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Bay Area Indies Film Festival Returns in 2026
PublishedDetails on the 2026 Bay Area Indies Film Festival are still coming into focus — dates, venues, and ticketing haven't…
Oakland Art Murmur Turns 20 — The Gallery Crawl That Built a Scene Comes Back Bigger
PublishedDetails are still firming up, but Oakland Art Murmur's 20th anniversary celebration is scheduled for 2026, returning to…
Native Intertribal Dance and Food Fest Returns to Tunnel Tops
PublishedAt Tunnel Tops in the Presidio, the Native Intertribal Dance and Food Fest brings together dancers, drummers, and…
The Fruit Trees Growing in Plain Sight
PublishedAt a house on the west side of Oakland, a cherimoya hangs heavy off a branch that extends past the fence line — pale…
Kirby Cove Is Still Out There, Past the Toll Plaza and the Locked Gate
PublishedPast the last San Francisco streetlight, past the toll plaza and the vista-point pullout where tourists aim their…
Jovino Santos Neto Brings Brazilian Jazz to Oakland — and It's Free
PublishedThe Jovino Santos Neto Trio plays a Brazilian jazz night in Oakland — check SFFuncheap for the confirmed date, time…
Ira Sandler, Who Built 1015 Folsom Into a Room the City Danced In, Has Died
PublishedOn the stretch of Folsom between 6th and 7th, the building at 1015 has stood for decades as one of those addresses you…
Two Free Museums, Every Saturday: de Young and Legion of Honor Are Open to Bay Area Residents at No Cost
PublishedEvery Saturday, Bay Area residents get free admission to both the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of…
Monday Mornings in the Headlands, for the Freshly Unemployed
PublishedAt the Sausalito trailhead on a recent Monday at 10:30 a.m., while most of the Bay Area was opening laptops or joining…
Held Over Is Closing. Everything's $9.
PublishedOn the 1500 block of Haight, the racks at Held Over were stripped nearly bare by Saturday afternoon, the wooden hangers…
The Backrooms Film Is Set in San Jose and the Director Is From Here
PublishedThe Oldest View, the feature-length Backrooms film from YouTube filmmaker Kane Parsons, is set in San Jose and Santa…
What the Library Will Lend You Now, Besides Books
PublishedAt the Visitacion Valley branch on Leland Avenue, a circular saw checked out last Thursday and came back Friday…
Bay Lights Is Back on the Bridge — Here's What the Installation Actually Looked Like
PublishedThe Bay Lights — Leo Villareal's 25,000-LED light sculpture running the full western span of the Bay Bridge — has a…
Two Shows, Every Weekend: SF's Rotating Experimental Theater Double Feature
PublishedFridays and Saturdays, two shows worth knowing about are running regular weekends at SF venues.
Guild Theatre Turns 100 With a Season Worth Leaving the Couch For
PublishedThe Guild Theatre at 949 Market Street is marking its centennial with what the venue is billing as a stacked…
The Old Main Library Still Has Something to Say
PublishedOn Larkin Street, between the fountain plaza and the pale dome of City Hall, the Asian Art Museum occupies a building…
HellaSecret Desi Comedy Night Has Two Shows and Free Tickets
PublishedTwo shows — 7pm and 9pm — make up HellaSecret's Desi Comedy Night in SF, with free tickets available through SFFuncheap…
Mark Ashworth's Abstract Work Comes to Pacifica — With Live Music
PublishedFree and open to the public, Mark Ashworth's abstract art exhibit runs at a Pacifica venue alongside live music — check…
The Tenderloin's Smallest Parks Are Also Its Most Stubborn
PublishedOn a city lot between two apartment buildings on Leavenworth, someone has left a coffee cup on the edge of a planter…
On Ross Alley, a Wall Says Something
PublishedSomewhere in the grid of Chinatown — past the barbecue shops on Stockton, past the herbalists with their paper bags and…
Graphic Arts Workshop Opens the Flat Files: Artist Proof Sale This Weekend
PublishedThe Graphic Arts Workshop in San Francisco is holding an Artist Proof Sale — a chance to buy original prints, proofs…
16th & Mission Open Mic: No Amplification, No Cover, No Excuses
PublishedWeekly at 16th & Mission BART plaza, this open mic runs on the honor system — there's no PA, no stage, no host with a…
The Cliff House Held the Edge of the City. The Photos Prove It.
PublishedAt the western lip of the Richmond, where Point Lobos Avenue dead-ends into salt air and the Pacific does whatever it…
Grace Cathedral Debuts a Sound Sculpture Built From Its Own Bells and Pipes
PublishedGrace Cathedral is hosting the world premiere of Silent Bells & Organ Pipes, a site-specific sound sculpture that uses…