There’s something magical about a hotel that’s been taken over by artists.  Generally in hotels you walk past rooms in the night and wonder what strangers may be up to behind closed doors.  At stARTup Art Fair at the Hotel Del Sol, you got to walk into any room you

The “Artist You Should Know” series highlights local artists before they exhibit their work somewhere awesome, it’s our way of supporting the creative community and helping to keep San Francisco a strange and wonderful place.  Meet artist Joshua Coffy, the ‘gifting king of San Francisco’ Sometimes a little inspiration is all we need.

Things Are Happening At Asian Art Museum Thursday Nights all summer. Ma Li performs May 28th, $5 after 5pm _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The “Artist You Should Know” series highlights local artists before they exhibit their work somewhere awesome, it’s our way of supporting the creative community and helping to keep San Francisco a strange and

Off Menu is our tribute to the service industry. It’s where we cover restaurant openings and bar closings, industry rumors and inside dirt. It’s where we cheer on our favorite chefs, servers, and nightlife superheroes. And the best part is, it comes from those of us that live that life,

  Be sure to check out our Marriage 2.0 giveaway at the end of this piece. The ‘Citizen Kane’ of porn has finally arrived, and has its theatrical premiere at the Victoria Theatre on May 2. ‘Marriage 2.0’ is a groundbreaking new intellectual porn flick examining the polyamory relationship model

From Bowie to Bono to Bob Dylan, many rock gods also fancy themselves as painters, we asked an expert if their skills transferred over

You thought you had seen it all, but clearly you had not.  Watch designer Analog Watch Co out of Philadelphia is set to release a watch that comes with an ant farm kit.  As they put it, “Now you can carry the miracle of life, wherever you go.”  This presents an interesting philosophical

This is not an article about celebrity painters like Andy Warhol or Salvador Dalí, this is an article about celebrities who paint, like Johnny Depp and and Lucy Liu.  The difference between the two is not as obvious as one might think.  I sat down with art critic and San