San Francisco

Hangout with all the Artists & Art in the Mission
The final weekend of ArtSpan’s 2017 Open Studios is upon us, and it’s a doozie. Mission, Castro, Noe, & Upper Market are all reporting for duty. There are lots of studios within walking distance, many that contain some of our favorite artists. This weekend of Open Studios is a real treat. Thanks

The Stories & Figures Behind Some of SF’s Street Names
San Francisco is an old, iron safe filled with gold, glory, disaster, and secrets. SFCentric History is a column, by SF writer V. Alexandra de F. Szoenyi, that digs in the vaults of local history and shares the sensational people, places, and things that rocked San Francisco. We drive along several San

Filipino-American Vicki Draves Made Olympic History
San Francisco is an old, iron safe filled with gold, glory, disaster, and secrets. SFCentric History is a new column, by SF writer V. Alexandra de F. Szoenyi, that digs in the vaults of local history and shares the sensational people, places, and things that rocked San Francisco. This time it’s all

New Measure Will Give Lawyers to Tenants Facing Eviction in San Francisco
“No Eviction Without Representation!” Advocates for tenants rights should rejoice, this new ballot measure for June 2018 would give all San Franciscans the right to legal representation when their landlord attempts to evict them. Which means if you cannot afford an attorney to challenge the eviction, the city will provide

BAS Fiction– Them SpaceCrafts: Part One
THEM SPACECRAFTS: Part One by Devin Holt Turns out it’s good that Aunt Tina is so bitchy. Because if she wasn’t, none of this would have happened. Papi would have got burned in the fires, we never would have found them SpaceCrafts, and Damone wouldn’t be two-inches from becoming my

WE WANNA SEND YOU TO THE GREAT DICKENS CHRISTMAS FAIR!
The Great Dickens Christmas Fair is a one-of-a-kind holiday adventure into Victorian London – an elaborate party with hundreds of costumed players performing and interacting with patrons in over 120,000 square feet of theatrically-lit music halls, pubs, dance floors, and Christmas shops. It’s a twilight evening in Charles Dickens’ London Town

Check to see if SFMTA owes you money, $600k of unclaimed overcharges
Every now and again the SFMTA takes stock of all their overcharges and tries to give the money back to the people. Last time they let it acrue to more than $6 million dollars in overages until they opened it up to repayments. Now, if you think you were double

This Week’s Best Events | San Francisco + New York
Rad Upcoming SF Events CREATURES OF THE NIGHTLIFE FT. PEACHES CHRIST THU. 10/26 | 6:00PM @ CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES The creatures come out at NightLife as the Academy partners with Bay Area Science Festival and Peaches Christ Productions to transform the museum into a spine-tingling, supernatural tribute to ’80s horror movies