Turn your radio to 90.7 FM (or just click "listen now" on the website) to hear local bands performing live on KALX every Saturday night at 8 pm. KALX Live is a great [more...]

DJ Page Hodel is a local legend. She fell into the DJ biz after she became famous for her wild birthday blowouts, and wound up DJing for one of the Bay Area's most [more...]

My favorite standup comedian doesn't make jokes about how white people are different from black people or how men are different from women. Instead, Sean Keane's jokes are original material on original subjects: BART ad campaigns, the [more...]

We Be The Echo is a favorite local band. Composed of a ridiculously tall Finnish guy, a confusingly accented English guy, and Mike, the band slams their way through high-energy sets of rock, rock and more rock. Plus, they're friendly [more...]

Our illustrious Mayor Gavin Newsom is largely beloved by residents after he threw open the doors of City Hall shortly after taking office and [more...]

The Tamale Lady is more than a local character; she's a local institution. Her name is Virginia Ramos, but to most San Franciscans she is simply the Tamale [more...]

The bar 12 Galaxies was named for local zealot Frank Chu. Rarely a day passes when Chu isn't glimpsed downtown, wearing a suit and sunglasses and marching [more...]

Watch the website for the next incarnation of Nato Green's Iron Comic, a live gameshow for standup comedian contestants based on the Iron Chef style. [more...]

Track down local indie filmmaker Terry Zwigoff, then impress your date by cooly not asking him for an autograph. (You can always double back later and harrass the poor guy.)

Porn-star-turned-sex-diva Annie Sprinkle has frequent shows and lectures in San Francisco, and nothing puts a date in the mood like listening to Annie talk sexual deviance for an hour and a half.

Local troubador The John Francis always puts on a great show, whether he's singing about lost loves or zombie pirates taking over a cruise ship. His shows are [more...]

Local artist Paul Madonna's comic strip All Over Coffee appears weekly in the San Francisco Chronicle, [more...]

Wander the Castro District on any sunny Saturday and you're guaranteed to run into one of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. These cross-dressing, Mardi [more...]

Local author Dave Eggers co-founded a pirate supply store at 826 Valencia. Complete with hooks, doubloons, pre-written messages in bottles and a barrel of [more...]