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Outsider Film Night: Underground Cinema for People Who Keep Showing Up
PublishedOutsider Film Night returns with another screening of work that doesn't fit the multiplex mold — experimental, lo-fi…
At Tunnel Tops, the Dumpster Is Three Feet Away
PublishedOn the grass at Tunnel Tops Park, somewhere between the swing sets and the overlook where the bay opens up wide and…
SF Quinceañera Scene: Celebrating 15 in the City
PublishedQuinceañeras — the traditional Latin American celebration marking a girl's 15th birthday — are a fixture of SF's…
Sentro Filipino Opens Its Walls to 'Holding Queer Space'
PublishedInside the gallery at Sentro Filipino, the show is called 'Holding Queer Space' — a title that does some of the…
The Library Waits; The Piroshki Doesn't
PublishedOn 24th Street, two clocks are running at different speeds.
A Scholarship Keeps One Name on Potrero Hill
PublishedOn the blocks around Potrero Hill where Davion Davis grew up, his cousin Jaylen Woullard was one of those people who…
At Marshall Beach, the Trail Still Runs Under the Bridge
PublishedBelow the west anchorage of the Golden Gate, where the cliffs drop steeply through cypress and ice plant to a thin…
After the Rain, the Park Belongs to the Coyotes
PublishedOn the western edge of Golden Gate Park, where the path behind the buffalo paddock turns soft and muddy after a storm…
Cal Academy Workers Launch Union Drive, Cite Pay and Working Conditions
PublishedWorkers at the California Academy of Sciences have organized under the banner Cal Academy Workers United and are…
The Pickleball Courts Are Full. The Connections Are Not.
PublishedAt Dolores Park on a recent Saturday afternoon, a guy in a Scuderia Ferrari cap was setting up a portable net near the…
Someone Is Trying to Find Her People, and She's Starting With a Spreadsheet and a Subreddit
PublishedOn a recent Tuesday evening, somewhere in the overlap between a Reddit post and a city of 870,000 people, a woman put…
The Bay Area Starter Pack, Annotated
PublishedSomewhere on 101 South, a white Tesla is doing 72 in the left lane, being tailgated by a Prius doing 71 in the left…
What Sacramento Street Looked Like Before the Earthquake Took It
PublishedOn Sacramento Street in 1898, the storefronts ran tight and continuous — awnings layered over awnings, hand-lettered…
At 19th and Irving, a Man With a Sign
PublishedAt the corner of 19th and Irving on a Wednesday afternoon, a man was standing on the sidewalk holding a placard, and…
Dispatches From the City of Awe: Free Literary Reading at the Main Library
PublishedAt the SF Main Library, local writers gather for Dispatches From the City of Awe, a free literary reading series…
Alo Is Coming. The Yoga Pants Are Already Here.
PublishedSomewhere in San Francisco — the permit application doesn't say exactly where yet — a landlord is about to sign a lease…
Twenty Years on the Wall, Gone Overnight
PublishedSometime Tuesday night, someone reached up and pulled down a banner that had hung at Maggie McGarry's Irish Pub on…
The Fillmore Block Where a Mural Used to Tell You Where You Were
PublishedOn the exterior wall where the Harlem of the West mural once ran — vibrant enough that people would slow their cars on…
Four Comedy and Theater Nights Worth Leaving the Couch For
PublishedThe Ritual runs in the Mission on select nights — $5 off with code FUNCHEAP at checkout, making it one of the cheaper…
What Ocean Beach Looked Like Before Playland Showed Up
PublishedAt the far western edge of the city, where the Great Highway dead-ends into sand and the fog rolls in off the Pacific…
The Confessional: SF's Improv Show Built on Audience Secrets
PublishedCheck the SFFuncheap listing for current showtimes and the venue address — The Confessional runs regularly in SF and…
Free Talk on MLK Jr.'s Early Years Comes to SF This Weekend
PublishedA free public talk built around Young King: The Making of Martin Luther King Jr.
The Academy's Other Exhibit: An $8M Mansion and a Board of Forty-Five
PublishedOn the corner of Music Concourse Drive, inside Golden Gate Park, the California Academy of Sciences still opens its…
Where to Actually Meet People on a Weeknight in SF
PublishedThe Castro on any given Thursday is still the most reliable answer to this question.