This week the Golden Gate Park Band, which normally plays Sundays in the park, perform a very special Labor Day concert on Monday, September 6th, saluting the American worker in music.
Celebrating its 128th season, the Golden Gate Park Band has been gracing SF with free …

The Tony Award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe closes its 51st season with Posibilidad, or Death of the Worker. A small U.S. factory is shutting down. All of the workers are losing their jobs and the bosses mistakenly think that the workers have staged a sit-in …

Think of this like those outdoor movies in the park but in daytime and with a classic play. Bring your friends, dates, a blanket and a picnic (don’t forget a bottle of wine) to enjoy free professional theater all Labor Day weekend 2010 in the …

AAA’s Tipsy Tow Program offers a free tow for drinking drivers in Northern California – members and non-members – from 6pm on Labor Day (Monday 9/6) until 6am the next morning, in Northern California, Nevada and Utah.
For Tipsy Tow, call (800) 222-4357 …

America’s primary international enemy—Islamic radicalism—insists on government by theocracy, curtails civil liberties, embraces torture, represses women, wants to eradicate homosexuals from society, and insists on the use of force over diplomacy. Remind you of a certain American political party? In American Taliban, Markos Moulitsas pulls …

FoundSF is a new interactive website that invites history buffs and all San Franciscans to share their unique stories, images, and videos from the past and present. The growing online archive provides people with access to the city’s lost …

“The Extreme Animals Sit Down” is a disjunctive array of live shredding, extreme feedback, YouTube bombardment, ecstatic dance moves & Sunday morning cartoons by Extreme Animals.
Jacob Ciocci and David Wightman (Extreme Animals, Paper Rad, You Can’t Do That on Television) present a mash-up of live …

Celebrate the relationship between architecture and celluloid through these documentary films, which spotlight the built environment, the architectural profession and the ever-mythical architect’s ego. Every Wednesday in September at 6:00 pm at the Main Library; Free, registration required.
Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the …

Local amateur astronomer Douglas Smith will explain basic optics, discuss the different types of telescopes and their components, and demonstrate the process of making those components. He has recently completed FirstLight — a 16.5″ primary mirror Dobsonian truss-tube telescope which will be exhibited at this …

Nick Zinner, supercool guitarist of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs will be playing his instrument along with pal Stacy Wakefield while their collaborator Zachary Lipez does a reading of a collection of essay called “Please Take Me Off The Guest List.”
Sounds pretty cool, right? As …

The September 2010 Fillmore Art Walk is an evening of art, fashion, food and libation with over 60 artists and 10 bands in SF’s Fillmore District.
West Bay Conference Center 1290 Fillmore St.
Enjoy Works of 30 different artists, Live Music Performance and DJ. Enjoy Live …

Amélie is a shy waitress in a Montmartre café. After returning a long-lost childhood treasure to a former occupant of her apartment, and seeing the effect it has on him, she decides to set out on a mission to make others happy and in the …

Since 1974, The Merchants, Restaurants, and Professionals, as well as the twin cities of Albany and Berkeley CA, have hosted the Solano Avenue Stroll, the East Bay’s largest street festival! The Solano Avenue Merchants Association invites you to come and see what makes Solano Avenue …

Grab your camera and join photographer and experienced photowalker Trevor Carpenter for a night time San Francisco photowalk along the Embarcadero and up the coast past Coit Tower to Fisherman’s Wharf.
Rather than being a guided tour, photowalks tend to be more socially geared, and focused …

The California Academy of Sciences is a world-class scientific and cultural institution in Golden Gate Park, a 400,000 square foot structure that houses an aquarium, a planetarium a natural history museum and a 4-story rainforest all under one roof.
Normally $24.95 for adults, visit the Academy …

Danny Dechi, one of the oddest comedians in San Francisco (known as the world’s only pencil musician) hosts a monthly free comedy show at the Bazaar Cafe which regularly brings in a talented group of San Francisco funnymen (and woman).
September 15, 2010 …

New People announces one of the nation’s biggest pop culture events of the year with the 2010 J-Pop Summit Festival. This one of a kind, all day event will feature the best in modern Japanese films, fashion, music art, retail design and pop culture this …

Sunday Streets is a city-wide event that takes place in different neighborhoods on Sundays throughout the Spring and Summer and shuts down city streets to traffic so that residents can take over for a day with all sorts of healthy and family friendly activities.

Sunday …

If you like lounging in the park, laughing your ass off and the distant smell of pot wafting through the air, then the 30th Annual Comedy Day in the Park might be the best way for you top spend a Sunday afternoon.
San Francisco’s professional …

The San Francisco Center for the Book hosts their 7th Annual “Roadworks” Street Fair. They’ll use a steamroller to make prints from large linoleum blocks carved especially for the occasion right on the street. The Roadworks Street Fair also features more than 80 artist vendors, …

Going to see Verdi’s “Aida” opera at the War Memorial Opera House costs, oh, upwards of $200. But, thanks to the Opera at the Ballpark program, you can watch a live simulcast of the very same opera from any seat at AT&T Park totally free. …

Looking to get in a little nature but are on a budget? How about visiting one of our nation’s national parks absolutely free. To make it easier to experience America’s Great Outdoors, the National Park Service is waiving entrance fees (and even car fees), so …

Beer! Music! Insane bicycle contraptions! Who could ask for more?
Follow your biking folly to Lindley Meadow on Sat., Sept. 25th to find a field of tasty New Belgium beer and a full day of cycling fun. The day begins with a Bike Parade …

The Coen brothers’ “The Big Lebowski” is a genial, shambling comedy about a human train wreck, and should come with a warning like the one Mark Twain attached to “Huckleberry Finn”: “Persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.” It’s about a …

The Golden Gate Park Band plays a sunday tribute to Robert Emmet Day with an afternoon of Irish music, costumes, dancing and singing in the the Music Concourse of Golden Gate Park
Celebrating its 128th season, the Golden Gate Park Band has been gracing SF with …