It's Open Studios time and the city is gloriously (extra-)rife with art. Here's a show happening at the RayKo Photo Center:...

You know that Improv Everywhere group? Most people have seen their work in those videos of people standing motionless in train stations or staging a surprise musical in a shopping mall. But you've probably known about them for years because you heard about them on This American Life back before they were famous. Anyway. They're coming to do a stunt in San Francisco this Saturday. It happens at 2pm in Dolores Park, and if......

"Simon Blint, Director of Visitor Relations at the SFMOMA is a first rate asshole." And so begins Bay Area photographer and blogger Thomas Hawk's most recent entry about being physically thrown out of SF MOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) for having the unmitigated gall to snap this image within the touristy downtown museum. It seems SF MOMA has, or had, a strict no-photography policy. Hawk goes on to say that said ban......

Leaving a label and starting a new one (with her new husband), Charlotte Martin finally has the musical freedom she has craved. Since her last release, On Your Shore (2004), Martin left RCA Records and created Dinosaur Fight Records with co-producer and husband, Ken Andrews. With this newfound freedom Martin has released two EP's, Darkest Hours and Veins and her latest full-length album, Stromata. Critics have lauded her latest efforts saying, "Stromata follows adventurous suit...reveling......

Submit your Bay Area finds to found [at] sfist [dot] com, or tag them sfist and found on Flickr! Let us know where and when you found the item and any other helpful info. Today we thought we'd feature our friend Jennifer Hattam's beautiful Holga photos of found objects that were all taken last year in the Mission. She has a whole set of these gems on Flickr, and be sure to check out Jennifer's......

Last week's winner, the Bay Guardian. More problems with the construction at Hunters' Point (this time: asbestos). Chris Daly is on it. A construction worker falls off the Golden Gate Bridge and his employer avoids liability because they used the wrong legal name on the OSHA citations it received. Send all legal paperwork to FSist, everyone! More taxi permit shadiness. Man vs. Wild -- who cares if he stayed in a hotel, he drank water......

An old crank's written a piece for the SFGate today either decrying or praising (we must confess we can't quite tell) our current crop of city supervisors as "a clown show." A clown show? Why? Just because one guy who doesn't even live here owns every single kind of business that's being investigated by the city (oh, Ed Jew, a taxi medallion too?), another was spotted at the Drunk-n-Horny party, yet another posed in a......

The envelope, please! Here's your list of the 10 worst commutes in the Bay Area, compiled by the Metropolitan Transit Commission. 1. I-80 W to the Bay Bridge, in the a.m. 2. E-580 from 680 to Dublin in the p.m. 3. 580 around Livermore in the a.m. 4. Marin 101 S from Napa/Sonoma to 580 in the a.m. 5. 101 into San Francisco to the Bay Bridge in the p.m. 6. 92 in Alameda......

Seeing beyond Sight What happens when you give visually impaired children cameras and ask them to capture their everyday life? Come find out at this exhibit for a new book by Tony Deifell, Seeing Beyond Sight: Photography by Blind Teenagers. Accompanying the revelatory photographs is commentary and reflections by the artists. If you can't make it tonight, the show runs until May 12 but stop by around 6 until 8pm to catch a glimpse of......

Orange Photography just posted these pictures of Gavin putting on a green tie for the Irish National Day Flag Raising Ceremony at City Hall. We love how he goes back to his preppy, frat boy roots by popping his collar. (FYI Gavin: Popping your collar is so 2004.) ...

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SFist interviews Barb Traub, author of "Desert to Dream: A Decade of Burning Man Photography"...

Oh boy, here we go again. Friend of SFist Thomas Hawk was happily snapping away yesterday when he was accosted by a security guard. His heinous crime? Taking pictures of the building at One Bush Plaza -- a modernist gem designed by local architects Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Obivously the guard has been told by his superiors to be on the lookout for evil camera-wielding terrorists, and is simply taking his job rather more......

Where we select choice events because to post on them all individually would take too much time. Tonight Derek Powazek and Heather Champ are hosting a little wine-and-cheese get together at Reverie Cafe to show off some of their own work and celebrate the launch of JPG Magazine. An excellent opportunity for the FBI to round up most of the photobloggers in the Bay Area for deportation to Gitmo. On Saturday, Irina over at......

BoingBoing's David Pescovitz recently posted a call for models by his friend Richard Hansen. And when we say "models" we mean "people with penises," since Richard is working on a book project about everyone's favorite cut of man-meat. Seeking men of all sizes, shapes and colors to model their penis for an upcoming art photography book project. This creative project seeks to show what men really look like down there--how we're so very different,......

When SFist hears that Beastie Boys song, we automatically think about checking out reserved books from the San Francisco Public Library. We wish there were a song that reminded us of our great local independent bookstores, if you can think of one, tell us about it in the comments! SFist Alex has been reading Lessons In Virtual Tour Photography by Chris Bachelder. Its a wonderful and bizarre e-book from McSweeney's about The Secret of All......

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