You never know what you'll find on Craigslist, but each week we'll dive into the endless listings of classified ads to uncover the best, the worst, and the weirdest that fellow San Franciscans are selling, missing, or wanting. Traversing the endl...
Old-fashioned arcade games -- with their coin slots, hokey plastic guns, and grainy color palettes -- gathered dust and graffiti, and had all the appeal of an ice box that hadn't been touched in years. Renting them out to arcades was a horrible value...
Safiya Martinez in 'So You Can Hear Me' Dancer, poet and playwright Safiya Martinez studied acting at New York University. But she said she learned more in David Ford's three-month class at the Marsh than she did at NYU. "To me, why he's a gen...
A lot of TV shows jump the shark. We prefer when programs confront their sharks directly, in any way, shape, or form, be they sharks in the water or sharks in the sky. Please, please, please don't miss "Sharknado," a made-for-TV movie premiering on...
The Write Stuff is a series of interview profiles conducted by Litseen, where authors give exclusive readings from their work. Trish Tunney Melissa Stein is the author of the poetry collection Rough Honey , winner of the APR/Honi...
San Franciscans often take an innovative approach to the arts, and the subject of this week's BayWatch is no different. He "branched out" from traditional street performance and made it his mission to edify the tourists on Fisherman's Wharf. ...
So claims detective Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon , the crime novel set in and around the Tenderloin. With Falcon and its tough-as-nails protagonist, author Dashiell Hammett cemented the gritty, cynical voice that inspired the noir genre in film...
Alexis Coe every other Wednesday for Read Local, a series on books produced in the Bay Area. Reinventions rarely work, let alone improve on the original idea, but 33-year-old The Booksmith beat the odds. After changing hands in 2007, the Haight ...
Actor, musician, playwright, and author Mick Berry isn't the kind of guy who would drive a car into a swimming pool or flood three floors of a hotel with a burst waterbed. But he does share a key quality with Keith Moon, the infamous drummer for The...
Go ahead America -- say what you will about our incessant fog, plentiful crackheads, and obscene rent prices, we'll always have this: We've been voted eighth smartest city in the United States, which may really excite you or which might be anothe...
The Mexican Museum -- a powerhouse West Coast collection of Mexican, Chicano and Latino art -- has just announced a new Arts & Letters Council to help flank and foster their new location at Mission and Third, which will boast expansive new digs fo...
It was Renoir who said that a work of art "must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, and carry you away." Interviews with artists should have a similar effect. With "Artist's Statement," our interview series with prominent and upcoming visual arti...
While the streets of San Francisco looked like one big gay rainbow this past weekend with the throbbing throngs of Dionysian revelry, something more serious than a party was happening. Now that DOMA is dead, San Francisco is the place to be, accord...
Airbnb started in San Francisco several years ago, and now it has people renting out their homes and properties in over 19,000 cities around the globe. It has booked millions of nights of stays in places all over the world. So, here at SF Weekly, we...
Of Craiglist's many valuable services, perhaps the most important is the Missed Connections. Some can be as simple as a quick description of a person and a setting, and an explanation of how the poster would like to meet up again. Some can be more co...
As he walks down a street on his long journey to the United States, a man carries a bag that contains his most important possessions. He holds hands with a young woman, around his same age, whom he's leaving behind. The man has closed his eyes. His ...
an article by Travel & Leisure ranking the Bay's upper-crustiness above New York, Boston and the "exceptionally tidy" residents of Minneapolis. Seriously? Well, we guess we saw it coming through the lenses of our Google glasses . Here are some o...
The Write Stuff is a series of interview profiles conducted by Litseen, where authors give exclusive readings from their work. Sherril Jaffe would like to be writing novels but more often finds herself moving in the direction of the sho...
But while Pride is known for its quirky costumery, its significance transcends its glitz. For decades, members of the LGBT-and-allied community have been fighting tooth and nail for the right to be themselves. Today -- the last day of a multi-milesto...
Alex Newell first dipped his toes into the waters of stardom while he was still at Bishop Fenwick High School in Massachusetts and cajoled by his cousin to send in an audition video to the Glee Project. 7 episodes later Newell snatched a drool-worthy...
They're as ubiquitous to urban life as traffic jams and things wrapped in bacon. Skateboarders wheel across surfaces and fly over sidewalks, down stairwells, along walls, and atop cars. Nothing… More >>
It's one of San Francisco's greatest works of street art — as good as anything Banksy ever gave this city, and certainly much, much bigger. The two giant seals that… More >>
Don Reed's new solo show, Can You Dig It? The 60s — Back Down East 14th Street, doesn't often feel like theater. But neither do many shows at the Marsh.… More >>
It's too simplistic to say that Yisrael K. Feldsott was the J.D. Salinger of the art world, but the parallels are entirely there. The early fame and adulation from critics.… More >>
Two young women — girls, really — balance precariously on the same trapeze in a death-defying circus act. As depicted in Susan R. Greene's giant street art, the girls' trapeze… More >>