Misfit Cabaret’s Cinephilia returned to San Francisco last Friday for the first time since its debut eight years ago and I was there for it. It was everything you’d imagine: a madcap homage to cult cinema and its gloriously strange and unhinged characters, including Alex DeLarge and his droogs from

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s triple bill of “Home,” “Minus 16,” and “Revelations” was a vibrant, energetic performance that celebrated blackness and the black experience, despite the political climate and the loss of the company’s early grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.

By James Conrad In the early 1960s, residents of San Francisco were not tolerant of homosexual and transgender people like most are today. The LGBTQ+ community tried settling in North Beach and South of Market. Targeted redevelopment and police harassment subsequently pushed them from these neighborhoods and into the adjacent

Ocean Beach frequently appears in local news. The Great Highway debacle, a symptom of that American exceptionalism (really, you’re not bothered by anything else going on?). That time we got a tsunami warning and cops had to force onlookers off the beach. What about when a boat washed ashore only

‘Paint the City’ is a public art program led by the Civic Joy Fund, Paint The Void and Building 180, and recently they wrapped up the program’s second year, quietly painting a total 322 utility boxes across San Francisco. Around the city, hundreds of forest green utility boxes are placed

Reframe Festival 2025 is a two-day ideas festival from PBS News and KQED featuring thought-provoking discussions and live performances with journalists, politicians, and thought leaders.

It’s Springtime in San Francisco, which means it’s time to put your phone on silent for a while and step out into our fair city to sing, eat, and play with the wonderful people and programming on offer. Whether in the flesh or on a live stream, the journalists and

For two days of gothic subculture, art, music and fashion at World Goth Day May 3rd & 4th