Lunar New Year 2025
San Francisco’s Chinese New Year parade rings in the Year of the Snake with the largest Lunar New Year celebration outside of Asia.
North Beach
Local City College Filmmakers Reimagine SF History
Play It Like It's '54 masterfully recreates 1950s San Francisco. Using an exquisite color palette and deep-cut locations—some unfamiliar even to locals—the film transforms North Beach and Chinatown into the backdrop for lovers Jean and Vivian.
A San Francisco Legend Lives On
North Beach has lost a major icon in Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the world-famous Beat poet who, along with names like Neal Cassidy, Jack Kerouac, and Herbert Huncke, forever changed poetry and art in this country in the 1950s and ‘60s.