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The State of Cannabis 2020: How Cannabis Consumers Responded to Crisis

In 2020, cannabis consumers and the industry navigated the same tectonic changes facing all of America and the world: Covid-19 infections and the challenges of quarantine, massive demonstrations for racial justice, and a

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Shotgun Players Announces 30th Anniversary Season, Including the Tony-Winning 'Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812'

Berkeley's Shotgun Players is alive and well, and they're planning an ambitious 30th anniversary season that kicks off with four shows meant to bridge the transition between streaming-only and in-person theater.

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Life-Sized Ox Statues Arrive All Over Town to Celebrate Lunar New Year

There’s no Chinese New Year parade, but the Year of the Ox still rocks with 11 life-size ox statues painted by the artists who normally make the parade’s fantastic floats.

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Burning Man Camps Already Backing Out of 2021 Over COVID-19 Concerns, Despite No Official Call

Well-known Burning Man camps are already chiming in with a big old “Nope” on attending the 2021 event, even as Black Rock City organizers have not officially decided whether to proceed this year.

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Two Napa Brothers Build Mini Version of Disney's Matterhorn Rollercoaster In Their Backyard

A pair of brothers up in Napa have constructed a rollercoaster in their backyard, which one person can ride at a time, styled like Disneyland's Matterhorn, complete with abominable snow monster.

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Rec & Parks Looks to Keep Giant Ferris Wheel In Golden Gate Park Through 2025

Originally slated as a one-year installation that was part of the celebration of the Golden Gate Park sesquicentennial, the 150-foot-tall observation wheel at the Music Concourse might get a four-year extension.

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One-Night Virtual Sketchfest Draws ‘Mr. Show’ Reunion, Peaches Christ, Weird Al

SF Sketchfest has been whittled down to just a one-night livestream this Saturday, but still has dozens of the biggest names in comedy.

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111 Minna Gallery Damaged By Small Fire

A one-alarm fire broke out Wednesday morning at the beloved bar/gallery and entertainment space 111 Minna, and it's not yet known what the extent of the damage was.

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Eureka Valley Gallery With Lofty Aims Opens Virtually, Selling Limited-Edition Prints

Upper Market Gallery has opened virtually, with a real grand opening still in the works, and with a view toward tearing down barriers in the local art world creating new spaces that invite conversation and community.

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SF Art Institute Cleans House After Controversial Attempt to Sell Diego Rivera Mural

The chair of the board and two vice-chairs have resigned after the city shot down their attempt to sell a Diego Rivera mural, and enrollment has dwindled to a measly 27 students.

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Support Local Theater By Watching a One-Night-Only Video Performance of the Lizzie Borden Musical

Way back in 2015, local musical theater company Ray of Light Theatre put on a well received production of 'Lizzie: The Musical,' a rock opera based on the story of notorious family-murderer Lizzie Borden.

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Here's the Full Inaugural Poem 'The Hill We Climb,' By California Poet Amanda Gorman

22-year-old Amanda Gorman, the youngest ever inaugural poet and the country's first ever Youth Poet Laureate, wowed the inaugural crowd and earned immediate accolades from Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Oprah Winfrey after delivering her poem "The Hill We Climb"

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SF Supervisors Move to Make Diego Rivera Mural a Landmark; SFAI Says 'Please Not Yet'

The SF Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to initiate a process to designate the famed Diego Rivera mural at the San Francisco Art Institute's Chestnut Street campus a city landmark, in order to prevent it from being sold and removed.

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Fort Mason Drive-In to Become Satellite Screening Venue for Sundance Film Festival Later This Month

In-person screenings, including world premieres, are coming to San Francisco starting January 28 thanks to a partnership between Sundance and the Roxie — and the city's good graces allowing the drive-in to be used.

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Two Bay Area Contestants Are On Alex Trebek’s Final Episode of ‘Jeopardy!’ Tonight

An SF State professor and an executive assistant from Colma will compete tonight on Alex Trebek’s final episode of ‘Jeopardy!,’ airing at 7 p.m. local time.

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SF Art Institute Mulls Selling Diego Rivera Mural, Possibly to George Lucas

A financial bind has the Art Institute considering selling off its prize mural for $50 million, and George Lucas is reportedly interested in buying.

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Marin Theatre Company to Digitally Premiere 'The Catastrophist,' a New Play About Pandemics

Local playwright Lauren Gunderson has written a new one-man play about "virus hunter" Nathan Wolfe and his prognostications about the economic impact of a pandemic before this one began. And now it's set to premiere virtually via the Marin Theatre Company this month.

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SF Supervisor Hopes to Raise Funds From Local Billionaires to Save Nightlife Venues

Supervisor Matt Haney hopes to create a nightlife fund that will attract private-sector donations so that the city doesn't lose one of its greatest cultural assets before the pandemic is through with us.

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DJ Earworm Condenses 2020's 25 Top Pop Songs Into 3 Minutes

It's time, in these last remaining hours of 2020, to take in DJ Earworm's "United States of Pop" mashup — a yearly tradition, and one more way to nail shut the coffin on this abominable year.

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Six Things to Treat Yourself With This Quiet, Lonesome New Year's Eve in SF

Did you manage to snag a keep a quarantine boyfriend or girlfriend? Yes? No? It doesn't matter. You can still treat yourself with an expensive virtual show ticket and some good booze, and/or food.

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Covidiot Files: Five Northern California Casinos Staying Open for New Year's, Two With Private Events

At least one casino in the Sacramento area is still planning to have a 6,000-person private event on New Year's Eve, even though there is no universe where this is not extremely risky.

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SF Gay Men’s Chorus Documentary Arrives On Various Cable TV Streaming Services

The SF Gay Men's Chorus needed hired security when they took a tour of the Deep South in the immediate wake of the Charlottesville unrest three years back, but get your Kleenex ready for the feature documentary ‘Gay Chorus Deep South’ that captures their tumultuous trip.

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DJ Earworm Debuts 50-Year Medley of Pop Songs From Every Year Since 1970

DJ Earworm, who used call San Francisco home and whose year-end mashups were a mainstay on SFist for many years, has just dropped a 50-year medley that melds a few bars from 50 different songs — one for each year, in order, from 1970 to 2020.

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Huge Russian Hill Spec House Sells for $27M — 40% Below Original Asking Price of $45M

We're learning that a large gated compound on Lombard Street in Russian Hill that was originally listed for $45 million in 2018 and subsequently reduced ended up quietly changing hands earlier this year for $27 million.

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Taylor Mac's 'Holiday Sauce: Pandemic!' Lends Some Subversive Visual Joy to Get You Through the Season

A holiday show that performing artist Taylor Mac first brought to the Curran in San Francisco two years ago, Holiday Sauce, is back in virtual form in a new pandemic edition that's perfect for cuddling up to with your hot toddy as you suffer this COVID Christmas.

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