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.
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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.
SFMoMA Cuts Several Programs, Including Film and Open Space
Among a feeling of discontent and disappointment between artists and the arts community, SFMOMA decides to cut several programs, including film, which not only leaves local artists without support but also leaves seven members of its staff without a job.
San Francisco Celebrates Opening of Black Point Historic Gardens
On August 25 San Francisco’s newest park will open to the public, offering access to land that has been fenced off for over 50 years.