WOOOOOOO 4th of July! But just because there’s a workday sandwiched in there doesn’t mean the party has to stop. Dip in to any of these five expertly-chosen weekend festivities, or just sit in your backyard and flip those extra burgers you’ve got left over. A sweet deal regardless!
10th Annual Temescal Street Fair
It’s appropriate that the events category on the Temescal District website is called “Hip Happenings.” It gets at why Temescal is equal parts loved and deplored, and why its many great offerings in terms of food, drink, and entertainment will usually come recommended with the scarce hint of an eye roll. But regardless of all that, Temescal knows how to do Temescal, and it’s officially the time of year to celebrate that. Join them this Sunday on Telegraph Ave. between 42nd and 51st St. for the 10th Annual Temescal Street Fair, featuring a kids’ stage with a lineup of performances, over 150 craft booths, lots of live music, and food and drinks from Juhu Beach Club, Lanesplitter, La Calaca Loca, The Avenue, and Barlata. What started as a little street festival is, objectively, not so little anymore. 12-6 p.m., free. TemescalDistrict.org/Hip_Happenings— Azeen Ghorayshi
Credits: Mia Nakano Credits: Chris Duffey
- Mia Nakano
Queer Rebels of the Harlem Renaissance
The Queer Rebels are an arts production company that looks to the past as a way to better inform the future. Nowhere do they do that better than at their annual arts showcase, Queer Rebels of the Harlem Renaissance. The event continues this year with its fourth annual showcase, the first to include Oakland in part of its program. On Saturday and Sunday, join the Queer Rebels at the African American Art & Culture Complex (762 Fulton St., San Francisco) for a night of readings, blues, poetry, theater, and more from some of the Bay Area’s most trailblazing artists and performers. On Monday, head over to the New Parkway Theater for a screening of B.D. Women, a 1994 film that weaves together clips of black lesbians talking candidly about their sexual and racial identities as well as a dramatized love story set, perfectly enough, in the Harlem Renaissance.12:30 p.m., $6-$10. QueerRebels.com — Azeen Ghorayshi
