Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Cool, Calming Yerba Buena Center For The Arts This refreshing moment brought to you by Demetrios Lyras.
Arts & Entertainment SF Open Studios: SOMA/Downtown Saturday marks the SOMA/downtown installment of SF Open Studios. All of the open galleries will be in the Eastern SOMA/Yerbua Buena area near SF MOMA -- the Yerba Buena neighborhood, if
misc This week in SF History - Waaay back when, the dedication of Mission Dolores Timecapsule: October 9, 1776 Two hundred and thirty-two years ago this week (!), the original "Mission San Francisco de Asis" -- better known as Mission Dolores -- was officially dedicated on the banks of
SF News Day Around the Bay First eco-friendly homeless shelter opens its doors. Glamour, glitz, green. [Oakland Tribune] The Mayor uses Muni funds to pay his posse. [SFGate, N Judah Chronicles] Speaking of which, buy your "The N Is
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The 2007 'Stache Bash: The regular world now knows what bears have known for a long time: mustaches are kinda cool. This even will show you just how cool they, in fact,
SF News Behold: Last Night's Yelp Day Party By Dianne de Guzman Although it took awhile, we've finally recovered from the Yelp holiday extravaganza at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. As to be expected Yelpers know how to throw
SF News Update: Fatal Bay Bridge Accident Inconveniences Westbound Traffic Update: all lanes are now open. It seems that "a box truck, from a business called 'Diet to Go'...drove directly into the back of the big rig," killing the box truck driver.
Arts & Entertainment "Dirty Country" Sneak Previews at Yerba Buena Tonight Tonight, for one night only, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will be featuring two sneak previews of Dirty Country, a highly entertaining documentary about the underground world of raunchy music, directed by
SF News Oracle Open World Chaos to Commence Okay, granted, we're personalizing this a bit. We digress. But Oracle Open World causes so much congestion in the downtown/SOMA area; we're surprised that this is still allowed to go on. But
SF News Thwap: Bay Bridge Hit By Container Ship Egads! The west span of the Bay Bridge was struck this morning by a container ship, the Cosco Busan. According to the Chronicle, "Coast Guard officials said the incident was not serious enough
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Salute Day of the Dead: Before tomorrow's Dia de los Muertos celebration and march, be sure to check out this pre-party featuring music from Steve Taylor-Ramírez, Theresa Perez, and Drew Harrison. Begins
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Chapel/Chapter: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company's modern, intricate dance revue. Starts at 8 p.m. at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum; $38-50. -- Quintin Mecke for Mayor
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Tastes of the City: Help raise money for the George Mark Children's House in San Leandro by attending this culinary bash. Young and "philanthropic-minded" guys and gals meet and mingle while binge
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Toshio Hirano: Local country music star -- alongside his trusty bassist, Kenan O'Brien -- croons tonight at 9 p.m. at Amnesia; free. -- San Francisco Contemporary Music Players: David Milnes leads
Arts & Entertainment Downtown Symphony What's better than picking up a Beard Papa cream puff across from the Metreon over your lunch break? Eating that Beard Papa cream puff while catching the free symphony concert at Yerba Buena
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The 2007 Bay Area Rhythm Exchange: Stepology (which we can only hope is very much like "Vibeology") presents tap stars Channing Cook-Holmes (Riverdance, Gangs of New York, Bojangles), John Kloss (Tap Heat)
Arts & Entertainment Calling Local Filmmakers The conference features panels about the ins and outs of Bay Area filmmaking, how to get financing and funding in the area for your projects, getting distribution for documentaries, as well as panels
Arts & Entertainment The San Francisco Theater Festival Breaks A Leg This past Sunday, under blazing blue skies in the City's snuggly warm SOMA bosom of Yerba Buena Gardens (YBG), there were no microphones, no stage lights, and no admission fees (and sadly no
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Bad Boys of Summer: It's like Oz meets Field of Dreams, or something like that. Catch this documentary about San Quentin convicts playing baseball. Film starts at 7:30 p.m. at
Arts & Entertainment Merola's Cenerentola Schwabacher sadly passed away in the middle of last year’s edition, but the new kids (mostly in their 20s), they are all right. His legacy is safe and secure. We saw last
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Dance, get trashed, shove something up your nose in the bathroom, shove something up, um, somewhere elsewhere in the bathroom, have a ball at this iron-hot Thursday weekly. At Tubesteak Connection, Bus
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Other events: --The Fillmore Jazz Festival continues all day today (10-6) on Fillmore (duh), between Jackson and Eddy. Lots of bands and lots of booths! --The Jim Henson movie festival continues at the
