MUSIC: As we already mentioned, Why? is performing this evening along with Dose One, Cryptacize, DJ Odd Nosdam, DJ Jel. 8 p.m. // Great American Music Hall [859 O'Farrell] // $13 *THEATER: Eve Ensler's Obie Award-winning play the Vagina Monologues -- featuring such monologues as I Was Twelve, My Mother Slapped Me, My Angry Vagina, My Vagina Was My Village, The Little Coochie Snorcher, and more -- takes the stage in the Castro for......

--Civic Center's SFMike reports on a Hayes Valley-themed mini-golf public art installation. That's the eponymous Mr. Hayes (not Rutherford B., but another guy named Thomas) to your right. --Gavin's now all pretending he meant for Theresa Sparks to get on the Police Commission after all. --The Merc News names its top five area Venture Capitalists under 40. --The KFOG KaBoom fest sounded like fun last night. --Pat Murphy shares his tips on keeping maggots out......

Some organization we've never heard of and could probably care the less about, the American Institute of Architects, put together a list of the Top 25 Bestest Buildings in San Francisco. Look for attendant show on VH-1 featuring snarky comments from Hal Sparks, Ian Michael Black, and Rachel Harris. ...

Sid Luscious and the Pants play at 11 p.m. at Kimo's on Polk Street, which is dangerously (is it just us?) close to Bob's Donuts, one of SF's best. Get all maximum new wave, like OMG! 1351 Polk Street, SF. Telephone: 415-885-4535, Catch Hal Sparks of E's Talk Soup and Queer As Folk at Cobb's. He has also rocked the VH1 "I Love the 70's, 80's and 90's" shows, 'member? We find him to......

SFist Jon's away this weekend, so you're stuck with us! --Yahoo's Jerry Yang is donating $75 million to Stanford. Does that mean he'll get fewer calls from the alumni giving committee.... or more? --SFPartyParty's offering a bottle of wine to the (over-21) author of the funniest email to Gavin Newsom about his cancellation of the How Weird electronica/peace Street Fair. Meanwhile, Left in SF spreads the word about a How Weird letter writing campaign.......

Yeah, we know. It's a Monday. And not just any Monday, but the five-year anniversary of That Day with all the attendant beating over the head that comes with it. So to cheer you up, dear readers, SFist presents to you, the Holy Grail of awesome music videos-- Journey's "Separate Ways." ...

SFist would like to give an official SFist Mazel Tov to Alameda's own Craig "Hot Lixx Hulahan" Billmeier who became the Fourth ever US Air Guitar National Champion. Having seen Hot Lixx in action, we can only say well done, sir, well done...

SXSW is already a blur, despite us leaving a day early this year. We had our hand-me-down digital camera in tow this time, so we will present our wrap-up with amateur photos. (We need to learn some night photography tricks, because using the flash sucked all the rock club atmosphere out of the subjects, and not using the flash rendered most bands as flourescent red and blue blobs.) We got our hands on the free......

Last night's Police Commission meeting [RealPlayer] started off with rollicking public comment from officers and the public. Officers were particularly upset over the termination of officer Anthony Nelson. Nelson was terminated after breaking the arm of an anti-war protestor and then filing a report with erroneous information about the circumstances. One of the two commissioners who voted against his termination was Peter Keane, who is also the dean of the law school at Golden......

WorkinDevil Originally uploaded by Canon Fodder. Praise the Lord! The latest issue of "SF Faith: The Bay Area's Lay Catholic Newspaper" is out. What do you mean, "newspaper" might not be the right word for a collection of editorials, commentaries, and scaremongering? It's printed on paper, isn't it? Well, whatever it is, it's been arriving, uninvited, in our mailboxes lately, and there's no better source for "news" relating to the very most conservative among......

Based on Wonkette's early numbers, it looks like it could be party-time in the Bay Area. But things have a way of changing at the last minute, so who knows. Either way, you're going to be an a mood for inebriation and laughter - either as a salve for your psychic wounds or as a confirmation of your smug contentment. Why not drop by the Canvas Gallery and watch the returns along with comedians......