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Thursday, April 12th, 2007

Closing Night Party for the San Francisco Women's Film Fest



I don't know about you dudes, but I would have to say that Wayne's World is the greatest movie of all time and has pretty much shaped me into the person I am today.  With that said, the 2007 San Francisco Women’s Film Festival concludes April 15th with a closing night party, co-presented by Bust Magazine and Film Arts Foundation!

Starting at 7pm at 111 Minna Gallery, ...

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

Dave Brubeck at San Francisco's Masonic Auditorium



Everyone knows the opening lines of Dave Brubeck's Take Five - Dave Brubeck

With its swinging 5/4 time signature it also became the signature piece for the Dave Brubeck Quartet.

A local boy, Brubeck was born in the East Bay town of Concord on December 6th, 1920. His career has spanned generations and musical styles and ...

Friday, April 6th, 2007

SF Beer Festival--The question isn't to drink..it is how much to drink....


It is almost that time of year again.

SF BEER  FESTIVAL.

Ta da! I have had the pleasure of volunteering at the event the last few  years and find it to be a most amusing experience.

Created as a benefit to the Telegraph School Cooperative, the SF Beer Fest is a great chance to sample hundreds of beers that you may know about, and then hundreds of others you DON'T know about.

Those are ...

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

Beer Geeks of the World Unite!



4th Annual Bay Area Firkin Gravity Festival
Triple Rock Brewery
Saturday April 7, 2007
11:00 a.m – ?
1920 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, CA 94701
(510) 843-2739

Beer geeks and brewers will tell you that the firkin is the vessel of beer in its purest form. It is the beer that the vikings drank, the ale of Shakespeare and Leonardo da Vinci. In short, it's beer without the modern convenience of such things as ...

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

San Francisco's 10th Annual Dine for A Change



In honor of National Sexual Assault Awareness Month, restaurants across the city will be donating up to 50% of their proceeds to San Francisco Women Against Rape (SFWAR) on Thursday, April 5. Dine for a Change is an annual event that engages community and business support in ending rape and sexual assault. Join us as we dine, lunch and eat out for change! Supporting restaurants ...

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

Easter with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence


SisterOf the many ways in which a discerning San Francisco resident or visitor could spend their Easter Sunday, one of the most, um, unique, and oh so San Francisco is to spend it with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at their annual Easter celebration in Dolores Park.

This year's theme is Night of the Living Easter – even though it's in the day ...

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

The best place to see foreign cinema in San Francisco



The Lumiere Theater at 1576 California Street (at Polk) is one of San Francisco’s best places to see foreign films and this weekend’s US premeire of The Cop, The Criminal, and The Clownwill not disappoint.

Located one block east of Van Ness, bordering San Francisco's Russian Hill District, the Lumiere Theatre features some of the city's most adventurous independent film, foreign language cinema ...

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

San Francisco Rock n’ Roll



San Francisco has not lost its Rock n' Roll soul, even if it's found unexpectedly in Oakland.

This past week I was house sitting in the lovely East Bay neighborhood of Piedmont and decided to visit The Uptown at 1928 Telegraph Ave – just one block from the 19th street BART station, for their Garage Rock night with friends.

Aside from Garage Rock night, the Uptown has a wide array ...

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Sports bars in San Francisco


The NCAA championship is coming up next Monday, April 2nd. One of the most watched sporting events in the country, you are sure to find many people scurrying to the nearest sports bar after work to catch the game. But where are the best sports bars in San Francisco to watch the two best college basketball teams in the country battle for the championship title? San Francisco has a large ...

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

Craigslist


Craigslist is the online classified advertisement web page which is used around the world today, but it got its start right here in San Francisco and remains more active and important to the community here than in any of the other cities to which it has spread.  When I first moved here, I would ask people where to get certain things, and no matter what I asked about ...