Bring your tortillas (stale preferred), your costumed, your naked and your beer and participate in one of the largest races in America, and also one of the most strange and “San Francentric.” The Third Sunday in May sees this crown jewel of SF events with over 70,000 race/walk/stroll 7.46 miles from Bay (Howard/Beale) to Breakers (the western end of Golden Gate Park) in a costumed mass of people. Be prepared to see 1,000 ridiculous costumes, lots of naked people and the tired “salmon” swimming against the tide of racers. Although you’re supposed to register and pay $48-$59 to race, but many people just show up and race anyway. We won’t tell anyone.

The annual Bay-to-Breakers race ends with the traditional music and free goodies festival known as “footstock” in the polo fields in Golden Gate Park. This event is free and open to the public, though some of the freebies may only be available to official racers. Awards ceremony at 10am, Live music from The Last Goodnight (12:30p) and The Crazies will Destroy You (10:45a). They’ll have the results of the costume contest (noon), plus lots of food, beer gardens

Founded in 1895 in Golden Gate Park, the de Young Museum s a landmark art museum to showcase the museum’s priceless collections of American art from the 17th through the 20th centuries, and art of the native Americas, Africa, and the Pacific. In 2005, the de Young Museum re-opened in a state-of-the-art new facility that integrates art, architecture and the natural landscape in one multi-faceted destination that will inspire audiences from around the world and was designed by the renowned Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron and Fong & Chan Architects in San Francisco.

October 3rd - 5th marks the 2008 rendition of one of the coolest music festivals on the planet: San Francisco’s own Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. This flurry of banjos will take place in Golden Gate Park not too long after the inaugural Outside Lands Festival, but here’s the big difference between the two (besides Outside Lands’ distinct lack of banjos) – HSB is FREE. The lineup is still being put together, but confirmed so far are Robert Plant & Allison Krauss ft. T Bone Burnett, Earl Scruggs, Robert Earl Keen, Gogol Bordello and Loudon Wainwright III. Source: The Owl Mag