"It’s easy to get lost in the shiny, spanky spectacle of Folsom Street Fair. But beyond the at-times overwhelming pageant of proud perversity, there’s shopping, dancing, performance, refreshment, and friendly socializing to be had!" @supermarke.bsky.social

"I hear Jimmy Kimmel needs a job?"

Grab a fun friend and hit up Freak Curious, Magnitude, and/or Deviants! As #FolsomStreetFair's official media partner, we’ve got the down and dirty goods for the official pre- and after-parties. To win a pair of tickets, click through [GIVEAWAY]

🚨Hey there! @48hills.bsky.social SF's Arts + Music Column: Under the Stars! Richmond's cool experimental quartet, Pateka. The Fillmore's local art BASTIENGOAT's electronic SAFE. DIS at 540 Bar 9/26! Kenny Dope covers "Born Under Punches" for BBE Records 48hills.org/2025/09/unde...

Thank you @48hills.bsky.social ! We’re thrilled to bring Peaches Christ & the Terror Vault ghouls to this year’s Folsom Street Fair with a STUD Stage takeover you won’t forget. Don’t miss it! 🩸 👉 48hills.org/2025/09/5-fo...

Mayor Daniel Lurie’s West Side zoning plan is, in large part, a result of Scott Wiener’s legislation, which forces cities to accept more luxury housing with no money for the infrastructure of affordable units that San Francisco needs.

His book explores the resilience of Chinese immigrants in dark times. Reporter and author David Luo is looking to move their stories into the spotlight. Catch him Sat/20 at Berkeley's Eastwind Books.

This 14-plus-mile trek meanders from Fort Funston to Pier 23, taking in sights such as Lake Merced, Twin Peaks, and Postcard Row’s Painted Ladies of Alamo Square. Definitely, deserving of a #BOB2025

Oozing onto the big screen! @scumdance is a celebration of weird and wild micro-budget films, made by punks, dirtbags, mutants, and maniacs. Show up for a full day of bizarro movies from around the world September 27 at @TheLostChurchSF [SPONSORED] www.scum.dance

"This Richmond-based experimental quartet has a wide-eyed palette for sound and the unrelenting fearlessness to share not one but all the dang ideas." Pateka's debut explored in #UnderTheStars

"Weiner, Engardio, et al talk about SF can’t be set in amber. That’s fair—but the people who have lived here for decades shouldn’t be forced to leave so people with more money can take their place," writes Tim Redmond.

What does Sunday's Folsom Street Fair 2025 hold? According to its organizers, a wicked web wide enough for a wide array of kinky al fresco urgings.

The SF Lowrider Council is going large this weekend and you won't want to miss Sat/20's parade! That's just one of the BIG things happening in our weekly curated calendar #BIGWEEK

SECRET CHRISTINA AGUILERA BAR AT Portola Festival ... and other things you will need to eat this weekend, courtesy of #GoodTaste @tamarapalmer.bsky.social

"With irony not lost on anyone, it was Engardio who played a major role in creating San Francisco’s recall machine. Now that machine has come back to bite him," writes @deanpreston.bsky.social

Mel Odom’s intricately detailed, unmistakably homoerotic work has captivated generations. Now, a new film captures his hedonistic fantasy world. Race Bannon interviews its creator:

Portola Music Fest hits this weekend, but some of the major action is in the satellite shows and parties outside the fest, like deep EDM groovers Prospa at the The Midway on Fri/19. And we’ve got a pair of tickets! [GIVEAWAY]

I had the honor of writing for a publication I respect highly, @48hills.bsky.social, about an exciting new documentary, Eyes of Mel Odom, currently raising funds for their production. Thank you @supermarke.bsky.social for the opportunity. 48hills.org/2025/09/mel-...

"With about 30 percent of the vote in, 65 percent of the voters favored the recall. There’s no way that’s going to change as the final count trickles in." Now comes the tricky part.

"That in essence put a senior member of the staff on record endorsing a position that the commission had not yet considered," writes Tim Redmond What is going on at the Planning Commission?

In 1975, a group of Bay Area artists opened their workspaces for one weekend. In a boom and bust city, that act has managed to become a creative institution.

@peacheschrist.com has spewed pure filth from international stages and screens for decades—but this is the first time she’s offered to wash us up ✏️ @supermarke.bsky.social

Excited about @coyotemedia.org, covering the Bay Area. A strong start here, on the meaning of the alt-weekly in an era where they've comprehensively vanished. Murderer's row of expert witnesses: @tromano.bsky.social, @annkpowers.bsky.social, @48hills.bsky.social. www.coyotemedia.org/what-we-talk...

Have you seen this fabulous 48 Hills interview yet? “Scrub Your Face with Peaches Christ” lays bare my sudsy new side hustle: Madame Peaches Soaps, made with NIST Collection, all natural, hand-cut & witchy as hell. @48hills.bsky.social 48hills.org/2025/09/scru...

Polls opened at 7am, but many mail-in ballot have already been cast. Plus: if Lurie has to choose a replacement, things may get tricky...

