SF City Guides
Chase Center Hosts Huge Free Outdoor Pride Comedy Show
Fairs & Festivals, Only in San Francisco, Pride, San Francisco Outside and out loud is when breakthrough acts shine their brightest! Thrive City is tearing the roof off live entertainment with our can’t miss comedy lineup geared toward mature audiences. For the third year in a row, Pride Comedy Night presented by Accenture will feature special performances and comedic sets that will have more...
San Francisco’s Summer Festivals & Street Fairs (2025)
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Only in San Francisco, San Francisco Summer is the best time in San Francisco for fairs and festivals. Here’s a round-up of fun and fabulous summer festivals, street fairs, and the best events you can look forward to this summer 2025. MAY 2025 2025 Slavic Festival – May 2-3, 2025 The Bay’s Huge “626 Night Market” – May 2-4, more...
Massive 4.1 Mile Laser Rainbow Flag Returns to SF for Pride 2025
LGBTQ+, Only in San Francisco, Pride San Francisco’s 4-mile-long rainbow laser flag will once again light up Market Street for Pride Weekend 2025. The large-scale installation, known as WELCOME (#WelcomeSF), will run nightly for 3 nights from Friday, June 27 through Sunday, June 29 (or technically early Monday morning) with lasers turned on from sunset to sunrise more...
SF Bay Area’s Juneteenth Celebrations 2025
Causes, Celebrations, Get Out: Events San Francisco and the Bay Area honor Juneteenth with giant celebrations, free carnival rides, a town-wide Cookout, a Juneteenth parade, free admission to the National Parks and more. 2025 Juneteenth Celebrations SF’s 2025 Juneteenth on the Waterfront – June 7, 2025 San Bruno’s Juneteenth Celebration – June 7, 2025 Antioch’s Juneteenth: A Freedom Celebration – more...
San Francisco Pride Guide 2025
Celebrations, LGBTQ+, Only in San Francisco, Pride The San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration and Parade is one of the largest LGBT gatherings in the nation. The two-day celebration is free and open to all. The Parade takes place on the last Sunday of June annually. The 2025 theme is Queer Joy is Resistance. Pride Celebration and Rally June 28-29, more...
New Movie Theater Coming Back to SF’s 1000 Van Ness
Reopening, San Francisco Hat tip to the SF Chronicle for the scoop San Francisco is getting a brand-new movie theater just in time for the summer blockbuster season. Apple Cinemas, a small East Coast theater chain, has signed a lease to take over the long-vacant 14-screen cinema inside the historic Don Lee Building at more...
Golden Gate Park Unveils Nation’s First Breast Cancer Memorial Garden
Brand New, Parks & Beaches, San Francisco Golden Gate Park has a new peaceful spot to reflect and find comfort with the recent opening of the Bay Area Young Survivors Breast Cancer Memorial Garden. This marks the first permanent memorial in the U.S. dedicated specifically to those affected by breast cancer, and the first new memorial in more...
SF’s Huge New All-You-Can-Eat Buffet Has Waterfront Views
Brand New, Eat & Drink, San Francisco If you’ve ever dreamed of building your own stir-fry mountain and handing it off to a Benihana-style chef—good news: FiRE + iCE just opened at Pier 39. Sea lions to the left of you, Bubba Gump to the right, and now you’re stuck in the middle with sizzling steak fajitas. The choose-your-own-adventure more...
SF’s Iconic Rock ’n’ Roll Hotel Closing After Nearly 40 Years
Goodbye, Local Icons, Only in San Francisco, San Francisco Big news for longtime locals and lovers of San Francisco’s offbeat charm: the Phoenix Hotel — a retro Tenderloin gem with major rock history — is shutting down at the end of 2025. If you’ve lived in SF long enough, you probably know someone who’s got a Phoenix story. Maybe you more...
SF’s Skateboarder Annual “Hill Bomb” at Dolores Park
Get Out: Events Typically on a random early evening in early July, skateboarders take to the Dolores hill next to Dolores Park and fly down at breakneck speed (almost literally). When is the 2025 Dolores Park Hillbomb? We don’t know yet! But often it’s around the first or second Saturday in July (possibly the afternoon more...
June Street Fairs & Festivals (2025)
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Get Out: Events Here’s a round-up of fun and fabulous June festivals, street fairs, and events including San Francisco Pride, the annual North Beach Festival, the 2025 season opening of San Francisco’s Sunday Streets and more you can look forward to this June 2025. > We’ll be updating this guide with more June events more...
“No Kings Day” in the Bay Area: 40+ Anti-Trump Protests (June 14)
Causes, Community, Fairs & Festivals, Have Your Voice Heard, San Francisco No Kings Day in the Bay Area: 40+ Anti-Trump Protests on June 14, 2025 On Saturday, June 14, 2025, more than 40 protests are planned across the Bay Area as part of No Kings Day, a nationwide day of protest and march against Donald Trump on Flag Day and the same more...
SF’s First Women’s Sports Bar, “Rikki’s,” Opens in The Castro (June 11th)
Bars, Brand New, LGBTQ+, Only in San Francisco, Pride, Sponsored The “Coming Soon” signs should be coming down today! Rikki’s, San Francisco’s first bar focused entirely on women’s sports, opens to the public on Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 3:30 p.m. at 2223 Market Street in the Castro. Co-founded by Danielle Thoe and Sara Yergovich, the bar is named in honor of more...
Three Tiny Las Vegas “Spheres” Coming to SF’s Pier 70 in 2026
Brand New, Only in San Francisco A trio of mini Las Vegas-style Spheres are set to come to San Francisco’s Pier 70 in early 2026. The new 165,000-square-foot entertainment complex, called Elevation Sky Park, will feature three massive (for San Francisco, but small for Vegas) geodesic domes and a pyramid designed for immersive concerts, film screenings, wellness more...
Every Night Market in San Francisco Bay Area in 2025
Bay Area Favorites, Eat & Drink, Fairs & Festivals, Night Market The San Francisco Bay Area is set to host a series of bustling, open-air markets and nighttime events in 2025. Please note, we’re continuing to update this guide. Here’s the latest, updated June 24, 2025. Bay Area Night Markets 2025 San Francisco Castro Night Market – Every 3rd Friday, 5-10p – 18th & more...
