Events for August 23, 2013
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Friday, August 23
ABSOLUT Daytime DJ Dance Party: Free Lunch + Free Drink w/ DJ Nickodemus | SF
On August 23, 2013, NYC DJ legend Nickodemus brings his globally influenced beats to a secret location in SoMa (close to the Financial Dist. and BART) for just one hour to spin a free lunchtime dance party with ABSOLUT and Flavorpill.
You’ll get a complimentary cocktail and a free ...
| 4:00 pm | Alisha’s Free Home Cookin’ Fridays | The Riptide | FREE* *Food is free while it lasts, and you should be buying drinks to avoid looking like a freeloader.
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“Off the Grid” Friday Night Food Truck Party | Fort Mason
🎉 Off the Grid Returns to Fort Mason for 2025 – With a Massive Monthly Night Market + 110+ Vendors! After taking most of 2024 off, Off the Grid is making a huge comeback in 2025 — The beloved Friday night tradition at Fort Mason ...
SF Giants’ Free Polynesian Mini-Festival | AT&T Park
Come celebrate with the Giants outside AT&T Park for their 2013 Polynesian Heritage Celebration, which takes place a few hours before the Giants play the Pirates on Friday, August 23, 2013.
This free outdoor pre-game mini-festival (yes, it’s open to the public) is held in Seals Plaza and Lefty O’Doul ...
| 5:00 pm | Beats & Eats: Quinn Deveaux Blues & Slider Shack | SoMa | FREE* *Free admission, but bring money for wine and food.
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Friday Nights at the de Young: Art Reception & Brazilian Jazz | Golden Gate Park
Celebrate the art of mapping and aerial viewpoints through music, a special lecture, artist demonstrations, and art-making. 6-8:30 pm: Artist Demonstration with Carlo Abruzzese (Piazzoni Murals Room) Mapping Cultural Landscapes: Reinterpreting Demographics in the Bay Area. Carlo Abruzzese’s new work integrates the disparate worlds of fine art and ...Every Friday
| 5:30 pm | Bites Off Broadway: Friday Night Food Truck Block Party & Picnic | Oakland | FREE* *Bring cash for food.
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| 5:30 pm | Free “Oysters on the Half Shell” Fridays | El Rio | FREE* *Free, but arrive early. And be prepared for dirty looks, if you just come for free oysters and don't buy any drinks.
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| 6:00 pm | Happy Hour & Local Author Readings: Free Beer, Wine & Food | SF | FREE* *Free, but an RSVP is required.
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| 6:00 pm | Fourth Fridays Art Walk | Inner Sunset | FREE |
| 6:30 pm | Free Friday Chicken Wing Buffet & $3 Cocktails | Castro | FREE* *Free chicken wing buffet from 6:30 to 8:30p - drink purchase may be required. While supplies last.
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Eddie Money: ’70s & ’80s Legend Free Beach Concert | Santa Cruz
Eddie Money had tons of blue collar rock hits in the ’70s and ’80s Baby Hold On, and Two Tickets to Paradise in the ’70s followed by, Think I’m in Love, Shakin, Take Me Home Tonight, and I Wanna Go Back.
Quiet Lightning Reading Performance Series | North Beach
The Emerald Tablet in North Beach hosts a homegrown reading performance series, Under the Influence, co-created and hosted with Quiet Lightning‘s Evan Karp. Four artists read works by some of their major influences, followed by original work performances created for the show that channels that ...
No Age: Experimental Punk & Country Psych Concert | Berkeley
Rock with experimental punk group No Age, country psych band Devin Gary and Ross (with artist/designer Gary Panter), and feel-good trio Sun Foot at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, BAM/PFA’s L@TE: Friday Nights music/art fest.
Browse an in-gallery sidewalk art fair featuring collaborative prints made by ...
Summer Cinema & Food Trucks: “Brave” | Temescal
Brave is a 2012 American computer-animated fantasy comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.
Determined to make her own path in life, Princess Merida defies a custom that brings chaos to her kingdom. Granted one wish, Merida must rely on her ...
Singin’ & Pingin’: Berlin-Style Ping Pong & Dance Karaoke | SF
Singin’ & Pingin’ is American Tripps’ official holiday party with DJ Purple, an award-winning performer whose dance karaoke parties are the stuff of legend.
They’ll have dance karaoke on the big main stage and two ping pong tables out on the dance floor under the disco ball.
Arrive early – We’re told ...
Guerillaz in Da Mix 2: Mobile Dance Party | San Jose
Do you love to dance? Do you ride a bike? If so, you’re in the right place. Guerillaz in Da Mixx (GiDM), is a mobile bicycle dance party that utilizes the element of surprise and extraordinary mobility to bring the beats to San Jose on August 23, 2013.
DJ Pablo will be your ...
Win Tix: $5 Classic Movie Night: “North by Northwest” | Paramount Theatre
A sleekly handsome Cary Grant is the hapless advertising executive Roger Thornhill, criss-crossing the country on the run from a mysterious cabal of spies.
He encounters some of Alfred Hitchcock’s great iconic set pieces including the famous crop duster scene, and one of cinema’s greatest climaxes – ...
| 8:30 pm | “Club 2 Step” Outdoor Dance Party | Oakland | FREE |
Every Friday
Free Bad-Ass Morning Workout: Conquer SF’s Hills | Every Friday
Every Friday morning at 6:30 am, gather at a different San Francisco hill for a free badass workout and a chance to meet fellow fitness enthusiasts in your city.
