SF City Guides
Golden Gate Park’s “Virtual” 150th Birthday Bash is Saturday
Celebrations Happy Birthday, Golden Gate Park! The city of San Francisco has been planning a huge 150th birthday bash for Golden Gate Park on April 4 to celebrate the occasion. Unfortunately, the big birthday bash in the park has been postponed (it’ll be rescheduled for a date later this year), but in more...
Commonwealth Club’s New Virtual Public Forum: Live Interviews & Talks
Brand New The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation’s oldest and largest public forum, a non-partisan, non-profit organization that hosts more than 450 events a year featuring important speakers, panels, and debates on the important topics of the day has temporarily suspended or rescheduled live, in-person events. To keep the public informed more...
Free Grilled Cheese from The Melt for Healthcare Workers
Freebies As a way of saying thank you, The Melt is giving away free grilled cheese meals to all hospital and medical staff who are on the front lines helping our local communities. All they need to do is show their work badge and enjoy a free meal (to-go) up to more...
Chipotle’s 100K Free Burritos For Healthcare Workers
Freebies Chipotle is giving away 100k burritos, as a way of thanking our healthcare workers working on the front lines. To be a part of the offer, complete the form to nominate your healthcare team, and let Chipotle take care of you with an order of 25 free burritos delivered free by more...
Probably The Most San Francisco Sh*t Ever
Brand New If you’re concerned about the supermarket running out of bread, never fear. You have a secret bread-Santa in San Francisco. Thanks to Brian Lucas who let us know about this post from Fred McCord on Facebook that someone has helpfully stapled baggies of free sourdough starter to a pole in San more...
Coyotes Taking Over the Empty Streets of SF
Brand New While dogs and cats are enjoying their moment with their fur-parents who are working from home during “Shelter-in-place,” wild coyotes seem to be taking advantage of the suddenly empty streets of San Francisco. KQED reports that coyotes are thought to be recolonizing the places that they used to inhabit before all more...
“Digital Mirage” Virtual Electronic Music Festival April 3-5
Brand New Digital Mirage brings together the electronic music world for a weekend online, featuring sets of some of the most talented artists around. Presented by Proximity and Brownies and Lemonade, this online music festival is set to take place on April 3-5, broadcasting to the world via YouTube. Proximity / Brownies & more...
SF Giants “Opening Day” 2020 Online Celebration
Brand New The baseball season has been postponed. The Giants haven’t been good in the long while. We’re all stuck at home. Opening Day of the 2020 season at Oracle Park as supposed to be Friday. So what better time to reminisce about the good times (including when the Giants were actually relevent) more...
SF’s New $10 Million Small Business Relief Fund
Brand New Mayor London Breed and Board of Supervisors Announce $10 Million Small Business Relief Fund to Support Small Businesses Impacted by COVID-19 City commits $9 million to launch new zero interest loan fund and adds $1 million to the City’s Resiliency Fund, increasing support for workers and small business San Francisco, CA — Mayor more...
“Berkeley Farms” Shuts Down After 110 Years
Brand New The 110-year-old Berkeley Farms in Hayward has unfortunately announced they have shut down the farm for good on April 1st. It’s sad for an historic local company to end and for the hundreds of people who lost jobs. Read more on Mercury News, KTVU and SF Gate.
California is 46th Nationwide in COVID-19 Testing
Brand New Thanks to Countable for letting us know that California is far behind most states in terms of testing for Coronavirus, ranking 46th in the nation. The state has over 55k tests pending and only 26k completed and is currently completing about 1,800 tests a day. At this rate, the current backlog more...
San Francisco Bans Reusable Bags from Grocery Stores
Brand New As part of new stricter rules put in place on May 31st to help prevent unnecessary contact, the City of San Francisco has instructed business to no longer permit customers to bring their own bags, mugs or reusable items from home. In Funcheap’s experience this week, grocery stores like Safeway and more...
SF’s “Baysia” Virtual Festival + Cooking Classes: April 2-4
Brand New Join us online April 2-4 for a three-night exclusive sneak peek at of the Bay Area’s kreative voices in conversation. Featuring live music, poetry readings, a community open mic, and more. Baysia was originally scheduled to take place March 19-28, but has been postponed with a mini version of the festival more...
SF’s New Citywide Volunteer Match Program to Help Seniors
Brand New San Francisco Launches Citywide Volunteer Match Program to Support Seniors and People with Disabilities Expanded City services and volunteer programs will support vulnerable populations, including seniors and adults with disabilities, during COVID-19 pandemic Mayor London N. Breed on April 1, 2020 announced the creation of a citywide volunteer network to support seniors more...
Check Out SF’s Epic Post-It Note Window Art
Brand New Spread cheer, love and hope or simply say hello on the other side. It is during these trying times people get creative and find unique ways of expressing their feelings. And San Francisco has a lot of great examples. You can create post it window art, shape them into hearts or more...
