About the Author

Kevin's been in San Francisco since 1998, which at this point makes him basically indigenous. He watched the first tech boom, the crash, the second boom, the pandemic exodus, and whatever's happening now. Through all of it, he kept going to shows. He writes about nightlife for AllEvents—the live music venues that survived the rent increases, the comedy clubs that somehow keep opening, the festivals in Golden Gate Park, the food events in the Mission, the parties in warehouses that definitely aren't up to code but have the best sound systems in the city. San Francisco's nightlife scene is smaller than it used to be. Kevin doesn't pretend otherwise. But what's left is good, and the stuff that's new is interesting. He covers it without nostalgia or hype—just what's actually happening and whether it's worth your time. He knows every venue owner, every booker, every sound engineer who stuck around. Twenty-five years of showing up, you build that. Kevin takes BART and Muni, lives in the Sunset, and writes guides that acknowledge the city's changed while still finding reasons to go out. There are reasons. He finds them.