• 2007's Best Albums By Sarah-Jayne Couhault
• Kapakahi By SFS Staff
• New Years Eve Music By Aaron Davidson
• Amplifier By Misha Vladimirskiy

• The Best (and Worst) Films of 2007 By SFS Staff
• Sweeney Todd By Rossiter Drake
• The Great Debaters By Mel Valentin
• The Orphanage By Mel Valentin

• Top 10 Restaurants of 2007 By SFS Staff
• Namu By Sarah Sung
• Bossa Nova By Gloria Tai
• Spruce By Chrissy Loader

• Best of 2007: Shops by Jialin Luh
• Brown Bear by Aaron Davidson
• Barney's New York by Grace Chen
• Labelle Day Spa by Nirmala Nataraj

• The Fetching Veggie Etchings by Aimee Le Duc
• Seasonal Theater for the Entire Family by Nirmala Nataraj
• Shooting War: A Graphic Novel by Lisa Ryers

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• Bubble Lounge Champagne Tasting!
• The W. Kamau Bell Curve

• Jandek at Cafe du Nord
• Tormenta Tropical at Rickshaw Stop
• Dan Deacon/Ultimate Reality at GAMH
• The Blow/Mirah at GAMH

• Asian Art Museum
• ODC Theater

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Social Fridays | The Cellar

It started 8 years ago as an after party to the infamous Space Cowboy NYE parties at the San Francisco Motorcycle Club. Today we all know it as that halfway point to the playa and the place to see everyone you know in San Francisco in the same place with a metric shit ton of your favorite local DJs and then some!

It started 8 years ago as an after party to the infamous Space Cowboy NYE parties at the San Francisco Motorcycle Club. Today we all know it as that halfway point to the playa and the place to see everyone you know in San Francisco in the same place with a metric shit ton of your favorite local DJs and then some!

Born in New Orleans, Louisiana but raised in Oakland, California with a name that means "To come here; bring forth", a Nigerian word based in the Yoruba religion. From her name to her music to her mission to the circuitous path that brought her to legendary Verve Records for her third album...

Bring your favorite cutting tools and adhesives...

"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These words are journalist Michael Pollan's simple answer to the complex question of what people should eat. First presented in a New York Times Magazine feature article, Pollan expands his well-considered advice in the recent In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. A clear-eyed look at what the food industry does and does not know about diet and health...

Johnny Venetti of Sidewalk Development and The Whooligan of the Sole Vibe on decks. Playing the best in hip hop, afrobeat, soul and world music with special guests always from our own thriving local music scene.

Bucheon is pleased to participate in the city wide celebration for the 100th anniversary of CCA and New West Coast Design. Our participation will be focused on Fiber art but as a fine art gallery, we are interested in showing artists that push the material and are intent on making challenging work.

Andrea Schwartz Gallery announces Chiaroscuro, an exhibition with special guest curator, renowned author Danielle Steel. The show is comprised of artists represented by the gallery including Seamus Conley, Christine Vaillancourt and Tina Vietmeier, as well as new artists Cara Barer, Perry Burns, guest artist Tom McKinley and others.

The sound of Midnight Movies conjures a certain Los Angeles - but it's no sun-drenched, glamorized metropolis. This is a decidedly noir L.A., replete with mystery, desire and yearning. On Lion the Girl (New Line), their second full-length release, the band explores haunting new vistas and back alleys of the soul, expanding the reach of their acclaimed "psychedelic pop" with an expanded lineup and more expansive songwriting.

An annual San Francisco tradition occurs at this time of the year, when the last stand of sidewalk fir trees is logged by the Friends of the Rootless Forest and then piled up on the beach for some very rapid composting.

"The Tubes are arch satirists of popular culture whose outrageous performance-art concepts -- which swing wildly from soft-core pornography to suit-and-tie conservatism -- frequently eclipse their elusive musical identity. The beginnings of the group originate in Phoenix, Arizona in the late '60s...

Tormenta Tropical is a place where the underground sounds of the U.S. and Latin America collide. From cumbia crunk to baltimore baile and dancehall electro to sonidero hip-hop, the night is an international soundclash where the first and third world party side by side.

With the incessant journalistic nods to its birthplace-of-techno roots, it would be easy to assume Detroit is a city stuck in its own musical past. But its thriving and continually evolving scene, represented this month by four of its finest "new school" talents...

"Beware of the mesmerizing songs of the siren-like beauties that inhabit the streams and lakes, the forests and fields. In Slavic folklore, these restless spirits called Rusalki—thought to be women who have died unjust or untimely deaths—will draw unsuspecting innocents to their doom. Found from the Balkans to Siberia, Rusalki spawned weeklong rituals meant to appease these powerful shapeshifting spirits whose influence would otherwise lead to crop failure, birth defects, and other calamities."

Movie exec Bobby Gould's best buddy has just pitched him a crass action flick that's a surefire blockbuster. But Gould's gorgeous new secretary is pushing a "conscience" film—and she's got after-hours access that could sway his green light. Who's the real showbiz player? With biting comedy and fast-and-furious dialogue, Speed-the-Plow is Hollywood as only David Mamet can deliver.

Pharoah Sanders possesses one of the most distinctive tenor saxophone sounds in jazz. Harmonically rich and heavy with overtones, Sanders' sound can be as raw and abrasive as it is possible for a saxophonist to produce, and he made his name with expressionistic, nearly anarchic free jazz in John Coltrane's late ensembles of the mid-'60s.

Filmmaker Michel Gondry will participate in a discussion and show scenes from his latest film, Be Kind Rewind, which stars Jack Black and Mos Def. When a man whose body accidentally becomes magnetized unintentionally erases every tape in his friend’s video store, the pair set out to remake the lost films, including Back to the Future and The Lion King.

Start the week right. Come dance or lounge with Soul, Hip Hop, Brazilian, Reggae, Funk, and more...