{"id":505635,"date":"2026-10-23T18:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T18:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/505635\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T18:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T18:42:15","slug":"big-week-sandcastle-classic-litcrawl-annie-sprinkle-125-years-of-lawn-bowling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/505635\/","title":{"rendered":"BIG WEEK: Sandcastle Classic, LitCrawl, Annie Sprinkle, 125 Years of Lawn Bowling…."},"content":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t forget to check out our Best of the Bay 2026 winners<\/a> for some great suggestions on where to go and what to eat. And grab tickets for our 13th Annual Gala and Best of the Bay Party on October 27<\/a>! <\/p>\n

We\u2019re also stoked about a new feature documentary called Roll Fog, about the oldest supporter-owned soccer club in the US, San Francisco City FC, and its displacement by a new team co-founded by finance executives and supported by Daniel Lurie. Check it out and support local filmmaking here<\/a>!<\/p>\n

GENERAL ARTS
Marke B<\/a>.\u00a0keeps an eye and ear and everything else out.<\/p>\n

FRI\/23-NOVEMBER 20: IN THEIR NAME D\u00cdA DE LOS MUERTOS DISPLAY returns to SOMArts October 23 The fabulously colorful and deeply meaningful display returns to the vast SOMArts space. \u201cCurated by\u00a0Bridg\u00e8tt Rex\u00a0and\u00a0Rio Ya\u00f1ez, this year\u2019s theme honors the\u00a0mothers, mother figures, caregivers, and ancestors\u00a0who have shaped our lives and communities.\u00a0In Their Name\u00a0brings together contemporary installations and traditional altars that explore mothering, care, memory, and resistance.\u201d Opening reception Fri\/23, 6pm-9pm, SOMArts, SF. More info here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FRI\/23-NOVEMBER 8: 17TH ANNUAL SAN FRANCISCO DANCE FILM FESTIVAL Dance has always looked hella good on the big screen\u2014who hasn\u2019t been ravished by Cyd Charisse? This fantastic fest presents local and international dance companies putting their best film feet forward, kicking off with ballet legend tribute Nureyev and twirling through dozens of shorts in thematic programs that will have you leaping form your seat. Various locations, more info here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

SAT\/24: 44TH ANNUAL SANDCASTLE CLASSIC This annual sandcastle-building competition is always a hoot, yields some surprisingly beautiful results, and helps out public schools. Plus you get a day at the beach (grab a yummy sandwich from Java Beach Cafe!) and a life-affirming immersion communal art-makin. Plus performances by DJ Wonway Posibul, Cuicacalli Ballet Folkl\u00f3rico, and LionDanceMe, how cool is that. 11am-3:30pm, Ocean Beach near Balboa, SF. More info here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

SAT\/24: LITCRAWL SF\u2019s biggest literary fest Litquake rounds off a month of deep reading with this annual fun-fest that sees dozens of writers pop up in all sorts of unusual locations around Valencia Street all day long. For example! You can catch our video reporter Andrew Brobst at \u201cKitchen Table Presents: On Poems, Cookbooks, and Flock Cameras<\/a>\u201d or me, Marke B., at \u201cJournalists With Bite: Local Reporters Share Their Hottest Takes<\/a>.\u201d Can you guess what mine will be? Come find out. 5pm-10pm, more info here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\"\"Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle in \u2018Playing with Fire\u2019<\/p>\n

SUN\/25: PLAYING WITH FIRE: AN ECOSEXUAL EMERGENCY is a joyous ecosexual documentary born from the ashes of California\u2019s devastating fires. When lightning ignites the redwood forest surrounding their home in Boulder Creek, longtime lovers Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle are forced to evacuate\u2014and their lives are forever transformed. They blend loss and grief into ecosexual art, moving through fire as destructive, regenerative, and erotic forces, while fusing humor, community care, social justice and environmental awareness into a lush and fiery journey of transformation. Sprinkle and Stephens will be in attendance at this screening. 1pm, Roxie, SF. More info here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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SUN\/25: 125 YEARS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO LAWN BOWLING CLUB The SF Lawn Bowling Club (it\u2019s not bocce ball!) holds the wonderful title being of the oldest\u00a0lawn\u00a0bowling\u00a0club in the United States and one of the nation\u2019s fastest-growing. That\u2019s not a contradiction: With it\u2019s primly appointed greens and smart clubhouse in Golden Gate Park, who wouldn\u2019t want to don some whites, grab a glass of something bubbly, and indulge in a little roly-poly on a Sunday morning? This quasquicentennial celebration includes demos,\u00a0clubhouse museum tours, music, games, and refreshments. Let\u2019s roll. 10am-2pm, SF Lawn Bowling Club, Golden Gate Park, SF. More info here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

SUN\/25: DAYBREAKER\u2019S BOO-TIFUL MORNING RAVE The common narrative is that morning people\/older people\/sober people need to shift to alcohol-free morning raves for health\/sanity\/work. But honestly, I just like to hit them up after a night of partying to pick up hot DILFs. Kidding! Maybe! The Daybreaker raves are a longtime phenomenon that truly bring the party vibe to the\u2014ugh, gasp\u2014daylight hours. Of course this one is Halloween-themed but, get this, it\u2019s taking place in the Redwood Grove at the foot of the Transamerica Building. That\u2019s one of the most magical spaces in the city and the thought of music and dancing and spookiness filling the space on a Sunday morning is a great joy. 10am-1:15pm, Transamerica Building Plaza Redwood Groove, SF. More info here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\"\"Yuka Yu hosts Chinatown After Dark<\/p>\n

MUSIC
Hit up John-Paul Shiver\u2019s\u00a0Under the Stars<\/a>\u00a0column for great tunes and shows every week.<\/p>\n

