The Organization of Special needs hosts it’s 4th annual festival for people of all walks (or wheels) of life. May 17th is filled with fun activities. Flag raising ceremony, a special parade, a special soccer tournament, children’s arts/crafts/music and face painting activities, inflatable games like Bounce House, Giant Slide and Obstacle Field, children’s books give away, live community multi-cultural stage performance, over 40 FREE community service exhibits and Health & Nutrition service exhibits, and a one day Youth Leadership Conference. The festival will also prepare an international food court and outdoor music concert,
plus the carnival must have — icy, cotton candy, pop corn, and colorful balloons for children.

Red Hill Books presents a Free Fundraiser to defeat Proposition 98 and save rent control in San Francisco with a literary and musical evening to fill the full moon. On the bill for reading are: Stephen Elliot (Happy Baby, Sex for America) Katie Crouch (Girls in Trucks) Richard Loranger (Poems for Teeth, Poems for a Centralized Church) Alvin Orloff (Gutter Boys, I Married an Earthling) Andrew Foster Altschul (Lady Lazarus) With live music performed by members of Camper Van Beethoven, Mushroom, The Sippy Cups and Cracker,
Jonathan Segel, Victor Krummenacher and Alison Faith Levy.

Join the San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau at a launch party in The Cellar at Macy’s Union Square June 4 from 6 to 8 p.m. With your $10 donation to Meals On Wheels you’ll receive tastes from featured Dine About Town restaurants Asia de Cuba; Colibri; Cortez; First Crush; Garibaldis; Horizon; Jack Falstaff; PlumpJack Cafe and Roots; a cooking demonstration by Scott Sasaki, executive chef of Garibaldis, moderated by Marcia “the tablehopper” Gagliardi; wine tastings from Cellar 360 and Wattle Creek Winery and a keepsake “Only in San Francisco” wine glass.