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Fairs & Festivals
At the end of October, Friends will fill up the Festival Pavilion Pier at Fort Mason for the 54th Big Book Sale, an iconic San Francisco tradition. The big sale will be open to the public from the 31st, Halloween, through November 4th. On the ...
During Ritual Eats Week, 70+ SF restaurants will be offering promotions on select menu items offered at affordable prices up to 50% off.
“Ritual Eats Week”
Starts Monday, October 15, 2018
All Over San Francisco
Ritual helps local SF residents discover new eats in their neighborhood, making lunchtime more …
There’s a zombie outbreak – just in time for Halloween. The Dollar Zombie is their new Neighborhood Drink of the Month and it’s invading Applebee’s nationwide. It’s a mixture of rum, pineapple, passion fruit, cherry, lime and is garnished with a gummy brain. Applebee’s $1 ...
Red Bull Heavy Water, the most intense stand up paddling event in the world, will return as part of the 2018 APP World Tour circuit, with the event window beginning on Monday, October 15. Previous years have seen the course stretching 12km (7.5 miles) from ...
Join at Amoeba SF for a mini acoustic set and album signing with the Ipswich, England-bred five-piece band Basement.
Their fourth full-length album, Beside Myself (out on CD & vinyl on October 12th via Fueled By Ramen), is an intimate look at the drawbacks of …
San Francisco’s legendary annual Litquake festival features hundreds of authors, poets and journalists in a myriad of separate events throughout the Bay Area. It’s all meant to foster interest in literature for people of all ages, perpetuate a sense of literary community, and provide a vibrant forum for Bay Area ...
Lines and lyrics from Litquake Nation! Enjoy line breaks during your lunch break, as some of the Bay Area’s best poets and musicians share their work in the great outdoors.
San Francisco’s legendary annual Litquake festival features hundreds of authors, poets and journalists in a myriad of separate events throughout the Bay Area. It’s all meant to foster interest in literature for people of all ages, perpetuate a sense of literary community, and provide a vibrant forum for Bay Area ...
Comedy Allstars features an array of our favorite professional local comedians, some of whom have appeared on Comedy Central and late night talk shows such as Late Show with David Letterman and Conan.
> Get Tickets – $20 Adv / $22 Day of Show (+18)
Tuesday night features Conor …
The San Francisco Brewers Guild has created the city’s first free, hop-on-hop-off “Drink SF Beer Shuttle,” showcasing neighborhood breweries as a permanent companion to its monthly Meet the Brewers nights. The fun kicks off with a “Meet the Brewers” event at 66 pmtypically featuring special release ...Monthly
Part theatre, part haunted maze, and part escape room, Terror Vault is a brand new fully-immersive Halloween haunted attraction from the insane mind of Peaches Christ. Filled with top performers and screamers, this epic haunt invites to you to descend down a dark, narrow back ...
Will California flip the House? What’s at stake with the propositions on this year’s ballot?
Join Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos, hosts of KQED’s popular new weekly radio program and podcast Political Breakdown, for a Ballots and Brews voter party.
KQED’s Political Breakdown
Wednesday, October 17, 2018 | …
San Francisco’s legendary annual Litquake festival features hundreds of authors, poets and journalists in a myriad of separate events throughout the Bay Area. It’s all meant to foster interest in literature for people of all ages, perpetuate a sense of literary community, and provide a vibrant forum for Bay Area ...
Zeitgeist presents Horror Movie Wednesdays in October. Horror movies will be projected outside in the beer garden each Wednesday night during the month of October. Enjoy free popcorn, free movies, and a $1 off Bloody Marys. Zeitgeist Horror Movie Wednesdays | Movies start ...Every Wednesday
Funcheap and Stroy Moyd of #HellaFunny take over Cobb’s Comedy Club for an awesome night of comedy at SF’s biggest comedy club. And you can get on our secret guest list. Every month we handpick some of SF’s top local comedians to showcase for you – often ...
