Festivals and Parades

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Black Market Street: Giants Championship Parade Means Good Business for Hustlers

Trey, one of the hustlers in last week's feature story, "Black Market Street," was excited that the Giants won the World Series. He's not really a baseball fan, and admits without shame that he is unable to name the team's batting line-up off the top of his head. But San Francisco Giants champions ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Burning Man in GIFs: Fire, Fire, and More Fire!

By Josh "CuriousJosh" Reiss Maybe you didn't make the trek out to the the playa for Burning Man this year. Maybe you love S.F. even better when all the Burners are gone. Well, we got ace photographer CuriousJosh to bring us back these amazing GIFs from Burning Man in hopes of changing your mind. T ... More >>

No Tickets? Nine Ways You Can Still Get Into Burning Man 2012

Whatever else history might say of the Burning Man Ticket Fiasco of 2012, it offers the community that puts on the festival one more brute lesson in market economics. For attendees at the longtime countercultural arts festival held annually in the desert near Reno, news that four-fifths of the ticke ... More >>

Burning Man: What If They Run Out of Tickets?

Curious Josh ​Burning Man's first-ever ticket lottery has had far more requests for tickets than the 40,000 that have been made available.  What does this mean?The Internet will be very, very, angryNo one will ever get to go to Burning Man againSan Franciscans finally have something other tha ... More >>

Sea of Dreams: Show Preview

Oktoberfest Rings In the New Beer -- Now in September!

Werner Heiber / ShutterstockIt's that time of year again​If you're anything like us, you suffer through the 11 months of the year when it's inappropriate to wear a dirndl. It's finally time to dust off those frilly garments and drink beer from an assortment of over-sized glassware. Since you ... More >>

Superstar Sightings

This Weekend: Carnaval Entertains With a Flurry of Feathers and a Food PAVILLION

​33rd Annual SF Carnaval Festival & Grand Parade Where: Harrison between 23rd street and 16th streets. When: Saturday and Sunday, May 28-29, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: Free The rundown: This wild two-day event takes place in the streets of the Mission, and celebrates the rich cultural traditi ... More >>

Two-Week Cherry Blossom Festival Starts Saturday in Japantown

Luis ChongOkinawa soba, annual feature of Japantown's Cherry Blossom Festival.​Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival Where: Japantown, Post and Buchanan Streets When: Sat.-Sun., Apr. 9-10, and 16-17; grand parade and anime costume awards on Sun., Apr. 17 Cost: Free; donations accepted ... More >>

Trio of Events Keeps Oktoberfest Alive

OaktoberfestThree oompah-pah fests keep Oktoberfest alive for another week.​Oktoberfest is over. Long live Oktoberfest! The original Oktoberfest in Munich ends today, but that doesn't mean you can't still get your polka on. For three days in a row this week, starting in the city, moving up to ... More >>

Dancing in the Streets

Summer Music Festival Spoof

www.collegehumor.com​On the eve of the big summer festival season--when it's only a matter of days, or tweets, before Outside Lands spills its lineup--CollegeHumor.com has made one of the best spoofs of the music weekender scene that we've seen. From the lineup (featuring "bearded jam band; f ... More >>

SXSW Interactive Is Dead

Image of a VIP fence via Flickr/Adrants​No annual festival, conference, or party will ever be as good as the first year you went. That's not what I'm talking about when I say that South by Southwest Interactive died this year. Earlier this week, Jolie O'Dell wrote the usual "Why SXSW Sucks" post. ... More >>

Black Rock Flock: A Burning Man preparation guide

Producer of Great American Food and Music Fest Looking Forward to Next Year's Event

Think you can handle another one?The producer of the troubled Great American Food and Music Fest said he's making plans for next year's festival even as he's figuring out where to lay the blame for the June 13 event at Shoreline in Mountain View. "I'm so excited about next year," said event produce ... More >>

Black Rock City or Bust: Help Send Magic Curry Man to Burning Man

Magic Curry Man wants to serve the playa.The mobility of the infamous Magic Curry Kart is really rather limited, and Magic Curry Man needs your help to get it out to Burning Man's Black Rock City in August. He'll be in front of Sports Basement (1590 Bryant at 15th St.) tonight from 6 to 9 p.m. ... More >>

Ten Holiday Weekend Treats for Under $10

T.G.I.A.H.W. Which stands for Thank God It's a Holiday Weekend. In the next three days, there's plenty of cheap stuff to do for those planning a little staycation in San Francisco. Below are a couple of our top selections for what to do for under $10.Sarah Applebaum (see Saturday)Mundane Shift Shape ... More >>

Tamales Bay

Burning Man Missed Connections: Better than Regular MCs.

Five Minutes to Fame

San Francisco Zine Fest this Weekend

You'll Have the Hangover of the Irish

Meeting And Exceeding Your Beer Needs

Lovefest Shakes That Ass in San Francisco

LoveFest Promises 65,000 Ravers Listening to DJ Dan and Donald Glaude at City Hall

Chicken John's mayoral campaign qualifies for public funds

Psycho Mail #1

Letters to the Editor

Week of 1-31-07

Share the Love

Two massive electronic music events, one small spotlight

The Honeymooners

Large and Lovely

A film about a tent city on a dusty plain. No, it's not Burning Man.

Let It Roll

A skate date

Best Local Actor About to Leave Town

Emily Ackerman

The Winter's Tale

With so much going right, it's hard to tell why this clever production falls flat

Letters to the Editor

Week of September 11, 2002

Breath of Understanding

Pondering the questions raised by the international reach of the Ethnic Dance Festival

Arts & Entertainment Readers' Poll

House Of Tudor

"Spanksgiving," psychobilly menace, and sweet calypso

Mad Scientist

Dr. Aaron Wolf Baum turns modern technology into a weird amalgam of sound and image, music and art

Reel World

Grotto Film Project; Latino Film Festival

Best Musical Museum Where You Can Touch (and Buy)

Lark in the Morning

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Night Crawler

Riff Raff

Samples

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Hunka Hunka Burning Wood

A spark-by-spark description of this year's Burning Man

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