Friday Nights at the de Young the museum stays open late and hosts all sorts of interesting events, concerts, art projects and lectures. Although regular admission prices still apply to visit the museum’s galleries, all of the events below are in the public spaces of …

SOMArts Cultural Center’s Bay Gallery invites visitors to take a trip into the world of sumo wrestling as seen through the eyes of twenty artists from the Bay Area and beyond with Into the Ring, Sumo-style.
This eclectic exhibition of paintings, photography, drawing and more, curated …

Singer-songwriter Joel Streeter cleverly fuses britpop melodies with mid-tempo indie rock and easily navigates his songs away from the traditional pitfalls of generic songwriting, standard chord changes and lazy lyrics.
His excellent debut album “Hear Me Out” had song after song which could easily have made …

Historian and author Bryant Simon will talk about his new book based on based on fives years of research and visits to 450 Starbucks in 12 countries, Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks.
Early reviews:
“Simon knows more about Starbucks–and about why so …

In the book “Everything but the Coffee” Bryant Simon (the Starbucks Professor) probes the company’s psychological, emotional, political, and sociological power to discover how Starbucks’ explosive success and rapid deflation exemplify American culture, showing that Starbucks speaks to a deeply felt American need for predictability …

The fiction of Jane Austen is timeless and has endured the centuriesand now in Michael Thomas Ford’s “Jane Bites Back”, she herself will truly never die. Jane is alive and well working in a local bookstore. It’s tough to be surrounded by books while harboring …

The Golden State Warriors and Buckhorn Grill are teaming up to offer Warrior Fans a special $15 ticket offer (regularly $40) for the Friday, January 15th game vs. the Milwaukee Bucks and that includes a voucher for a “Little Buck” Tri-Tip Sandwich with each ticket …

SF Sketchfest is a three-week long comedy festival which takes over most of the bay area’s comedy clubs with an amazing lineup of national headliners such as Conan O’Brien, Dave Foley (Kids in the Hall), Terry Jones (Monty Python), The cast of Reno 911!, John …