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The Bay Stands Up for DACA: Rallies & Protests
By - posted 9/3/2017
Have Your Voice Heard

Donald Trump decided today to end DACA (Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals) which protects over 800,000 undocumented youth from deportation. In response to the decision, the Bay Area has quickly organized a series of rallies, marches, and protests. Please note that schedules dates, times can change – so please click below the find out more...

Free Outdoor Theater in Dolores Park
By - posted 9/3/2017
Get Out: Events

The Tony Award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe continues its 58th season with more free and lively performances in park settings around the Bay Area with their 2017 production “Walls.” San Francisco Mime Troupe | 2017 Free political theater & music in parks all over the Bay Area – Various dates: July-September 2017 – SF, Berkeley, Oakland, more...

10 Free Guided Walking Tours on Labor Day
By - posted 9/3/2017
Only in San Francisco

Looking for something to do on your day off on Labor Day, Monday, September 4, 2017? San Francisco City Guides offers up daily, free guided walking tours of San Francisco. Be a tourist in your own city and learn a few bits of history you can impress people with at a more...

Kings Mountain Art Fair
By - posted 9/2/2017
Outdoorsy

Why pay a fortune to see the art in Sausalito when you can visit the Kings Mountain Art Fair for free? Known for its stunning location among the redwoods and for its unique and varied artists, the Kings Mountain Art Fair celebrates more than 50 years of art and ambiance. It’s more...

Here’s Where to Swim Indoors in San Francisco
By - posted 9/1/2017
Fun & Games

Need to beat the heat, San Francisco? Sure, it’s free to swin in Ocean Beach and Aquatic Park, but here’s all of SF’s public pools plus details on how to get free entry. Through the SF Public Library’s “Discover & Go” pass you can get free entry into almost all of more...

SF’s $6 Water Park with Indoor Slides
By - posted 9/1/2017
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Hamilton Rec Center is a great place to cool off during a hot week. This public swimming facility features a large, heated pool and is a mini-water park with not one, but two, indoor water slides, the only ones in the city. The water slides are typically only open to the more...

$69 Airfares from SFO to Europe
By - posted 8/29/2017
Deals

If you want the absolute cheapest way to fly to Europe (and don’t mind loads of restrictions) then WOW is probably your best bet. They’re recently lowered their prices to $69 OW to London and Paris from September to December, 2017 (and $99 OW fares Amsterdam and to Reykjavik, Iceland) from more...

SF’s Urban Nerf Gun Spy Game
By - posted 8/27/2017
Fun & Games

Jericho is an urban spy game with Nerf guns played sneaky in public settings all over SF like malls and parks, where everyone assumes the role of a spy like a giant secret game of Capture the Flag. Each team of “agents” will carry out missions where they will need to more...

Michael Jackson Birthday Party
By - posted 8/27/2017
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Join Amoeba on Tuesday, August 29th at 5pm as they wish a very Happy Birthday to the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. DJ Jay Midnight provides his one-of-a kind MJ mixes that will knock your socks off from DJ Jay Midnight. Michael Jackson Birthday Tribute Party Tuesday, August 29, 2017 | 4pm Amoeba more...

44¢ Mai Tai Day
By - posted 8/27/2017
Deals

On August 30, 2017, Trader Vic’s Emeryville celebrates National Mai Tai Day. To honor the occasion, your first Mai Tai of the evening will be just 44¢ to commemorate the year the iconic tropical cocktail was created in 1944. Inspired by 17-year old rum from Jamaica, Victor “The Trader” Bergeron fashioned the drink more...

Visit HBO’s “Game of Thrones” Pop-Up in SF
By - posted 8/27/2017
Only in San Francisco

Sit on the Iron Throne, check out actual costumes from the set of Season 7 and immerse yourself in the world of Westeros as HBO’s Game of Thrones Fan Experience takes over AT&T’s Flagship store in San Francisco, Now you can see those amazing Season 7 costumes up close at the more...

2017 San Francisco Origami Festival
By - posted 8/26/2017
Fairs & Festivals

At the annual Origami-Palooza, watch origami experts fold paper into seemingly impossible shapes, and enter your creations into a contest (if you’re an experienced origami artist, of course). Anyone and everyone, from young to old, to beginner to experienced, can learn to create amazing things with paper. Plus there’s a paper airplane more...

Bay Area “Rally Against Hate”
By - posted 8/26/2017
Have Your Voice Heard

In response to the planned Patriot Prayer “Freedom Rally” in Crissy Field (permit was approved, but since canceled) and the planned “No to Marxism” Rally in Berkeley (Denied a permit and canceled), organizers have put together a rally opposing these groups on the Crescent Lawn at UC Berkeley on Sunday, more...

Where to Watch Mayweather vs. McGregor
By - posted 8/26/2017
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It’s the most hyped fight we’ve seen a long time, but it could be an utter sh*t show with MUFC hero Conor McGregor in his very first boxing match against Floyd Mayweather Jr. (50-0). You could pay $99.95 to watch it at home or go to one of the local bars more...

Film Night in the Park: La La Land
By - posted 8/24/2017
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The San Francisco Neighborhood Theater Foundation (SFNTF) produces the popular Film Night in the Park Outdoor Film Series. The 2017 season includes three films in Dolores Park, two in Union Square and one in Washington Square Park. Films are free of charge in beautiful park settings and projected on a giant outdoor screen. more...