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Xmas Weekend: 30 Free Guided Walking Tours
By - posted 12/24/2017
Holidays

San Francisco City Guides offer free guided walking tours of many different neighborhoods in the city and will be offering a full slate of free tours on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Have friends and relatives in town with nothing to do? Gather up the folks and show off the magnificent more...

Free Peet’s Coffee Day on Xmas Eve
By - posted 12/24/2017
Freebies

Peet’s Coffee is celebrating the holidays with its annual holiday donation program. Peet’s will be donating up to $100,000 to Family House, which provides a home away from home for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families. Customers can also donate at Peet’s cafés which will be added to the total more...

Free 30 Minute Parking at SFO for the Holidays
By - posted 12/22/2017
Holidays

This holiday season, SFO is introducing a new drop off / pick up option called Express Drop Off/ Pickup. from Dec 12, 2017 through Jan 8, 2018, for stays of 30 minutes or less in all hourly garages, you’ll have the option to use the 5th Floor of the Domestic more...

Whisky Eve: Last Minute Xmas Shopping
By - posted 12/22/2017
Artsy Fartsy

One of our favorite art and fashion galleries, Secession Art & Design on Mission in Bernal Heights, has a tradition of staying open until 6 pm on Christmas Eve 2017 and serving up whisky and cookies to help keep your tummy in the holiday spirit. And for 2017, Joshua Coffy will be painting live more...

$5 Movie Day at New Parkway
By - posted 12/21/2017
Deals

The New Parkway Theater, a cool community theater in Oakland with couches and quirky seating, a beer and wine license, and a full food menu, is celebrating their anniversary by opening the theater early for $5 movies all afternoon and night. Plus, there will cake and prizes. The New Parkway Anniversary Friday, December 22, 2017 The New Parkway, 474 24th more...

Winter Solstice: The Longest Night of the Year
By - posted 12/20/2017
Get Out: Events

Hear ye, hear ye, pagans, hippies, nature-friends and lovers of the sun – the shortest day, and the longest night of the year is here. While that might sound depressing, it only means that the worst is behind us and days will start getting longer and longer. Celebrate Winter Solstice with some more...

SF’s Jellyfish Flashmob
By - posted 12/20/2017
Artsy Fartsy

Watch an enchanting parade of giant lit up jellyfish as they swim their way through Union Square. Illuminated Jellyfish Flashmob Thursday, December 21, 2017 | 7-9p Union Square | 333 Post St, San Francisco FREE to Watch Please note that if you want to participate in the workshop, it’s $65, or you can just watch more...

San Francisco Punk Film Festival
By - posted 12/17/2017
Get Out: Events

The San Francisco History Center’s S.F. Punk Archive presents a four-part film series that takes you from the chaos of contemporaneous footage to recent documentaries striving to illuminate a hidden history. Ten short years after the ultimately disenchanting Summer of Love, San Francisco harbored a new counterculture united around unrepressed outrage more...

Jet Blue’s $39 Fare Sale
By - posted 12/17/2017
Deals

JetBlue has a great one day sale to Long Beach for $39 – with travel valid nearly every day of the week (except Friday and Sunday). But even the Friday/Sunday travel isn’t bad with many fares from $40 to $59 It’s the usual fine print – Travel is from January 10 more...

Star Wars Holiday Party
By - posted 12/16/2017
Geeks

Sunday, December 17th they are throwing a Star Wars-themed holiday party featuring the infamous “Star Wars: Holiday Special“ on the big screen. Plus they will showing several pre-features and playing Star Wars related music by Matthew Wrenne, and maybe there will be even some surprises. Star Wars Holiday Party Sunday, December 17, 2017 – 6:00 more...

SFMade Holiday Gift Fair
By - posted 12/16/2017
Holidays

The only holiday gift fair where you walk in and know that every item was made in San Francisco. SFMade presents its sixth annual Holiday Gift Fair at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. The shopping extravaganza is free and open to the public and features locally made gift items more...

City Hall Memorial Celebration for Mayor Ed Lee
By - posted 12/16/2017
Celebrations

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee passed away early Tuesday morning of an apparent heart attack.  Supervisor London Breed has taken over as acting Mayor. Our thoughts go out to his family and we wish the mayor bon voyage. Events to celebrate the life and legacy of the 43rd Mayor of the City and more...

Lights Out Pier 70
By - posted 12/15/2017
Celebrations

The historic Pier 70 building has served as a stage for the strange, the glowing, the contorted, and the true artist. Therefore it is their duty to give it a proper renegade farewell. Lights Out Pier 70: One Last Renegade Farewell Saturday, December 16, 2017 | 9pm Pier 70, SF FREE, but an RSVP more...

Speakeasy Brewery’s Tap Room is Back
By - posted 12/14/2017
City Discoveries

On December 15th, almost exactly 9 months since it was abruptly closed, The Tap Room at Speakeasy Ales & Lagers will once again open its doors – no password required. The remodel is complete, the permits have been signed off, and they can’t wait to open their doors. With a brand more...

$5 Star Wars Tickets? Yup!
By - posted 12/13/2017
Deals

In a time long long ago, movie tickets cost less than the crazy amounts they do today. For the latest blockbuster-to-be, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, we’ve checked out the prices for several Bay Area movie theaters and have found tickets as low as $5 (Oakland) and as low as $6.59 in more...