On April 19th at Thee Parkside, you’ll find a unique event called Reading Rocking Rainbow. It’s bringing books and bands together for a fun take on a mixed media performance which includes book readings, interactive games, conversations with outstanding authors and rocking out. The start of the evening will feature

On Thursday, the San Francisco underground music scene lost a pivotal figure. Scott Rogers, better known to many as Scott Alcoholocaust, died after a year-and-a-half-long battle with cancer. The pandemic shuttered the clubs where Scott booked shows, but as the city opens back up, his loss will be felt tremendously

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

Not Dead Yet Fest is a reminder — no, a battle cry — of how much great music is alive and well in San Francisco. NDYF exists to promote and bring together the ever-growing music community in our city by the bay. We’re emerging artists and veteran performers, and we’re

Now that the big Indie Mart blowout is only once once a year, they aren’t fucking around. This one is gonna be huge! Indie Mart is that magic event where people get to come out, get some new threads, buy some rad local art, get drunk, and dance. I know

  I like to celebrate my birthday with brunch.  It’s got all the components of a good day: booze, food and friends.  This year my birthday fell on a Sunday, historically an epic brunch day.  I was excited.  I became even more excited when I learned that Thee Parkside was

Are you one of those hip SF mothers constantly struggling to reconcile your penchants for crocheted baby booties and the golden, booze-dappled days of yesteryear? Perhaps you’re one of those “rad dads” struggling to keep your child’s wayward mouth out of your otherwise finely groomed beard. Or maybe you just

After the FREE, sun-drenched, mimosa-warped glory that was Hardly Strictly, 15 bucks may seem a lot to pay for a concert. But unlike Hardly Strictly, the fourth annual Frisco Freakout is not thrown by a billionaire. It’s thrown by my downstairs neighbor, and is by all accounts awesome. The all-day,

Rain in San Francisco is always a shitty thing. We all know that it rains a big part of the year and yet we still scramble for umbrellas and coats to keep us dry during the wetter times. After working through and putting up with the rain at the Treasure