ("after-hours art 'happenings' that include a mix of live music, dance and theater performances, film screenings, panel
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Altered States Sometimes we poke fun at ye olde printing and ink over here at SFist, but we josh because we love! That's why tonight we're recommending you head out to Arc Gallery and Studios