Every room a stage. Pick a night; the map lights up.
North Beach Neighborhood Digital RelaySeptember 26 through October 2026Broadway, Columbus to Grant to Powell
For one month, the neighborhood reads as a festival with twenty-four stages, past landmarks a century old and still standing. Choose a date and the map shows which rooms have something on that night, and what it is: the band, the comedian, the reading, the show. Or choose a combination and the map draws the sequenced route itself — first stop, second stop, third, each with its own clock. The Mab's own nights are marked in gold; every other room stands at parity. Hollow pins are rooms that run standing series but had not posted dated listings when this was compiled.
1 — Pick a night. The strip below holds the month. Tap a date.
2 — The map lights up. Every room with something on that night, and what it is: the band, the comedian, the reading.
3 — Or pick two rooms. The map draws the sequenced walk between them, first stop to last, minutes on foot.
A schematic map: pin positions are plotted from each room's street address, corridors drawn through them. Companion pages: enriched database · day-by-day calendar · front page. Verified from venue listings September 26, 2026.
Choose a night
Choose a combination — a sequenced route through the night, drawn on the map
Tap any two rooms and the map draws the walk between them, with the minutes on foot.
The districts:
the landmarks, painted — six corners of the district's memory
Coit Tower · 1933Telegraph Hill's lookoutSentinel Building · 1907the copper flatironSaints Peter & Paul · 1924the Italian cathedralDragon Gate · 1970the gate into ChinatownCity Lights · 1953the paperback cathedralWashington Square · 1847the neighborhood's front lawn
Reading the pins — Mabuhay Gardens, the relay's own room the number is that night's events hollow pins run standing series without posted dates landmarks, one hundred years and standing. Beneath the map — the landmarks, painted: Coit Tower, the Sentinel Building, Saints Peter & Paul, the Dragon Gate, City Lights, Washington Square.
The Festival, Day by Day
The whole month as one scroll: every dated event in this compilation, grouped by its day, Mabuhay Gardens set in gold at the head of its nights, every other room at parity. The neighborhood's own photographs — from the 1850s shoreline to the Pyramid's first years — walk down the page alongside.
North Beach from Telegraph Hill, the 1850s — the shoreline settlement before the fill. Photograph by G. R. Fardon. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Mona's 440 Club on Broadway, Gladys Bentley on the marquee — North Beach as a gay mecca decades before the Castro. Via FoundSF, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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