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Photos: ‘Jesus Ken’ Wins Hunky Jesus Contest as Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Celebrate Their 45th Anniversary

‘Barbie’-mania had one more hurrah at Easter Sunday’s Hunky Jesus Contest in Dolores Park, with a perfectly Mattel-produced Jesus Ken winning the title and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence honoring their 45th anniversary.

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Green Day Doing Small Show Tuesday at The Fillmore to Raise Awareness of Climate Change Impacts

Bay Area music legends Green Day are putting on a show next week at the historic, and very intimate Fillmore, and tickets are available to the public.

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The Boss, Bruce Springsteen, Playing Sold Out Shows at Chase Center Tonight and Sunday

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are in San Francisco for shows tonight and Sunday, and in their honor, the city has temporarily renamed Warriors Way, aka South Street, in the band's honor.

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Oakland’s First Fridays Announces Its Return From Hiatus Next Weekend For First Friday April

The popular outdoor nighttime street fair Oakland First Fridays has been on hiatus since January, but recently announced they’re bringing the event back for the First Friday of April, next Friday, April 5.

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SFFILM Festival Announces 2024 Film Festival Lineup, Including Richard Roundtree’s Final Role

The SF International Film Festival SFFILM just announced its 2024 lineup, with an Opening Night feature shot in Fremont, and a Closing Night feature that has the final screen appearance of the late Richard Roundtree (“Shaft”).

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SF-Born Metal Sculptor Richard Serra, Known As the ‘Poet of Iron,’ Has Died at 85

Brother to the famed local defense attorney Tony Serra, internationally renowned metal sculptor Richard Serra may be best known locally for sculptures so huge that they blocked traffic in SoMa, but he passed Tuesday in New York from pneumonia.

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People Are Putting ‘Free Blockbuster’ Kiosks Around the Bay Area, and Really the Whole Country

Retro movie lovers are creating their own DIY “Free Blockbuster” kiosks so people can borrow or leave DVD and VHS movies for free, and a smattering of these lending libraries are popping up around the Bay Area.

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4/20 on Hippie Hill Gets Canceled By Organizers, For 2024 At Least

The organizers of the official Hippie Hill 4/20 event have canceled this year’s smoke-filled festivities over budget cuts and lack of sponsorship. But considering 4/20 falls on a Saturday this year, mobs of stoners are probably going to show up anyway.

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The Stud Announces Its Grand Opening at Its New SoMa Location Will Be April 20

SF’s oldest LGBTQ bar is dragging itself back onto the scene, as they’ve announced a grand reopening date of Saturday, April 20 at their new Folsom and Seventh street location, with liquor licenses and entertainment permits secured.

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Bay Lights Coming Back On? Organizers Say They've Almost Hit Their $11 Million Goal

The arts organization behind the Bay Bridge’s Bay Lights project says they’re just $250,000 shy of the $11 million they need to turn those lights back on — and this time, cover both sides of the bridge with lights.

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21-Hour Marathon of All Nine 'Star Wars' Movies Happening at Alamo Drafthouse

Are you such a big Star Wars fan that you'd like to sit through all nine movies of the saga in one go with a bunch of other Star Wars fans? Well, Alamo Drafthouse can give you this experience.

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Day Around the Bay: SFMOMA and City College Settle Legal Dispute Over Mural

The "Free Fentanyl" guy is back hanging around a Richmond District playground; SFMOMA and City College have settled their legal dispute over the cost to move that Diego Rivera mural; and Evan Low is leading in the South Bay primary for second place to succeed Anna Eshoo in Congress by just 3 votes.

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Tony-Winning Musicals and a World Premiere Musical Come to the Bay Area This Spring

This spring's theater season in San Francisco is especially full with acclaimed shows newly on tour, and a world-premiere musical at Berkeley Rep centered on the story of Galileo Galilei.

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Mayor Breed Wants To Keep That Giant Ferris Wheel at Fisherman’s Wharf Another Year and a Half

The 150-foot Ferris wheel that’s technically known as the SkyStar Observation Wheel is scheduled to shut down April 30, but could stay at Fisherman’s Wharf through October 2025 if Mayor Breed gets her way.

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Your 2024 St. Patrick’s Day Weekend Event Guide, Featuring the Reopening of FiDi Pub Harrington’s

The 85-year-old Financial District Irish pub Harrington’s is reopening in time for St. Patrick’s Day weekend! That highlights three days of parades, parties, Irish food fare, and of course DUI checkpoints.

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Bay Area Professor and Brett Kavanaugh Accuser Christine Blasey Ford Publishes Memoir

Having come out the other side of the media wringer from her testimony in 2018's confirmation hearing of Brett Kavanaugh, Christine Blasey Ford has published a memoir titled 'One Way Back.'

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'The 39 Steps' at SF Playhouse Is a Clever, Madcap Four-Person Sendup of a Hitchcock Thriller

Classic pieces of cinema have a way of becoming sacrosanct — like holy texts that are meant to be studied and revered, but never questioned, and certainly never parodied. Still, though, Alfred Hitchcock's much acclaimed early spy thriller 'The 39 Steps' from 1939 is ripe for mockery.

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‘The Far Country’ at Berkeley Rep Is a Glorious Historical Epic About a Terrible Chapter In SF History

2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist ‘The Far Country’ makes its way to the Bay Area stage, with a brutal depiction of what it took for Chinese immigrants to enter San Francisco in the early 1900s.

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SF Symphony Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen Is Parting Ways With the Orchestra, Possibly Over Finances

Acclaimed Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen has announced his departure from the San Francisco Symphony after the upcoming season, after a tenure that has lasted only four years.

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Seattle Indie Station KEXP Buys Up Bay Area’s Constantly Format-Changing 92.7 FM, Starts Broadcasting Tuesday

A popular Seattle radio station has bought the Bay Area’s 92.7 FM station (currently known as 92.7 The Hu$tle), and will start broadcasting their indie rock stylings next week.

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Kanye West 'Listening Party' Packs In the Fans, Antisemitism Be Damned, at Chase Center

Kanye West still has plenty of fans who are up for whatever weird bullshit he's putting on, even here in the Bay Area, as was evident in the fairly full-sounding crowd that showed up at Chase Center Tuesday for a "Vultures 1" listening party.

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Church of 8 Wheels Building Gets Landmark Status, Skate Parties Will Apparently Keep On Rollin’

The former church on Fillmore Street now popularly known as the Church 8 Wheels was granted landmark status by the SF Board of Supervisors Tuesday, and while the property will be redeveloped into housing, its popular skate rink will reportedly stay intact.

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Former Pixar Screenwriter Says 'The Holdovers' Was Plagiarized From Something He Wrote

The Oscar-winning film 'The Holdovers,' which stars Paul Giamatti and is set at a New England boarding school in the 1970s, is brazenly similar to a screenplay that a former Pixar writer penned and shopped around Hollywood in recent years, that writer says.

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Catch the Oscars 2024 in Style at These San Francisco Bay Area Watch Parties

From casual free watch parties at the Knockout to game-filled events at the Balboa Theater to a black-tie fete at Cinelounge Tiburon, here are some ways to watch the Oscars in and around SF Sunday.

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Castro Theatre Restoration Work Begins With the Grand Ceiling

A month after its final public events before renovations began, the Castro Theatre is undergoing the first phase of its glow-up, and restorers are already working on the elaborate, gilded ceiling.