On the stretch of 24th Street between Folsom and South Van Ness, where murals line the walls and Latin music pours out of car speakers, San Francisco’s only Latin record store is reviving a piece of...
Margaret Martinez steps past a wall layered in paint — tags over murals, colors bleeding into one another, some fresh, some fading. She sees public art as something that brings the street to life, adding...
Performers wearing fishnets and corsets dance on stage in front of a screen playing “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” leading the audience through songs they all know by heart. In the dark, fans throw...
Near the corner of Ocean Avenue and a mile away from campus, Lucho’s puts their own spin on brunch, combining Yucatán Peninsula cuisine with Mexican-American dishes. For the first episode of Literally...
The line to get into Bar Part Time stretches down the block, but once inside, San Francisco’s identity crisis collapses onto a single dance floor. Tech workers, artists, newcomers and longtime locals...
Booms and baps of old school hip hop echo under the rattling sound of spray paint cans along 16th and Mission street — but the reason for the sound may surprise you.
Youth Art Exchange (YAX) is...
Sammy Solomons steps out in oversized T-shirts, studded and spiked cuffs, a long leopard-print coat and a bedazzled anarchy-symbol hair clip. For Solomons, personal style doubles as a statement of social...
“Love! Community! To be left alone! Acceptance!” the audience yells, as choreographer and performer Isha Tobis Clarke asks what the crowd hoped to gain from the night’s performances. The audience...
Before Safariii Camp was founded in 2023, finding an affordable space for Adeeb Haidari to make art meant constant uncertainty. Haidari was working full time while trying to fit photography into his schedule...
After years of noise complaints and a disconnected post-pandemic crowd, electronic dance music (EDM) events are now drawing some of their largest audiences in a decade. This cultural shift has led to events...
If there is a notion of a new, unique but historically rooted beverage that’s gained traction in San Francisco, it’s mushroom coffee. Served and marketed as an alternative drink to daily coffee or...
The Prelinger Library challenges the traditional formula that conventional libraries follow: fluorescent-lit rooms lined with standardized books, sometimes digitized or enclosed collections and large-scale...
