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Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: 540 Bar

This retro Inner Richmond watering hole attracts gleeful happy hour goers and tight-knit creative community.
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Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Boardroom’s Tequila Trivia Tuesdays

Forget the pop-quiz conglomerates—this North Beach bar and host Oliver 'The Baron' Chang double down on trivial tradition.
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VOTE NOW in the 2025 Best of the Bay Readers’ Poll!

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!

'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.

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

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LGBTQ+ nightlife community activists and health experts come together to help make partying safer.
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Why beloved drag club Oasis is closing—and how its spirit must live on

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'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

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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

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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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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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Juanita More’s Loads of Love party is a Valentine for heavy times

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The drag goddess's huge, free V-Day affair shows off the talents of 'our big, amazing, talented, beautiful, powerful family.'
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Live Shots: Dark whimsy and baroque frivolity at 2025 Edwardian Ball

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Edward Gorey's spirit haunted the artful affair, which took inspiration from his pop-up book—adding some SF energy.
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Party Radar: 11 last-minute NYE (+ NYD) picks for your cork-popping delectation

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Our 'pick of the litter' for a sweet, sweet eve—plus our infamous Comedowns Are For Losers New Year's Day list.
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Art

420 Polaroids, one fierce explosion of underground queer love

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Party superstar Devon Devine has documented his queer club family for two decades. At Right Window Gallery, his photos finally see the light.
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Contest

Win free tickets to the Lost Church’s awesome December shows!

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We've got two pairs of tickets to give away to each of the intimate, independent North Beach venue's final shows of 2024.
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Music

Late legend DJ Blackstone’s record collection being sold to boost local talent

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Vinyl Dreams store's 'Blackstone Friday' kicks off fundraiser for DJ Blackstone Grant, which helps DJs build their careers.
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