SF Bay Area

05 Sep 2024

BAMPFA’s Fall Films: Experimental Cinema, Historic Essays, and Global Perspectives

Call the Fall 2024 programs at the Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) demonstrations of the possibilities of the cinematic medium.  There is nothing inherently wrong in watching a movie just to be entertained.  (This writer would add the caveat that the entertainment would have to be done well,

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04 Sep 2024

Free Video Preservation for SF Residents at Playback Lab

DIY community lab for digitizing analog media, home videos, and San Francisco’s hidden stories

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04 Sep 2024

The World’s Biggest Drag King Competition is Happening in SF

Two legends of Drag, who have been performing for three decades each, will be appearing at the San Francisco Drag King Contest, the biggest Drag King Contest in the world.

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03 Sep 2024

Best Bay Area Events 9/3-9/23

A FREE, BLOCK-LONG INTERACTIVE ARTS EXPERIENCE PRESENTED BY MARKET STREET ARTS   Happening the first Thursday of September, October and November from 4-7p, UNSTAGED: First Thursday ✦ Live on Mid-Market, brings a free, interactive, live performance experience with an F Train takeover, live bands & DJs, buskers and makers, immersive

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03 Sep 2024

We Wanna Send You to The GoldFish After-Party at Cafe du Nord!

  Enter to Win a Pair of General Admission Tix to the GoldFish After-Party at Cafe du Nord!   Created as a love letter to San Francisco, this special SF Live concert will be featuring GoldFish, Bag Raiders, and Mykki Blanco who are ready to close up summer in style

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03 Sep 2024

Why I Wish Oakland Had MUNI.

San Francisco does a lot of things wrong, but one thing it fundamentally does better than anywhere else in California is public transportation. Not trying to sound like Scott Wiener, but MUNI is the shit. I’m not referring to the buses, which are also great, but to the city’s rail

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01 Sep 2024

Five Cool Music Videos Set in San Francisco

In the age of modern music, the music video is among the few constants. A successful musical artist will shoot a music video to accompany a hit track, and San Francisco is a cute place to do it. Dozens of bands and musicians have shot music videos in San Francisco,

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29 Aug 2024

The New Gathering Space Helping San Franciscans Fight Loneliness

You probably haven’t heard of this new creative gathering space in the Inner Richmond district of San Francisco called Friends & Neighbors yet. The co-founders, Valerie Luu and Eric Lam, haven’t done any press interviews. In fact, their social media presence is limited, they don’t even allow photos of their

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