The hills change each week (it might be Alamo Square, Moraga Steps, Twin Peaks, Lombard…), but expect ...
CANCELLED: Friday Farmers Market & Bazaar | UN Plaza
UPDATE: Due to Coronavirus concerns, this event has been cancelled temporarily.
Every Friday from 7am to 4pm, UN Plaza will feature the best of San Francisco. Grab fresh fruits and veggies, buy gifts from local vendors, and grab lunch at delicious food stalls representing cuisine from ...
Free “Oysters on the Half Shell” Fridays | El Rio
El Rio, a neighborhood dive in the deep Mission, gives away free Oysters on the half shell from local folks in Tomales Bay, every Friday at 5:30 pm. Arrive on time, they go fast.
And get your drink on with happy hour on Friday from 5-8 pm ...
Big Mood Comedy: Free Stand-Up Comedy Show | Oakland
Big Mood Comedy is an intimate standup comedy show featuring the best local and touring comics every Friday upstairs at Oakland’s very own Legionnaire Saloon.
Hosted by Hayley Beacon, Jordan Thewlis, and Jeff Dean. Free cookies.
Please note that from February 7th, the shows happens every Friday ...
“HellaFunny Fridays” Stand-Up Comedy Showcase | SoMa
San Francisco has one of the best underground comedy scenes in America. Come check out some of the Bay’s best rising comics at HellaFunny’s weekly stand-up comedy show “HellaFunny Fridays.”
HellaFunny Fridays
Every Friday at 7:30pm & 9:30pm
Trademark and Copyright, 1123 Folsom Stree (and 7th St.), SF
FREE ...
Free Burlesque: Hunny Bunny & Her Hot Toddies | Skylark Bar
Join Hunny Bunny and Her Hot Toddies for Mischief at the Skylark Bar every Friday at 8 pm.
Free Burlesque: Hunny Bunny & Her Hot Toddies Every Friday | 8 pm Skylark Bar, 3089 16th St, SF, CA FREE
Enjoy drinks, dancing, DJs and more at this free ...
Pamtastic’s Comedy Clubhouse | Mutiny Radio
Pamtastic’s Comedy Clubhouse on Mutiny Radio is a free comedy show every Friday from 8-11 pm at Mutiny Radio on the corner of 21st and Florida in the deep Mission District.
Pamtastic’s Comedy Clubhouse
Every Friday | 8-10 pm
Mutiny Radio, 2781 21st Street, SF, CA
$10
Over 25 of San ...
“Best of SF” Stand-Up Comedy Night | SF
Check out a fresh line-up of SF’s comics every Friday at 8 pm at the beautiful Variety Preview Theater in downtown SF’s iconic Hobart Building.
Funcheap Deal: Get tickets for $5 with promo code FUNCHEAP. Otherwise, tickets are $15.
Located in the iconic Hobart Building, right next ...
Jazz at The Atlas Cafe | SF
Jazz at The Atlas is a weekly jazz residency with five rotating jazz bands. Music is always free, though tipping is encouraged.
Closed for Thanksgiving holiday.
Updated 1/20/2020 – Event info last checked via website.
“The Setup” Underground Comedy Show | SF
The Setup is an underground stand-up comedy show in the heart of San Francisco. This venue used to be the green room for the legendary Blackhawk jazz venue where Miles Davis used to play. Now, it’s a comedy show that features established comedians from around the ...
Friday Night Outdoor Roller Skate DJ Party: “Midnight Rollers” | SF
Strap on your skates and roller disco around the city at the Midnight Rollers Friday Night Skate party.
This weekly skate (as long as it’s not raining or during Burning Man) hits up San Francisco’s main attractions, all while blasting their own beats from two jogging strollers ...
SF Beer Olympics: Beer Pong, Flip Cup & $2 Beers | North Beach
Meet and compete against locals, travelers, couch surfers, au pairs, and hostelers. Games are free to play (including flip cup, beer pong and relays) and many weeks they have themed events for holidays, or just because.
Get 6 drink coupons for $1 each. Use coupons before ...
“Comedy Soup”: Music, Comedy, Free Wine & Popcorn | Oakland
Comedy Soup is Oakland’s very own little Stand-Up house show that features top local and touring comics, complimentary Wine and popcorn and musical guests from a variety of styles.
Past guests have appeared on Comedy Central, Netflix, Viceland, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Conan, Colbert & Corden.
In November ...
“The Function” SF’s Newest Hip-Hop Dance Party | Milk Bar
Come party at Milk Bar located in the heart of the Haight for a early 2000s hip-hop and R&B club bangers.
DJ Beats Me plays everything from Missy Elliot, Aaliyah, Lil Jon, Mac Dre, Black Eyed Peas, Outkast, Notorious B.I.G., Rihanna, SOB X RBE, Usher, Robin ...
F!#&ing Free Fridays: Improv Comedy | SF
EndGames Improv is bringing something new to the genre, what could turn out to be a very hot affair (in that release of tension, funny kind of way) with “Your F!#&ed Up Relationship.”
“YFUR” is an entirely improvised comedy show inspired by stories of your own ...
