Presidio Brew is sponsoring a homebrew tasting here at SF Brewcraft. Taste other ales or bring in your own concoctions to show off your skills. Bar-b-que, beer and fun for for all. Bring your own homebrew as well. Source: sf.myopenbar.com

The Stanford Powwow is a three-day festival held every Mother’s Day Weekend in the Eucalyptus Grove on Stanford campus. A Pow Wow is an American Indian celebration of dancing and drumming that normally starts at noon until sunset. People wear traditional tribal regalia and there are dance contests in many different categories. The drummers compete to sing the longest or drum the best. (more…)

Free all-day for everyone. From noon until 7:30pm, YBCA invites people to learn more about contemporary art with an open house festival of exciting events & exhibitions that highlight the last Big Idea of the season—Identity Shifts. Enjoy visual art, comedy, music, performances, hands-on workshops, exhibition tours, film screenings and food & drink. (more…)

Utilizing both rock and free-music idioms into the orchestration, Never Enough Hope takes shape in the form of a 20-piece ensemble featuring scores of saxophones, vibraphones, and violins, mingling with guitar, bass, trumpets, and dual drum kits.

Over 30,000 are expected for this annual music festival and fireworks show which takes place at Pier 30/32 (just south of the Bay Bridge). The 2008 ‘KFOG KaBoom!’ features live music from legendary East LA rockers Los Lobos, the bittersweet but groovy post-grunge rockers Collective Soul, and impressive 12-string guitar player and pop songwriter Matt Nathanson. There’s lots of food & drink stalls, and tons of events for families. It’s all capped off at 9pm with the state’s biggest fireworks display over the SF Bay exploding synchronized to music broadcast on KFOG (104.5 FM), so bring a radio. Is seven-and-a-half tons of explosives enough for you? (more…)

The Oakland Museum of California hosts a day of fun for “all” California families—with a special welcome to those with adopted, foster, mixed-race, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender members. The event includes  live music from Oakland East Bay Gay Men’s Chorus Otto Voci ensemble, Magician Timothy James, a Martial arts demonstration by Destiny Arts, Gold panning and more. (more…)

Centered around the delicate voice and guitar playing of songwriter Andy Cabic, Vetiver is a surreal and psychedelic take on indie folk. This is Vetiver’s first performance in the East Bay and the release date of their newest album, Thing Of The Past

Join us for an “Opening Gala” to celebrate the launch of San Francisco Cocktail Week, sponsored by the Museum of the American Cocktail. Returning to where he launched his career, honoree Tony Abou-Ganim, creator of the legendary Cable Car cocktail will be tending bar and wowing the crowd with his renowned talents. Upon arrival guests will be greeted with a complimentary cocktail. The Starlight Room is on the 21st floor of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel and has amazing city views. Source: sf.myopenbar.com

Pandora, a free custom online music station which gives you pretty spot-on recommendations of new bands based on what you already like, is hosting a free event in San Francisco at 111 Minna Gallery. They’ll provide wine, beer and hors d’oeuvres. They’ll be showing a film from the Pandora Video Series and live music from Rain of Frogs. Meet other local music lovers and meet geeks who work on Pandora and the Music Genome Project. Email event@pandora.com to RSVP (more…)

Erick Lyle (formerly known as Iggy Scam) looks back at the past ten years of activism and guerilla art in San Francisco with his new book “On the Lower Frequencies: A Secret History of the City“. Come join Lyle and collaborators in a night of free vegan food, art, readings, and live punk rock music, featuring Zara Thustra, Sy Loady, Shotwell, Black Rainbow, and many more. Dinner at 6pm, Music at 9pm

Come exploring the art and inner workings of Area 2881, studio to Carl Pisaturo. Learn about reliable electrics and electric nervous systems and the mysteries of led pusling strobe lights. Explore the processing and properties of materials like 2 part urethane polymers, belts, shafts and ball bearings, silicone elastomers and miniature, wire rope. Source: SF Weekly

Volunteers will cheer you on at 25 Energizer Stations around San Francisco. Stop by one of the stations (some are during morning, some are in afternoon) to load up on free coffee, snacks, and convenient tote bags for future commutes. We’ll also be passing out info about how you can get involved in making San Francisco a better bicycling city. The SF Guardian Bike to Work Station will be on Fell and Masonic where from 5-7pm we will be handing out SFBC bags of goodies. Enjoy blinkylights, Jetset energy drink, Kristin’s cupcakes and other fabulous give aways.

West Bay Opera closes its 2008-09 season with a new, fully staged production of Richard Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman). Der fliegende Holländer is the last of Wagner’s Italianate operas and his first major success. For centuries, the Flying Dutchman sailed the seas, condemned to live until he could find salvation in the love of a truly faithful woman. Senta, a young girl in a Norwegian fishing village, proved herself faithful to the death. This event is a free preview. The full production opens May 23rd (more…)

Bring your tortillas (stale preferred), your costumed, your naked and your beer and participate in one of the largest races in America, and also one of the most strange and “San Francentric.” The Third Sunday in May sees this crown jewel of SF events with over 70,000 race/walk/stroll 7.46 miles from Bay (Howard/Beale) to Breakers (the western end of Golden Gate Park) in a costumed mass of people. Be prepared to see 1,000 ridiculous costumes, lots of naked people and the tired “salmon” swimming against the tide of racers. Although you’re supposed to register and pay $48-$59 to race, but many people just show up and race anyway. We won’t tell anyone.

Let’s go Green in May. Meet Christie Matheson Of Green Chic, a guide for your thoughtful decisions in every day life, from food to beauty to wine, travel and home and Anne Vollen of Green Zebra, valuable coupons to dozens of green retailers in San Francisco. Both authors support The Reading Tree, a San Francisco based non-profit dedicated to supporting early literacy and healthy reading habits.

Woven through actual letters, diary entries and haiku poetry, “From A Silk Cocoon” is an award winning documentary about the true story of a young couple whose shattered dreams and forsaken loyalties lead them to renounce their American citizenship while held in separate prison camps during World War 2. They struggle to prove their innocence and fight deportation during a time of wartime hysteria and racial profiling. Followed by Q&A with filmmaker and psychotherapist Satsuke Ina.