Arts and Culture

10 Apr 2024

April 2024 Weekends Are For Film Festivals (Mostly)

There are fewer theatrical venues available.  Returning to the in-theater experience still proves a hard lift for way too many viewers.  And the 800-pound gorilla known in film festival circles as the San Francisco International Film Festival (hereafter “SFFILM”) has radically downsized in scale and scope this year. Should this

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09 Apr 2024

Best Bay Area Events 4/9-4/29

A Perusing Playlist by Vanessa Gil, Arts & Events Editor We’re trying another new thing! We now have weekly playlists where you can sample upcoming bands and comedians that are listed in our events newsletter. Here’s what I’m most excited about for the week of 4/9 and beyond…     Our Merch

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08 Apr 2024

Bring Back Trespassing, For San Francisco’s Sake

The #sfdoomloop is a media dogpile that feels at times like a character assassination. The story going around is the city is dead or dying. With local politicians vying for tech and other profitable industries to (re)invest, it seems that way. Tech is never coming back, and these uninspired bids

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03 Apr 2024

In a Historic First, SFMOMA Has a Group Exhibition by Disabled Artists

By Bunny McFadden San Franciscans have a chance to check out some dope art from disabled artists for free at SFMOMA from April 6-October 6. The exhibition, titled Creative Growth: The House That Art Built, centers around 115 pieces of art procured from Creative Growth Art Center, an organization in Oakland

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02 Apr 2024

Best Bay Area Events 4/2-4/22

Bay Area Psychedelics Conference Discover the SF Bay Area’s most sought-after underground gathering of the psychedelics community.  On April 18th and 19th, immerse yourself in breakthrough panels on cutting-edge science, therapeutics, culture, and business, a captivating psychedelic art gallery, and unique live experiences. This year’s impressive speaker lineup includes industry

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02 Apr 2024

Why I love The Tenderloin’s Neon Lights

  Herb Caen once said “Any city that doesn’t have a Tenderloin isn’t a city at all” which, despite my general distaste for Herb Caen, is a pretty accurate take. I have mixed feelings about people who write about the Tenderloin. Nothing about the commentary comes off as balanced. The

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29 Mar 2024

The Guild That’s ‘Exploring Everything’ in The Bay Area

Within The Explorer’s Guild there are rankings for officers, merit badges, hundreds of Captains Log notebooks chronicling the last nearly 10 years of The Guild. What’s special about this group is that they are creating community in a fun way which doesn’t take life too seriously while also creating so much fun that it creates a collective glue that holds people together and allows people to feel like they can be part of the guild in their own way.

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29 Mar 2024

20 Years of Bootie! Celebrating SF’s Iconic Mashup Night

Back in the mid-2000s, my friends and I regularly swapped music from one of SF’s longest-running mashup nights, Bootie Mashup. April marks 20-years of ‘Bootie‘. Since 2003, Bootie has been creating genre-themed mashup nights that blend both current and throwback pop songs and often feature fun variety show acts dancing

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