Arts & Entertainment

Oakland’s Chinatown Throwing a Night Market Saturday, On Heels of Successful SF Night Markets

Following some wildly successful night markets in San Francisco, Oakland’s Chinatown will make its mark with the Chinatown Night Market this Saturday night, with a “Dumpling Olympics” and more.

Arts & Entertainment

Sculpture Garden Comes to Transamerica Pyramid, Featuring Famous French Sculptors

When the Transamerica Pyramid reopens to the public next week after a renovation, it will have some new, publicly accessible, outdoor art from a pair of renowned French sculptors.

Arts & Entertainment

Gigantic Dust Storms Led to Reported Ten-Hour Wait to Leave Burning Man on Monday

Extreme weather caused massive backups in the line out of Burning Man for the second consecutive year on Monday, and car rental companies are vowing to charge hundreds of dollars if they find a speck of that incriminating desert dust on their vehicles.

Arts & Entertainment

Elton John Reveals Reason For Canceling His Dreamforce Concert

Elton John has now explained the "unforeseen circumstances" that are keeping him from performing his much-anticipated Oracle Park show during Dreamforce.

Arts & Entertainment

Yes, There’s an SF Burning Man at Ocean Beach Saturday, Co-Organized by… Former SF Supervisor Eric Mar?

There are actually several contingents of Burners heading to Ocean Beach Saturday to put on their own miniature versions of Burning Man, but one of them appears to be co-organized by former District 1 Supervisor Eric Mar.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

This Weekend’s Bizerkeley Food Fest Set to Serve Up ‘Meat Eater-Approved Vegan Food’

The Bay Area’s big Labor Day weekend street fair will be Sunday’s fourth annual Bizerkeley Food Fest, with samples and delicious dishes galore of eats “made by vegans for a meat eater's tastebuds.”

Arts & Entertainment

Institute of Contemporary Art Moving to Downtown SF's 'Cube' Building

The two-year-old Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco is expanding and moving to a new space in San Francisco's Financial District, in a deal with a real estate investment firm.

Arts & Entertainment

Downtown SF Oktoberfest Will Be the First Boozy, Open-Container ‘Entertainment Zone’ Party

The streets will be closed to cars and the beer steins flowing at Oktoberfest on Front, as the Oktoberfest block part will be California’s first alcohol-drenched “entertainment zone” party under new legislation.

Arts & Entertainment

Oprah Winfrey Hosting Prime Time Special on AI Featuring Sam Altman, Bill Gates

Oprah is taking on the topic of artificial intelligence, and she'll be airing a prime-time special on ABC in September to ask the question "AI: What is it?" and other things your parents and grandparents have been asking.

SF News

SF Performing an Audit of City’s 98 Statues to Determine If Any Should Be Removed for Being Racist or Sexist

An outside firm has been hired to perform an audit of the 98 statues and monuments in SF, and recommend which ones should be removed or altered if they "no longer represent the values that we say the city stands for.”

Arts & Entertainment

Giant Nude Female Figure Likely to Be Installed In Union Square This Winter

A towering, illuminated sculpture of a nude woman, one of a series of three created for Burning Man by artist Marco Cochrane in the last decade, is set to make an appearance in SF's Union Square, pending final approvals.

Arts & Entertainment

SFO Bomb-Sniffer Dog Wins TSA 'Cutest Canine' Contest

Barni, a 5-year-old German shorthaired pointer whom you may have encountered while waiting in a TSA line at San Francisco International Airport, just won a prize for being cute from the TSA.

Arts & Entertainment

Burning Man Continues to Get More Queer, Wealthier, Majority Female

The Burning Man Census for 2023 is now out, just as Burners are arriving on the playa for another late-August week of revelry in the Black Rock Desert. And many of the demographic trends seen in the 2022 census are continuing.

SF News

Woman Dies on Playa on Day One of Burning Man 2024

There was a death reported Sunday in Black Rock City, on the first full day of this year's Burning Man festival, and so far the only detail released is that the victim was female.

Arts & Entertainment

F Train to Become Mobile Jazz Club For New Mid-Market First Thursdays Block Party

The scope of activities happening in downtown San Francisco on the first Thursday of every month just got bigger with UNSTAGED, a new Mid-Market block party being put on by Market Street Arts. And it will turn the F-line streetcar into a boistrous, mobile jazz venue.

Arts & Entertainment

Another Planet Announces Free Portugal.The Man Show In Civic Center Next Month

Fulfilling their pledge to put on three free concerts in the city this year, Another Planet Entertainment has just announced what the second one will be, and it's Portugal.The Man.

SF Politics

Nancy Pelosi's Appearance on Colbert Gets Interrupted By Protesters

A live broadcast of 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert' Tuesday night in Chicago with House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi as a guest was interrupted several times by pro-Palestinian protesters in the audience.

Arts & Entertainment

Nicolas Cage Cast to Star In Biopic About… John Madden?

Boom! Amazon’s new movie about the life of former Raiders coach, football announcer, and video-game namesake John Madden has cast none other than the prolifically over-acting Nicolas Cage to star in the title role.

SF News

Major Shen Yun Exposé: Dancers Not Allowed to Get Treated for Medical Injuries, Paid Only $12,000 a Year

The NY Times just dropped a massive exposé on our favorite butt of jokes Shen Yun, but there’s nothing funny about the fact that the troupe is sitting on more than $250 million, while paying its dancers $12,000 a year and forbidding them from getting medical treatment.

Arts & Entertainment

Burning Man Tickets Still Haven’t Sold Out, Just Ten Days Before Event

It’s the first time in 14 years that Burning Man hasn’t sold out before the event, and tickets are still available with T-minus ten days until the gates open, after last year’s mucked-up nightmare where people couldn't leave.

Arts & Entertainment

Cal Shakes' 50th Anniversary Season Saved By Last-Minute Fundraising Drive

A September production of Shakespeare's 'As You Like It' is full-steam ahead at the California Shakespeare Theater, after an emergency fundraising drive launched in July succeeded in covering a $350,000 budget shortfall.

Arts & Entertainment

SF’s Famed Ed Hardy’s Tattoo City to Close, Amidst Don Ed Hardy’s Ongoing Health Issues

The renowned 47-year-old tattoo parlor Ed Hardy’s Tattoo City will be closing at the end of 2024, as its legendary founder Don Ed Hardy is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

Arts & Entertainment

SF Symphony Moves Forward With Plans For Davies Expansion, Even Though They Have Budget Problems

Despite a current budget shortfall, the San Francisco Symphony is nonetheless contemplating a major redesign and expansion of Davies Symphony Hall in the coming years.

Arts & Entertainment

The Most Unwelcome Guests at This Year's Outside Lands: Wasps

Golden Gate Park was, atypically for August, teeming with yellowjackets this past weekend, prompting some Outside Lands festival-goers to wonder if the foot traffic had disturbed their nests, or something.

Arts & Entertainment

Chappell Roan Draws Predictably Massive Crowd on Day Three of Outside Lands 2024

Sunday at Outside Lands this year was all about one act, Chappell Roan, who was moved to a 4 pm slot on the mainstage to accommodate an extra-large crowd. A lot of people seemed to stick around for Post Malone and Kaytranada, too, however. And Crystal Waters slayed.