SF Nightlife Archives

Music

Live Shots: Murs and Z-Man revved up Cal Academy’s ‘NightLife’

D.A. Mission - September 12, 2024

The Cali rappers played the Academy of Sciences' weekly party as part of the 'NightLife Remix: Live Music Series'

Opinion

Pride isn’t a safe space with London Breed and the SFPD

Charles Lewis III - June 13, 2022

My hometown celebration now feels dangerous to me, with a cop-loving mayor who disregards her own COVID protocols

Party Radar

How To Reopen Nightlife: Enough with the boys’ club, make room for women

Marke B. - April 15, 2021

DJ femmelectric and promoter Alex McGeagh speak about equity, access, and safety for women and nonbinary folks.

Nightlife

Enormous treasure trove of queer SF nightlife photos coming online

Marke B. - March 17, 2021

Shutterslut is uploading a selection of his 25,000 prints from '90-'00s clubs to Instagram.

Nightlife

Club mogul accused of vigilante homeless sweep says he did nothing wrong

Marke B. - September 23, 2020

Peter Glikshtern says he called private trash crew to encampment, insists he was justified by city inaction.

Dance all night on Saturday and raise funds for 48 Hills!

Marke B. - August 22, 2019

It's my, er, 29th birthday and to celebrate we are rolling the clocks back at the Stud to a golden age of SF nightlife—the...

Arts + Culture

Party Radar: For Navid

Marke B. - August 15, 2018

PARTY RADAR The Bay Area nightlife community has weathered a lot of ghastly blows in the past couple years, from Ghost Ship and the shooting...

Onstage

Heaven’s Gate reverberates in mystical coming-of-age tale ‘Barn Owl’

Marke B. - May 28, 2018

ONSTAGE Playwright and actor Evan Johnson's drag queen alter ego, Martha T. Lipton the Failed Actress, is one of the most delightfully surreal performers in...

Arts + Culture

Party Radar: Are you ready for the Cleveland techno invasion?

Marke B. - April 18, 2018

PARTY RADAR The greater Midwest is central to the story of electronic music in the United States, but it gets short shrift these days:...

Party Radar

Party Radar: The way, way, Wayback Machine

Marke B. - March 21, 2018

PARTY RADAR I've got a horn and I'm gonna toot it! I've loved covering SF nightlife, starting way back as an imaginary, omnipresent, somewhat...

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