SF City Guides
Check Out SF’s Brand New Rain Garden
City Discoveries Join us from 10 am to noon for a ribbon cutting ceremony on Saturday, March 23 as we open the McLaren Community Garden. We will have brief remarks, family-friendly gardening activities and a Visitacion Valley Green Nodes walking tour. McLaren Community Garden Reopening Celebration Saturday, March 23, 2019 | 10am McLaren Park Community more...
Glen Park “Peaks & Pints” Hike
Get Out: Events Join in for a fun urban group hike through the city, capped off with celebratory drinks at the end. The hike will begin at Glen Park BART, then they’ll hike up through Glen Park Canyon. The park incorporates free-flowing Islais Creek, an extensive grassland with adjoining trees, striking rock outcrops, and more...
Color Fight! The ‘Holi’ Festival is Coming to the Bay
Celebrations Holi is a Hindu spring festival known as the “festival of colors” or the “festival of love.” The festival signifies the victory of good over evil, the arrival of spring, the end of winter, and for many a festive day to meet others, play and laugh, forget and forgive, and repair broken relationships. While more...
2019 National Puppy Day
Celebrations It’s National Puppy Day on March 23rd. Why? Because we all need a little more puppy love in this world. So celebrate your adorable pups, or just oogle at some of these photos along with us and dream of a warm snuggle. Here’s a few adorable local puppies enjoying some San Francisco sunshine:
2019 Macy’s Flower Show
Fairs & Festivals Macy’s Union Square transforms into a space-inspired floral fantasy world during its 73rd annual Macy’s Flower Show. The annual Macy’s Flower Show is a stunning celebration of flowers, food, art and music. 2019’s season’s “Journey to Paradisios” transports fans into a multi-dimensional world of space, adventure, and discovery through florals and eccentrically landscaped gardens, more...
Persian New Year Fire Jumping Festival
Fairs & Festivals Jump over a bonfire for “Chaharshanbeh Souri: Festival of Fire” to shake off the darkness of winter and welcome the brightness of spring, a Persian ritual passed down since ancient Zoroastrian times. In Iran (and parts of Afghanistan and India), it is customary for people to create bonfires in front of more...
Free Dairy Queen Ice Cream Cone Day
Celebrations, Eat & Drink Dairy Queen is celebrating their 79th anniversary on the first day of spring by hooking up everyone with a free small vanilla soft-serve cone with the signature curl on top. There’s not a DQ in San Francisco proper, but there’s plenty a short drive away. But take note that this deal more...
San Francisco’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade
Fairs & Festivals The West Coast’s largest Irish event celebrating Irish history and culture. The Parade will start at the corner of Market and Second Streets where over a hundred colorful floats, Irish dance troupes and marching bands will wind their way to Civic Center Plaza. 168th San Francisco St. Patrick’s Day Parade Saturday, March 16, 2019 more...
SF’s Epic Wedding Dress Pub Crawl
Only in San Francisco Don a wedding dress and join the Brides for this annual San Francisco tradition at the 21st annual Brides of March. Join in to parade through the heart of San Francisco, strolling through Union Square, shopping at fancy stores and drinking in local bars with your fellow brides. All you need for this event is more...
Free Uber/Lyft Home on St. Patty’s Day
Holidays To help keep everyone safe on the way home, St. Paddy’s Day revelers in the Bay Area, as well as the Tri-Valley area (Pleasanton, Livermore, Dublin, San Ramon, and Danville), and Sacramento can get their cab rides home paid for all night and into the morning (until 10 am). Law firm GJEL more...
Check Out SF’s Brand New Neon Mural
Artsy Fartsy The neon art installation marks several firsts: artist Joseph Kosuth’s first permanent public artwork on a landmark building in the USA and the San Francisco’s first major project funded by the City’s Public Art Trust On March 13, 2019 at 6p.m., the San Francisco Arts Commission hosted a lighting and dedication ceremony to commemorate more...
Sunday Streets is Back for 2019
Fairs & Festivals Sunday Streets (March – October 2019) is San Francisco’s official block party – a sorta-monthly roving neighborhood celebration and five-hour street party where the streets are closed to vehicles, so pedestrians, roller skaters, bicyclists, and yogis take over the streets for an afternoon. “Sunday Streets 2019” Street Festival & Block Party Sundays, March 10- more...
The Great San Francisco Corn Dog Festival
Fairs & Festivals At one of the biggest “Corn Dog Day” festivals in the country, Funcheap brings you SF’s best food trucks and pop-up vendors featuring a menu chock full of creative corn dogs plus a Corn Dog Eating Contest and tons of beer. 2019 marks the 27th National Corn Dog Day, so it makes it even crunchier. Read the more...
Off the Grid Fort Mason is Back for 2019
Eat & Drink More than 30 food vendors, with a full bar and bands and DJs? Now that’s a party; it’s also California’s largest weekly street food market. Discover everything from Beijing-style crisp-fried crepes (Jianbing) and Filipino desserts, to handmade pasta, Neapolitan pizza, and Haitian pork griot – along with sheltered lounge spaces and communal firepits. Off the more...
