This past weekend Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) unveiled a new exhibit: the world’s largest collection of African American quilts is now on display. This remarkable assembly reveals deeply personal narratives stitched into every fabric, blending historical memory with contemporary meaning which leaves you touched and inspired.

Bored Stiff, a pioneering San Francisco hip-hop collective, was celebrated at the Roxie Theater with the premiere of Sounds Like My Life, a documentary about the group’s history and influence on the Bay Area’s hip-hop scene.

The Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive is celebrating Robert Altman’s 100th birthday with a film series featuring his classics, while also offering a documentary about Vivien Hillgrove, a Swedish Cinema Project, and a screening of Ingmar Bergman’s “Smiles Of A Summer Night”.

Giacomo Puccini’s limerent love story La Bohème opened the San Francisco Opera’s season with all the emotional pull we’ve come to expect from this frequently staged and deeply cherished work. Few operas draw us so swiftly into the heart of the drama.

Eight years have passed since Sasha Velour won RuPaul’s Drag Race with a stunning rose petal-stuffed number that gave us one big outfit reveal after another. Since then, the quiet kid spouting theory and jargon has transformed into an artist who elevates drag by combining it with performance art. Her latest show, The

The Mayor’s budget is expected to result in up to 1000 nonprofit layoffs, while city layoffs are expected to be around 500, and all workers should file for unemployment as soon as possible if they get laid off.

The Center SF, a former priests’ rectory turned living co-op, was a vibrant creative anchor in the neighborhood, fostering a culture of growth, expression and community, and hosting events and parties, but faced eviction after the city ordered the residents to move out.

Techno music has long been a source of community, innovation, and inclusivity, and its ability to bring people together and inspire them to be their best selves is what makes it a powerful tool for creating a better world.