Arts and Culture

13 Feb 2024

Best Bay Area Events 2/13-2/19

  Love Yourself by Vanessa Gil, Arts & Events Editor It’s Valentine’s week. Whether your coupled up or single, remember to show some love to the person you have to spend forever with, you. Do something you love to do solo. Read, journal, make your own Valentine’s Day basket filled

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A guy.
12 Feb 2024

This Oakland-Based Poet Wants You to Step Up Your Politics

Darius Simpson is the kind of guy who has to wait until Saturday night to take calls. The poet, educator, farmer, and activist stays fully engaged in a plethora of Bay Area communities. And in a time when the word “activist” has become closer to a personality trait or a

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Three people.
12 Feb 2024

If Taylor Swift is a Tortured Poet, Isn’t Everyone?

While winning yet another Grammy, Taylor Swift took the chance to plug her upcoming and eleventh album: The Tortured Poets Department. Shortly after the announcement, Google recorded a 588 percent increase of users searching “Dead Poets Society.” This strange moment arrives within a year of Drake’s Titles Ruin Everything dropping, a

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09 Feb 2024

Save The Beloved Golden Gate Park “LOVE Block” Sculpture

Support the preservation of the cherished LOVE Block sculpture in Golden Gate Park by acquiring an engraving to be embedded directly into the blocks! Perfect expression of your love for San Francisco this Valentine’s Day. The iconic LOVE Blocks of Golden Gate Park that we’ve all known and loved is

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09 Feb 2024

‘My Home on the Moon’ Fights Gentrification with Pho at SF Playhouse

As we are navigating our day-to-day lives it can be easy to lean on AI as a tool. Trouble with your cover letter? AI can help! Needing to write a script in a hurry? AI has got you covered! Do you need to fight the effects of gentrification and to

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09 Feb 2024

A Quick Pivot Saved This Berkeley Restaurant, Now It’s Boomin’

Tarocco, nestled in Berkeley, is a charming lunch spot offering a Barcelona-inspired menu. Last November, they almost closed their doors and it was a quick pivot that saved the business and quadrupled sales. Tarocco’s allure extends beyond culinary delights to include a sun-drenched seating area, exuding rustic-romantic dishes inspired by

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08 Feb 2024

‘Exposed to all the Ruins’: a Fitting End to Et Al Gallery’s Decade in Chinatown

In a small basement tucked between two convenience stores in Chinatown, there is a room filled with flowers beside walls covered in eclectic pairings of photos. It’s for the final show anyone will see at Et Al, a staple gallery in San Francisco’s Chinatown for the past eleven years. 

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07 Feb 2024

The 2024 San Francisco Independent Film Festival is Here!

The San Francisco Independent Film Festival (hereafter “SF IndieFest”) is back with its 26th edition. Running from February 8-18, 2024 principally at the Roxie Theater and online, this year’s edition features 55 short films and 35 feature films from 15 countries. SF IndieFest offerings may not be the cinematic version

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