Events for October 29, 2011
Saturday, October 29
The Treasure Island Flea is an outdoor market showcasing the best of the Bay’s talent. Shop from hundreds of local vendors selling everything from vintage to indie design, new merchandise and antiques along with food vendors.
Treasure Island will play host to 100′s of …
Downtown Oakland is undergoing a renaissance (let’s not call it gentrification, just to be nice). Local residents and visitors can glimpse both today’s happening scene and landmarks from Oakland’s past during the 2011 Oakland Tours season.
There are eight different tours, each led by a volunteer …
Start your holiday shopping in October? For up to 65% off you might at Chronicle Books’ fall warehouse sale. Choose from a selection of cookbooks, children’s books, lifestyle + home, arts + crafts, art + design, photography, travel, pop culture, and music titles. Plus, journals, …
Whether it’s done in pencil or paint, check out all the artwork on display during the SF Open Studios weekend on Saturday, October 29 and Sunday, October 30 in Hunters Point Shipyard & Islais Creek Studios.
The final weekend in a month-long series of artist open houses, …
Calling all ghosts and goblins, young and old; join Marin History Museum on 4th Street in San Rafael for an afternoon of spooktacular delights.
They will also be announcing the results of the recent paranormal investigation at the historic Boyd Gate House, provided by Ghost Explorers.
Trick …
On Saturday Oct 29th Bestselling Author Edward Vilga will be joined by his muse, his chocolate lab, Belle for a book reading and puppy show-and-tell at the super-chic newly opened boutique Acre in Telegraph Hill.
Upward Dog tells how despite being described as a “legendary yoga …
Noted horror host-orian Michael Monahan, with co-author Lon Huber, will tell tales of local television horror movie hosts, and show video clips of a variety of TV’s grooviest ghouls. Remember Asmodeus? Bob Wilkins? Ms. Monster?
Chart the path of hosted horror in San Francisco with the authors of Shock It …
Come out for this annual Halloween bike race “Trickster Treat V: Zombies Rise”, with all proceeds benefiting Up On Top, a Tenderloin neighborhood afterschool program for low-income elementary school students.
The “Alley Cat”–an informal bike race–starts at noon. It’s $5 to race (and free to watch) …
It’s the weekend before Halloween, so its time to get costumed up and do something goofy.
Costumes are so strongly encouraged that the game leaders will come up with silly rules to handicap those who don’t come dressed.
This game will run earlier than normal to …
Learn how to make stop-motion animation in this free workshop taught by artists Sarah Klein and Mel Prest.
Using hand-cut paper and stop-motion techniques we will work together on a exquisite corpse collaborative animation project. The workshop is appropriate for adults and children with parental supervision. …
It’s fixies and facial hair at the free Mustache Ride Over Golden Gate Bridge, which meets at the Conservatory of Flowers and will take riders from Golden Gate Park to Sausalito.
Just make sure to bring your own bike and mustache (if you can’t grow one, …
Join Amoeba from 2:00pm to 5:00pm for the Roots and Rhythm Series with DJ Harry Duncan.
Featured will be the award-winning Roots and Rhythm music mix from In The Soul Kitchen, Duncan’s weekly radio show on KUSF In Exile, plus ticket giveaways, …
Paula Wolfert’s name is synonymous with revealing the riches of authentic Mediterranean cooking, especially the cuisine of Morocco.
In The Food of Morocco, she brings to bear more than forty years of experience of, love of, and original research on the traditional foodways …
If you’re one of the “99%,” put on your Halloween costumes, grab your monopoly money and head to Justin Herman Plaza on Saturday October 29, 2011 at 3pm for the largest mass march yet as part of the growing “Occupy” movement here in San Francisco.
Theses …
Imagine hundreds of Waldos crawling to pubs located in the great city of San Francisco.
It’s Halloween so you can be creative but Must Haves are Waldo shirt (red & white strips), Waldo beanie (red & white stripped) either that or white shirt/beanie and red …
Ready to boos it up for Halloween?
Get in costume and stop by sister bars Shanghai Kellys (Russian Hill) or the Northstar (North Beach) for ghouly drinking and get your picture taken. Best Costume Award will be announced at 1 am and winners will win a …
Journey to the End of the Night is a free street game played across cities around the world, spreading from San Francisco to Chicago, Washington, DC, London, Berlin, Mexico City, and beyond.
