SF Bay Area

31 May 2024

How “Switches” in Swing Dancing are Gender-Blurring Pride

By Eddie Jen For Pride this year, I wish San Francisco queers the joys of dancing and connecting on the dance floor that doesn’t involve Miss Mollie or Miss Snow. Seriously. It’s like, ‘why do I even bother putting a look together for Saturday night when I’m going to be

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31 May 2024

Inside Oakland’s Secret Subterranean Tarot Temple

The Installation takes you on a journey through the 22 major arcana cards of the tarot, each created by Desdemona over the past three decades.

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30 May 2024

The Bay Area’s Queen of Stained Glass: Kerbi Urbanowski

The “Artist You Should Know” series highlights artists before they exhibit their work somewhere or when they’re doing something artful and incredible. It’s our way of supporting the creative community and helping to keep The Bay a strange and wonderful place. Meet artist Kerbi Urbanowksi, who moved out to San Francisco

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30 May 2024

The Willy Wonka of San Francisco: Barron Scott Levkoff 

If you’ve gone to an incredibly artful, immersive party in San Francisco in the last 3 decades there’s a good chance you’ve witnessed the handy work of Barron Scott Levkoff, or perhaps seen the wizard himself dressed as a psychedelic Sgt. Pepper, a Lewis Caroll Rabbit, or simply as San

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30 May 2024

Guess Which SF Institution is NOT Shutting Down!

Too many of our favorite Bay Area institutions have closed down in recent years. The good news is that BrokeAssStuart.com plans on always being here for you. But we need your help to do so. Most people don’t realize that it costs over $10,000 a month to run Broke-Ass Stuart.

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29 May 2024

There’s A New Documentary About Emperor Being Made…and Guess Who’s in it!

Shortly after I first moved to San Francisco I learned about Joshua Abraham Norton aka Emperor Norton I, the Gold Rush era eccentric who, after losing all his money (and subsequently losing his marbles as well), showed back up in San Francisco in full royal regalia and declared himself the

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29 May 2024

SF Sheriff’s Union Compares Overtime to Slavery as Members Make $200k+ in OT a Year

By Tom Gantert via The Center Square The San Francisco Deputy Sheriffs’ Association recently referred to the extra hours their union members are working to as “slavery.” The union wrote on its website in April: “Overtime Slavery: San Francisco Sheriff’s Office Struggles Amidst Rising Violence and Staff Shortages.” “Within the

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28 May 2024

Delicious Eats, Drinks, & Songs at BottleRock 2024

There was plenty of musical nostalgia at Bottle Rock this year with Stevie Nicks and Pearl Jam headlining, St. Vincent and Megan Thee Stallion kept the children of soccer moms and wine dads dancing through the day, While Steph Curry and Bradly Cooper shot cheesesteaks like basketballs to us in

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