21st UNAFF (United Nations Association Film Festival), was founded in 1998 by Stanford educator and film critic Jasmina Bojic. The 21st UNAFF will be held from October 18-28, 2018 in Palo Alto, Stanford University, East Palo Alto and San Francisco.
This year’s theme TOMORROW? continues their two decades long celebration …
San Francisco’s diversity is reflected in its places of worship. Visit churches, temples, a cathedral, and a synagogue. View the symbols and architecture and hear the history of the city’s religious institutions
Meet at the main plaza entrance of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough & Geary. Public …
The new BART Plaza will be having its grand opening celebration at 4 pm on Thursday, October 18. Kick off the weekend with a celebration and ongoing programming in at the new plaza. Mayor Jesse Arreguín will lead the ribbon cutting on opening day, followed ...
The Commons on Third Thursdays will activate UN Plaza, Fulton Street and Civic Center Plaza with three stages of music, food trucks, bars, bocce ball and other activities held on four nights, once a month through October, from 5 to 9 pm. “The Commons” is the ...Monthly
Yerba Buena Third Thursdays is a monthly outing of art, performance, music, and drinks in the Yerba Buena neighborhood in the heart of downtown San Francisco, between 2nd and 5th Street, and Market and Harrison Street. Free, but an RSVP is recommended to save time ...Monthly
Costumes. Prizes. Drinks. Good Cause. Great Bar. In San Francisco it’s never too early to dress up so warm up for Halloween by putting on your best ocean-themed outfit and come out to LaRocca’s corner in North Beach to get you drink on and learn …
Imagine yourself immersed in acres of lush gardens illuminated with nearly 50 mesmerizing, larger-than-life art and lighting installations created by Bay Area artists from tiny clay pottery lanterns to massive Burning Man pieces.
This enchanting and surreal festival runs three nights only, October 18-20, 2018.
> Get Tickets – …
Explore the mysteries beyond our solar system with a night dedicated to the search for extraterrestrials. Join experts from the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View for fascinating talks on exoplanets and life beyond Earth.
Meet members of the Kepler, K2, and TESS (Transiting Exoplanet …
From the synapses in our bodies to superconductors to Earth’s magnetic field, electricity is everywhere. Get a charge out of Van de Graff generators and Tesla coils and encounter germanium’s potential at Everything Matters.
Mike Reiss has received four Emmys and a Peabody Award during his thirty years writing for “The Simpsons”. Come celebrate his memoir Springfield Confidential, a first-hand look at how the show began, with scandals, censors, celebrity guests, and more.
> Get Tickets – $20 ($15 for …
Part theatre, part haunted maze, and part escape room, Terror Vault is a brand new fully-immersive Halloween haunted attraction from the insane mind of Peaches Christ. Filled with top performers and screamers, this epic haunt invites to you to descend down a dark, narrow back ...
San Francisco’s legendary annual Litquake festival features hundreds of authors, poets and journalists in a myriad of separate events throughout the Bay Area. It’s all meant to foster interest in literature for people of all ages, perpetuate a sense of literary community, and provide a vibrant forum for Bay Area ...
Join this free interdisciplinary site-specific performance work that focuses on the dreams and aspirations of Bayview Hunters Point residents. Picture Bayview Hunters Point Theatrical Performance October 11-21, 2018 | 8 pm Bayview Opera House, 4705 3rd St, San Francisco FREE. Donations are accepted. Artistic Director ...
Funcheap and Stroy Moyd of #HellaFunny take over Cobb’s Comedy Club for an awesome night of comedy at SF’s biggest comedy club. And you can get on our secret guest list. Every month we handpick some of SF’s top local comedians to showcase for you – often ...
Madeline Kenney will release her sophomore album, Perfect Shapes – a wholly unexpected leap forward in both composition and musicality. The record was produced by Jenn Wasner (Wye Oak, Flock of Dimes) and reflects a deeply collaborative and introspective process, apparent both in arrangements and …
