Arts and Culture

San Francisco’s Astrology Chart & What it Says About You
BY REBECCA M. FARRAR When I first moved to San Francisco, a homeless man on the bus told me everyone who resides here was once a part of Atlantis. At the time it was a stretch for me to imagine all of us existing in a now mythical underwater colony,

How More Diversity in Variety Shows Can Build a Stronger Art Community
What do you think of when you think of a “variety show”? Various performers set the stage ranging from singers, dancers, and other types of performance art. But to create the ultimate variety show, there’s more to it than a variety of performers. The perfect variety show has a magic

Teaching Young Women How to Rap and Produce in Oakland
WIth a curriculum that combines beat-making and coding, she noticed similar gender dynamics in two male-dominated fields: tech and music production.

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The Green Film Festival Of San Francisco is Finally Here!
How many environmental-themed film festivals would willingly program a film about homicidal blue jeans? Were this question asked in other parts of the country, the answer would be difficult. Fortunately, here in the City we have the Green Film Festival Of San Francisco (hereafter “Green Film”) which had no qualms

Canine Circus School in Oakland Makes Dog Clowns into Ringmasters
What happens when you enroll your dog in circus school? You learn party tricks, build a bond, have a whole lot of fun, and also go through some rigorous behavioral training. My Scottish terrier, Jasper, has been clowning around at Canine Circus School in Oakland: training under ring-leader Francis Metcalf;

Surrealism, Beauty, and Magic at the SF Ballet
It’s called Magrittomania, and it’s a ballet inspired by the surrealist Belgian painter Magritte, whose work is complex, metaphysical, and meant to unlock different perspectives in its viewers. The Ballet inspired by his work somehow, quite ingeniously, accomplishes this too.

‘House of Commons’ exhibition lays out the future of communal living
In an increasingly uncertain world, the conventions of yesteryear begin to falter. In 2022, when nearly a third of the American workforce earns less than $15 an hour, the notion of securing stable employment and purchasing a home to populate with your very own nuclear family seems almost quaint in its