Stories about City Lights
Saving Specs’: Beloved North Beach bar is ‘getting desperate’
With little relief in sight, the family-owned institution and other bars must still rely on crowdfunding. (Please help if you can.)
Screen Grabs: South Asian cinema, transgender visions, amateur porn…
Three diverse festivals open up. Plus: Soviets and Surrealists, Synonyms, Collisions, more in cinemas this week.
Remembering Kevin Killian, 1952-2019
The essential queer SF poet, writer, playwright, literary booster, and saucy gossip passed away Saturday at age 66.
Arts Forecast: Bye, bye, Babylon…
Beach Blanket Babylon announces it's closing. Plus: Cerrone, Mercury Soul, Dream Bodies, Bikes to Books, Los Amigos Invisibles, more.
I am not a homeless vampire
I didn't come here to be homeless. How is this okay, for so long?
The inhumanity of homeless ‘sweeps’
When did taking people's possessions, destroying their shelter, and leaving them to suffer in the rain become the new normal?
Arts Forecast: Reptaliens, Spear of Destiny, V Vale….
An epic Peter Murphy residency, Kitka, DJ Saoirse, Electric Church, Flashing After Dark, The Great SF Corn Dog Festival, and more.
Arts Forecast: Son Jarocho Festival, J Dilla shots, and queer gamers unite!
Plus: Family-friendly opportunities to celebrate the Lunar New Year and Black History Month with inspiring art
Arts Forecast: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore confronts queer assimilation in ‘Sketchtasy’
Plus: Mozart's birthday, SF Movement Arts Fest, Jasmine Infiniti, and coastal light sculptures
Best of the Bay 2018: Arts & Entertainment Winners
Your picks for Best DJ, Best Live Music Venue, Best Film Festival, Best Drag Show, Best Dance Company, and more