Artist you should know

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

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

San Francisco Symphony In Trouble on a Major Scale
With it’s new conductor resigning, and the mass cancellation of programming, the musicians are standing up to fight and save our symphony.

Drag Performer You Should Know: Hollow Eve
Hollow Eve who identifies as a “Post Binary Drag Socialist with a penchant for anarchy” will be closing the festival on Sunday, May 19 at 6pm at Omni Commons in Oakland, with a show entitled Rebirth: The Death of Drag. With this description, I needed to know more. They were kind enough to meet me for a quick interview and photoshoot this week.

The Mesmerizing, Apocalyptic Art of Andrea Bergen
A violently adorable raccoon looms ominously from a shopping cart filled with junk food against an idyllic seascape. Around her fly seagulls and a pigeon wearing a pink iced donut. I say ‘her’, because emerging from this raccoon’s fur are tiny baby raccoons. Hissing from the bottom of the shopping

Death, Art, and Ecosexuals at a Church in San Francisco
I really only like going to church in San Francisco. In other cities, the churches are probably full of priests, pastors, and prophets. But I’m rarely looking for that kind of performance. In San Francisco, you can get a nice sound bath at Grace Cathedral, Hunky Jesus and Foxy Mary

Unmasking Creativity: Get to Know Cosplay Luminary Kristin Gallup
Meet Kristin Gallup, the creative force behind Sable and Sin, an Oakland small maker business that makes handmade clothing and goods perfect for special events, cosplay, LARPing and festival wear. From the juxtaposition of delicate lace with rugged leather to the intricacy of her whimsical yet functional designs, Kristin’s designs

Making The Coolest Balloon Art in The World
Back in 2000, during the first dot-com economic downturn, Korene Tom lost her administration job. From there, Korene saw this as a rare opportunity to leave that life behind and become – a balloon artist and clown! Today, she is making some of the most amazing balloon art I’ve ever