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SF Opera Storytelling Workshops for Free in SF!
San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Public Library celebrate the art of storytelling with The Opera in You, a free writing and storytelling workshop series inviting the public to discover their own operatic tales. The workshops will be held at public library branches throughout San Francisco from March through May 2024. Free, live online workshops are also offered. The workshops will culminate in a free public storytelling event on June 15 at San Francisco Public Library’s Main Library Koret Auditoriu

Meet Irish Fiddler Colm O’Riain
What better way to celebrate St. Patrick’s day than going to see an Irish Fiddler? Colm O’Riain can help with that! He is playing at Keys Jazz Bistro in San Francisco on Friday March 15th and Sunday March 17th. You simply must go. I met Colm last St. Patrick’s Day

The Empowering Artists at Manifest Differently
Manifest Differently, the show at Minnesota Street Project will be having a closing ceremony on Saturday March 16th. Jointly curated by Kim Shuck and Megan Wilson, Manifest Differently takes on the harsh truth that we are currently living in a colonized reality. It asks how we can collectively heal. If

Golden Coffee Has Been Replaced with a New Kebab Spot
Alas, San Francisco’s greasiest spoon has closed down. Golden Coffee Shop was not a destination by any means, but if you lived in the Tenderloin/Nob Hill/Tendernob region, you definitely had at least one hungover meal there. And that meal was so greasy, it probably ran right through you. When I

We Have Your Entire St. Patrick’s Week Planned!
Happy Birthday, Grandma by Vanessa Gil, Arts & Events Editor My Grandma June’s birthday is March 17th. Every year, in celebration of her and everything wonderful she was to me, I make her potato stew and curl up with classic movies (“Singin’ in the Rain”, “Lovely to Look At”), and

How I Fell In Love With Oakland’s Funktown
When I first figured out that San Francisco wasn’t for me, I didn’t know where I was going to end up. I had initially hoped that I would return to The Laurel, a neighborhood that straddles the line between East Oakland and the Lower Hills where I spent a long

Eats & Fun Along The Barbary Coast Trail
The Barbary Coast Trail is hard to miss if you’ve ever walked around The FiDi, Chinatown or North Beach. You’ve probably seen one of the 150 bronze placards embedded in the sidewalks while you’re boppin’ around. Stretching across 4 miles of San Francisco, this walk is mostly on flat ground

New Art Making Space, Sequoia Fabrica on Potrero Hill!
It’s always nice to hear that a community-run arts non-profit has come alive in our city. And for you artsy creative types who don’t have room for a big workbench or the coin to buy nice art-making machinery, this is a great development.