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08 Oct 2024

We Wanna Send You to The Exploratorium After Dark!

Enter Below to Win a Pair of Tix to The Exploratorium After Dark! Make the pier your playground. Thursdays After Dark No kids allowed—but you can still act like one. Unplug and play with 700+ interactive exhibits exploring science, art, and perception. Get inquisitive, grab a drink, and let the

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05 Oct 2024

Plans Submitted for Another SF Skyline-Altering Skyscraper

  Who would like another shiny skyscraper offsetting San Francisco’s skyline? Apparently, project developer Crescent Heights does. The Florida-based company’s plans for a 65-story skyscraper feel like another ploy to fleece profit from San Francisco. If built to specs, 10 South Van Ness would be the city’s fifth-tallest building. Here’s

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03 Oct 2024

Bearing Witness: Grieving Palestine Together at Día De Los Muertos Exhibit

Grief is a shadow and art is the communal fire that makes it move. It’s easier to digest the suffering when it’s shared. That’s why we’re recommending the upcoming SOMArts Día De Los Muertos exhibit Bearing Witness, which focuses on Palestine this year. Below are our interviews with co-curators Rio

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03 Oct 2024

Catch Sex-Positive Performance Abbey’s Box While You Can

San Francisco is largely a sex-positive town, but the weekend drama over a Folsom Street Fair attendee’s discomfort with genitals shows that we’ve got some growing to do. To quote a hilarious tweet on the matter, “maybe don’t go to the circus if you’re afraid of clowns.” But on the

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03 Oct 2024

After 50 Years New College Artists Remain Creative in Oakland

Once, when I was a young, bright-eyed MFA student, a professor told the class to ​“look to the left of you. Look to the right of you. You should know that only one in five of you will still be making art in five years time. As the years go on, it will be even less.” In

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03 Oct 2024

The KQED & Noise Pop Festival Looks Awesome

When two wonderful SF institutions get together to throw a block party it’s a great reason to get excited.  KQED has teamed up with Noise Pop and is blocking off the streets in front of its storied SF headquarters and opening up its doors for an all-day, live music-infused, street

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02 Oct 2024

San Francisco Amazon Warehouse Workers Unite, Join Teamsters

More than a hundred Amazon employees at San Francisco warehouse #DCK6 formed a Union this morning, represented by the Teamsters. Underpaid warehouse workers fed up with unsafe conditions demanded that Amazon recognize the coalition in a “March on the Boss” early today. The worker-led initiative echoes many similar movements happening

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02 Oct 2024

Mill Valley Film Festival 2024: Must-Watch Films Revealed

The 47th edition of the Mill Valley Film Festival will feature a diverse lineup of films, including documentaries, biopics, and dramas, as well as a tribute to actor Jude Law, and a documentary on the struggles of right-wing activists in Hungary.

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