San Francisco - Arts & Culture
San Francisco Upper Haight
The Booksmith to move closer to first Haight Street home, taking over Bindery space
After several years of planning, legacy bookstore The Booksmith is moving to its third home later this spring. The new location is just down the block on Haight Street in a building the business already leased for an event-focused space called The Bindery. Read More
San Francisco
The Cliff House's mini-museum of SF artifacts is up for auction and history buffs hope some of it stays together
A local group of history buffs and conservators is hoping that the collection — at least some of it — can remain together and available for public view, even after the Cliff House potentially becomes a different restaurant. Read More
San Francisco Chinatown
Teens create a full, virtual replica of San Francisco's Chinatown in Minecraft
Shelter in place won’t block a youth-led tour group from giving Chinatown tours, as they’ve rebuilt the neighborhood in the virtual world of Minecraft. Read More
San Francisco Chinatown North Beach
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and founder of City Lights Booksellers, dies at 101
Legendary North Beach poet, publisher, and bookseller Lawrence Ferlinghetti, has died. He was 101 years of age. The beloved literary icon died peacefully in his San Francisco home surrounded by loved ones, "holding the hands of his son and his son’s girlfriend, 'as he took his last breath,'" his son Lorenzo Ferlinghetti said on Tuesday. Read More
San Francisco Chinatown
New Chinatown parklet murals ring in Lunar New Year
The temporary COVID-19 mural magic of the Paint the Void project comes to Chinatown in time for the Lunar New Year feasts, as three restaurant parklets get rejuvenating murals. Read More
San Francisco West Portal
West Portal loses CineArts at Empire to the pandemic
West Portal's beloved arthouse cinema, CineArts at Empire (85 West Portal Ave.), is closing for good due to the pandemic, though the city says it is working to find a new operator for the theater. Read More
San Francisco Hayes Valley
Overnight sensation poet laureate gets a mural in Hayes Valley
After rocking the nation’s world at the Biden inauguration, poet laureate Amanda Gorman now has a mural homage at the Hayes Valley SF Zen Center. Read More
San Francisco Bayview Excelsior Visitacion Valley
Revamp of Jerry Garcia Amphitheater aims to improve access to McLaren Park venue
Renovations to the Jerry Garcia Amphitheater in McLaren Park are underway to make the site more accessible and improve facilities for concert performers and attendees alike. Read More
San Francisco Fisherman's Wharf Marina
Sundance Film Festival will be screening some of its 2021 flicks at Fort Mason drive-in
While you can’t go to hot tub parties in Park City, Utah for the Sundance Film Festival this year, the flicks are coming to SF as Fort Mason will be a ‘satellite’ site for the 2021 festival. Read More
San Francisco Japantown
Cherry blossom trees in Japantown vandalized, nearly destroyed by vandal
A pair of cherry blossom trees outside the Japanese Cultural and Community Center in San Francisco's Japantown won't be blooming this year after a vandal or vandals went to great efforts to rip all the branches off of them. Read More
San Francisco Chinatown
Bruce Lee-written Chinatown action series ‘Warrior’ arrives on HBO Max
A TV pilot Bruce Lee wrote in 1971 is now a big-budget TV series set in 1870s San Francisco Chinatown, and it’s streaming now on HBO Max. Read More
San Francisco Alamo Square Duboce Triangle Western Addition
Short film chronicles the life and costume creations of long-time Western Addition resident
Longtime Western Addition resident and gay-Latino designer Miguel Gutierrez was recently profiled in a new documentary film about his life in San Francisco, and his art, design, and costume creations. The film was released last week in commemoration of World AIDS Day on December 1. Read More
San Francisco Portola
San Bruno Avenue murals celebrate Portola history, offer light during lockdown
In the Portola, this month signifies not just the end of an eventful year but the close of the Multi-Mural Community Art Project, a two-year effort that has culminated in three new murals along San Bruno Avenue. Read More
San Francisco Financial District
American Institute of Architects takes over ground-floor space in landmark Hallidie Building
The landmark Hallidie Building (130 Sutter St.) is getting a new ground-floor tenant next year, and it's the professional organization for architects that has long occupied some offices on an upper floor of the building. Read More
San Francisco
SF is hiring artists and performs to do COVID-19 PSAs
Work will be slightly less scarce for 30 underemployed artists and performers in the coronavirus economy, as a new San Francisco Creative Corps will be giving the gift of gigs. Read More
San Francisco Sunnyside
Detroit Steps Project launches art contest to beautify Sunnyside stairway
Fitting in a year where public art and physically distant activities are the new norm, a Sunnyside neighborhood group is calling for art enthusiasts to participate in its 2020 Socially Distanced Drawing Contest, which begins this Sunday, November 22. Read More
San Francisco Castro Duboce Triangle
Castro gallery Art Attack goes into hibernation mode amid pandemic
Over the weekend, three-year-old Castro art gallery Art Attack SF (2358 Market St.) announced it would be closing its doors for the foreseeable future. Read More
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San Francisco Presidio Tenderloin
The Walt Disney Museum to highlight veterans' voices in new exhibit launching tomorrow
An exhibit designed to amplify the voices of local veterans will be on display at the Walt Disney Museum starting tomorrow. Read More
San Francisco Castro Duboce Triangle
Artists continue to paint Castro murals with focus on diverse voices
Castro residents walking around the neighborhood may have noticed that murals are continuing to proliferate on storefronts and buildings. Read More
San Francisco Mission
Banksy mural in the Mission marked up by taggers
A 10-year-old Mission District mural attributed to street artist Banksy got graffitied, so cue up the debate on the ethics of tagging over someone else’s tagging. Read More
San Francisco Civic Center Mid-Market Tenderloin
PianoFight opens new virtual venue to raise funds for its future
The team behind PianoFight is launching a virtual venue this week with a fundraising event that aims to let attendees mingle and interact safely from their own homes. Read More
San Francisco Mission
Mission's Alley Cat Bookstore & Gallery to reopen Thursday with 'new intentions' and varied vinyl collection
Among an increasingly long list of imminent reopenings, the Mission District’s beloved cultural space and bookstore, Alley Cat Bookstore & Gallery, is set to open its doors Thursday, October 29 — with a curated vinyl collection and “new intentions” for the independent bookstore. Read More
San Francisco SoMa Union Square
Westfield Centre’s cineplex Century Theatre set to reopen Friday
One San Francisco cineplex will reopen this weekend for the true movie theater experience, but with no concessions, small crowds, and of course masks required. Read More
San Francisco Excelsior Visitacion Valley
Pink Martini, Major Lazer bring back live concerts at Burlingame drive-in
We haven’t seen live concerts from big-name national acts in 7 months — but they’re coming back next week, at Burlingame’s Bayshore Drive-In. Read More
San Francisco Parkside
[Update] Endangered lemur from SF Zoo found safe in Daly City
Maki, a 21-year-old ring-tailed lemur, was apparently abducted from the San Francisco Zoo earlier this week, and the zoo is offering a reward for his safe return. Read More