Once a week, American Bites restaurant in North Beach transforms into an Argentinian tango club, or milonga — and, sorry, no jeans or sneakers allowed.

The fight is apparently on to save a beloved jazz club on Haight Street.

For many, this week is all about Outside Lands in Golden Gate Park, plus its related parties and shows. But even if music megafests aren't your jam, there's plenty of fun to be had around the Bay Area this weekend, from the World Dog Surfing Championships to the Fremont Festival for the Arts and more.

While Secession Art & Design went mostly virtual during the pandemic and closed its Mission-Bernal storefront earlier this year, it is having a 15th anniversary party in the neighborhood this week with a pop-up gallery.

North Beach has deep counterculture roots. So maybe it's not surprising that an underground gallery and community art space dedicated to punk rock recently opened in a quiet alley off Grant Avenue.

An April tent fire destroyed an Amos Goldbaum mural at Church and 15th Streets, but Goldbaum is restoring it now and expects to finish by the end of the week.

This weekend in the San Francisco Bay Area, see iconic art, enjoy outdoor comedy, head to a music festival, see a circus or join a socially conscious bike ride.

Another Planet Entertainment has just announced it will be hosting a town hall meeting about the upcoming changes to the historic 100-year-old Castro Theatre on Thursday, August 11 at the Castro.

Coming off a two-year hiatus spurred by the pandemic, the San Francisco Art Book Fair (SFABF) at Minnesota Street Project will debut this Thursday, July 14, to the public — allowing local, national, and international publishers to exhibit their works to an estimated 50,000-plus visitors over four days.

A massive,, block-long mural currently being painted at Cesar Chavez and Bryant Streets is a high and mighty sign of the forthcoming new dispensary Poncho Brotherz.

Jubilant participants and spectators took over Market Street during yesterday’s 52nd annual San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration and Parade. According to the San Francisco police, an estimated 500,000 people gathered for the festivities.

A nonprofit has formed specifically to thwart plans by Another Planet Entertainment to remake the interior of the historic Castro Theatre to be more conducive to live music events — and specifically the group wants to stop a plan to remove all the seats from the theater's main level.

Plans for the return of a Pink Saturday event in the Castro have been canceled just four days before Pride Weekend.