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How to Get Free San Francisco Symphony Tickets
By - posted 10/18/2017
City Insight

A new season of the San Francisco Symphony has begun. Complimentary tickets for the following November Symphony show are now available through the San Francisco Arts Commission. Join in as at Davies Symphony Hall for the 10th anniversary of the Symphony’s Day of the Dead celebration, featuring a vibrant, fun-filled event. more...

North Bay Fire Benefits
By - posted 10/18/2017
Healing

Here’s just a few of the ways how you can help the victims of the tragic North Bay fires and how you can help the region recover. We hope you consider volunteering, donating and attending one of the many benefits. This is by no means an exhaustive list – Funcheap focuses more...

How to Help the Fire Victims
By - posted 10/13/2017
Healing

Here’s just a few of the ways how you can help the victims of the tragic North Bay fires and how you can help the region recover. We hope you consider volunteering, donating and attending one of the many benefits. This is by no means an exhaustive list – Funcheap focuses more...

The San Francisco Street Food Festival is Back
By - posted 10/12/2017
Eat & Drink

Come join La Cocina on October 15th to enjoy the delicious dishes of 30+ talented chefs born out of La Cocina, and a few others who had to jump in on the party. You won’t want to miss out on what these incredible chefs will be cooking up. The fun doesn’t have more...

Pier 39’s Fire Victim Fundraiser Party
By - posted 10/11/2017
Healing

In light of the devastation and loss of life caused by North Bay wildfires, they are turning the Birthday Bash into a Party with a Purpose. There will be great music, entertainment, and the American Red Cross will be accepting donations to help those affected by the North Bay fires. Donations more...

Free California Academy of Sciences Week
By - posted 10/11/2017
Healing

The California Academy of Sciences is opening their doors this week with free admission through Sunday, October 15th to try to do something nice for people affected by the fires to give a free, safe place for families to get out of the smoke during the day. Tubbs/Atlas Fire Relief Free California more...

Jet Blue’s $31 Halloween Fares
By - posted 10/11/2017
Deals

Jet Blue is mixing it up a bit for their sales and this time they’re offering $31 one way fares to Long Beach over Halloween weekend from both Oakland and SFO. The fine print is that it’s a one-day sale (fares expire at 8:59pm PT tonight), you can travel between 10/27 and 11/4 but dates vary by route. And, of more...

Free WiFi For All Affected by North Bay Wildfires
By - posted 10/10/2017
Freebies

Xfinity WiFi Hotspots open, offering free Internet access to those affected by the North Bay Wildfires Due to the impact of wildfires in the North Bay, Comcast is opening its Xfinity WiFi hotspots to help residents and emergency personnel stay connected throughout the Napa and Sonoma County areas. Xfinity WiFi hotspots more...

The Bay’s 1,000 Pizza Bake-Off
By - posted 10/8/2017
Get Out: Events

Over a dozen teams of professional chefs and enthusiastic amateurs will gather to cook over 1,000 pizzas all day for you to sample. Come and try slice after slice, and vote for your favorites in our Pizzafest People’s Choice competition typically with over 20 roaring pizza ovens at work. Lagunitas and Gilman Brewing more...

Fleet Week 2017
By - posted 10/7/2017
Fairs & Festivals

Look up in the sky when you hear the roaring of jet engines and head down to SF’s northern waterfront and Dogpatch for San Francisco’s annual Fleet Week airshow and festival. 36th Annual San Francisco Fleet Week  October 2 – 9, 2017 San Francisco FREE Much more than just the Blue Angels, this yearly festival and more...

149th Italian Heritage Parade
By - posted 10/6/2017
Celebrations

Come to one of the city’s oldest celebrations of heritage and the longest-running Italian-American parade in the nation – a bright and colorful San Francisco institution since it was established in 1868. 2017 Italian Heritage Parade Sunday, October 8, 2017 | 12:30 pm Fisherman’s Wharf to North Beach, San Francisco FREE The Parade action begins at more...

“Bay Day” is Here
By - posted 10/5/2017
Celebrations

Bay Day is like Earth Day – but just for the San Francisco Bay. It is one official day every year for the entire Bay Area to come together and celebrate the Bay. Don’t be fooled by the bridges, levees, and city skylines—the Bay is wild and alive. In fact, it’s the more...

See the Castro’s New Rainbow Lights
By - posted 10/3/2017
Celebrations

Illuminate is the San Francisco arts nonprofit behind The Bay Lights and the illumination of the Conservatory of Flowers for the 50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love as well as Harvey’s Halo and “Hope will Never be Silent” in the Castro to honor Harvey Milk. At 6 pm on November more...

Comedy Pop-Up at SF’s Newest Art Bar
By - posted 10/3/2017
Get Out: Events

Discover some of the coolest venues in the city through Funcheap’s pop-up comedy shows. This week get to know Bar Fluxus – downtown SF’s newest art bar that’s tucked away in a secret alley that you’d never find on your own. What’s Awesome About Bar Fluxus As colorful as a big box more...

How to Volunteer: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
By - posted 10/3/2017
City Insight

Want to be involved behind the scenes of one of San Francisco’s most amazing free events? The 2017 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass music festival is one of the great gifts given to the city each year, and you can give back by choosing to volunteer for a shift (or two) to help more...