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Free Union Square Ice Skating Day + Free Ice Cream
By - posted 11/1/2017
Celebrations

To commemorate ten years of outdoor skating at Union Square, you’re invited to a free all-day birthday celebration featuring complimentary ice skating and skate rentals, free ice cream scoops from Humphry Slocombe (featuring a custom flavor from 1-8 pm), a live art installation by local artist fnnch (noon ’til dark), and more...

Union Square’s Ice Rink is Back
By - posted 10/31/2017
Fairs & Festivals

The Holiday Ice Rink in Union Square celebrates with special ceremony on Wednesday, November 1, 2017. The ice rink will open with all the festive fanfare befitting the icy paradise. Twirl in for this special San Francisco event and enjoy the fun. Ice Breaking Ceremony Wednesday, November 1, 2017 at 9:30 a.m. – 10 a.m. Union Square, more...

Free Uber / Lyft / Cabs on Halloween
By - posted 10/31/2017
Halloween

To help keep your drunken ass off the road, Halloween revelers in San Francisco, East Bay, North Bay, South Bay, Tri-Valley and Sacramento can get their cab rides home paid for all Halloween night (until 10 am). Law firm GJEL Accident Attorneys are sponsoring their free “Drink and Alive Free Cab Program” more...

“HellaWeen” Free Comedy Night
By - posted 10/29/2017
Halloween

On Halloween night 2017 come to HellaFunny’s Spooktacular HellaWeen Comedy Night to see comedians dressed up in costumes while performing. Some will even do tell jokes as the character they’re dressed up as. HellaWeen Comedy Show Tuesday, October 31, 2017 | 7pm and 9pm Shows Sip Bar & Lounge, 787 Broadway, SF FREE with RSVP Lineup Stroy Moyd more...

Treasure Island Halloween Costume Party
By - posted 10/28/2017
Halloween

Boo! TI Flea celebrates a spook-tacular halloween market. Join us for trick or treating at the vendor’s booths, costume contests, witches brews drink specials and much, much more. Plus there’s 1,000 free pumpkins per day…. SF’s biggest free pumpkin patch. Treasure Island Flea Halloween Market October 28-29, 2017 | 10-4p Treasure Island, SF $3 (Kids more...

See The Castro’s Brand New Light Art
By - posted 10/27/2017
City Discoveries

Join in for the unveiling of “The Seed,” a new art light installation with changing colors from Aphidoidea in Jane Warner Plaza at Castro and Market. Music by Daphne Gooch String Quartet. “The Seed” Art Unveiling Friday, October 27, 2017 | 8pm Castro and Market, SF FREE Music starts at 7:30pm. Unveiling will be at 8pm. About more...

Halloween Party Guide 2017
By - posted 10/25/2017
Halloween

The ghouls, goblins, zombies (and slutty Donald Trumps?) rise on Halloween weekend all over the Bay, and we’ve picked out our very favorite events of 2017. Make your plans early and start coordinating your costumes to make this a Halloween to remember. Can 2017 get any freakier? We’ll find out… Block Parties more...

$49 Metallica Fire Benefit Concert Tix on Sale Friday
By - posted 10/25/2017
Healing

Metallica is headlining Band Together Bay Area, a benefit concert at AT&T Park in San Francisco on Thursday, November 9, 2017 to assist the families impacted by the fires and show our immense appreciation to the thousands of first responders who have been working tirelessly since the fires began. Tickets starting more...

Free de Young Museum Wednesday
By - posted 10/24/2017
Deals

Each Wednesday during the month of October 2017, admission to the brand new exhibit, ‘Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire” is free at the de Young. Free Wednesdays at the de Young Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire Wednesdays in October 2017 | 9:30am to 5:15pm de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park, more...

Scaregrove 2017
By - posted 10/24/2017
Halloween

Scaregrove returns to Stern Grove, on Friday, October 27, 2017 from 3 to 9 pm. An “out of this world” Halloween event, this year’s event will feature a costume contest and parade, haunted houses, hay rides, carnival rides, giant inflatables, food for sale and live entertainment. Scaregrove Friday, October 27, 2017 | more...

Journey to the End of the Night
By - posted 10/22/2017
Halloween

For one night, drop your relations, your work, your leisure, and all your usual motives for movement and action, and let yourself be drawn by the chase. Journey to the End of the Night is a street game that turns you into you a runner, making your way through the city, more...

San Francisco Open Studios 2017
By - posted 10/22/2017
Artsy Fartsy

SF Open Studios is the oldest and largest open studios program in the country, featuring an annual, month-long, city-wide art event that showcases over 800 emerging and established San Francisco artists in their studios over four weekends in October and November. Each weekend, art patrons, admirers, and collectors venture out on self-guided tours to more...

SF’s Weirdest Escape Room, Ever
By - posted 10/22/2017
Fun & Games

You wake up in a mysterious bathroom, and you have 15 minutes to escape. Can you find the key before time is up? Play this free mini-game and interact with the Washlet, the high tech toilet from Japan. Game makers SCRAP have designed a new game, Escape from the Mysterious Bathroom, more...

2017 San Francisco Trolley Dances
By - posted 10/21/2017
Fairs & Festivals

Each year, Epiphany Productions transforms the city’s streets into stages through San Francisco Trolley Dances, a series of free contemporary dance performances along a Muni line. For the price of a Muni ticket, you’ll get a “hop-on, hop-off” Muni tour to experience an extraordinary lineup of Bay Area dance luminaries performing 8- more...

SF’s “Fiesta on the Hill”
By - posted 10/21/2017
Celebrations

Fiesta on the Hill will celebrate its 29th year with live bands, dancing in the street, street artists, pumpkin carving, petting zoos, a wide variety of food and more. This year we will join the San Francisco citywide celebration of the 50th Anniversary of “Summer of Love”. 2017 Fiesta on the Hill Sunday, more...