Arts and Culture

The Secret, Saucy History Of The Original Hamburger Mary’s
This weekend is the 15-year anniversary of the closing of Hamburger Mary’s, the trailblazing gay burger joint since that had been a SoMa icon since 1972. So we tracked down one of the last original Hamburger Mary’s owners to find some fascinating artifacts and get the Grade-A, all-beef history of

San Franpsycho Closing Down Divisidero Store
Word just came in that everybody’s favorite SF-centric clothing brand is closing down it’s flagship Divisidero store. Of course, in perfect San Franpsycho fashion they are throwing a big party about it. Here’s what their FB page said about the closing: Some bittersweet news to share with y’all this morning: we’re

EDM DJ & Composer To Play With The SF Symphony Orchestra
Calling all EMD and Classical music fans; composer and DJ Mason Bates joins the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and guest conductor Pablo Heras-Casado to bring us Auditorium, an electro-acoustic soundscape that unites two incredible methods of making music. Portions of the performance contain sounds from Nasa’s first space walk, another has beats from

Mechanical, Moving, ‘Automata’ Art In SF
Made from a wide range of materials, the mechanical figures that make up the genre of automata are surprisingly human. Hailing from a “simpler time”, the animated human and animal sculptures have historically been used in order to tell stories.

Blackbird Bar is Throwing an Amazing Art Bazaar
I’m pretty sure this was the first website to ever write about Blackbird. You can read the funniness here. So it’s exciting that we get to share this new Blackbird Bazaar with you. This sounds like a pretty amazing event

20 Years of Madness: A Doc about the TV Show You’d Have Made as a Teen
Guest post by Joseph Bien-Kahn Twenty-two years ago, in a suburb north of Detroit, four kids sat in front of a green screen on a living room set—beat up couch, green-brown recliner, and a fake plant—to create some sort of unsettling acid trip dubbed the “The Jerry White Jr. Show”.

How I Lie About My Life with Instagram
I do it on my way to work. I do it while I’m on the phone with my boss. I do it on the plane. I do it in between gchatting and facebooking client meetings. I do it before I go to sleep. I do it in the bathroom. I do it

Celebrating Maupin’s “TALES OF OUR CITY” at Davies Symphony Hall
300 voices are about to fill San Francisco’s greatest building for sound, and perform with our cherished Armistead Maupin