Events for November 30, 2012
Friday, November 30
Get a head start on the holidays with a free family family portrait throughout the month of November 2012 at participating JCPenney locations. The free offer includes sitting fees, a traditional printed 8×10 portrait, as well as a digital copy of the same pose to share ... 
Grab your coziest scarf and hat and get ready to ice skate along the shores of the San Francisco Bay with the most breathtaking backdrop of the twinkling, present-wrapped San Francisco skyline at the Tiburon Holiday Festival on November, 30, 2012.
The evening’s festivities will include: …
SnowFest 2012 is the premiere snow season kick-off party on November 30, 2012, giving skiers and snowboarders the chance to visit with snow resorts from all over California for details on the best season pass deals, while also checking out the latest gear from top ski and …
Join the annual holiday tree lighting at Oakland’s Jack London Square taking place Friday, November 30, 2012 from 5-7pm.
The 2012 event will include an introduction by Miss California 2012 and two members from the 2012 Team USA Olympic rowing, plus musical performances by Radio Disney star Amber Lily, pop sensation …
Shop the best of Oakland this holiday season at the Holiday Pop Up! at Jack London Square on Friday, November 30, 2012.
The Pop Up shop will feature the best of Oakland’s local merchants selling gifts for the holidays, men’s and women’s fashions, accessories, kids’ items, home décor, local …
Get ready for the Annual San Francisco Parol Lantern Festival and Parade by making beautiful Filipino lanterns with The Bayanihan Community Center (BCC) every Friday from October 19 – December 7, 2012, excluding November 23, 2012.
The SF Parol Lantern Festival & Parade takes place on December …
Join the City of Emeryville for a Tree Lighting Ceremony on November 30, 2012 and make sure to get there early as the first 125 people will receive a free pair of holographic “Holiday Specs” that will make the lights appear as snowflakes, trees and Santa.
They will …
Come celebrate the start of the holiday season at the Downtown Berkeley Tree Lighting in BART Plaza on Friday, November 30, 2012, 5:30-6:30pm with family-friendly festivities!
Enjoy free cookies from PIQ and Almare Gelato’s famous hot chocolate, listen to holiday music sung by UC Berkeley a …
Come celebrate two decades of analog love at the San Francisco Lomography Store with a truly radical 90s-themed birthday party, complete with neon and tubular activities on November 30, 2012.
Free, but RSVP is required.
Here’s a taste of what you can expect at the party:
Cupcakes provided by …
Join Kim Severson and Julia Moskin for a reading from their new book CookFight: 2 Cooks, 12 Challenges, an Epic Battle for Kitchen Dominance at 6 pm at Omnivore Books on Food on Friday, November 30, 2012.
New York Times writers Julia Moskin and Kim Severson were …
Come celebrate one of the most essential parts of San Francisco living: our daily commute. Muni Diaries has partnered up with Harvey Milk Photo Center for a photo exhibit called “In Transit.”
In celebration of Muni’s centennial, this exhibit will feature photographs of your daily commute …
Opening Preview Reception:
Fri, Nov 30th, 6:30 – 9:00pm
8:30pm: mini fashion show by artist & designer Tuan Tran
Veteran filmmaker Yoji Yamada — who is perhaps most famous for cranking out most of the 48 films of the Tora-san series — directs this good-natured drama set in the waning years of the Edo period (1600-1867).
The Twilight Samurai plot
Seibei (Hiroyuki Sanada) is a low-level …
Could a department store Santa Claus actually be the real Santa Claus? Could this film be the best Christmas movie ever?
The only way to find out for certain is to not miss seeing this perennial favorite on the Paramount Theatre’s big screen. The film’s marvelous …
Mission Local is turning four years old and is throwing an anniversary party a fundraiser for your favorite community news website.
Live music from Latin singer/songwriter Diana Gameros (who opened for Bebel Gilberto), DJs plus $1 of drinks all night.
Join the San Francisco Beer Olympics every Friday night for free entry and free games all night and the drinks are cheap to boot. Win prizes by playing games including Flip Cup, Beer Pong and Relays and you can get 5 beers for $10, plus they have a ... 
DRMS melds multiple genres into a pulsating rhythmic psychedelic pop juggernaut – what would happen if Billie Holiday was selected to perform in an electro-afro-pop infused band curated by David Lynch.
San Francisco’s songster Ash Reiter and indie rockers Cannons and Clouds open the show.
Pangea is all about dance – whether it’s Latin, hip hop, ballet, bhangra, jazz, Irish, ballroom and whatever strikes your fancy, a live band & DJ will cover it so you can take over the huge dance floor of the Craneway.
Live dance performances, live painting, local artisan crafts, …
In “Hysterical, Historical San Francisco – the Holiday Edition” – acclaimed comic Kurt Weitzmann takes us on a refreshingly “incorrect” 60-minute journey around the City by the Bay - from the Barbary Coast to the Haight Ashbury.
Get in for $15 (regularly $25) when you print out this Funcheap event page …
Moodymann is a hybrid form of techno/house dance music arrived at via reworked riffs, samples and grooves that remind people of the genre’s origins with classic soul and jazz samples and low-slung bass lines.
UK’s Untold is in the Loft with support by DJs Galen, J-Bird, Solar and Deron (Stompy).
Come rage before the storm with a full bar, dance music featuring local DJs and VJs and rage, rage, rage. Sliding scale donations for of $5-10 to benefit the Bookfair will be taken at the door.
With DJs Heathurzzz, DJ Maldita, The Neverending Story and VJ Greggawatt.
Every Friday
Follow the L until it ends, on Fridays after work and get rewarded with grubbing on free home cookin’ from Alisha.
Each week, she whips up home-style food that ranges from blushin bunnies, chili con carne, chicken pot pie, and, if you’re lucky, even tater tot …
Get ready for the Annual San Francisco Parol Lantern Festival and Parade by making beautiful Filipino lanterns with The Bayanihan Community Center (BCC) every Friday from October 19 – December 7, 2012, excluding November 23, 2012.
The SF Parol Lantern Festival & Parade takes place on December …
El Rio, a neighborhood dive in the deep Mission, gives away free Oysters on the half shell from local folks in Tomales Bay, every Friday at 5:30 pm tight. Arrive on time, they go fast.
And get your drink on with happy hour on Friday from 5-8 …
It’s saucy dancing with a sense of humor at the Red Hots Burlesque show on Wednesdays and Fridays at El Rio, where you can see some of the bawdiest burlesque babes in the Bay, for a sliding scale price starting at $5.
Come with your sense of humor …
Milk Bar hosts their Friday night neighborhood dance party with some of SF’s top DJs throwing down hip hop, electro and 80s and 90s flashbacks. Arrive early for the $3 Happy Hour 7 -10 pm.
Friday Nights at Milk
Every Friday at 10 pm
FREE w/ RSVP or $5 …
Every Friday night at 10:30PM, EndGames Improv brings you a free show: “Your F!#&ed Up Relationship” – an entirely improvised comedy inspired by your ridiculous, real relationships. You tell us your amazing stories, we show you ours.
Free with RSVP
This event repeats every Friday at 10:30PM …