Take a trip to the the North Beach basement studio of Winston Smith, famed punk-surrealist artist—you might just pick up a psychedelic print Pucci top. We're honoring superlative gallery and retail space @studiofallout.bsky.social with a #BOB2025 !

“Who would think to make a song about light banter?” @sparksofficial.bsky.social would—and they spoke with us about creative process, and the members' childhood releationship with San Francisco in this interview ahead of the September 27 concert.

On the eve of El Grito, Jalisco painter Luis Felipe Chávez's show contemplates binational views of freedom: why does revolutionary Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla's Guadaljara statue wear a fierce frown, while Dolores Park's version looks serene?

Here’s a sneak peek of The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot -- now in its 5th month of production! -- and recently honored as a Best of the Bay 2025 Editors' Pick by @48hills.bsky.social. From your first step inside, you’re a customer of Gene Compton’s Cafeteria in 1966. 🎟️ buytickets.at/comptonscafe...

This guerrilla collective is making a solid statement about accessibility, humane public infrastructure. A #BOB2025 for SF Bay Area Bench Collective!

Get ready for magical special moments when @SFMOMA gets to host bands who are defining what is happening right now in San Francisco. #UnderTheStars @padlife.bsky.social has the scoop:

The Planning Commission sent to the Board of Supes Thursday night a measure that will change the city forever. "We are handing the reins of the most important issue in San Francisco to private developers," said an affordable housing advocate.

Join us this Sunday, September 14, at 4:00 for a one-time Sunday matinee performance of The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, selected as a Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick by @48hills.bsky.social. Limited tickets are available! 🎟 buytickets.at/comptonscafe...

NEW: Popular local SF bands hit SF MOMA Roof for special show @slumberlandrecords.com DJ-Kicks Mix series turns 30 Nirvana's fave band Shonen Knife hit's SF in October Rad DEVO doc on @netflix.com All in @48hills.bsky.social music column Under The Stars 48hills.org/2025/09/unde...

You are invited to witness the digging of a hole in the sand—and it conjures thoughts of one's insignificance on a universal scale. The new Neo-Futurists show is a good thing at #DramaMasks

"When the annual Litquake lineup (October 9-25!) is released, we more introverted festival nerds already have our Pink Pony Club hats on and our giant foam fingers waving, yelling 'Boooooooks!' Quietly, of course."

Listen... you gotta live a little. Music critic @padlife.bsky.social breaks down the fall concerts that have him awaiting that communal high, from Portola Festival to R&B luminary @ledisi.bsky.social at Davies Symphony Hall 💯 🎤

Today, dueling rallies at City Hall take the pro and con on the Mayor's polemic zoning plan. Question remains: How is all this market-rate housing going to bring down prices, if developers say they're not building until rents increase another 20%?

#livemusic #BayArea Here are 11 shows from a mix of venues sizes in #SF that you should go out and see this fall.Maybe you need SPF lotion for one, but for the rest, just bring a love for performance. Let's go! @48hills.bsky.social 48hills.org/2025/09/abba...

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot 🎉 "The city thought it would never see itself done right onstage after 'Beach Blanket Babylon.' Then this long-running show came along." WOW! Thank you, Charles Lewis III & @48hills.bsky.social! ❤️ MORE: 48hills.org/2025/09/best...

Two supervisors are even pushing legislation to address some of their displacement concerns related to the Mayor's plan—and Lurie has already said he will support one of those bills.

It's a spud celebration! Corgi Con wins a #BOB2025 Editors' Pick—and later this month, you can experience the joy for yourself with the pupfest's move to a more ample venue.

Don't worry, he's a cheap date (Bud Light).

"'Compton’s Cafeteria Riot' isn’t just another immersive show for visitors. No, it’s an uncomfortable reminder of how the 'lesser-than' residents of the city fought the system that wanted to erased them." Round of applause for this #BOB2025 winner!

City Lights has been re-issuing Surrealist greats. Its poetry editor says that the words of one, André Breton, had importance far beyond the page: "The dream is, that you just say some shit that inspires people to take action. And he actually did this."

"Oakland, Fresno, San Bernardino, Oregon, SF—the new measures are cloaked in 19th century settler codes: exclusion zones, buffer zones, encampment abatement plans, the RV ban in SF," writes @poormagazine.bsky.social "These are acts of violence against our bodies."

"I don’t know why Newsom, who wants to be president, is willing to be the governor who saw essential transit services collapse on his watch," writes Tim Redmond.

Sat/13's GLŌM FEST at DNA Lounge isn’t just bringing bands across oceans, not just staging a keening where sorrow turns into celebration. It's also a fundraiser for Los Angeles Bat Rescue 🦇🦇🦇

NOISE POP 2026 DATES Xenomorph junglism from NECTAX, STAR & SHADOW EP Plus HIGHEST 2 LOWEST on @appletves.bsky.social Under The Stars @48hills.bsky.social 48hills.org/2025/08/unde...

The 'Family Zoning Plan' is not going to meet the affordable housing needs defined by the Mayor's own Planning Department—and has way too much in common with the plot of 'It's a Wonderful Life.'