Artist you should know
How “Switches” in Swing Dancing are Gender-Blurring Pride
By Eddie Jen For Pride this year, I wish San Francisco queers the joys of dancing and connecting on the dance floor that doesn’t involve Miss Mollie or Miss Snow. Seriously. It’s like, ‘why do I even bother putting a look together for Saturday night when I’m going to be
Inside Oakland’s Secret Subterranean Tarot Temple
The Installation takes you on a journey through the 22 major arcana cards of the tarot, each created by Desdemona over the past three decades.
The Bay Area’s Queen of Stained Glass: Kerbi Urbanowski
The “Artist You Should Know” series highlights artists before they exhibit their work somewhere or when they’re doing something artful and incredible. It’s our way of supporting the creative community and helping to keep The Bay a strange and wonderful place. Meet artist Kerbi Urbanowksi, who moved out to San Francisco
The Willy Wonka of San Francisco: Barron Scott Levkoff
If you’ve gone to an incredibly artful, immersive party in San Francisco in the last 3 decades there’s a good chance you’ve witnessed the handy work of Barron Scott Levkoff, or perhaps seen the wizard himself dressed as a psychedelic Sgt. Pepper, a Lewis Caroll Rabbit, or simply as San
Music Al Fresco: There’s A New Sound in The Town
The midday sun was bright and strong, but thankfully Franklin Square in Uptown Oakland was well-shaded, with two large picnic tables, a half dozen smaller metal ones, and a woman in a red dress crooning into a microphone. A man jangled keys on a color-matched keyboard behind her.
This was AMP Lunch and Listen, a new series of free weekly lunch hour concerts presented by Oakland Central as part of its Oakland Works Wednesdays, a program looking to revitalize downtown with arts and commerce.
San Francisco Symphony In Trouble on a Major Scale
With it’s new conductor resigning, and the mass cancellation of programming, the musicians are standing up to fight and save our symphony.
Drag Performer You Should Know: Hollow Eve
Hollow Eve who identifies as a “Post Binary Drag Socialist with a penchant for anarchy” will be closing the festival on Sunday, May 19 at 6pm at Omni Commons in Oakland, with a show entitled Rebirth: The Death of Drag. With this description, I needed to know more. They were kind enough to meet me for a quick interview and photoshoot this week.
The Hunt Begins: SF’s Transformed into an Interactive Playground with PURSUIT
Mischief, shenanigans and silliness with friends?… count me in! PURSUIT, SF’s newest interactive game, is on through May 27th. If you’re looking for something fun to do this weekend, I’d suggest you join into the fun and get your start. Created by 15 friends, PURSUIT posters have been peppered across