• 5A5 Steak Lounge By Gloria Tai
• Noodle Theory By Michelle Chan
• Little Skillet By Allecia Vermillion

• Sleazemore By Christina Li
• DJ Don Lynch By Christina Li
• DJ Nisus By Christina Li

• Little Boots By Matt Crawford
• Mayer Hawthorne By David Johnson-Igra
• The Pains of Being Pure at Heart By Matt Crawford

• 9 By Rossiter Drake
• Whiteout By Rossiter Drake
• Extract By Martin Malloy

• Monsters of Webcomics by Ann Taylor
• Present Tense Biennial: Chinese Character by Ann Taylor
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ann Taylor

• Birch by Grace Chen
• Slinky Productions by Nirmala Nataraj
• Her Majesty's Secret Beekeeper by Michelle Sieling

Gogol Bordello
Thu Oct 15 at Fox Theater
Details

Atmosphere | Bubble Lounge | Social Fridays
Icon Ultra Lounge | Dirty Martini | The Cellar
Club Six | Element Lounge | Indulgence

• Win Tickets to the Exotic Erotic Ball
• Win Radius Atomic Bass headphones
• Win a Hall & Oats Box Set
• It's Always Sunny in Philidelphia Live
• Win an Area Surf T-Shirt
• Win the first of 5 Hello Kitty x MIMOBOTS

• Couples Retreat
• New York, I Love You

• Monster's of Folk
• Fever Ray

• Asian Art Museum
• Beach Blanket Babylon

• Champagne and dessert for two at Sugar Cafe

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Junior Achievement programs help prepare young people for the real world by showing them how to generate wealth and effectively manage it, how to create jobs which make their communities more robust, and how to apply entrepreneurial thinking to the workplace. Students put these lessons into action and learn the value of contributing to their communities...

Dress for Success promotes the economic independence of disadvantaged women by providing professional attire, a network of support and the career development tools to help women thrive in work and in life...

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The biggest event of the year (over 1000 participants in 2008). The Fun all starts at 4PM at Northstar Cafe (Powell and Green)! We will be checking people in from 4PM to 6:30PM outside of the NorthStar Cafe. A limited number of t-shirts and jackets will be available.

SF Opera and the San Francisco Giants invite you to Opera at the Ballpark, a free, live simulcast of Verdi's "Il Trovatore". Through state-of-the-art technology, the performance will be transmitted in high definition, live from the War Memorial Opera House stage to AT&T Park's 3200-square-foot scoreboard. Baseball fans and opera fans will experience this event with seating both on the field and in the stands...

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"New York's Amazing Baby formed in January 2008 and almost immediately began creating a buzz among fans and critics alike with a sound alternately compared to Marc Bolan and "a psychedelic Roxy Music." Influenced by musical friends MGMT and comprised of former members of Stylofone, Diamond Nights, Lions & Tigers, Nebula, and the Heavy Hands...

The largest free Filipino festival in the Bay area. Every year, Daly City (home to the largest Filipino-American Community in the United States) hosts a festival that honors Filipino heritage and culture. The festival will feature such treats as authentic Filipino cuisine, local vendors displaying their art, and experience live entertainment.

Chinatown's historic Grant Avenue will again be transformed into an Asian theme park with over 200 art and crafts booths, food concessions, and nonstop street and stage entertainment. This celebration will take place on Grant Avenue between California and Broadway...

Since 1978, when the FDKF inspired Mayor George Moscone to first proclaim "Family Day" in San Francisco, to 2009 when we will host thousands of professional and amateur kite fliers, renewable energy advocates and sustainability enthusiasts from all over the world...

San Francisco's professional comedy community joins together each year to produce the five-hour show. The Punch Line, Cobb's Comedy Club, SF Sketchfest, Pepperbelly's, Rooster T. Feathers and Comedy Day each contribute their favorite comedians to produce a highly entertaining, five-hour set...

The 45-show tour, featuring special guest Metro Station, launches September 14, 2009 in Portland, OR and will play in several major cities...

"Unlike a lot of today's rock sensations, The Gaslight Anthem aren't going to take a single second of their ride for granted. "We're not that young and we've already had our hands in the real world, working terrible jobs," Horowitz explains, adding that The Gaslight Anthem's line-up has never changed, and that there's a bond between all of them that's difficult to..."

Bottin is from Venice Italy and has been flying under the radar for a while. Donuts & Honey Soundsystem are collaborating to bring him into the SF limelight! His tracks have a clear Italo influence, and he's actually Italian, which probably means he has more of a right or something. He has said that his influences come from both "cheap italian horror films, soft eroticas, as well as the pioneers of disco...

"The Get Up Kids are an American indie rock band from Kansas City, Missouri. Formed in 1995, the band was a major player in the mid-90's emo scene, otherwise known as the "second wave" of emo music. As they gained prominence, they began touring with bands such as Green Day and Weezer before becoming headliners themselves, eventually embarking on international tours of Japan and Europe..."