Arts & Entertainment SF Porchfest Returns Saturday to Rock Out the Mission District with Lo-Fi Magic The seventh annual DIY “front porch” music festival SF Porchfest brings 74 live acts to 13 stages (well, porches) in the Mission District on Saturday, in what will be the biggest SF Porchfest ever held.
Arts & Entertainment Things To Do: Coffee Talk, Banned Book Bingo, AAPI Pop-Up, Silent Reading, Yerba Buena Gardens Fest This week, May 5–11, 2025: Hear the story behind Poorboy Coffee, play Banned Books Bingo, explore AAPI art at Levi’s Plaza, read silently at Bazaar Café, and dance to La Santa Cecilia at Yerba Buena Gardens Festival's opening show.
Arts & Entertainment Dirtybird Campout and Northern Nights Festival Merge for Combined Rave-y Camping Weekend Well, this should simplify your hundreds-of-miles-away summer festival scheduling, as two of NorCal’s biggies, the Dirtybird Campout and Northern Nights, are merging into one for a late July weekend mega-fest.
Arts & Entertainment Patti Smith Headlines the Just-Released Full Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Lineup We already had an impressive Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival lineup with Sleater-Kinney, Devendra Banhart, and Cat Power on the bill, but the complete artist list just dropped and now includes punk poet Patti Smith and guitarist Chuck Prophet.
Arts & Entertainment Napa’s Blue Note Jazz Festival Napa Returning for Labor Day Weekend, Thankfully Without Dave Chapelle Emceeing The Blue Note Jazz Festival is somewhat scaled-down, moved to later in the summer, and is not bringing back Dave Chapelle, but still boasts an impressive lineup featuring John Legend, Andre 3000, and Jill Scott.
Arts & Entertainment Children’s Fairyland in Oakland to Host ‘After-Hours’ Music Festival Featuring Sun Ra Arkestra The Bay Area’s music festival-mania is coming to Lake Merritt’s Children’s Fairyland, which will play host to a September nighttime festival called “Through the Looking Glass,” with the Sun Ra Arkestra and Oakland-based pop star Spellling.
Arts & Entertainment Big Festival ‘All Day I Dream’ Descends On Golden Gate Park Saturday Golden Gate Park’s Hellman Hollow will become a combination of Burning Man and Ibiza on Saturday, as the house and techno festival All Day I Dream is firing up a daytime house music party all afternoon and into the early evening.
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock Drops Its 2023 Lineup: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lizzo, Lil Nas X, and More The tenth anniversary BottleRock lineup and dates were just announced, with tickets going on sale Tuesday for a jam-packed roster of artists that includes Lil Nas X, Smashing Pumpkins, Sheryl Crow, and the Wu-Tang Clan.
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop’s 20th Street Block Party Returns Saturday, But This Year Rocks A Different Block Block out your calendar Saturday for the return of Noise Pop’s 20th Street Block Party, but this year’s popping noise will be at a new Valencia Street location.The high-powered San
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Portola Festival Debuts With Spectacular Shows, But Very Messy Crowd Management Long lines and some highly ineffective crowd management strategies led to mayhem, chaos, and bum-rushing at Saturday’s Day 1 of the Portola Festival, overshadowing terrific performances from Flume, Charli XCX, and Fatboy Slim.
Arts & Entertainment Friday Photos From Outside Lands 2011 Though is just started, scores of people are heading their way to Golden Gate Park to hit the Outside Lands Festival 2011. So far many of the attendees have enjoyed the food and
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Same-sex marriage bill OK'd, ready to be TKO'd by Arnold. [Chron] -- Obama in SF! [Examiner, via BCN] -- Boom! Bomb threat forces Southwest Airlines jet back to Oakland Airport. [CBS5] --
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City There are no less than three fantastic music festivals all taking place over the weekend of September 14-16. What gives? And how do we choose? Since we live in the bay area, perhaps
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- "Given" (featuring artists Darwin Bell, Bret Hansen, and Danyol): Winner of SF Weekly’s "Best Polaroid Artist" award, Darwin Bell, makes clever, energetic pieces from the text he finds around the city,
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City Tonight catch brazen British siren Carina Round at Cafe Du Nord, who will be a hard act for headliner Cary Brothers to follow. On Friday, singer songwriter Rocky Votolato plays songs from his
SF News Day Around The Bay --Have you checked out the footage (above, 4:34) of someone driving their Prius into the N Judah tunnel? The derisive laughter as the driver sheepishly gets out of the car is awesome.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today You've still got the Berkeley World Music Festival today, and Indiefest's Hole in the Head fantasy/sci-fi/horror film fest is in full swing! Your other options include: The songbook of Fields of
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City Our second offering of prizes comes from two great bands playing on Tuesday night at the Independent: Great Northern and Loney, Dear. For a long time we had an irrational aversion to the
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City The Mission Creek Music Festival is still going strong and shows continue through Sunday. Although MCMF's press folks hadn't ever heard of SFist ("Is this a radio station? We're only giving tickets to
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Ambulance Ltd. Our interview adventure began as we tracked down the tour handler, Freekshow (that’s not a typo, really, that’s what he likes to be called and how he spells it). Freekshow proceeded
Arts & Entertainment Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival 2005 Photographer Rob Kunkle spent last week taking pictures of the acts at the Mission Creek Music Festival, which was held at multiple locations across The City last week. Pictured are The Gentlekin. Check
Arts & Entertainment Putomayo, Eat Your Heart Out For those of you who like your ethnomusicology less with the pan flutes and more with the non-Western modalities, the San Francisco World Music Festival is presenting a number of innovative programs for
