Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Every Five Minutes When's the last time you went to a play? Tonight's the night for you to get a better answer to that question, at Magic Theatre's world premiere of Linda McLean’s Every Five
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Grand Emporiums Of Old San Francisco Remember the good old shopping days of SF? No, we're not talking about when Valencia wasn't home to multiple places selling $300+ shoes, we're talking about the golden era of San Francisco department
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Private Vs. Public Sector Myths Who's doing the most innovating, the public or the private sector? Tonight, you have a chance to hear an economist examine many of the same arguments on this topic that you've likely seen
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Mapworks, Caterpillars, And Costumes This weekend, take in some art made from maps, celebrate a 45-year-old caterpillar, and get yourself some amazing clothes for as little as $1! Friday: Opening Reception for UnTethered: Drawing With Scissors SF
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Moon (Unit) Zappa And Others Talk 'Too Hard To Keep' You already know all about Porchlight, San Francisco's storytelling series. Tonight's an especially good installment, with local and national luminaries gathering at the Contemporary Jewish Museum to tell tales "about times it was
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: One Man Up If you like sex, drugs, and soccer, tonight is your night. This evening, San Francisco's Italian Cultural Institute is offering a free screening of L'uomo in più (in English, One Man Up), one
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Talking Public Service And Faith With Chris Matthews After a day (for some, a whole weekend) celebrating a Catholic holiday, think you can handle one more day of contemplation? Sure you can. Tonight at the University of San Francisco, the school
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: St. Patrick's Day Feast At 21st Amendment St. Patrick's Day can be awful: green food, overserved youth, and, is that a bowl of Lucky Charms in your hand? That's no way to mark the cultural and religious celebration of the
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Veronica Mars, Inhabitant, St. Patrick's Day Parade This weekend, spend some time with a great detective, watch dancers take over 24th Street, and celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Friday: Veronica Mars Look, I need to be honest with you. I don't
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: March Madness At The California Academy Of Sciences Parents and the blissfully childless can agree on at least one thing: sometimes museums are more fun without a bunch of kids running around. The California Academy of Sciences, which caters to kids
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: RADAR Reading Series It's Wednesday, still early enough in the week that you might feel too intellectually ambitious to collapse on the couch in front of all those Under The Gunn episodes you have piled up
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist This Afternoon: Three Twins' Grand Reopening Bash Though Three Twins Ice Cream officially reopened its location at Haight and Fillmore in January, this afternoon at 3 PM they're holding their "Grand Reopening" party. The local ice cream company's Lower Haight
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: The Something Something Shindig The Something Something Shindig is "a wild show that combines stand up comedy, improv, music, and what we like to call 'audience-participation-good-times.'" This sounds like a fantastic event for a early-in-the relationship
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Weekend: Oscar Viewing Parties At The Balboa Theatre, SoMa StrEat Food Where are you watching the Oscars? Probably at home in something cozy, if you're smart. But should you find the willpower to venture out this weekend, here are two options for watching them
Arts & Entertainment Tonight: State of the Union Watch Party at The Connecticut Yankee Doesn't it seem like just yesterday, when the President's 2013 State of the Union Speech highlighted his plans to fix Medicare, close tax loopholes, address climate change and keep the pressure on Syria?
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: Soul Party at The Chapel For some people, a snifter of brandy with granny at Christmas dinner doesn't quite fulfill their standards for a swingin' good time. Luckily for you, the holiday is over and the city is
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse Take disaster preparedness to new and more fun heights with Curiosity Atlas' How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse, the official launch of their next chapter of doing/making/skillsharing workshops. From stockpiling beer
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This Thing Tonight: Drinks After Dark At The S.F. Zoo While other local institutions may offer more frequent night time drinking opportunities, your chance to get drunk and dance with some big cats at the Zoo only comes once a year. Tonight: Noc'tails
Arts & Entertainment Sunday: Indie Mart Returns To Thee Parkside This Sunday Indie Mart marks its seventh year of crafty people, cheap beer, and rock n' roll with an all-afternoon street fair on Wisconsin Street in Potrero Hill. This year the celebration includes
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing This Weekend: 20th Street Block Party This Saturday, August 24th the recently hip corner of the Mission and Potrero Hill will celebrate itself with a block party thrown by neighborhood notables: Noise Pop, the Bon Vivants, and Flour + Water.
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Adapt/Transform/Reuse Photo Exhibit At SPUR Tonight at SPUR's headquarters on Mission Street in SoMa, the noted urban planning thinktank will host a gallery show of local photography highlighting the ever-changing layers of San Francisco architecture. Although the city's
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: '70s Horror Films At Vortex Room The Vortex Room's film screenings have been going on for a while, but there's still a secret, speakeasy-type feel to the little lounge, which doubles as movie theater when the lights go down
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: DocFest Local Shorts The 12th Annual SF DocFest has hit the Bay Area, and that means dozens of films providing "a manageable amount of truth" are screening for your enjoyment. (Side note: can you handle the
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: 'Sing-A-Long Beauty and the Beast' at the Castro Theater When it comes to delivering movies in unique sing-a-long format, no other venue stands and delivers quite like the Castro Theater. The theater's sing-a-longs represent a rare event where little kids in adorable
Arts & Entertainment Go See This Tomorrow: 'Dosa Hunt' With Das Racist At The Asian Art Museum What's a dosa? More than just a local duo of Indian joints with fancy cocktails, a dosa is savory crepe and a staple of south Indian cuisine (and, yes, Dosa's menus). Dosa Hunt,
