Meet the San Francisco Influencer Getting Gen Z Girls Excited About Crab Fishing

KQED.org (Arts & Culture) 12/19 9:34A Luke Tsai

n a rainy, windswept afternoon in November, Kaitlyn Bui stands near the water’s edge on Ocean Beach, casting a reel into the sea. It’s a few weeks into the recreational crab fishing season here in the Bay Area, and at least a month before any...

SF Arts Space 500 Capp Street Announces New Collective Leadership

KQED.org (Arts & Culture) 12/19 8:44A Sarah Hotchkiss

Nonprofit arts space 500 Capp Street , located in David Ireland’s former Mission District home, will move forward as a collective, staff members announced on Tuesday. Under the new leadership structure — part of an effort to strive for “equity,...

A Monumental Mural by Ranu Mukherjee Opens a New SF Ballet Program

KQED.org (Arts & Culture) 12/18 4:00A Sarah Hotchkiss

The San Francisco Ballet and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco have announced a new partnership to annually commission curtain drops from Bay Area artists. Earlier this year, Maria A. Guzmán Capron’s curtain appeared on stage before and between...

How I Fell in Love With the Oyster, One of the Bay Area’s Great Multicultural Treats

KQED.org (Arts & Culture) 12/13 8:07A Rocky Rivera

Frisco Foodies is a recurring column in which a San Francisco local shares food memories of growing up in a now rapidly changing city. n college on the weekends, a couple of friends and I used to grab a big bag of oysters from Pacific...

SF Ballet’s Nutcracker is a dazzling tradition that’s thankfully not going away

The Bold Italic San Francisco 12/10 8:25A The Bold Italic

As the first U.S. city to perform The Nutcracker in 1944, San Francisco holds a unique connection to the ballet. Fernando Carratalá Coloma in Tomasson’s Nutcracker // © San Francisco Ballet, photo by Lindsey Rallo. By Katie Sweeney The Nutcracker...

Dave Eggers Opens a Library for Youth, by Youth in San Francisco

KQED.org (Arts & Culture) 12/6 6:38A Nastia Voynovskaya

In San Francisco, where you’re hard pressed to find a bathroom to use without buying a $7 coffee, third spaces where one can simply hang out are rare. And ones that actually welcome children and...

The Best Live Music I Saw But Didn’t Get to Review in 2024

KQED.org (Arts & Culture) 12/6 4:00A Gabe Meline

Maybe it was the election anxiety. I went to see live music compulsively in 2024 — over 50 shows, and that’s on top of another 20-odd plays, art exhibits, movies and events. Yes, it’s part of my job,...

Photos: Cyndi Lauper Fans Show Their True Colors in San Francisco

KQED.org (Arts & Culture) 11/27 7:24A KQED Arts

Best friends Anndrea Miller, left, and Krista Ball pose for a photo ahead of Cyndi Lauper’s concert for her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 26,...

Cyndi Lauper Consoles a Post-Election Crowd in San Francisco

KQED.org (Arts & Culture) 11/27 6:33A Gabe Meline

Cyndi Lauper didn’t once mention the election Tuesday night, but it hung in the air so clearly that she didn’t need to. For a San Francisco crowd that included Nancy Pelosi in the third row, Lauper...

Ticket Alert: Stray Kids Are Coming to ‘dominATE’ San Francisco

KQED.org (Arts & Culture) 11/20 6:11A Shannon Faulise

Calling all Bay Area STAY. K-pop band Stray Kids have just announced the dates for their 2025 dominATE world tour, which will include a stop at Oracle Park in San Francisco on May 28, 2025. It’s been a massive year of music for the eight-member...

Contemporary Jewish Museum to Close for at Least a Year

KQED.org (Arts & Culture) 11/13 8:00A Sarah Hotchkiss

Today, the Contemporary Jewish Museum announced it would close its galleries to the public on Dec. 15, citing financial difficulties. The closure will last for at least one year while staff, board members and other advisors develop plans for a...

Festival La Onda 2025 Lineup: Marco Antonio Solis, Carin León, Grupo Firme, Banda MS, More

KQED.org (Arts & Culture) 11/13 4:00A Gabe Meline

The lineup for the 2025 Festival La Onda in Napa has been announced. Headliners at the festival will be Marco Antonio Solis, Banda MS and Pepe Aguilar on Saturday, May 31, and Carin León and Grupo Firme on Sunday, June 1. Saturday s lineup at the...

Mayor Lurie, Supervisors, Can Revive Tenderloin

BeyondChron.org (Mid-Market/Tenderloin) 11/12 3:29A Randy Shaw

A Fresh New Opportunity to Revitalize Tenderloin, Lower Polk Incoming mayor Daniel Lurie, new D5 supervisor Bilal Mahmood and incoming D3 supervisor Danny Sauter have a great opportunity to revive San Francisco’s Tenderloin and Lower Polk...

Festival Films–”Apple Cider Vinegar,” “Searching For Nika,” “From Ground Zero,” and “Tax Wars”

BeyondChron.org (Arts & Entertainment) 11/12 3:28A Peter Wong

Sofie Benoot’s delightful essay film “Apple Cider Vinegar” turned out to be one of the recent Green Film Festival of San Francisco’s highlights.  Call it an entertaining exercise in cinematically curious world-hopping free association led by...

A South Bay Pop-Up Is Reinventing the Doughnut

KQED.org (Arts & Culture) 11/8 8:02A Octavio Peña

The contents of a pink doughnut box are usually pretty predictable — chocolate- or sprinkle-covered rings that offer a bit of sweetness and chewiness to get you through your morning. But at Eizel’s Bakery , a pop-up in the South Bay, some of the...