Arts and Culture

02 Nov 2021

FLASH GIVEAWAY! We Want to Send You and a Friend to See Ween @ The Fox!

We’re super excited to team up with Another Planet Entertainment to bring you another series of concert ticket giveaways! Last up in this series: we’ve got two pairs of tickets to see Ween at the Fox Theatre on 11/4! This contest ends at midnight tomorrow night, so make sure you

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01 Nov 2021

SOMArts Dia de Los Muertos Exhibition Honors Late SF Artists & Latinx People Killed by Police

by Jennifer Modenessi For more than two decades, San Francisco’s SOMArts Cultural Center has been ground zero for one of the Bay Area’s longest-running annual Dia de los Muertos exhibitions. Founded in 1999 by the late artist, curator and community activist René Yañez and now curated by his son, Rio

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29 Oct 2021

All The Cool Stuff Coming To Netflix In November

Netflix in November resembles a bountiful Thanksgiving table, with something for everyone. There’s a classic Bill Murray farce. Robert Greene brings a new take on Catholic sex abuse. An action adventure blockbuster starring Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot pops up. The director of “Train To Busan” helms a

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29 Oct 2021

The Many Similarities Between San Francisco and New York City

If you’ve ever spent a significant amount of time in San Francisco, CA, and New York City, NY, you may have noticed a large amount of eerie similarities. What makes these two cities, about as far away from each other as they could get in the contiguous United States, so

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28 Oct 2021

‘Rust’ Shooting Is A Bigger Problem Than You Think

On October 21st, Halyna Hutchins, Cinematographer, died from an egregious mistake on the set of the upcoming (?) film Rust. Since then, the press has tracked who may be at fault. This has led to a cavalcade of leaks about terrible working conditions, unqualified employees, and hypocrisy. I have been

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28 Oct 2021

Banksy Shredded Stencils Sold for $25.4 million

Street artist (and often times prankster) Banksy, famously rigged a stencil of his to shred itself in case it was ever resold.  And it did just that directly after being auctioned off in London in 2018.  You can watch a video of the auction, once the gavel came down and

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28 Oct 2021

Outside Lands has a Beer, Wine and Cheese Lands this Year!

Outside Lands is back after a long hiatus, 2020 was the first year Outside Lands was cancelled since the festival began in 2008.  Now the music is back this Halloween weekend and punters are excited about seeing Lizzo, The Strokes, Tyler the Creator, Tame Impala, and much much more (see

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28 Oct 2021

E40 is Now Slinging Sausage

The Vallejo born, Bay Area rap mogul, E-40, aka Charlie Hustle, aka 40-Watter, aka Earl Stevens has started a sausage company.  That’s a real sentence, that you just read. 40’s new Vallejo-based sausage company ‘Goon With The Spoon‘ did not pay us to rep them, we just love 40’s bravado

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