SF Bay Area

A MAP OF SAN FRANCISCO’S NEW STREET ART 2020
San Francisco art organization ‘Paint the Void’ has commissioned something like 100 murals across San Francisco and the East Bay during shelter-in-place. 84 different boarded up storefronts got covered with art by Bay Area artists. Turning many of our empty, commercial corridors into actual art walks. Visit the interactive Paint

Protest Against Trump’s Fascist Federal Thugs in Oakland!
Trump announced that he’s ramping up the fascism by sending a “surge of federal officers” to various Democrat led cities in the US. If you’ve been paying attention, their dry run has been Portland, Oregon where brave anti-fascists, including a Wall of Moms, have been standing up against these federal

Schaaf Disappoints ‘Defund’ Advocates in Tie-Breaking Vote Against OPD Budget Cuts
The world turned its attention to Oakland when Oscar Grant was murdered by a BART police officer in 2009. The Black Lives Matter movement would not formally organize for another four years, but Grant’s death sparked a national dialogue and amplified calls for police reform. In that way, Oakland is

Frat Party Virus Outbreaks Force UC Berkeley to Start Fall Online Only
University of California, Berkeley officials sent a letter to students Tuesday saying the school has made the “difficult decision” to offer only online classes at the start of the fall semester, which begins Aug. 26. The move to remote-only instruction was announced a day earlier by Chancellor Carol Christ in

All the Things You Missed at the Board of Supervisors Meeting
We’re sitting through the San Francisco Board of Supervisors meetings and breaking them down for you so you don’t have to!

The Legendary Cliff House Restaurant is Closing…Temporarily
Over the last 157 years the Cliff House has survived a lot. First constructed in 1858, it’s been rebuilt five times due to various calamities like fires and dynamite exploding shipwrecks. Unfortunately, it may not survive COVID-19. Earlier today KRON 4 reported, via local wire service Bay City News, that the

Rock Photographer Turned BLM Photojournalist: Chris Tuite
Chris Tuite is an EastBay photographer who you have probably seen in front of the barricade at any number of the concert halls in and around SF.

The Beauty & ‘Beef’ in San Francisco’s Street Art Scene
You’ve seen their work all over the city, on boarded up storefronts and hanging in windows, you’ve seen it on walls, garage doors, and mailboxes. Street art in San Francisco a reflection our city’s culture, politics and creativity. The great majority of art hanging in SF’s museums, is not by