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Saturday, October 17th get ready for the first ever Market Street Arts & Theater Festival, a FREE fringe-style festival showcasing 50+ creative experiences at 35+ locations between 5th & Van Ness on Market Street! More info: marketstreetarts.org/fest [SPONSORED]
Jon Ronson comes to @litquake.bsky.social October 14 for his one-man show 'The Castle,' a darkly comic trip to the furthest reaches of the masculinity crisis. [SPONSORED] Tickets + more info here: litquake2026.sched.com/event/2V2p6/...
The Fillmore delivers come autumn. Hailing the season's upcoming residencies for the those looking to settle into a musical experience #UnderTheStars @padlife.bsky.social
Under the Stars: Fall at the Fillmore heats up with stellar sonic residencies - 48 hills
Plus: Mr. Leroy Burgess goes live on 'Big Time,' Meshell Ndegeocello and Cat Power fire up a Human League classic, more music
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E-40's son Chef Emari Stevens' new hot honey employs California wildflower honey, Champagne vinegar, aged black garlic, and spicy-fruity Peruvian aji charapita peppers. You can try it on the appetizer menu at Tony's Pizza Napoletana #GoodTaste
Good Taste: Firenectar is a chef's secret weapon - 48 hills
A flavor-bombed pie with Tony’s Pizza highlights Emari Stevens’ new hot honey.
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GrowSF, the billionaire-backed right-wing PAC has launched a poll asking people if they would vote for Manny Yekutiel if he got back in the race.
District 8 supe race: The plot thickens - 48 hills
Big Tech PAC is looking for ways to help Yekutiel win, even after he dropped out
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Thousands of you voted for your favorite hidden gems in a community tradition dating back over half a century. Drumroll please... here are your 52nd annual Best of the Bay Readers' Poll winners! ˚⟡⊰⋆:💎:⋆⊱⟡˚
Welcome to Best of the Bay 2026! - 48 hills
Thousands of you voted in dozens of categories, now it's time to see who won our 52nd annual Readers' Poll
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Confused about the big-money propaganda onslaught against the billionaires' tax? "Even if all the billionaires in California moved away, it would take 25 years before the lost income taxes matched what Prop 40 raises," writes @saikatc in this op-ed.
How Porter, Newsom, and so many others are wrong about Proposition 40 - 48 hills
Billionaires won't flee. The state won't lose money. But taxing the rich in CA could spread nationwide.
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"It’s hard to wrap our arms around consciousness because we can’t get outside of it to look at it cooly, clinically, objectively," says Michael Pollan in his 48hills interview, in advance of his Tue/13 Cal Performances appearance.
Michael Pollan would prefer we don't offload our human mess onto AI - 48 hills
Berkeley's famed consciousness hunter patrols the edges in 'A World Appears'—and finds things are more complex than we think.
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"Terror Vault's 'Slashed' is the sort of thing that would have pissed off Tipper Gore in the ‘80s and could easily rattle Pete Hegseth today," writes Charles Lewis III in #DramaMasks
Drama Masks: Horrified by election season? Have we got a slasher for you - 48 hills
Terror Vault's latest will make you wish you could hide in the booth. Plus, Shotgun's 'Fall Show' is a senior meet-cute treat
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“She leaned back and crossed her arms, and she said, ‘You think you can interview me?’” remembers Bea Arthurs documentarian Dan Watt. “And I was like, ‘Yeah.’” The film screens with @framelinefestival.bsky.social across the Bay next week.
Bea Arthur really did do everything except porn - 48 hills
Intimate new doc reviews lauded comedic actor's long career with a spicy, never-seen-before interview.
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"Imagine my surprise to find in my mail a campaign flyer opposing Proposition I, the Affordable Housing Guarantee Act, making the outrageous and false claim that if passed it would send money to a 'slush fund' for 'nonprofits,'" writes Chris Carlson.
The stunning No on Prop. I lies - 48 hills
The real 'slush fund' is what billionaires are spending to attack affordable housing
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"If you were standing around a run-of-the-mill gay club with your friends," writes @supermarke.bsky.social of reactions to Manny Yekutiel's campaign withdrawal. "And some dude came up and kept grabbing your dick, even after you said no, how exactly would you feel?"
Yes, groping can be sexual assault—even for gay men - 48 hills
The reaction of some older gay men, including elected officials, to the allegations against Manny Yekutiel have been tired and disheartening.
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Discover New Age music’s cultural history, from countercultural roots in the Bay Area to visionary artists in a groundbreaking sonic movement, with Jacob Smith and @ucpress.bsky.social's 'Bridge to an Unseen Shore' More info + buy now: www.ucpress.edu/books/bridge... [SPONSORED]
Bridge to an Unseen Shore by Jacob Smith - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Good things often come in small packages, a logic that certainly applies to 3rd i Films' San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival (Fri/9-Sun/11) #ScreenGrabs
Screen Grabs: 3rd i Fest blows in with wild weddings, sand thieves, ghost schools - 48 hills
Plus: 'NAZA' and 'The Social Reckoning' hit local screens, Mahershala Ali goes gonzo, 'Never After Dark' chills, more
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Do you like scary movie drag parodies? SF Oasis introduces SQREAM, a drag horror parody spanning the entire OASIS nightclub as campy, sexy, and gory as your millennial adolescence! Oct 8-31. More info: www.eventbrite.com/e/sqream-tic... [SPONSORED]
SQREAM
An Immersive 90s Slasher Parody Musical Experience!
