Arts & Entertainment Last Week, This Week: SF LGBT Center’s Building the Block House Party This weekend: Scenes from Carnaval and Chinatown Pride. Last week: A BART wedding, a Muni tram, a Seth Rogan rom-com, and AI bots on the fritz; This week: book festival, menstrual dignity day, pro-wrestling, and SF LGBT Center block party.
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 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 Mid-Market Street May Get a Block Party on the Same First Thursdays as the Party on Second Street The stretch of Market Street between Powell Street and Civic Center has long been the subject of great hope for city officials, and those hopes have been raised and dashed many times over the years.
Arts & Entertainment Halloween Returns In the Castro Saturday With Screenings, Drag Performances, But No Street Closure Halloween is back in the Castro for the first time in 17 years, with storefront activations, movie screenings, drag shows, and a block party that will last all day and night Saturday — with a party for the kids happening on Sunday.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 12/8: Beats By The Bay ART: The Ever Gold Gallery presents Beats by the Bay: SF Artists & Galleries of the Fifties, featuring work by the less publicized Beat visual artists, including artist/writer/educator Fred Martin, gallery
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/31: Halloween Concert at the Freight, Adam Gopnik, Nopa Halloween Block Party MUSIC: Classical at the Freight presents a special Halloween Concert featuring the Bellavente Wind Quintet performing a special early family-friendly concert of "spooky and adventurous music" designed for kids of all ages. There
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: Surrealistic one-man band, Andrew Goldfarb (aka The Slow Poisoner) and absurdist writer/performer Dan Carbone, have merged as The Wounded Stag, a "psychotronic vaudeville," in which they "sing from their hearts and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: Green Planet Films presents a benefit screening of Truck Farm!, in which filmmaker Ian Cheney turned the 40 square feet of space in his truck's bed into an urban farm bed. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Happy Bastille Day! MEET-UP: The creators of Shitty Kitty are moving to Morocco, and this is Shitty Kitty's last meet-up for quite some time. So come by for their Bastille Day Partay and bid them adieu.
Arts & Entertainment Good Magazine Will Do You Good (Block Party This Sunday!) We've been big fans of Good Magazine since their premier issue came out last fall. We love the inspiring stories they cover and the ways they present them -- graphics, design, and concept
Arts & Entertainment Let's All Go To The Movies: Local Feasts! La Vie En Rose (the Embarcadero) is a full course, all four food groups, soup and cocktails, dinner of a film. (It screened at the SFIFF, and we loved it then too!) And
