SF Bay Area Residents Honor Ancestors Through Art
Honoring ancestors, artists, and beloved ones, SOMArts presents its 22nd Dia de Los Muertos exhibition, with 17 pieces of art including traditional altars and contemporary installations.
Culture
Local Film Festival Rekindles Community Spirit with Boost from City College
The Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema (BHOC), a free film festival that showcases the talents of Bay Area filmmakers and runs until Oct. 29, was off to an impressive start, as it navigated COVID-19 precautions with pop-up drive-in and socially-distanced park screenings during its opening weekend, Oct. 1
Art Span Celebrates the Colors of Bay Area Artists
This year ArtSpan returns with its largest production, San Francisco Open Studios, a two month long festival of artful happenings across the Bay Area.
Autumn Moon Festival Entices Crowds Back to Chinatown
After a year’s hiatus, the Autumn Moon Festival in Chinatown brought out crowds of people to Grant Avenue during the weekend of Sept. 11-12, offering hope to local businesses and performers who have struggled to rebound from the economic losses of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fauci Documentary Remembers AIDS
Early in the film a split screen shows the 80-year-old doctor and his 45-year-old self treading the same pathway to work, opening the same door, waiting in the same elevator, walking down the same hall, and entering the same office to type on different computer keyboards. Fauci had become media-wort
The Mission Cultural Center Celebrates San Francisco Lowrider Council's 40th Anniversary
Mission Cultural Center hosts lowriding show and exhibit.
Crowds Long for Live Entertainment, but Barriers Remain
With operations that draw together large and mostly indoor crowds, theaters and music venues have suffered enormously since the pandemic’s onset. And now entertainment establishments struggling to get back into business face fresh uncertainties with the Delta variant surging in San Francisco.