Love and basketball are front and center at SF’s best events this week

Outgoers is a weekly column published in partnership with the event newsletter of the same name founded by Josh Constine. Each week, Outgoers texts readers a list of San Francisco events and activities worthy of their time. The Standard features those events, plus a few extra. Sign up for Outgoers by clicking this link on your phone.

Dating horror stories take center stage for this performance at The Function, the Bay’s only Black-owned comedy club, plus a DJ’d after party.

Sample food from Ferry Building merchants and wine from Napa vintners while enjoying music and art activities.

Catch the game, 3-point and dunk contests, panels with star players, art activations, and more at Chase Center, Moscone Center, and Pier 70.

Check out the demoes, trick competitions, and giveaways as the team shows off upgrades to UN Skate Plaza at Civic Center.

This unofficial, unconfirmed event typically sees hundreds of people engage in a good-spirited pillow fight in Embarcadero Plaza across from the Ferry Building.

Four singer-songwriters perform heartfelt tunes in the round at the Faight Collective, for the perfect date.

For a raunchy evening, burleseque troupe Misfit Cabaret performs a Valentine’s Day show of dance, variety, and original songs, backed by a live band.

Get silly for Valentine’s Day with clowns, variety shows, and lewd puppets at an interactive show at Church of Clown.

Zedd and Flo Rida perform Friday, Kahan and Gary Clark Jr. on Saturday, and the Chainsmokers and 2 Chainz on Sunday.

Join fellow bikers in the buff on a scenic ride to the Marin Headlands as part of a global, 20-year-old series of pro-sustainability demonstrations.

Experience interative quantum, holographic, mixed reality, and AI installations from a local art technologist at Fort Mason’s Museo Italo Americano.

The new Front Street entertainment zone opens for outdoor drinking, live music, and basketball games to celebrate NBA All-Star Weekend.

Starting at Second and Market before snaking around Union Square, the parade will culminate with fireworks and a drone show launching from Pier 32.

When the doors don’t open til 11:59 p.m., you know it will be fun. This gritty warehouse rave starts very late Friday, and there’s another one Saturday.

Local tech house DJ crew Dirty Bird brings top talent like Shiba San, Rodriguez Jr., and Christian Martin to the International Art Museum of America.

Bring your supplies and sketch as eight models pose throughout the day alongside DJ sets.

The daytime party returns with surprise performances at Great American Music Hall.

British electronic duo Snakehips, who’ve collaborated with Weezer, Tinashe, and Chance the Rapper, take over the Audio nightclub, playing hits like “All My Friends.”

The Ferry Building’s second-floor Grand Hall will feature the Black Digital Art Collective’s installations and textile work, plus a musical performance by Bisi.