Arts & Entertainment

Photos: Three-Legged Dogs Again Take Over Duboce Park For Annual Three-Legged Dog Picnic

Nearly 50 “tri-pawed dogs” took to Duboce Park Sunday for the 12th annual three-legged dog picnic, and we’ve got pup-arazzi pictures and video of these canines who’ve bounced back from some ruff encounters.

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Photos: Dead & Company Draws Thousands to SF For Final Shows, Dazzles With Drone Display

The final concerts by Grateful Dead spinoff band Dead & Company took place over the weekend at Oracle Park, and they came with some spectacular drone light shows hovering over the stadium, in a fitting farewell.

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Newsom Signs Bill Allowing Marijuana to Be Sold and Smoked at County Fairs

Funnel cake sales may be off the charts at California county fairs, as Governor Gavin Newsom just signed a bill allowing county fairs to sell cannabis on-site, and allowing for "smoking sections" where fair attendees can blaze up.

Arts & Entertainment

SFMOMA to Feature Its First-Ever Solo Exhibition of the Work of Yayoi Kusama Starting in October

The great polka-dot queen of contemporary art, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, will be featured in a year-long exhibition at SFMOMA that begins this October, and it will include her latest immersive "Infinity Mirror Room."

Arts & Entertainment

Your Chance to See Patti Smith and Bob Mould, For Free at Stern Grove, Comes With Ticket Drop Today

Today, Thursday, at 2 p.m., the free tickets go live for Patti Smith's return to San Francisco, playing at the Stern Grove Festival next month with Bob Mould.

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Presidio Tunnel Tops To Get Additional Picnic Area On What's Now Sports Basement's Parking Lot

There's a project that's about two years out to convert part of the current Sports Basement parking lot next to Crissy Field into an extension of the 14-acre Presidio Tunnel Tops park.

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Ferry Building Celebrates Its 125th Anniversary Thursday With ‘A Very Ferry Birthday Party’

There’ll be free Humphry Slocombe ice cream, live music, (not free) Fort Point beer and more at Thursday’s Very Ferry Birthday Party to celebrate 125 years of the SF Ferry Building’s glorious but complicated history.

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2022 Tony Winner For Best New Musical, 'A Strange Loop,' Comes to SF Next Season at A.C.T.

The acclaimed musical by Michael R. Jackson that took Broadway by storm last year, 'A Strange Loop,' will be coming to San Francisco next season directly from engagements on Broadway and London's West End.

Business & Tech

SF-Based Pokémon Go Creator Niantic Labs Celebrates Game’s Seventh Anniversary After Layoff Of 25% of Staff

To be fair, Niantic Labs is also doing a bunch of game promotions and specials for Pokémon Go’s seventh anniversary, but that’s probably little comfort to the 230 employees the company just laid off.

Arts & Entertainment

SF Zoo Launching ‘Sunset Fridays’ Happy Hour Event Every Friday This Summer, Starting This Weekend

A “cocktails with animals” series kicks off Friday night at the San Francisco Zoo, as Sunset Friday lets you mingle with animals whilst enjoying a drink to the live music of SFJazz, every Friday night through the end of August.

Arts & Entertainment

Sutro Tower Will Have Red, White and Blue Lasers Shooting Through It This Week

In honor of the Fourth of July, and commemorating the 50th birthday of San Francisco's Sutro Tower, there will be lasers shooting up through the radio tower for five nights this week.

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SF Mime Troupe Tackles Homelessness In Their New Production ‘Breakdown,’ Premiering This Weekend

A musical about homelessness? Leave it to the San Francisco Mime Troupe, whose hard-hitting ‘Breakdown: A New Musical’ opens this weekend in Berkeley, and comes to SF’s Dolores Park for July 4.

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San Francisco Has A Sheriff’s Deputy Who’s Also A Drag Queen, WooWoo Monroe

Here’s a new twist on the “cops at Pride” debate —  the San Francisco Sheriff's Department has a deputy who moonlights as one of San Jose’s most prominent drag queens, WooWoo Monroe.

Arts & Entertainment

New Indoor Pickleball Courts Set to Open at the Palace of Fine Arts In Two Weeks

Some new pickleball courts have been fashioned out of a space at the Palace of Fine Arts that appears to be the former Exploratorium museum, and they'll be available for reservations soon to quench the city's high demand among pickleball enthusiasts.

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Escape Reality With RuPaul's Drag Race Werq The World Tour in SF

RuPaul's Drag Race Werq the World Tour continues to dazzle and delight fans as it makes its way through North America, and now it's San Francisco's turn to experience the magic and mayhem of the world's largest drag production on July 19th at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium.

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Peaches Christ Isn't Having Google's Excuses About Pride Party Snub

SF drag star Peaches Christ is calling out Google for appearing to kowtow to conservatives and tone down their presence at an employee Pride event this year and pretend that the employees had gone rogue.

Arts & Entertainment

Madonna Tour On Hold As Singer Recovers From Serious Health Scare

Madonna's much-hyped Celebration Tour, which was set to kick off in two weeks in Vancouver, is on indefinite pause after she reportedly suffered a serious bacterial infection and was found unresponsive in her New York City home over the weekend.

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Yes, Virginia, There Will Be a ‘Golden Girls Live!’ For Christmas 2023, Despite Heklina’s Passing

The death of local drag icon Heklina won’t stop the Golden Girls from being a friend for your upcoming holiday season, as Miss Coco Peru has signed on to take Heklina’s traditional role of the garishly outfitted Dorothy Zbornak in this year’s production.

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97-Year-Old San Francisco Art Institute Campus Hits the Market for Undisclosed Asking Price

Could a different school step in and revive the historic San Francisco Art Institute campus on Chestnut Street? We shall now see, as the nearly century-old property has officially hit the market in a bankruptcy sale, for an unlisted sum.

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Photos: Mayor London Breed Wore a Tutu and More Images From SF Pride 2023

SF Pride was certainly back in full force this year, with BART noting that ridership on Sunday was even up about 20% higher than in 2022. And here are some photos from the parade itself.

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Renegade ‘People’s March’ Returns Sunday of Pride Weekend, To Prioritize Activism Over Capitalism

The fourth annual People’s March and Rally is set for Sunday, right at the same time as the more commercialized larger Pride Parade, to “offer an alternative for those who prefer the harder edge of protest.”

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NY Artist Says Market Street Rainbow Laser Light Installation Is Plagiarized

Yvette Mattern, a visual artist, created a rainbow laser installation over a decade ago in New York City, and she has brought it to over a dozen cities since then. She says that Illuminate the Arts plagiarized her work in creating their similar Market Street installation for Pride last year.

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'Into the Woods,' Featuring Broadway Greats, Arrives In Glorious Shape at the Curran

The recent Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's 'Into the Woods,' which won Tony nominations for Best Revival, for its director and sound designer and several cast members, has come to San Francisco for just a few select performances. And it's playing at the Curran through Sunday.

Arts & Entertainment

78-Member, All LGBTQ+ International Pride Orchestra Performing First Ever Concert Thursday Night

You may not have ever seen the New York Philharmonic or the Metropolitan Opera, but you can see some of their musicians perform live, as the brand new International Pride Orchestra debuts Thursday with an all-star cast of all LGBTQ+ musicians in an event hosted by Peaches Christ.

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Immersive Theatrical Party 'Pride In Gotham' to Deliver Campy Batman Experience Inside Historic Hibernia Bank

A pretty unique Pride Week offering kicks off Tuesday night at the historic, long shuttered and barely-seen-for-decades Hibernia Bank space at Jones and Market, and it's sure to be a campy queer romp in a very gay Gotham City.