San Francisco

San Francisco’s Newest Night Market: Valencia LIVE!
See you in the streets for Valencia LIVE! A FREE, all-ages monthly neighborhood celebration spotlighting local businesses, live music, and art. EVERY 2nd Thursday, May through October of 2025 from 5-10pm! 3 stages of live music curated by The Chapel, Blondies Bar & San Francisco Carnival! A free clothing swap, artmaking and more. Savor

Dirtybird Set To Return for Back To Baysics 2025
My first Dirtybird rave was the essence of underground. Like always, news of the party spread by word of mouth. You could keep the Facebook event page unsearchable. Your profile wouldn’t rat you out. Still, there was a physical vetting process, a practice we would do well to bring back.

Citywide Earthquake Retrofit Mandate In The Works, *And Why It Won’t Materialize
Corrections: Certain statements made in the original version of this article (published 5/5/25) were disputed by City officials at San Francisco’s Office of Resilience and Capital Planning. The author published these concerns and addressed them sequentially at the bottom of the article. You’ll spot them everywhere once you know what

Lights, Strings, Beats & Soul, at an SF Cathedral
Mercury Soul held a unique concert at Grace Cathedral, combining classical music with electronic dance music, and featuring immersive visuals and dance performances.

An Alameda Home With a History of Homicide Is Up For Rent
Everyone says they want to live in a place that’s rich with history, but they never specify what type of history. Well, if you want to live in what could be the Bay Area equivalent to American Horror Story’s Murder House, here’s your chance. A spacious three-bedroom, two-bath home in

Could Bilal Mahmood Help The Tenderloin?
For ages, residents of San Francisco’s wealthier, “family-oriented” districts have depended on the Tenderloin to quarantine the homeless. The Tenderloin is by far the highest-density neighborhood in the city, shared predominantly by low-income families of color. Indeed the TL is home to over 4,000 children as of 2023. They are

Will Trump Create More Homelessness In San Francisco?
On 16 April 2025, National Public Radio reported that the Trump regime’s Department of Government “Efficiency” has placed all the employees of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness on administrative leave, effectively gutting the agency. Though the sworn mission statement of DOGE has been to reel in government spending, considering

A Country Western Hoedown in Downtown SF!
By far, San Francisco’s most successful and consistently well-attended street party, Downtown First Thrusdays, is expanding its programming to SF’s (& California’s) first Entertainment Zone on Front Street, with boots, spurs, and a giant disco bison.