I was able to ask the founder of The California Migration Museum, Katy Long, some questions about the project and the non-profit and she has some interesting thoughts and shared how how food serves as a vital connection to heritage and the soul of San Francisco.

I made a new friend recently. He just moved here from New York. Having tried to visit the Eagle but finding it closed, he texted me one evening. “Does SF close down at like, 11pm? I’m used to NYC where we don’t even start going out until then.”  Oh honey.

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.

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

Bex Pezzullo playfully refers to herself as a “recovering sommelier,” and it’s likely that her expertise in wine is one of the reasons her cider company makes some of the best cider in The Bay: Sincere Cider. Having started Sincere Cider in 2020 during the pandemic, Bex wasn’t always sure

The Bay Area’s “Chairman of the Hoard,” sculptor Nemo Gould, has a solo show opening this weekend titled “Defense Mechanisms” in Oakland. The whimsy within each sculpture is rivaled only by the deep meaning behind many of his pieces, as well as the exhibition’s ability to highlight Nemo’s sculptural expertise.

We’ve discussed this… I’m a scaredy cat and I even get pretty jumpy inside not-so-scary haunted houses. However, I love a great ghost story and The Haunted Bay knows of most all of the ghosts hidden in the dark corners here. Haunted Bay is the brainchild of Ying Liu who

Inside a North Beach clock shop is an underground speakeasy and theater called Palace Theater. There, you’ll find SF’s best magic show, The Illusionist starring Kevin Blake. As you savor expertly crafted cocktails, prepare to be mesmerized by mind-bending illusions, featuring mind-reading and astonishing sleight of hand tricks that will