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Nightlife

Dance music legend François K: ‘I can’t cry for DJs who feel challenged to play for two hours’

Rare interview with 71-year-old trailblazer before SF appearance delves into past, present, and forward-looking sounds.
Party Radar Marke B. -
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Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Popscene

30 years and an astonishing array or SF debuts later, the club night is still presenting the hottest-to-be live bands on the planet.
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Party Radar: A ‘union’ for nightlifers? You better work

Public Works' 15th anniversary parties—and recently launched PW Union membership program—pack in community goodies.
Nightlife Marke B. -
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Party Radar: Quick ‘n dirty guide to Folsom Street Fair fiestas

Disco Daddy, Hard Reset, Soft Play, Power Snatch, Bears in Space, Horse Meat Disco, Grunt, Squish, Ew!, Chunk, more freaky affairs
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Music

Portola’s party daze triumphed. But will it return in 2026?

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Two days spent eating to the beat of raver nostalgia (and Xtina's Grindr bleeps) on Pier 80, wondering if it ever has to end.
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Contest

Win tickets to Folsom Street Fair’s official (and very naughty) parties!

Marke B. -
Grab a fun friend and hit up Freak Curious, Magnitude, and/or Deviants: Here's how to enter
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Arts + Culture

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: 540 Bar

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This retro Inner Richmond watering hole attracts gleeful happy hour goers and tight-knit creative community.
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Arts + Culture

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Boardroom’s Tequila Trivia Tuesdays

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Forget the pop-quiz conglomerates—this North Beach bar and host Oliver 'The Baron' Chang double down on trivial tradition.
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Best of the Bay

VOTE NOW in the 2025 Best of the Bay Readers’ Poll!

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Our 51st installment of the Bay Area classic is 'new and improved' for 2025—and still full of local love.
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Exclusive: First look at the spooky new Terror Vault show!

Marke B. -
'HEXED' takes over the SF Mint for another twisted installment of the immersive annual fright fest.
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Nightlife

Party Radar: The city is supporting an underground-led techno event. That’s something.

Marke B. -
FREE TECHNO party takes over Salesforce Park this Saturday: Will it augur a trend of such SF-backed affairs (and better music)?
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Nightlife

Join us Wed/20 for a discussion on overdose prevention in queer nightlife

Marke B. -
LGBTQ+ nightlife community activists and health experts come together to help make partying safer.
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Nightlife

Why beloved drag club Oasis is closing—and how its spirit must live on

Marke B. -
'I want to see SF continue to have an underground art scene,' says owner D'Arcy Drollinger. 'But this is where we're at, and it's sad.'
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Dance

How two friends turned their Lower Haight garage into a line dancing honky-tonk

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Joel Reske and Sean Sullivan have watched their little concrete hoedown blow up into a downtown phenom.
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Party Radar

PRIDE PARTY RADAR: Viva la Lesbianaissance + 35 more rainbows to ride

Marke B. -
Pink Block, Juanita More Pride, Hard French, Purple Disco Machine, partying for prison abolition, a slew of dyke bars... too much? Never!
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Onstage

An interstellar drag quest to save the galaxy (and you call the shots)

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Media Meltdown's 'Select Thine Own Journey... in Space!' melds love of Dungeons & Dragons, '90s YA lit, and campy cosmic flicks.
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Big Week

Big Week: Shipyard Open Studios, Indie Bookstore Day, Rollin’ with the Homos…

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Grow your own groceries, Camper Van Beethoven, Malik Rahim, Sarah and the Sundays, Discostan, 'Bad Lobster,' more to do
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Nightlife

Party Radar: 5 hot spots to dance this mess around

Marke B. -
We don't need this fascist groove thang—from Carnaval to the Klituation, with reggaeton, techno, and Detroit house in between.
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Nightlife

Juanita More names Transgender Law Center as Pride party beneficiary, as threats to community mount

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Wild annual celebration is also essential community fundraiser—and protecting trans rights has leapt to fore.
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