Arts & Entertainment Last Week, This Week: Queer Caribbean Sounds, KQED Talk, Native Arts Fest, Succulent Expo Last week: Waymos driving like humans, flying cars on pre-order, and a Toronado memecoin; This week: Interview with the first openly gay Black legislator, all-ages show at SOMArts, and the 27th annual Native Contemporary Arts Festival.
Arts & Entertainment Your San Francisco Summer and Fall 2025 Street Fair Mega-Preview, Spanning From May to October With the start of May comes the kickoff of street festival and fair season, along with Bay to Breakers and plenty more fun to be had under the sun — when it decides to come out.
Arts & Entertainment Things To Do This Week: Cesar Chavez Parade & Festival Free cone day Tuesday; comedians roast the audience on Wednesday; transit-oriented stories on Thursday; Cesar Chavez parade and festival on Saturday, as well vintage show at Fort Mason.
Arts & Entertainment Eight Great Bay Area County Fairs And Festivals To Venture To This Summer There is nothing more American than a demolition derby at a county fair, or a small town Americana festival named after a fruit or vegetable, or an over-the-hill pop band performing a free
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Carnaval, Golden Gate Bridge 75th, Treasure Island Flea, And More! The Long Shutdown be damned. Let's get this Memorial Day weekend started! Carnaval lights up the Mission all weekend with two days worth of live music, dancing, drumming and dance lessons, food, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/16: Giants Carnaval at the Park FESTIVAL: Arrive at tonight's Giants game early for The Giants Carnaval Festival at the Park, featuring live 2012 SF Carnaval King Roberto and Queen Ashlee, music, dancing, and food and drink specials. And
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Dogfest, Sunday Streets & More! Dogfest: Duboce Park will be full of lovable pooches on Saturday for the 5th annual Dogfest, benefiting SFUSD McKinley Elementary School. The fest, which will feature Daniel Handler as the emcee, and celebrity
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Top 5: Chinese New Year Parade, Pet Adopt-a-thon Chinese New Year Parade and Festival: Festival-goers might actually enjoy a dry Chinese New Year extravaganza this year. Leave those umbrellas and ponchos as home! SF SPCA's Be Mine Adopt-a-thon: The SF SPCA
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/2: Day of the Dead/Festival of Altars, Mary Roach/Adam Savage, 'Mindglow' FESTIVAL: One of the best Mission events of the year is happening tonight with the annual Dia de los Muertos procession and Festival of Altars celebration. Bring candles in glass containers to honor
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: The English Beat at Stern Grove, Phono del Sol Music Fest, Int'l Soccer Match, and More! The English Beat and My First Earthquake at Stern Grove: The Stern Grove Festival presents yet another stellar show on Sunday. Check out SFist's interview with the English Beat's Dave Wakeling from earlier
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Carnaval 2011 Tens of thousands of revelers flooded the Mission this weekend for the epic Carnaval Parade and Festival, which was themed "Live Your Fantasy" this year. A few local photographers were on the scene
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Carnaval, Treasure Island Flea, Push Dance, The Dance Church, and Asian American Orchestra Carnaval Festival & Grand Parade: Danny Glover is the grand marshal of the 33rd Annual Carnaval Parade. Accompanying him at the helm will be Giants’ mascot Lou Seal and the 2010 World Series
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Hunky Jesus Contest, Bring Your Own Big Wheel, John Waters B-Day Weekend, Earth Day, And Union Street Celebration & Easter Parade The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence's HARE at Dolores Park: It wouldn't be Easter without the Hunky Jesus and Easter Bonnet Contests along with all the other fabulous tongue-in-cheek activities put on by San
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend Sorry this is so late folks! There are quite a few things going on this weekend that SFist already gave you a heads-up about, including the Disposable Film Festival, Shop for Japan, and
Arts & Entertainment The Disposable Film Festival Starts Tomorrow The Disposable Film Festival kicks off its fourth year celebrating short films made on everyday equipment like cell phones, pocket cameras, and other inexpensive video capture devices tomorrow night. Get your tickets now
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Sunday Streets, Girls Rock, Vintage Fashion Expo, Zion I & The Grouch, And TL Walking Tour [Updated] Sunday Streets: Sunday Streets kicks off its 2011 season this weekend on the Embarcadero. Run, bike, walk, skate, hula hoop, etc. to your heart's content along the waterfront from Fisherman's Wharf to Mariposa
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: White Elephant Sale, How-to Homestead, Found Footage Fest, Michael Showalter, and Beer-Soaked Snuggies Oakland Museum White Elephant Sale: The much anticipated annual weekend-long rummage extravaganza in Oakland is finally here. Get you and your tote bags over there first thing tomorrow, as it gets picked over
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PHOTOGRAPHY: Robert Tat Gallery presents a group exhibition of vintage and contemporary photographs, Sign of the Times, celebrating the special qualities that are captured when images incorporate existing signage into their compositions. 5
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Nine Nation Animation, a compilation of recent award-winning animated short films from the world’s most renowned festivals, including Cannes, Berlin, Annecy, Clermont-Ferrand, and others, "proves that there’s a lot more
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: At Electronic Cinema, sound artists myrmyr and Kadet Kuhne will perform live electronic scores for experimental films by Sue-C, Paul Clipson, and Maia Cybelle Carpenter, incorporating and celebrating "unexpected ingredients and impressions,
misc 7 Scenes From North Beach Festival On Saturday and Sunday, that beatnik neighborhood on the other side of Market Street played host to the 54th annual North Beach Festival. Here are several shots that local photogs snapped up from
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, Addendum Excuse us for only finding out about Outside In #4 at the last minute. Dishes by eighteen San Francisco street food and local underground chefs will be paired with eighteen Portuguese wines and
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop 2010 Acts Revealed Artisan musical treats like Magnetic Fields, Mark Kozelek, Rogue Wave, Atlas Sound, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, Four Tet, John Vanderslice, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Wallpaper, Zee Avi, The Limousines, and Foreign Born
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight VARIETY SHOW: Tonight is the premiere of PianoFight's Monday Night ForePlays, a female-driven variety show that will run every Monday through November 23. Consisting of comedy sketches, original dance numbers, a rotating line-up
Arts & Entertainment Eat Real Festival at Jack London Square This Weekend Oakland's Eat Real Festival, which was founded last year, is a sister event to the San Francisco Street Food Festival and sounds like a much better run event than the SF-based debacle trial
