SF City Guides
Rare Super Blood Moon Total Lunar Eclipse Over SF
Get Out: Events It’s the year’s first supermoon, meaning the moon is nearly at its closest to Earth for this month, plus there will be lunar eclipse as well. This will be the last total lunar eclipse to grace Earth’s sky until May 26, 2021. A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes completely through the more...
Sea Lions’ 29th Anniversary Weekend: Free Guided Tours
Celebrations Celebrate the 29th anniversary of the sea lions’ arrival to PIER 39. The boisterous barking pinnipeds began arriving in droves shortly after the Loma Prieta earthquake hit San Francisco in October 1989. With a protected environment and plentiful supply of food from the Bay, the sea lions quickly decided to more...
2019 San Francisco SPCA Pop-Up & Cat Cafe
Get Out: Events The SF SPCA is back at One Embarcadero Center with a wildly adorable month-long Pop Up. Set in a lush indoor jungle, this year’s Pop Up invites you to step into an enchanted world where adoptable animals are just waiting for you to visit and deepen your connection with the animal more...
Patti Smith’s 1-Week Photo Exhibition Comes to SF
Artsy Fartsy San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) and kurimanzutto are honored to announce Wing, a one-week-only exhibition of photographs by international artist, writer, and musician Patti Smith. Presented from January 14–19, 2019, at the Diego Rivera Gallery at SFAI’s historic Chestnut Street campus, the exhibition features a selection of photographs centered on Smith’s reverence more...
Free Skee-Ball Nights
Fun & Games Want to play free skeeball and get tips from Joey the Cat, three-time National Brewskee-Ball champion? Guess what? Skeeson 33 of San Francisco Brewskee-Ball® starts in mid-January and we want you to play! Come to our Skee-4-Free Kickoff party to learn about the league, meet other rollers, and sign-up your team. Free more...
Night Bloom: Napa’s Hot Air Balloon Experience
Fairs & Festivals Night Bloom: Hot Air Balloon Experience – Saturday, January 12 & 19 | Sunday, January 13 & 20 | 7 pm – Oxbow Commons (weather pending) Napa Valley’s majestic hot air balloons will be uniquely displayed as part of this year’s Art After Dark experience. Several tethered hot air balloons will light up more...
The Great Mac ‘n’ Cheese Melt-Off
Eat & Drink After a long, under-cheesed year, the Biggest FêTe Du Fromage in San Francisco is returning to SoMa StrEat Food Park. Have a gouda time at this havarti party, where fifteen of the best food trucks and pop-up shops will be mixing and melting over 20 mouthwatering Mac ‘n Cheese specials. Who more...
The San Francisco Winter Cocktail Party
Eat & Drink You’re invited to San Francisco’s first Winter Cocktail Party of 2019… a special celebration of classic (but not so well known) cocktails like the White Negroni, Caipirinha and, our favorite, the New York Sour. Make it your New Year’s Resolution to find a new cocktail to fall in love with. And it all more...
The Best of SF Sketchfest 2019
Fairs & Festivals SF Sketchfest, the San Francisco Comedy Festival, is a yearly celebration of sketch, improv, stand-up, musical and alternative comedy, bringing the best in headlining and up and coming comedy to the Bay Area every January. 18th Annual SF Sketchfest January 10-27, 2019 See the full 2019 SF Sketchfest schedule and list of performers. The 2019 lineup includes more...
2-for-1 Winter Alcatraz Cruises
Deals Alcatraz Cruises is running their winter “Buy One, Get One Free” ticket promotion to encourage Bay Area residents to experience the assets that make Alcatraz Island one of the country’s most popular attractions. 2019 Government Shutdown Update – Day tours to Alcatraz are unaffected by the government shut down and will more...
Free Day at San Francisco Botanical Garden
City Discoveries The San Francisco Botanical Garden is one of the most diverse gardens in the world. A unique urban oasis, the garden is a living museum within Golden Gate Park, offering 55 acres of both landscaped gardens and open spaces, and showcasing over 8,000 different kinds of plants from around the more...
Free Concert Night + Fireworks: OneRepublic & Ellie Goulding
Fairs & Festivals The College Football Playoff Championship is coming to San Jose and the whole Bay Area can celebrate. Part of the celebration includes the AT&T Playoff Playlist Live, their signature concert series taking place January 4-6, 2019. The AT&T Playoff Playlist Live concert series will bring three days of music, sponsor giveaways, ESPN broadcasts more...
Bank of America’s Free Museum Weekend
Freebies Holders of Bank of America or Merrill Lynch credit cards and debit cards get free admission to seven Bay Area museums and two Sacramento museums for the first full weekend each month. This includes the de Young, Legion of Honor and Oakland Museum of California. Bank of America Free Museum Weekend First weekend more...
Oakland’s Huge Monthly Street Fest is Back for 2019
Fairs & Festivals Oakland First Fridays is an immersive art and community experience on the first Friday of each month from 5-9p. for five huge blocks on Telegraph Avenue from West Grand to 27th Street. Oakland’s KONO district (Koreatown/Northgate) springs to life with for this event, with galleries, artist collectives, street artists, local culinary more...
Steph Curry’s Huge Free Party at Fox Theater
Celebrations Warriors star Stephen Curry is throwing a huge free party at Oakland’s Fox Theater on Friday, January 4th with E-40, Mistah F.A.B., Saweetie and P-Lo. to celebrate 10 years in Oakland (and the Warriors’ last year at Oracle) and you’re all invited. The show also celebrates the launch of the Curry more...
