The first Thursday of every month is free admission to the Pez Museum in Burlingame, where you can find over 500 pez dispensers from the past 80 years, including the world’s largest pez dispenser and a rare Pez, worth about $5,000, a Mr Potato Head …

Enjoy an hour-long walk on the rise, tragic fall, and modern rebirth of one of San Francisco’s most renowned historic landmarks. Visit a contemporary swirl of shops and learn the history of ferries, freeways and quakes.
Meet at the main entrance, near the stairs to the …

Presenting the new, open-air marketplace for local arts and culture. The San Francisco Arts Market debuts on Thursday, August 19, in UN Plaza, and will run every Thursday thereafter from noon to 8:00 p.m. throughout this summer & fall.
Visit 1182 Market St between Grove and …

Experience a night out on Divisadero for the monthly Divisadero Corridor Art Walk through lower haight, NoPa and Western Addition on Thursday September 2nd, 2010. From Haight to Geary, enjoy a night of art openings, live music, drinking and dining specials all along the corridor.
Art …

A downtown tradition since 1993, on the first Thursday of every month many of our member galleries are open late for a casual open house and many serve wine beer and snacks. If you are making a special trip to visit a specific gallery, we …

The traditional Opening Night and Preview Party of the Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema Festival comes to Cortland Avenue. The studios of Kingmond Young Photography will open its doors for the Opening of the 7th annual Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema screenings. It’s a party, a performance, …

San Francisco design store and gallery Rare Device is proud to present: Spin – A New Twist on Vintage Board Games: Work by Jennifer Judd-McGee and Mati McDonough. The work will occupy the Rare Device gallery through September 28, 2010. A reception for the show …

The U.S. Marine Band San Diego, some 45 musicians strong, will make the march from Old Bernal Road to St. Mary Street in Pleasanton beginning at 2:00 p.m., playing march and show tunes. The free Main Street march will be a precursor …

Bringing you free live music during Happy Hour (5-9), Shownuff is happy to present London Street, laying down a smooth mix of neosoul, R&B and funk for your boogie-get-down enjoyment.
Mostly influenced by old school R&B and influenced by groups like Earth, Wind and Fire, Prince …

Off the Grid (OtG) is roaming mobile food extravaganza that travels to different locations daily to serve delicious food, with a free side of amazing music, craft and soul. September 3rd has 25 of the usual suspects including Venga Paella, Happy Dumplings and Curry Up …

Join Invisible City on the self-guided “Heliography” audio walking tour from MacArthur BART Station to Keys That Fit (2312 Telegraph Avenue). Twelve authors and one musician will lead you from the MacArthur Bart Station along …

Start the Bernal Heights Film Crawl from one end of Cortland Avenue to the other for a roving cinema experience. Evening begins at Inclusions Gallery for Meet-the-Filmmakers reception and music at 6:30p. Films will be shown at multiple venues: Succulence/Four Star Video, the Bernal Branch …

Oakland Art Murmur is a group of nearly 20 galleries in Oakland that have coordinated openings every first Friday of the month from 7 to 9pm. Wander from gallery to gallery, sample free nibbles, drink some free wine, see occasional outdoor movies and fine some …

Join us for the month of September as we display work based on Printmaking. The gallery will display artwork representative or symbolic of the following techniques of printmaking including (Woodcut, Engraving, Etching, Mezzotint, Aquatint, Drypoint, Lithography, Screen-printing, Digital prints, “Giclée” prints, Foil imaging).
Free admission, hors …

At September’s Artist-Xchange monthly art exhibit reception, Hilary Williams will be performing a demonstration in the printmaking technique of screen printing. The demonstrations will be taking place at 7:45pm and 8:45pm during the opening reception. She will be creating a small neighborhood …

This funny, unpretentious film marked writer John Hughes’s first time out as a director. The premise is ordinary, but the film is distinguished by funny gags and excellent performances by Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall. Samantha (Ringwald) is a high-school sophomore about to turn …

Come join D-Structure this Friday for the opening night of Magnetic Fields, the works and installations of Sean Chapman. First 100 people get a free glass of wine
The show revolves around the artist’s romantic fascination with space. Ideas developed include weightlessness, beauty, solitude and unfamiliar …

Capitola (near Santa Cruz) hosts their 58th Annual Begonia Festival on Labor Day weekend, September 3-6, 2010 that we think is worth the drive if you’re looking for a quick weekend getaway. The free four-day festival features a Sand Sculpture Contest, Horseshoe Tournament on the …

Huge crowds transform downtown Millbrae into the “Big Easy” with a Mardi Gras-style feast featuring two sun-splashed days of live music with headliners The Cheeseballs and Lovefool, a juried show with 250 professional artists and craftmakers showing their latest handcrafted wares, festive food and drink, …

Come and explore a neighborhood that you only thought you knew. You will walk through the area taking in the sights and sounds of the lively and ever-changing Castro/Eureka Valley neighborhood. What was once dairy farms and dirt roads is now one of the city’s …

How can a 50-ton gun simply disappear? Learn this and other factoids while helping load and aim the last operational gun of its kind.
The Army built Battery Chamberlin, just above Baker Beach, in 1904 to protect the harbor’s minefields. The battery’s “disappearing” guns could be …

Want to learn about beekeeping and making honey in Oakland? Khaled Almaghafi, 4th generation bee keeper, and owner of Queen Sheba Farms is a successful urban bay area bee keeper. He will be bringing a small colony for a live demo.
Source: SFBG

Come see the World Premiere of two YBGF-commissioned pieces from The Nice Guy Trio + Strings on Saturday, September 4 from 1:00pm to 2:30pm, free, at Yerba Buena Gardens in downtown San Francisco. The YBGF commissioned pieces are trumpeter Darren Johnston’s “Waking Music” and …

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 …

Enjoy film and the stunning view from the top of the Hill in Bernal Heights Park. The gates will be open to pedestrians, joggers and our impromptu audience as Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema returns to set up on the northwest corner of Bernal Hill where …