FRI\/23: NU TEKNO PRESENTS CHINATOWN AFTER DARK HALLOWEEN EDITION Yuka Yu believes people connect through music. This Bay Area maverick, who originally hails from Taipei, Taiwan, and founded the artist exchange program Nu Tekno (\u5973\u6a02), started DJing in London\u2019s Camden Town and trained at the London Sound Academy. A featured player at Noise Pop, the Asian Art Museum here in SF, and at New Orleans Jazz Fest, Yuka Yu dazzles and delights at her residency with guest Hidra. Dancers and shufflers can expect deep house, techno, and Italo-disco for the heads, amidst a community of queers, lovers, misfits, and diasporic dreamers. 10pm, Mr. Mahjong\u2019s, SF. More info here.<\/a><\/p>\n

THROUGH OCTOBER 31: SHOP FOR A PROPER COSTUME Hate to break it to you, but the stripper-ho outfit era is over. Washed. Culturally inappropriate and just in poor\/lazy form. That hoe had a long life; let a hoe die. And dudes, the white guy pimp? Need I say more? You can both do better. Hit up Cliff\u2019s Variety<\/a> at 479 Castro for some paint, wigs, and props.\u00a0Be scary with dignity. Roll over to Decades of Fashion<\/a> at 1653 Haight Street for some 19th-century Abe Lincoln hat and beard, or embrace your inner hippie chick-ness. Just for one night, it can\u2019t hurt. Listen, you can hit any Goodwill location in the Bay Area for crazy ideas, or just put together your own 70s sleaze outfit. It\u2019s fun. But I tell ya, I see any stripper hoes with white dude pimps out there this year? It\u2019s on sight!<\/p>\n

\"\"Relaxing at the Rize Up Test Kitchen Cafe<\/p>\n

FOOD & DRINK
Tamara Palmer\u2019s weekly\u00a0Good Taste column<\/a>\u00a0tells you where to stick your fork.\u00a0<\/p>\n

RIZE UP TEST KITCHEN CAF\u00c9 I dipped into this Best of the Bay winning new cafe from the Rize Up folks a few weeks ago to order a bunch of items to share with my friend Miguel Escobedo at\u00a0Al Pastor Papi<\/a>. We loved the grilled cheese sandwiches, one with kimchi, the other with Pepper Jack and peach jam. What I didn\u2019t get to share was the brilliant Aaron De La Cruz mural out front or the time spent silently vibing with different walks of life customers at the communal table, like one fellow who was sketching out incredible designs on a tablet. It\u2019s a place worth lingering over coffee and toast or a sandwich on one of Rize Up\u2019s famously imaginative sourdough bread flavors, like the gochujang-spiked K-Pop or bright purple ube.\u00a01160 Howard Street, SF.\u00a0More info her<\/a>e<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"\u2018Every Saturday Night.\u2019 Photo by Alexa LexMex Trevi\u00f1o<\/p>\n

STAGE
Charles Lewis III checks out theaters and performance spaces every week in the\u00a0Drama Masks<\/a>\u00a0column.<\/p>\n

THROUGH NOV\/1: SF BATCO\u2019S EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT WORLD PREMIERE\u00a0One of the Bay Area\u2019s boldest indie theatre\u2019s takes over the satellite stage of SF\u2019s premiere theatre for a time-hopping musical about the Black history of San Francisco. Donte, a Black man in his 70s, is one of the few Black home-owners left in San Francisco. He remembers when his mother\u2019s house was the city\u2019s biggest communal spot for jazz-lovers from across the country. With gentrification breathing down his neck, Donte begins to field buyout offers, but he\u2019s still haunted by memories of his mother and the musical legacy she left the house and the city. ACT Strand, SF. More info here<\/a><\/p>\n

OPENS SAT\/23: RAY OF LIGHT PRESENTS ONCE UPON A ONE MORE TIME\u00a0A Britney Spears musical was inevitable, wasn\u2019t it? This one isn\u2019t a bio, but rather an\u00a0Into the Woods-style fairytale deconstruction that finds Cinderella in a meta-contextual state in which she questions what\u2019s she doing in her own story. Perhaps her loneliness will kill her, maybe she\u2019ll feel stronger than yesterday, it\u2019s quite possible she may be driven crazy. The only thing that can be said for sure is that SF\u2019s premiere musical indie theatre will pull out the stops for this meeting of pop princess and regular princess. Isn\u2019t she lucky? The Barbary Stage, SF.\u00a0More info here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FILM
Dennis Harvey\u2019s long-running\u00a0Screen Grabs<\/a>\u00a0has tons more flicks to recommend.<\/p>\n

OPENING FRI\/23: WICKER Olivia Colman plays resident Fisherwoman to a vaguely medieval village in vaguely mittle-Europa, where everyone else is also known solely by their societal role. She\u2019s accustomed to slurs,\u00a0\u00a0as an unlovely spinster with an, er, professional odor.\u00a0But one day something stirs in her, and she commissions the surprised Basket Weaver (Peter Dinklage, seldom better) to \u201cmake me a husband.\u201d Even more surprisingly, he delivers. The Wicker Man (Alexander Skarsgard) shortly arriving at her doorstep may not be flesh and blood, but he is handy, devoted, and apparently stellar in the sack. So much so that soon the local \u201cwives are all aflutter,\u201d plainly jealous of a spouse so unlike their boorish own.\u00a0Wicker\u00a0makes tart points of a tacitly feminist and\/or political nature without belaboring them in the least. It is funny sans cruelty, surprisingly poignant when things turn more serious, and capable of pulling off a complicatedly kinda-sorta happy ending that feels just right. It is one of the year\u2019s most winning unexpected pleasures.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t forget to check out our Best of the Bay 2026 winners for some great suggestions on where…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-505635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}