There’s a new Halloween tradition in the Bay Area and it’s called: Halloween Meltdown. Since their first edition last year the folks from Total Trash Productions (same team behind Mosswood Meltdown, former Burger Boogaloo) and JOHN WATERS are bringing punk rock bands to the lovely Mosswood Park in Oakland and

Of course October being Halloween month means Hulu offers scary tales or other stories honoring the season.  So this month includes a Halloween special featuring the “Solar Opposites” crew, a remake of “Hellraiser” with “Sense 8”’s Jamie Clayton as Pinhead, and the long-awaited anime version of “Chainsaw Man.” Among the

There’s something about live music that you can’t feel it just by listening to an album, especially when they have incredibly talented musicians like Las Los and Surprise Chef, both bands are playing this Wednesday, October 5th at the Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco. Surprise Chef is a

If you can’t handle sideshows, you can’t handle life in the Bay Area. I know that may sound harsh, and I get that sideshows are unsafe and can be incredibly annoying, but they’re not going anywhere, so what’s the point in endlessly complaining about them? At least once a week

Anchored in West Oakland, The Crucible is a nonprofit industrial arts school that is known to specialize in welding, glass blowing, woodworking, and blacksmithing classes. First established in Berkeley in 1999, The Crucible moved to its current location 4 years later to Oakland in 2003, nearly 20 years ago. Within

Midori is a bit of a performance art and kink legend in San Francisco, she does dynamic, shocking, and methodical spectacle, that never fails to ask the audience to think for themselves, or change their perspectives

It’s not every day you get to meet a witch.  But when you’re at a 220-year-old Victorian Manor & Museum in Oakland, I suppose such things can happen.

When you think of a festival, especially a very sizable one (40-50k fans a day), you don’t usually expect the progressiveness – or for them to be a community-involved non-profit – that we see from Riot Fest. With that said, plus all of that is going on in this world,