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Outside Lands Will Have a Full-Time House Music Tent, No Comedy This Year

Checking out the daily schedules for this year's pandemic-delayed Outside Lands, we now see that the fest has gone the way of Coachella and others and added a full tent venue (besides the cramped Heineken one) that will feature house music DJs all weekend.

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Vintage Ad Shows 40 Movie Theaters That Once Dotted San Francisco

San Francisco was once home to over 40 movie theaters and one drive-in, but that was way back in 1958. A vintage ad from the era shows us all that we've lost.

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Sci-Fi Author Frank Herbert Lived in This Potrero Hill House When He Wrote ‘Dune’

For $1.6 million, you can own the house where Frank Herbert wrote the 1965 novel ‘Dune,’ which has yet another Hollywood remake of it opening today.

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16 Top Tux & Suit Shops to Tailor or Rent Your Wedding Day Fit

We've put together a comprehensive list of top tailors and tux-suit shops throughout SF to dress up for your big day.

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Chase Center Will Face New Inspection After Injuries and Death at Phish Concert

SF's Department of Building Inspection is reportedly going to revisit the Chase Center just over two years after it opened, following the debacle at Sunday's Phish show in which two separate falls occurred from upper balconies.

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Stanford Assault Survivor Chanel Miller Has Gallery Display at Asian Art Museum

It’s unusual for an art museum show to be fully visible from the street so passersby can see it for free, but that’s part of the point of Chanel Miller’s “I was, I am, I will be” at the Asian Art Museum.

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17 Best Florists to Perfect Your Wedding Floral Designs in 2022

The truth is that any venue can be made incredible and memorable when the details are applied correctly. These details can change the feel and can elevate something already special into something spectacular.

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14 Best Custom Wedding Cake Makers To Bake A Memorable Dessert For Your Day

San Francisco and the surrounding areas are among the select 'food capitals of the world.' The Michelin Guide assigns its highly coveted Stars at a rate unlike other regions and San Francisco

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Photos: Judy Chicago's de Young Museum Performance Blankets Golden Gate Park With Non-Toxic Smoke

The main entrance space outside the de Young Museum erupted with billows of colorful non-toxic smoke clouds Saturday evening as part of Judy Chicago's 'Forever de Young' open-air performance — leaving Golden Gate Park hazy and smelling of sulfur.

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Yet Another Party Decides to Call Itself ‘Ghost Ship,’ Faces Entirely Predictable Backlash

An Alameda Halloween techno dance cruise promoter claims they were unaware of the 2016 tragedy that took 36 lives, and initially refused to change the event’s name, but eventually budged after a torrent of outrage.

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'Jesus Christ Superstar' In Its 50th Anniversary Tour Is a Brash and Unrelenting Take on the Rock Opera

The latest touring production of the musical, celebrating the show's 50th anniversary, is a stripped-down version of the show with the band on stage that is akin to a concert production, but with a lot of costumes and kinetic dancing by the disciples.

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‘Dear San Francisco’ Is 90 Minutes of Kinetic Adrenaline, and a Worthy Successor to ‘Beach Blanket Babylon’

Club Fugazi’s new show literally jumps through hoops to amaze and astound, as ‘Dear San Francisco’ takes the acrobatic circus genre to dizzying new heights.

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Mayor Breed Shows Up for Premiere of ‘Dear San Francisco,’ Cracks Jokes About Going Maskless

The new show in the former ‘Beach Blanket Babylon’ venue opened at long last Tuesday night, with cameos from Breed and Sup. Aaron Peskin, both of whom brought their senses of humor.

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19 Best Bay Area Wedding Planners to Manage Your Big Day in 2022

Wedding planners in and around San Francisco can help you begin the process of organizing your celebration of love in a beautiful location.

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17 Best SF Wedding Photographers of 2021 To Capture Your Special Day

The vendors you select for wedding flowers, catered food, musicians and yes ... even your dress really only have to stand the test of a single day. Your wedding photographer is different.

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Alleged ‘Screen Test’ for Robin Williams Biopic Has Internet Abuzz Over Amazing Performance

The whole thing appears to be a publicity stunt to generate interest (or investors) in a Robin Williams movie, but actor Jamie Costa’s performance will indeed give you the chills.

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Lead Singer of Bay Area Band Smash Mouth, Steve Harwell, Says He's Retiring Following Chaotic Show That Went Viral

Smash Mouth, which last made headlines here and elsewhere for performing in the middle of a pandemic at the August 2020 Sturgis motorcycle rally/super-spreader event, no longer has a lead singer.

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Two Blocks of Minna and Natoma Streets to Become 'Art Corridor' Leading to SFMOMA and Yerba Buena

The San Francisco Arts Commission has selected five artists to help create a visually interesting and interactive "art corridor" on four alley blocks downtown, connecting the Transbay Transit Center to the art hubs of SFMOMA and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA).

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Watch a Boeing 777 Fly Really Low Over SF Spectators and Do Tricks Over the Bay

Today's Day 1 of the Fleet Week Air Show over the Bay — as if you need to be told with the deafening noise. In case you haven't gone out to the waterfront or stood on a Russian Hill roof to see the festivity and show of military might, we have some footage of the one non-military part of the show.

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‘The Rocky Horror Show’ at Oasis Is Even More Queer Than the Original 'Rocky Horror Picture Show’

A rebooted ‘Rocky Horror’ is playing onstage at Oasis, to time warp you back to the old midnight movie experience with an added meaty loaf of dirty drag humor.

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Parade of Ships Passes Through Golden Gate Friday Morning

If you're not working or can take a break, you may want to head over to Crissy Field or another spot with a good vantage point on the Golden Gate as today's the day for the Parade of Ships.

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Bjork Bringing a Very Bjork-Sounding Flute and Choir Extravaganza to Chase Center In February

Tickets go on sale next week for “Cornucopia,” Bjork’s elaborate stage show featuring an Icelandic choir, a flute ensemble, and projections of Greta Thunberg.

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Artist Judy Chicago to Perform Colorful 'Smoke' Piece Outside deYoung Next Week

Feminist artist Judy Chicago is getting a long-overdue retrospective of her work, which is now on view through January at the deYoung Museum. And as part of the festivity around the show, Chicago will be bringing one of her performative "smoke" pieces to the Music Concourse on Saturday, October 16.

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'BratPack,' a Gloriously Funny Mashup of 80s Movies and Music, Opens at Feinstein's at the Nikko

Especially for children of the 80s, the canon of movies put out by John Hughes and other directors of the so-called Brat Pack of actors are cultural touchstones not to be messed with. But at the same time, they are fairly formulaic products of their time, and they are ripe for parody.

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SOMArts to Host Día de Los Muertos Exhibit That Shows How Grieving Transformed Amid COVID

Now in its 22nd year, SOMArts’ annual Día de Los Muertos exhibit this year will feature works from 21 contributing artists at what’s expected to be one of the most internationally diverse Day of the Dead celebrations held anywhere in the United States.

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