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To help you travel in May and June, Jet Blue is on sale for two days only with $49 fares from SFO and Oakland to Long Beach.
If you drove from SF to Long Beach and back you’d probably pay about $129 just for gas!
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Caltrain’s series of celebrations marking 150 years of passenger rail service in the Peninsula will wind down with a customer appreciation event in San Francisco and San Jose station from 4-6 pm on Wednesday, April 23, 2014.
Customers at the San Francisco and San Jose Diridon stations …
2014 marks the 100th anniversary of Gertrude Stein’s groundbreaking modernist classic Tender Buttons. City Lights Publishers has reissued a centennial edition of the book incorporating Stein’s own handwritten corrections.
Editor Seth Perlow, poet and scholar Juliana Spahr, biographer Renate Stendhal and poet and author Michelle Tea …
The beautiful Kaiser Center in Oakland open up its doors and invites the public in to explore Oakland’s urban rooftop oasis at the third annual Kaiser Center Roof Garden Showcase from 6-9 pm on Wednesday, April 23, 2014.
Free, but an RSVP is required.
There will be appetizers provided by …
Eating meat-free is easy as 1-2-3, a store tour and cooking demo with Chef Alex Bury.
Free, but an RSVP is required to to ashley.erickson@wholefoods.com or call 510.834.9800 ext. 260.
Nutritional yeast, seitan, Veganaise. You’re hearing about all these new products but may not know what they are or …
World Book Night is a special night each year when books are given out to those who don’t regularly read and/or people who lack access to books. The Bernal Branch of the SF Public Library will have a limited supply of these books to give away …
Come and play with all the fun circus toys that fit under the Circus Center‘s roof every Wednesday. Circus Skills Jam Class Most Wednesdays | 7 to 9pm Free, but the class has a 25 person maximum. Please check-in between 7-7:45 pm. This class is open ...
Improv San Jose presents comedian Shaun Latham as seen on Stand-up Revolution on Comedy Central.
Free before 8:30 pm with an RSVP required. Otherwise it’s $12 at the door.
Shaun Latham lays everything out on the table and isn’t afraid to go off the cuff and go into …
Born and raised San Francisco rockers, Solwave, take up residency at the Milk Bar for the final four Wednesdays in April as a kick off to their new release, The End of the Beginning.
Free, but an RSVP is required.
The End of the Beginning wears its …
Comedy Lineup | April 23, 2014
Duat Mai If he spoke more languages he would eventually be the funniest comedian in the world. Don’t let him get started on life on other planets. If you watch him and do not laugh he is just working on …
From magnified botanical compositions to panoramic landscapes, the works in this exhibition offer a deeper understanding of the spirit of place that was essential to O’Keeffe’s artistic evolution.
From 1918 until the early 1930s, Georgia O’Keeffe retreated annually to Alfred Stieglitz’s family estate on Lake George …
For 2014, Baskin Robbins is appreciating ice cream lovers everywhere with a Scoop Fest from April 22-24, 2014. They’ll offer $1 kids scoops, $2 double scoops, and $3 triple scoops of all your favorite flavors. Bay Area Baskin Robbins Locations Find a Baskin Robbins near you. We ...
The 15th annual How Weird Street Faire on Sunday, May 4, 2014 is a huge Burning Man-ish 8-hour outdoor dance festival with 10 stages of DJ and live music, plus dance performances, strange art projects, parades and out-of-this-world vendors centered at Howard and 2nd Streets in SoMa.
Five Funcheapers …
Eye of Horus is a series of site-specific solos choreographed and directed by Sara Shelton Mann in collaboration with performers Christine Bonansea, Sherwood Chen, Jorge de Hoyos, Jesse Hewit, and Sara Yassky with DIY elements designed by David Szlasa to interact with performer, cityscape and …
The String Cheese Incident jam on over to Amoeba SF for an in-store performance and signing. Their new album, Song In My Head, releases on April 29th on Loud & Proud/SCI Fidelity Records.
Over the past decade, The String Cheese Incident has emerged as one of …
Do you know who made the clothes you’re wearing right now?
Remember the victims of last year’s Bangladesh garment factory disaster which killed 1,113 worker during Fashion Revolution Day and help promote positive change in the industry
Shop from local vendors:
Locally manufactured knitwear made from California-grown organic …
Cozy up with Off the Grid at “Twilight at the Presidio” – a free weekly evening event on the Main Post Lawn from 5-9 pm every Thursday, April 10 – June 26, 2014. Off the Grid street food vendors will serve up dishes tapas-style while you ...
The 9th Annual Poems Under the Dome invites you to celebrate National Poetry Month at San Francisco’s largest open mic poetry event inside City Hall from 5:30-8 pm on Thursday, April 24, 2014.
San Francisco’s Poet Laureate, Alejandro Murguía, will read the first poem, then local poets will …
Enjoy live music and games when gates open at 6 pm for Customer Appreciation Night at all Westwind Drive-In locations on Thursday, April 24, 2014.
Double feature drive-in movies:
Ride Along (8 pm) with The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (10:30 pm)
The Lego Movie (8 pm) with Frozen (10 pm)
Enjoy live music and games when gates open at 6 pm for Customer Appreciation Night at all Westwind Drive-In locations on Thursday, April 24, 2014.
Double feature drive-in movies:
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (8 pm) with Ride Along (10:45 pm)
Frozen (8 pm) with The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (10:15 pm)
The Lego Movie (8 …
Come one, come all to an evening of light, motion, music, technology, innovation, and dance exploring the intersection of live performance, technology, science, and art.
Free, but an RSVP is required. Please print or bring an electronic copy of your ticket to show at the door.
In addition …
SFSU’s The Depot presents a free show featuring four rocking punk and psych bands from 6-9 pm on Thursday, April 24, 2014.
Band Lineup:
Wild Moth - Punk
Meat Market - Visual/Rock
Labor Temple - Aggressively Depressed
Food and drinks available for purchase at The Pub.
Learn the basics of bread making from the entry-level bread-baking cookbook from Josey Baker (that’s really his real name), a former science teacher turned San Francisco baking sensation. Josey Baker Bread combines step-by-step lessons with more than 100 photographs, offering easy-to-follow guidance for aspiring bakers.
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On April 24th, from 6-9 pm Betabrand Think Tank and SF Fashion Lab will launch a design challenge to six up-and-coming designers.
Free, but an RSVP is required.
You’ll have the chance to sip, shop, and snack, before watching the designers pitch their Betabrand products to our panel (think, …
