The Great Dickens Christmas Fair is a one-of-a-kind holiday adventure into Victorian London –  an elaborate party with hundreds of costumed players performing and interacting with patrons in over 120,000 square feet of theatrically-lit music halls, pubs, dance floors, and Christmas shops. It’s a twilight evening in Charles Dickens’

Yes & Yes on Prop S.  It’s not that often that an initiative makes so much sense for San Francisco.  We’re simply talking about restoring funding (without raising any taxes) to the city’s arts programs & to our most vulnerable citizens, homeless families. Prop S has the uninspiring name of

Fog City Summer Part 6 of 6 The Conclusion Excerpt from a Novel by Genie Cartier Read Part 5   Last time: 2 years pass after the incident at the music festival. Julian is just getting out of a different relationship, and has established his food truck. Djuna has landed a new

Welcome to Bay of the Living Dead, a twice a month column about the horror genre. Sometimes I shake my head in wonder over the fact that the same company which offers the virulently right wing (and dishonest) Fox New Channel also offers the Fox Network, home to edgy shows like The

At an SF street party it’s safe to be as strange as possible, and people will more than likely smile and love you for it. You get to wear your weirdness as a badge of honor. In other words, to be unique on the inside and the outside in San Francisco, is to be truly honest.

Halloween weekend is probably the biggest party weekend of the year in San Francisco (check out our guide to the best events) . Why? Because it’s the last good weather of ‘SF summer’ before November hits, because daylight savings time always arrives at midnight giving everyone an extra hour to party, because

For thirty years, Superfest: The International Disability Film Festival has given the disabled a much needed and well deserved voice. Though the disabled are the country’s largest minority group, encompassing people from all racial, ethnic, economic and LGBT backgrounds, people with disabilities are all but invisible in popular culture and in