“I notice the texture of a block — who's been here thirty years, who just moved in.”
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…
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…