Your friends’ Burning Man posts are already freaking relentless on Facebook, and you’re the sad sack who’s stuck at home. But don’t trip! There are plenty of Bay Area events if you’re not at Burning Man from August 25 – September 2, and it turns out San Francisco and Oakland

The people at the Long Now Foundation have been putting this on for 13 years and it keeps getting bigger each time. This year it’s happening over two nights at the Castro Theatre. The info below is from the Eventbrite page, which is where you can also buy tickets. The Long

  The 37th annual San Francisco Jewish Film Festival has begun. Jewish themed films from around the world will screen at San Francisco’s venerable Castro Theater, Oakland’s New Parkway, among other Bay Area venues. In addition to films about Jews, there will also be films which aren’t about Jewish subjects–it’s

Peaches Christ Productions Proudly Presents: DROP DEAD GORGEOUS w/ an all new hysterically fierce pre-show parody. Featuring: BENDELACREME,JINKX MONSOON, PANDORA BOXX, SUPPOSITORI SPELLING, PEACHES CHRIST, more! Witness teen queens battle it out for the title at the “Rosebud Cosmetics American Queen Princess Pageant”. DRESS UP! The theme of the event is “AMER I CAN”

The Disposable Film Festival (DFF) will be held from April 9-April 12, 2015 in San Francisco. Now in its eighth year, the popular festival celebrates the artistic potential of disposable video: short films made on small cameras and low cost, tech-driven techniques such as screen capture software, Google Glass, apps like

Kimberly Bryant, Founder, Black Girls Code. In conversation with Sal Khan, Founder and Executive Director, Khan Academy In 2011, only 6 percent of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) workers nationwide were black, up a mere 4 percentage points over the last 40 years, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Be

“Join Chuck Palahniuk at the Castro Theater July 9th, where the air will be filled with color, noise and candy. It’s a party to celebrate the release of Lidia Yuknavitch’s newest novel, The Small Backs of Children, a major step forward from one of our most avidly watched writers – a masterful exploration