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INDECLINE: A Rare Series of SF Events Highlighting Street Art and Activism
Where street art meets pranks and political commentary, you’ll find a group of anarchist artists called INDECLINE, responsible for some of the best guerrilla street art and political pranks you’ve ever seen. This October, you’ll have the opportunity to meet and connect with this anonymous art collective at a series
This 37 Year Old Thai Restaurant is in Danger of Closing Down
Thirty-seven years is a long time to do anything, but to survive as a restaurant in San Francisco that long is truly an incredible feat. And while Manora’s Thai Cuisine at Folsom and 12th Sts. has managed to do that, it might not make it to its 38th year. “My
The November 2024 BAS Voter Guide
A Big Change to This Year’s Voter Guide We’ve been doing voter guides for a really long time. I’m pretty sure we put our first one out in like 2010 or something. And I know that thousands of you rely on our voter guides to help you make decision. But
CIty Lights Bookstore Employees Unionize
Update: It’s official! City Lights recognized the union! Just 3 weeks after their 70th anniversary, City Lights Bookstore is celebrating a turning point with workers forming a union. Workers announced the union on social media just yesterday January 25th, they said, “We are thrilled to announce the formation of the
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the Restless Revolutionary of Prose, Dies at 101
Lawrence Ferlinghetti — the poet, the publisher, the painter, the activist, the man who propelled the Beat Movement and brought City Lights to San Francisco — has died at the age of 101. According to his daughter, Julie Sasser, the lifelong provocateur lost his battle Monday with interstitial lung disease.
Help Keep City Lights Books Alive!
There are few things more holy to the soul of creative San Francisco than City Lights Books. It is part of our DNA, hell it’s part of the DNA of every countercultural movement that has existed in the United States. I love this bookstore so dearly that it would shatter
V. Vale: The Man Who Can Do Everything Tells All
By Lydia Sviatoslavsky V. Vale sat down to talk stupid degrees, being a Henry Rollins fan, cognitive constipation, City Lights, Blue Cheer, how every word needs to earn its keep, the underbelly of hippies, survival of punk, how beatniks helped shaped the crazy journey…and just about everything else you’ve ever
This is the Hippest Beatnik Walkin’ Tour
Seeing the city through the colorful and chaotic lenses of famous dreamers like Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and Allen Ginsburg.
The Best of San Francisco Tourism on the Cheap
Screw the played out stuff, here is what you really want to do in San Francisco
