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Wednesday, August 1

Oakland A’s: $2 Ticket Day vs. Tampa Bay Rays
Wednesday, August 1 – 12:35 pm | Cost: $2*
*Purchase online or call (877) 493-BALL (2255)
| Oakland Coliseum
Can you pay just $2 to get tickets to see a major league baseball game? It’s true! For 2012 every A’s Wednesday home game is a “$2 Wednesday” thanks to BART. Tickets are good for the sorta crappy seats in the Plaza Outfield and Plaza Reserved ...
San Francisco Photowalk & Free Coffee | SoMa
Wednesday, August 1 – 6:00 pm - Ends at 8:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Sightglass Coffee
Visual Supply Co and Makeshift Society, a clubhouse for creatives launching in San Francisco this fall, are teaming up to host our first photowalk. If you are in the San Francisco area, they’d love the chance to meet you, buy you a cup of coffee, ...

Free Screening & Filmmaker Talk: Straightlaced | Bernal Heights
Wednesday, August 1 – 6:30 pm - Ends at 8:30 pm | Cost: FREE | Bernal Heights Branch Library
Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema presents Face to Face with the Filmaker: Quarterly indoor screenings followed by informal Q & A with the filmmakers. With a fearless look at a highly charged subject, Straightlaced unearths how popular pressures around gender and sexuality are confining American teens. Their stories ...
SF Mime Troupe: Free Theater in the Park | Oakland
Wednesday, August 1 – 6:30 pm | Cost: FREE*
*Free, but donations accepted
| Lakeside Park
The Tony Award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe continues its 53rd season with more free, lively satire performances in park settings around the Bay Area. Founded in 1959, the San Francisco Mime Troupe creates and produces socially relevant theater; despite the name “mime,” their work is not silent, but ...
Jericho: Urban Nerf Gun Spy Game | Union Square
Wednesday, August 1 – 7:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Union Square Park
Jericho is an urban game played in public settings where everyone assumes the role of a spy. Each team of “agents” will carry out missions where they will need to either eliminate their opponents or deliver “top secret documents” to win. Imagine a game of capture ...
East Bay Science Cafe | Berkeley
Wednesday, August 1 – 7:00 pm - Ends at 9:00 pm | Cost: FREE | La Peña Cultural Center
The East Bay Science Café is an informal forum for discussing interesting and relevant scientific issues. The goal is to encourage public engagement with science by inviting members of the scientific community to present topics for a casual evening of conversation. Audience questions are encouraged ...
7:00 pmAuthor Event: Discardia – More Life, Less Stuff | Western Addition  FREE
7:00 pmFree Square Dancing Lessons | Oakland  FREE
Mommy’s Playdate at Good Vibrations | SF
Wednesday, August 1 – 7:00 pm - Ends at 9:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Good Vibrations (Polk St.)
Put down the diaper bag and call the sitter –- Good Vibrations has scheduled a special Mommy’s Playdate in San Francisco, a fun, after-hours mixer for moms who want to learn how to put the spice back in their sex lives. Staff sexologist and renowned ...
7:30 pmComedy & Music Revue | SF  FREE*
*No cover, but there is a one drink minimum
8:00 pmFree Comedy Royale Stand-Up Showcase | SF  FREE
Housepitality: DJs, Art & Free Champagne | SoMa Experience real Housepitality with headliner DJ Paul Johnson (Peace Frog, Relief, Chicago) and the new Wednesday resident Bai-ee of audioJazz (Farris Wheel & Housepitality), plus Tyrel Williams (Housepitality, Acid Test). Entry is free before 11pm with RSVP. Otherwise the cover is $5 before 11pm, and $10 after. There is free ...
Win Tix: Skins & Needles: Live Drum DJ Duo | SF
Wednesday, August 1 – 9:00 pm | Cost: WIN*
*Regular price, $5 in advance, $7 at the door.
| Brick & Mortar Music Hall
Skins & Needles is Dj Zeph and Max MacVeety, both staples in the Bay Area Hip-Hop scene, catching the attention of musicians, producers, and Hip-Hop heads as well as people just wanting to party and dance. This duo joins forces to bring a club-party vibe with the ...
Market Street Pop-Up Shop Day: Etsy, Yoga, Games, Coffee | SF A full day of pop ups, in the heart of your city. On Wednesday August 1st, SQFT (like “square foot”) is demonstrating the power of the pop-up in Mid-Market, San Francisco. Various locations along Market Street from 5th to 10th Street will be opening up their ...
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