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San Francisco has always been known as a place for the odd, the abnormal, and the innovative. A city truly reborn through the arts of the World's Fair after the 1906 Earthquake, S.F. is a city where counter-culture arts bleed into business events, and where new entertainers are born.

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Madonna To Bring Madame X Tour To SF's Golden Gate Theater This Fall

San Francisco wasn't originally on the schedule of Madonna's small theater-based Madame X Tour, but it has now been added. The one and only Madge will be performing her latest show three times at the Golden Gate Theater, on October 31, November 2, and November 4.

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An Ode to 30 Years of Pier 39's Sea Lions

In 1989, shortly after the Loma Prieta Earthquake, gaggles of sea lions began randomly showing up on the famous San Francisco pier in growing numbers. And they continue to return 30 years later.

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Mid-Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Playful Pod of Risso's Dolphins Breach In Monterey Bay

It's been a short workweek but it's felt like a long one for a number of reasons — gun debates, a deadly but slow-moving hurricane, a deadly boat fire, a dissatisfying verdict, Sharpie-gate. So please enjoy this little video break.

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Chase Center Hosts Saturday Block Party; Muni Adds Special Arena Bus Lines

The Warriors just announced a block party set for tomorrow outside the Chase Center that is free and open to the public, featuring food, drinks, games, and appearances by the Warriors themselves.

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Nobel-Winning Economist Says Burning Man Could Be A Model For Future Modes Of Makeshift Urbanization

Paul Romer, the 63-year-old American economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2018, visited Burning Man for the first time this year, and he came away more fascinated and inspired than he expected to be.

Skate on Art at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture's Outdoor Roller Rink

Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture presents 'actions vent ascending frequencies,' a participatory art installation and roller rink experience that will be free to the public from September 13 through October 6, 2019.

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Judy Collins, Fantastic Negrito, Petra Haden, and (Many) More Complete the 2019 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Lineup

With this year’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (HSB) festival now just a month away, the final acts have been announced—and the wait was well, well worth it.

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Oprah Is Coming To SF In February

The great and almighty Oprah Winfrey is doing an arena show tour called "Oprah's Vision 2020: Your Life in Focus," and it will be landing at the new Chase Center on February 22.

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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Bans Coolers, Adopts Clear Bag Policy For The Mass Shooting Era

It will be an Outside Lands-style gated entrance with security at this year’s free bluegrass festival, and your cooler is no longer welcome, but your dog still is.

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Pretty Much None of the 900 Parking Spots At the Chase Center Are For the Public

In case the word hasn't gotten out far and wide enough, I'm just going to say it again here: Do not drive to games and concerts at the Chase Center.

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Some Companies Are Letting Employees Expense Trips To Burning Man

Some Bay Area companies have "chief culture officers," and some of these party mavens think that Burning Man is the perfect place for coworkers to bond and unwind over a few hallucinogens.

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Burning Man Supposedly Will Have Fewer Turnkey Camps And Insta-Tourists This Year

Complaints have gone on for years about luxe, "plug-and-play" camps built for douchebags who ruin everything. Will anything really change?

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Bay Area FM Radio Mainstay KFOG Is Saying Goodbye, Switching To Sports

Longtime residents of the Bay Area are already in mourning for the loss of KFOG, 104.5 FM, which will finally go off the air September 6 after a slow death by a thousand corporate cuts.

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First Look At Burning Man 2019's Art and Installations

The exodus began in earnest over the weekend and will continue all week, and for those who aren't going — or those who are but don't mind spoilers — here's the art we know of so far.

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Guy Who Put Piano On Bernal Hill Installs New Piano At Fort Point

Not to be confused with Flower Piano, the event that happens annually in July at the Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park, PianFrancisco is a similar sort of public music effort that was started by a different guy six years ago.

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Anonymous Muralist BiP Returns To Add Fourth Mural in San Francisco

The graffiti artist who goes only by the name BiP (which stands for Believe in People) was at work this week on a new "megamural" on the side of a new building at Franklin and Market.

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Guy Who's Lived In San Francisco For One Year Would Like To Explain San Francisco To You

A budding YouTuber by the name of Tom Dehnel has just produced a video about the pleasures and pains, wonders and woes of living in our fair city.

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Bay Lights Artist Leo Villareal Is Lighting Up 15 Bridges In London

The latest project from the Burning Man artist turned public-art guru Leo Villareal is called "Illuminated River," and it features different lighting schemes on each of the 15 bridges that cross the Thames in London.

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FogCam, The World’s Oldest Webcam, To Shut Off August 30

The oldest still-operating webcam was born in San Francisco, but it will cease to exist next week after 25 years of producing grainy footage of the fog rolling through SF State.

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Burning Man Artist Had Elephant Sculptures and Truck Stolen In West Oakland

Well known local artist and Burner Jack Champion says he's devastated to have lost a pair of elephant installations he's been working on for the past 10 months, which he intended to bring to Burning Man on Sunday.

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SF Animal Care's 'Officer Edith': 'There's Always A Skunk At the Bottom of a Hole'

One of the darlings of the local government Twitterati, the voice behind the @OfficerEdith Twitter handle that tweets cute pictures of animals rescued by Animal Care & Control, is actually named Lt. Eleanor Sadler.

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[Update] Alamo Drafthouse Reopens After Small Electrical Fire; Refunds Offered

If you had tickets for a movie tonight or were planning to see something at Alamo Drafthouse in the Mission in the next day or so, you may be out of luck as the theater is temporarily closed pending an SFFD inspection on Monday.

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Hoorah! Curran Theater Will Continue To Be Run By Carole Shorenstein Hays Following Settlement With SHN

Theater fans who worried that The Curran might stop importing interesting Broadway fare from New York due to a court fight can breathe a sigh of relief -- the theater can continue to book what it wants "without restriction."

Sorry Guys, That E-40 Video With the Nuns Dancing Is a Fake

E-40 himself has shared the video, which has racked up 500,000 views in the last 24 hours, but the it’s actually a bunch of Polish nuns dancing to a boys choir from September 2018.

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Robert Plant, Emmylou Harris and Kurt Vile Round Out Hardly Strictly Lineup

The organizers of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass have released more of the 2019 lineup, which includes rock legend turned country rocker Robert Plant, and former War on Drugs guitarist Kurt Vile with his band The Violators.