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Events for Week of September 24

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SF: Best of Neighborhood Gems

Every neighborhood has a special place to call its own. Here's a few of our favorites:
• Lower Height: Axum Cafe for flavorful Eritrean cuisine, friendly service, eating with your hands and sipping honey wine.
• Inner Richmond: Le Soleil (133 Clement) provides sophisticated vibe on tasty traditional Vietnamese dishes. Get the seabass.
• Inner Sunset: Alvin's is an intimate little coffee and tea shop that showers local patrons with love and cheer.
• Chinatown: After walking along Grant Street, you'll want a tasty bubble tea. Get it at the Sweetheart Cafe, 909 Grant.

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Events for Week of September 17

SF: Best of Live Music

• 9/18 — Peter Bjorn & John w/ The Clientelle at the Warfield. I'm sure all the young folks will be there.
• 9/18 — Def Leppard with Styx and Foreigner at the Sleep Train Pavillion at Concord. Old school hard rock.
• 9/19 — The Donnas at the Great American Music Hall — showcasing their latest record and tearing it up for all their fans.
• 9/23 — Alice Radio's Now & Zen Fest 2007 featuring James Blunt, Joss Stone, Gin Blossoms, etc. at Sharon Meadow - Golden Gate Park.
• 9/24 — Abra Moore at Café Du Nord $10 All Ages with Korby Lenker opening.

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Events for Week of September 10

SF: Best of Performing and Visual Arts

• Tony Bennet swoons audiences this week at Davies Symphony Hall. Why, for the love of all that is good and jazzy would you miss this?
• Virtual Unreality: For the synergies between real and unreal universes within a science forward setting, cCheck out this exhibition.
• The Arts & Media Expo mentioned earlier features loads of photography, podcast, film and dance workshops for patrons and artists looking at exploring new media.

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Events for Week of September 3

Best of Brunch

Here's where to go for the most important meal of the weekend day: brunch.

• Orphan Andy's (2370 Market St., Ste. 4): Open 24/7 and you'll be served by an aging queen in a leather kilt. Still, it's the best chicken-fried steak in the city, bar none.
• Triptych: The food is tasy and consistently awesome. While visiting the toilets, be sure to offer up a prayer to the gods of disco in the '70s-themed restroom.
• City View Restaurant (662 Commercial St.): Nothing beats good old fashioned dim sum for immediate brunch time gratification.

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Events for Week of August 27

Best of Museums and Galleries

Where's the art? It's in great independent galleries like these:
• Despite its moniker, the luggage store doesn't sell travel merchandise. Instead, they are an organization dedicated to "broadening social and aesthetic networks, encouraging the flow of images and ideas between different cultural and economic communities."
• SF Camerawork offers loads of unique, contemporary exhibitions and photography.
• At 111 Minna Gallery, you get it all in one hot spot: bar, lounge, dancing and edgy art.

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Events for Week of August 20

SF: Best of New Eats

There's plenty to go around at these hot new restaurants, provided you can score a table:
• Burma Superstar's hip sister restaurant/bar, B Star Bar (127 Clement St., 415- 933-9900), offers a slew of fun/tasty Asian inspired dishes. A departure from traditional Burmese cuisine and ambiance.
• Head to Sudachi for live music, spectacular sushi, potent soju cocktail potions to kick off your night.
• Rouge et Blanc Wine Bar, the latest venture from the impressive Aqua restaurant group, is still working out some kinks but will be sure to impress soon enough.

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Events for Week of August 13

SF: Nightlife Hotspots

• Clever cocktails and good looking crowds giving you a good excuse to bump into someone? Try out the Alembic in the Haight.

• For a upscale grade of crowd surfing, check out Sip Bar & Lounge with LA vibe atmosphere and even VIP styled bottle service.

• Got an itch to dance? Make sure you put Bootie on your calendar. SF's Monthly Mashup bootleg party draws all sorts who want to work up a set; sing along with radical remixes of your favorite old and new songs, plus funky mashups. You just missed the last party but the next is up on Saturday, Sept. 8.

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Events for Week of August 6

SF: Best Date Nights

Cozy tables for two are on the menu at these top date stops in the city:
• Delfina — Contemporary Italian cuisine, trustworthy server selections, and an elegant place for taking someone special.
• Restaurant Clementine — The French do know romance, don't they? Swing by Clementine for coffee and share multiple desserts.
• Hotel Birona — Elegant and intimate little wine bar that makes it easy to lean close to your date and whisper things.
• Triptych — Provided your date's gone well, you might consider brunch the morning after at Triptych. The lighting in this place is warm and glowy... just like your heart after a great evening out.

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