The annual Dickens Fair invites all ages to discover the characters of Charles Dickens’ London up-close and personal in 100,000 square feet of theatrically-lit winding lanes filled with shoppes & theaters.
Visit with more than 700 costumed characters from literature and history, including music hall performers, …

As part of funcheap’s new dedication to finding you Deals & Discounts, today you can buy a 4-Piece Collection of Soulstice Bodycare for only $30 (Vegan Universal Body Lotion, Perfecting Body Wash, Imagine Creme Cleanser and Evolution Shower Scrub – retail value $100).  But …

Come and enjoy a holiday concert by the San Francisco Forest choir, a female chorus group formed in 2003. They wil sing English and Japanese holidays songs.
Source: Sam Spade

To help celebrate the monthly  “Divisadero Corridor Art Walk” (37 art galleries, bars & merchants open late with freebies & specials), Little Star Pizza on Divisadero is offering 50% off any one pizza tonight from 5pm to 7pm. Afterwards you should stroll up and down …

Welcome to the first San Francisco Craftstravaganza, Handmade Ho Down, an Etsy-sponsored, urban craft show with 55+ crafters selling unique and handmade items. There will be a special event ‘zine, free swag bags full of goodies to the first 200 in the door, a gift …

Enjoy discounted evening admission to the California Academy of Sciences with a huge amount of one-night-only activities all included with your admission fee. Tonight, NightLife will be joined by some of the folks from OVO, the new program by Cirque du Soleil, inspired by the …

37 different businesses along Divisadero host their monthly “Divisadero Corridor Art Walk” with an evening of shopping, fun, drinks and dining.. and art of course spread across the Lower Haight, NoPa and Western Addition.
Among the deals & events for December 3rd:

Capricorn Framing 1335 Divisadero
12–7pm …

The Puma Store’s Holiday Party Remix featuring DJ Hero takes place on Thursday, December 3 at 6pm. Stop by and get 20% Off the Entire Store. There will also be DJ Hero kiosks and a live DJ, plus prizes and refreshments.
The first 100 shoppers will …

At “Classroom to Bottle: Tales of Cross-Cultural Winemaking” we will discuss the differences between Swiss and American winemaking and how the two techniques complement one another. Tastings from the Ecole d’ingénieurs de Changins in Switzerland and Alpha Omega Winery in Napa. Free event, but RSVP …

With your old calendar or ones provided by the workshop teacher, we will make gift bags and tags with ribbon scrap handles. If you have any heavy gift-wrap or old posters you would like to recycle into gift bags, feel free to bring them. We’ll …

Impossible Princess is the third collection of gay short fiction by Kevin Killian. An original member of the notorious San Francisco-based “new narrative” circle including Dennis Cooper and Kathy Acker, Killian is a master short story writer, crafting campy yet edgy tales that explore both …

Gerald Nachman  discusses Right Here on Our Stage Tonight!, his compulsively readable history that reanimates The Ed Sullivan Show for a new generation.
Location:
Books Inc. in the Opera Plaza
601 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, California 94102

In The Moment of Psycho, film critic and author David Thomson situates Psycho in Alfred Hitchcock’s career, recreating the mood and time when the seminal film erupted onto film screens worldwide. Thomson shows that Psycho was not just a sensation in film: it altered the …

Author Elayne Angel will be joining us to read from her latest book “The Piercing Bible: The Definitive Guide to Safe Body Piercing.”
Piercing pioneer Elayne Angel has performed over 40,000 piercings since the 1980s and has brought many practices, such as tongue-piercing, into the mainstream. …

In the 1930s, cafés in Greek and Turkish port cities like Salonika and Izmir were a meeting place for working people and underworld elements. The musicians performing at these “cafés aman” (music cafés) were Greeks, Jews, Slavs, Turks, and Vlachs and the music that came …

Join the SF Weekly for Casino Night at Aquarium of the Bay, Pier 39 on Thursday, December 3rd. SF Weekly will host its annual One Warm Coat Drive from 7:30-10:30 pm. Enjoy a hosted bar, live music, signature dish samples, casino tables, raffle prizes, and …

Come see improvised scenes, songs, and games, inspired by audience suggestions (that could be you) at the Berkeley YWCA. Laugh-out-loud fun with live music. This show is the culmination of their ‘Improv for Performance’ class.