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The chair of the SF Democratic Party has admitted what’s been clear for months: the party endorsed a candidate for supervisor who was accused of sexual misconduct. But unless everyone who voted for Yekutiel resigns, nothing will change but the names.
The Democratic Party finally apologizes—sort of—for endorsing Manny Yekutiel - 48 hills
Some members call for Chair Nancy Tung to resign. But with the billionaires still in charge, is that accountability?
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Los Angeles is about to spend almost half a billion dollars on affordable housing, and the money will come from a tax on very-high-end real estate sales—precisely what Mayor Daniel Lurie is opposing in San Francisco.
LA is taxing mansions to building affordable housing. Why is Lurie opposing a similar plan? - 48 hills
Plus: Supes to confront jail conditions ... and have the Yimbys crossed a line in the Castro?
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"Floggers were flogged, whips were whipped, puppers were pupped, and—despite some comments that there were less than usual fabulous acts of public indecency—all sorts of naughtiness was to be had." Check Jon Bauer's jubiliant Folsom Street Fair shots!
Live Shots: Pervy and proud at Folsom Street Fair - 48 hills
People (and pup) watching at the massive—and inspiring—annual leather and fetish fair
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“Now I want to give artificial intelligence’s doomsday programming a San Francisco funeral,” he told us, “end the race to high-tech fascist End Times in the city where it began." #parody
A Luddite AI that self-destructs? Why not? - 48 hills
'End Times' and a 21st Century version of a 19th Century phenomenon
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A quartet of exceptional new spots makes #GoodTaste sing. Get into Jandii, Rize Up Test Kitchen, Le Mil's Coffee, and Oklava Cafe.
Good Taste: Summer's gone—but it left us great cafes - 48 hills
A quartet of exceptional new spots where you can linger over coffee, pastries, and perhaps some great art in the making.
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"Recently, my colleagues at Defend Public Health called out RFK Jr’s endless parade of deceptions. They looked at recurring themes and patterns in how the secretary communicates and—like the good scientists they are—followed the data where it led them."
Why won't the media call a lie a lie? - 48 hills
Trump and RFK, Jr. constantly and deliberately spew falsehoods. We know this, they know this—why doesn't the press?
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"The show is still entertainingly creepy," writes Charles Lewis III of 'Little Shop of Horrors.' "The Republican-led era depicted may have changed, but the schadenfreude of watching of watching assholes get eaten remains" #DramaMasks
Drama Masks: There's a flesh-eating alien plant inside the queer theater! - 48 hills
'Little Shop of Horrors' comes to NCTC. Plus: Long live the DNA Lounge parklet, a true and trusty survivor.
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People are coming together over paper at BAMPFA's Maren Hassinger exhibition 🗞️🗞️🗞️
Inspired by Maren Hassinger's work, BAMPFA community bonds on paper - 48 hills
Knotting and twisting, Julia Goodman leads workshops that celebrate a luminous living artist.
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It's Best of the Bay season—have you voted for the Readers' Poll? We're rolling out our Editors' Picks all month. Today, the historic honor goes to burlesque performer Qu'in de la Noche 🪩
Best of the Bay 2026 Editors’ Pick: Qu’in de la Noche - 48 hills
The Dark Siren of San Francisco stuns with burlesque production chops—and ability to render calls for justice undeniably hot.
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On Saturday, Eli's Mile High Club announced that it would not close its doors for good, but would shut temporarily. #UnderTheStars reached out to East Bay performers who consider the venue part of their community.
Under the Stars: We almost lost Eli's Mile High Club - 48 hills
East Bay players weigh in on the jeopardized venue's importance. Plus, BALTHVS psychs out and Perennial sveltes up.
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Rock en español royalty El Trí took the San Jose Civic Center for all it was worth in a glittering, raucous show #LiveShots
Live Shots: El Trí brought glittering rock en español power to San Jose - 48 hills
Mexico City rockeros delivered on a 50-year legacy of rebellious chords.
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It's been a long journey from his home in Gaza to the Bay Area—and Palestinian rapper MC Abdul explores it on his upcoming debut album 'Day By Day, Shway Shway.'
Gaza's MC Abdul on life in the Bay—and a debut album that maps his journey - 48 hills
Palestinian rapper learned English listening to Tupac. Now he's dropping 'Day by Day, Shway Shway' on SF's EMPIRE label
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“Dance is a conversation, not a showcase,” says an instructor from the boom-bap Bounce Back crew. Start talking at the group's two-year anniversary party this Saturday.
Popping with hip-hop history, Bounce Back looks to the future of the session - 48 hills
Inclusivity-minded dance and party crew celebrates its second anniversary, big boom-bap and local culture-bearers in tow.
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Big news: the inaugural San Francisco Brazilian Film Festival is at the Vogue Theater Thurs/24 through Sun/27—plus, Coffee and Language Productions is celebrating its 25th year of existence with three features from filmmaker J.P. Allen #ScreenGrabs
Screen Grabs: Local auteur JP Allen stays offbeat, indie, and frisky - 48 hills
Plus: Another Other Cinema oddity, an ode to concrete, Mahershala Ali in action, 'Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!,' more...
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Please join us and help us continue our mission to keep local media fiercely independent, alternative, and human-driven for another year! Early Bird tickets are now available for our October 27 gala. Opportunities available to sponsor the event too!
We need sponsors for our big Gala! Help us survive for another year - 48 hills
Sponsor our annual celebration on October 27 and help us keep local news independent and human-driven!
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