48 Hour Magazine is a raucous experiment in using new tools to erase media’s old limits. As the name suggests, we’re going to write, photograph, illustrate, design, edit, and ship a magazine in two days.

Here’s how it works: Issue Zero begins May 7th. The magazine …

Shownuff is a Friday Night Live Music series, free and open to the public, at 111 Minna featuring great live music, DJs and other social aperitifs during happy hour from 5-9p.
May 7th featuring a rollicking funk and soul set by the 11-piece band Stymie and …

Every Friday night the de Young Museum hosts a series of free events in the museum’s public spaces.
On May 7th enjoy a jazz tribute to MLK by The Marcus Shelby Jazz Quarter, quilting demonstrations, hands-on art activities, a stencil cutting demonstration and presentation and lecture …

A new and amazing way to start a weekend off right, leave work and start relaxing immediately. We will be hosting an amazing cocktail party at one of SF’s favorite restaurants, Osha Thai Restaurant and Lounge – Embarcadero Plaza

Sponsored by Midori Liquor
Music by DJ …

Gared Luquet is a bay area artist and graduate of Pepperdine University. Luquet is an expressionist painter who creates with intensity. He works in a variety of media including acrylic, plaster, plexiglass, resin, paper, wax, wood and found objects. His paintings undergo an impassioned transformation …

Consumer consumption of goods and resources is one of the numerous factors that underlie environmental decline. In “Reframe: Making Sense of Waste,” Hanna Regev curates the works of 14 artists who grapple with the meaning of all that waste through the use of scraps and …

Join D-Structure on May 7th for “Birds of a Feather” art exhibit, works and installations by Milan Evje – an exhibit which explores the parallels between the female condition and the behavior of birds. That is, the opportunity to be free and the fear of …

Documentary screening of The Recess Ends, which celebrates its release on DVD. “One brother gets laid off and convinces his younger brother to quit his job and embark on a 50 state journey filming a documentary on the economy and the recession.”
The event inexplicably beings …

This performance features the world premiere of SFCO Composer in Residence Gabriela Frank’s new violin concerto, written for concertmaster Robin Sharp. Scored for solo violin, 10 string players, and two percussionists, Hailli Lirico was inspired by a set of prayers delivered by Inca rulers, …

Ford (yes the car company) is looking for some Scion-like indie cred for its Fiesta, so they’re hosting a free concert at The Mezzanine and at least it’s a pretty darn good one.
Live music from vulnerable and provocative electronic pop band The Frail, along with …

The Uptown Nightclub in Oakland hosts a free concert on the first friday of every month to coincide with the Art Murmur open galleries event.  May 7th features a live set by The Mumlers, a swaggering pop band with oodles of interesting instruments channeling up …