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The natural wine bar with a nightly dance party that took the Mission by storm in the last couple years is expanding in the neighborhood with a second venue, which will be a nightclub with food and cocktails. Bar Part Time, which started as a pandemic pop-up and has become a popular fixture on 14th Street, was part of a natural wine wave that has drawn in a bevy of young Millenial and Gen Z drinkers in recent years.

The Bay Lights belong to San Francisco, Illuminate founder Ben Davis said in a Thursday statement announcing the March 20 relighting date. They're a reminder that beauty can live at the scale of infrastructure and that awe can be part of a city's identity. SF Mayor Daniel Lurie also chimed in on the same Thursday announcement. The Bay Lights are an iconic symbol of San Francisco and the entire Bay Area, Lurie said in the same press release.

I've interviewed a lot of booze proprietors and given that many of the bars in this town are in old buildings, at some point I usually inquire if the place is haunted. But this is the first time that anyone has brought it up without me asking. In fact, Billie did so only 3 minutes and 24 seconds into our chat.

Meet all the horse statues just installed around San Francisco to celebrate the Lunar New Year's Year of the Horse, as these intricately designed horse monuments now adorn SF parks, markets, and public spaces. You may have noticed that all of the San Francisco Lunar New Year Celebrations are starting a little later than normal this year. That's because the Lunar New Year itself starts a little later than normal this year.

Trader Joe's is always busy on weeknights. Especially so on Thursday in San Francisco's Hayes Valley neighborhood, when a mob of twentysomethings, all holding roses in their hands, flooded one store's produce section. While some slung red baskets over their arms, they weren't shopping for Scandinavian Swimmers. They were looking for love. That crowd gathered for an unofficial Trader Joe's singles mixer. More than 500 people RSVPed to a public event listing on Partiful.

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Welcome to Hecklers Welcome!, San Francisco's only stand-up show where you get to talk back. This is not your average comedy night-this is a full-blown verbal brawl, where comics come ready to spar and the audience gets a license to heckle. Got jokes? Bring 'em. Got beef? Air it. Think you're funnier than the pros? Talk back and find out.

Gone are the days of dimly lit first dates, swiping right and "you up?" texts. This Valentine's Day, San Franciscans went shopping for a different kind of snack at their local Trader Joe's. Based on the number of name tags handed out, nearly 400 singles showed up at the Hayes Valley Trader Joe's on Thursday evening with the hope of finding love - a testament to the allure of forming in-person connections even in the mecca of AI.

Jeanne Carstensen is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, The World, The Nation, Salon, Nautilus, and The Global Post, among other outlets. She previously served as managing editor of Salon and The Bay Citizen, which produced the Bay Area pages of The New York Times. Her book, A Greek Tragedy: One Day, A Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis, was published by Simon & Schuster/One Signal Publishers in March 2025.

"Every time people visit San Francisco, they're blown away by our city's beauty and energy," said Lurie in a statement. "Film takes that feeling and carries it far beyond our city limits. And when productions choose San Francisco, they do more than showcase our city's outstanding beauty. They invest directly in our workers, our neighborhoods and our creative economy."

"We burden small businesses in the city to an extraordinary extent," Mandelman said. "I think this is one area where we should let them decide how best to serve their customers."

Initially, everybody I asked in the city was certain that this was satire, perhaps the workings of Sacha Baron Cohen or a stunt by union activists; after all, the website also lauds the value created by James Dyson, Roger Federer, and the CEO of Chobani (for having "popularized Greek yogurt"). I was reminded of how several years ago, the faux-conspiracists of the Birds Aren't Real movement rallied outside Twitter's headquarters to critique dangerous social-media rabbit holes.

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A couple of years and one small Singer sewing machine later, that first sail became practice material for tote bags that Amato-Salvatierra would go on to sell under the brand name Ocean Beach Yacht Club, or OBYC. Each bag is cut and sewn from repurposed sails in Amato-Salvatierra's garage studio, and no two are exactly alike. He's been making them for more than ten years.

A few dozen supporters showed up for Saturday's decidedly unironic March for Billionaires protest, which was evenly matched by several members of the press and a group of activists one-upping the sympathizers with a satirical March for Trillionaires rally. As Mission Local reports, a small contingent of billionaire supporters, who claim they're not actually billionaires themselves, held a March for Billionaires protest at Alta Plaza Park in San Francisco's Pacific Heights Saturday morning.

Boone who drew rave reviews from fans for his performance at the 2025 BottleRock Napa Valley festival in Napa performed at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. The pop star, who also appeared at Salesforce's most recent Dreamforce event in October, reportedly performed such songs as Take Me Home, Young American Heart, Mr Electric Blue, Reminds Me of You, Cry and Beautiful Things during his set.

Chants of "Benito! Benito! Benito!" erupted Thursday night as, one by one, 28 Bad Bunnies paraded through Tacolicious on Valencia Street. It was Mission Lotería's "Bad Bunny Lookalike Contest," held on the cusp of the reggaeton legend's Super Bowl LX halftime performance at Levi's Stadium, during times so politically trying that it is difficult to even keep track of each successive outrage. Arguably no crowd had ever been more ready for an excess of bunnies and badness.