Culture of San Francisco

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A San Francisco cable car

The culture of San Francisco is major and diverse in terms of arts, music, cuisine, festivals, museums, and architecture but also is influenced heavily by Mexican culture due to its large Hispanic population, and its history as part of Spanish America and Mexico. San Francisco's diversity of cultures along with its eccentricities are so great that they have greatly influenced the country and the world at large over the years. In 2012, Bloomberg Businessweek voted San Francisco as America's Best City.[1]

Museums

Palace of Fine Arts

The

Asian Art Museum
have significant anthropological and non-European holdings.

Palace of the Legion of Honor

The

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco has one of the most comprehensive collections of Asian art in the world.[citation needed] From 1958 until 2003 the collection was housed in a wing of at the original de Young in Golden Gate Park. When the de Young closed while constructing a new building, the Asian Art Museum moved to the former San Francisco City Library building, which was renovated for the purpose under the direction of Italian architect Gae Aulenti who had previously overseen the conversion of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris
.

The red brick and central circular structure of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art as seen from Yerba Buena Gardens. The Art Deco-style Pacific Telephone Building (1925) rises behind the museum.

The San Francisco Zoo cares for a total of about 250 animal species, 39 of which have been deemed endangered or threatened.[3]

Other museums include the

UFO, Bigfoot and Loch Ness Monster Museum, and the Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf
.

Music and nightlife

War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco

Classical and Opera venues in San Francisco include the

Callboard Magazine, and runs San Francisco's Half-Priced Ticket Booth
.

San Francisco Sound. Beach Blanket Babylon is a zany musical revue and a civic institution that has performed to sold-out crowds in North Beach since 1974. Bimbo's 365 Club, in North Beach, is one of the city's oldest entertainment venues and plays host to music shows of all genres. Most nightclubs in San Francisco are exclusive to audiences age 21 and older; the two most prominent nightclubs in the city which are open to ages 18 and older are 715 Harrison (known locally by its two event names Club X and City Nights) as well as DNA Lounge.[4][5] Nightlife venues occasionally have a strong affiliation with a certain theme or culture, such as 1015 Folsom, which has a history with BDSM culture,[6] or Temple, noted for its futurism and energy-generating dance floor.[7]

Additionally, San Francisco is home to the 200-member

Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco and Golden Gate Men's Chorus,[8]
also perform throughout the year.

Theater

Main article: List of theatres in San Francisco

San Francisco has a large number of

Theater District: the Curran, Orpheum, and Golden Gate
Theatres.

San Francisco has had a thriving improv theatre community, with a distinctly different style of

improvised just as well. Some groups that define the improvisation scene in San Francisco are: BATS Improv, The Un-Scripted Theater Company, and The San Francisco Improv Alliance
.

San Francisco theaters frequently host pre-Broadway engagements and tryout runs,[11] and some original San Francisco productions have later moved to Broadway.[12] Plays and productions that have been staged in San Francisco (or nearby) prior to their Broadway productions include the following:

Popular music

San Francisco has often hosted influential

Hunters Point districts, San Francisco is the home of numerous rappers, including Messy Marv, RBL Posse, Rappin' 4-Tay, HughEMC, San Quinn, Andre Nickatina, Big Rich, JT the Bigga Figga, Ant Rich 415, and Paris. San Francisco DJs and electronic musicians are credited with defining the laid-back, dub-influenced sound of the West Coast house music.[citation needed] Prominent DJs and artists include Kaskade, Miguel Migs, Mark Farina, and DJ Garth. Dub Mission is among the city's regular music parties. Since 2000 San Francisco has hosted the How Weird Street Faire, claimed to be the longest-running electronic music
street festival in North America.

Famous songs about San Francisco include

People Under The Stairs' "San Francisco Knights", Chris Isaak's "San Francisco Days", Journey's "Lights", "Fake Tales of San Francisco" by the Arctic Monkeys, and "Save Me, San Francisco" by Train
.

Comedy

Comedian and actor,

The Other Café in the '70's.[60] He also shot seven films on location in San Francisco.[60]

Cuisine

See also:
List of Michelin starred restaurants in San Francisco

The city is the birthplace of the local variety of

California Cuisine and fusion cuisine are prominent in the city. Food trucks are a source of ethnically diverse, and gourmet street foods, with concentrations of various trucks at regular times and places.[61][62] Notable grocery stores, which often focus on locally-grown organic produce, include the Rainbow Grocery Cooperative and Bi-Rite Market. Johnny Kan
opened one of the first modern Chinese restaurants, in Chinatown in 1953.

Festivals and street fairs

Main article:
List of San Francisco Bay Area festivals and fairs

San Francisco is home to many different and unique street festivals, parties and parades. Most famous are its

Slow Food USA
and one of the largest food events in the nation.

Many neighborhoods in San Francisco have annual street festivals featuring live music, arts and crafts vendors, and community organizations. Among the largest of these are

Fisherman's Wharf and Marina Green
. Another fireworks show is held every May as part of the KFOG: Kaboom!.

Architecture and tourist attractions

Coit Tower is a major landmark.
The Transamerica Pyramid, completed in 1972, has become an iconic symbol of the city.
Main article:
San Francisco architecture

San Francisco contains a plethora of unique architecture that serve as tourist attractions in their own right. They include its

Painted Ladies", terraced victorian houses that can be found citywide, the San Francisco cable car system, the abstract San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, the ruins of the once great Sutro Baths, Chinatown, and the Transamerica Pyramid
.

Cultural Enclaves

San Francisco has long been home to many different ethnicities and nationalities from around the world as well as sexual and gender identities, and have developed unique cultural neighborhoods (either naturally or through redlining) over its time.

Cultural Enclaves in San Francisco
Enclave Name Neighborhood Community Represented Official Recognition or Dedicated District
Asian/Pacific Islander Ethnic Enclaves
Chinatown Chinatown, San Francisco & North Beach
Chinese Americans in San Francisco, Hong Kong Americans
 Yes, 1848
Clement Street
 Richmond District, San Francisco No
Japantown Japantown, San Francisco Japanese Americans Yes, March 28, 1968
Little Saigon
 Tenderloin, San Francisco Vietnamese Americans Yes, 2004
Manilatown Manilatown, San Francisco Historically Filipino Americans Yes, 2005
SoMa Pilipinas South of Market, San Francisco Filipino Americans Yes, May 2014
Pacific Heights, San Francisco
Asian/Pacific Islander American
 No
Bayview–Hunters Point Pacific Islander Americans No
African and African American Ethnic Enclaves
Harlem of the West Fillmore District, San Francisco African Americans in San Francisco No
Bayview–Hunters Point, San Francisco No
Latin American/Caribbean Ethnic Enclaves
(Calle 24) Latino Cultural District Mission District, San Francisco Mexican Americans primarily, Californios, and Latin Americans Yes, May 2014
Chilecito / Little Santiago North Beach, San Francisco Chilean Americans No, but commemorated by the Chilean Consulate in 2003
European/Middle Eastern Ethnic Enclaves
Belden Place / French Quarter Belden Place French Americans Informally
Little Italy North Beach, San Francisco Italian Americans Yes, 1924
Slovenian Hill Potrero Hill Slavic Americans No
Sunset District Eruv Sunset District, San Francisco
Jewish Americans
Richmond District Eruv Richmond District, San Francisco
LGBTQIA Enclaves
The Transgender District
 		Tenderloin, San Francisco
Transgender American
 Yes, 2017
Castro LGBTQ Cultural District
 Castro District, San Francisco
LGBT Americans
 Yes, 2019
LGBTQ Leather Cultural District
 South of Market, San Francisco Yes, 2018

See also

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