Who’s the Wise Guy Touring You Around SFMOMA?
“Why is this urinal art?” asks comedian Kumail Nanjiani. “I don’t get it.”...
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Hipsterville Meets Hayes Valley: The Other Side of Las Vegas
I watch as the small plastic cup holding my syrup, which, moments before, had sat atop my pancakes, starts to slowly glide across the table of its own accord, leaving a streak of butter like a snail leaves a mark....
“Blank Map” Is a Psychedelic Performance in Black Abstraction
During my interview with the partial cast of Blank Map, two descriptive words kept circling back into the conversation: “abstraction” and “surrealism.” “When it comes to the way that surrealism and abstraction are often commonly talked about, the…...
How Oakland Is Turning Trash Cans into Art
Art is part of the soul of Oakland. From Jingletown to Uptown, art is on its streets, its walls, its residents and even at the bottom of some of its telephone poles....
Solid Gold: The Asian Art Museum’s Golden Anniversary Dance Party
What did you do for your last milestone birthday? I threw a get-together in my cramped apartment, where my friend DJ’d on his laptop and we drank cheap 30-racks of PBR....
Don’t Study STEM. Study the Arts.
When did studying the arts become a joke? Telling arts majors that they have no future is a long, clichéd Internet tradition....
Magical, Slightly Eerie Cinemagraphs of San Francisco
Editor’s note: Cinemagraphs are still new enough to seem totally futuristic and magical, even though we’ve had GIFs for what seems like forever....
Glowing Art Tour Reminder of Why SF is Beautiful
Ah, winter in San Francisco. Compared to the rest of the country, we have it easy — 60 degree days, sunny weather from time to time, with just the occasional rain and fog....
NSFW: Drone-Filmed Porn Was Made in SF
Drones and pornography have finally met, and the result was shot in San Francisco....
Mind-Blowingly Detailed Hand-Drawn Map of San Francisco
London-based artist and map-maker Jenni Sparks made an insanely detailed hand-drawn map of San Francisco—like, so detailed I expected to zoom in on 14th and Church to find an adorable rendering of the time I fell so hard crossing the street that my shoes fell off....
Oakland’s Hoodslam Is Crazy; Go To It
Standing room only, there are no seats. There are no guardrails, no hundred-feet-tall projections, no event program, no collectible cups, no replica championship belts....
Stop Telling Women to Smile Hits Oakland
I used to think I was the only one who was stopped by random men and told to smile....