The third Halloween edition of Journey to the End of the Night returns to the …
Take a trip back nearly 90 years and get scared like your great grandparents did at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum for their 2011 Halloween Movie Night with classic spooky silent films from the 1920s along with live musical accompaniment on the Kurzeil keyboard
1920′s …
Unleash your demons on the dancefloor amidst intergalactic costumed insanity, space funk, electro glam, and circuit bent pop. Planet Booty is a blends electropop, sci-fi synths, space funk, booty bass with a splash of choreography and theatrics to create a hyper-charged and highly entertaining dance friendly …
In the spirit of the strangest weekend of the year, The Strange Boys, from Austin TX, will serenade the crowd at the fancy Clift Hotel with their bluesy American rock’n’roll.
DJ Diner and Bridget St Breeze will spin DJ sets for the rest of the night.
RSVP …
Prepare to be enchanted under a spell to dance the night away.
DeeCee’s Soul Shakedown presents A Nightmare on 6th Street which includes three rooms full of DJs spinning reggae, hip hop, and rock infused beats all haunting night.
The night wouldn’t be right if there weren’t …
Sub Mission hosts a gorey concert night and horror costume party with the appropriately named Meat Hook and the Vital Organs (along with Abrupt and Butt Problems). Admission is $6 or $4 with costume
Head all the way to the end of the line (the L Taraval, that is) to The Riptide in the Outer Sunset for some no-cover charge fun with Ramones tribute band “Remones” (9:30p) along with a late night costume contest (12:30am).
Every Saturday
Come try the 7-minute National Fitness Campaign Workout and see what Core Training, Squatting, Pushing, Lunging, Pulling, Agility and Bending can achieve.
On-site staff will be available every Saturday and Sunday in April, 8am-5pm.
Bootcamps held every 2 hours (8am, 10am, 12pm, 2pm, 4pm), so be on …
Come and play outdoors, in nature. Enjoy inverting, reverting and melting into the ground. Join us on weekends for a rejuvinating morning flow
and meditation for body, mind, and spirit.
Purusha yogis teach free yoga on Saturday mornings in Alamo Square Park at 9:00am as part of the Purusha Seva …
The Golden Gate Bridge is turning 75 in 2012 and every Saturday during the summer, you can join Sports Basement for a guided run through Presidio National Park.
The route will change weekly, but will always feature breathtaking views of the iconic Golden Gate Bridge. …
In celebration of the reopening of the Betty Ann Ong Chinese Recreation Center, the Movement in the Parks Program brings you a limited series of free Zumba classes on Saturdays, November 3 – December 15, 2012 from 10:30am-11:30am.
>> Please note there is no class on November 24th.
RSVP …
Come and play outdoors, in nature. Enjoy inverting, reverting and melting into the ground. Join us on weekends for a rejuvinating morning flow
and meditation for body, mind, and spirit.
Purusha yogis teach free yoga on Saturday mornings in Golden Gate Park at 11 am, as part of the …
Enjoy meeting complete strangers or bring a partner while engaging in dance styles from the Caribbean.
You will be given an introductory class on Cuban Salsa as well as the romantic Bachata from the Dominican Republic.
No better way to enjoy this dance than outside in the …
Love art, but find the Murmur to be more like a Scream? Then the Saturday Stroll might be just what the artist ordered.
Many of the galleries that participate in Oakland’s highly popular Art Murmur gallery scene are extending their First Friday festivities to include Saturday …
Bring your family, friends, a blanket or low lawn chair, and a picnic to enjoy free professional theatre by the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. This year the festival features Henry V, the Bard’s exciting tale about the rise of a young king and the glories and costs …
Thee Parkside hosts “Free Saturday Happy Hour Shows” on most Saturday afternoons – a free concert featuring rock and punk bands from all over the Bay Area. But make sure you check Thee Parkside schedule to confirm for any given week; they sometimes skip weeks.
Free …
Sure, Lucky 13′s always loaded with free popcorn and goldfish – but, if you’re looking for something more sustainable with your rockabilly and punk on the jukebox, be sure to drop by their outdoor patio on Saturdays between 4 pm and 7 pm.
The menu each …
Join a series of free outdoor screenings in downtown Berkeley this summer, as the Pacific Film Archive projects onto the wall on Center Street.
This August, they bring you Cerebral Cinema — some brain-addled beauties from the silver screen. These smart-ass films won’t raise your IQ, …
Come one, come all to a free family or animated movie night in the garden at Saint Leo”s Church on Piedmont Avenue in Oakland.
The movies are shown every Saturday in the month of July in 2012 – July 7, 14, 21 and 28 on the …
