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NorCal Corgi Con at Ocean Beach
By - posted 10/22/2016
Get Out: Events

The NorCal Corgi Con is a wonderfully bizarre beach day bash for dogs (and their pawrents) bringing together hundreds of enthusiastic Corgis, their owners and wannabes too on Ocean Beach directly across from the Beach Chalet from 10 am to 2 pm on Saturday, October 22, 2016. The day will be back with activities more...

Clarion Alley Block Party & Mural Celebration
By - posted 10/22/2016
Fairs & Festivals

Come on down to Clarion Alley Mural Project, nestled between Mission and Valencia and 17th and 18th, and check out the murals while listening to some great tunes as well. In the spirit of Clarion, it’s free for everyone. They are taking donations to help buy paint for next year and more...

9 New Murals Hit the Streets of Bayview
By - posted 10/21/2016
Artsy Fartsy

If you’re on the lookout for some fresh art in the city, the streets of Bayview might be the perfect place to wander around. With the goal of making Bayview / Hunter’s Point SF’s next big visual arts district, local artists from arts organization Imprint.City are finally ready to officially celebrate nine new more...

Awesome New Burning Man Art Coming to Hayes Valley?
By - posted 10/21/2016
Artsy Fartsy

Patricia’s Green in Hayes Valley, which serves as a sort of San Francisco hub for anything Burning Man-related, is hopefully going to be the home of two gigantic geometric sculptures by artists from The Hyberspace Bypass Construction Zone (HYBYCOZO). The sculptures have laser cut patterned panels and the LED lights change colors. more...

Off the Grid’s Goodbye to Presidio & Fort Mason
By - posted 10/21/2016
Eat & Drink

Off the Grid bids farewell to good weather with the season finales of two of its most awesome food and fun gatherings – the Friday Night Food Truck Party at Fort Mason (October 21) and the Sunday Presidio Picnic (October 23). Grab your friends and come out to enjoy the last of the nice more...

The Guardian is Back “Best of the Bay” 2016
By - posted 10/20/2016
Only in San Francisco

The Bay Guardian is back! For one issue, at least. After shutting down in October of 2014, former editors of the Guardian who now work at 48hills.org have put together a revivial print issue, the first one to hit the streets in over two years. Where can you pick up a printed more...

Wharf Fest
By - posted 10/19/2016
Fairs & Festivals

Wharf Fest returns to San Francisco’s iconic waterfront neighborhood. For the fourth year in a row, Fisherman’s Wharf invites Bay Area locals to come enjoy the neighborhood after the crowds of visitors have subsided but before the fabulous fall weather fades away. 2016 Wharf Fest Saturday, October 22, 2016 | 11 am more...

Where to Watch the Debate
By - posted 10/19/2016
Get Out: Events

It’s alllmost over. Trump and Clinton have blasted away at each other and now it’s the final time they’ll step toe to toe. Funcheap’s Big Debate Watch Party Join Funcheap at SoMa StrEat Food Park on October 19th at 6pm for one of SF’s biggest debate watch parties.  There’s happy hour specials from 4pm more...

Salesforce Tower is Now SF’s Tallest Building
By - posted 10/18/2016
City Insight

Does size really matter? In the realm of skyscraper architecture, perhaps. Although there was initially some confusion as to when exactly this happened, ABC7 News says the Salesforce Tower is now SF’s tallest building, having finally surpassed the height of the Transamerica Pyramid, which stands at a static 853 feet. This makes more...

SF’s 77-Year Ban on New Liquor Licenses is Finally Over
By - posted 10/17/2016
City Discoveries

If there is something that San Francisco needs more of, it’s not tourists and food– okay, new restaurants won’t be bad — but liquor, liquor, and more liquor! While there’s lots of beer/wine licenses in The City, new full “liquor” licenses have on hold since 1939, scarcer and hard to find more...

Meet BART’s New “Fleet of the Future”
By - posted 10/16/2016
City Discoveries

The Fleet of the Future is closer than ever to becoming a reality for BART riders. Your chance to get an up close look at a test train for the new fleet is coming. BART will hold a series of free open house events in October. The first 200 visitors each day will more...

Funny or Die Comes to SF with Demetri Martin
By - posted 10/15/2016
Get Out: Events

Funny or Die and NextGen Climate bring you the Jokes for Votes Tour headlined by Demetri Martin (The Daily Show / Comedy Central). It’s a free comedy show and voter registration drive at the Cesar Chavez Student Center at SF State. You do not need to be a student to more...

Sunday Streets: SF’s Huge Free Block Party
By - posted 10/15/2016
Fairs & Festivals

Sunday Streets (April – November 2016) is San Francisco’s official block party – a sorta-monthly roving neighborhood celebration and five hour street party where the streets are closed to vehicles, so pedestrians, roller skaters, bicyclists, yogis, and everyone except for cars can take over the streets for an afternoon. Plus there’s an opening more...

2016 Trolley Dances
By - posted 10/15/2016
Artsy Fartsy

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...

The World’s Largest Lit Crawl Comes to SF
By - posted 10/15/2016
Fairs & Festivals

The 12th annual Lit Crawl will span over three hours in the Mission District’s Valencia Street corridor, featuring dozens of literary readings and events, including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, comedy and more, in bookstores, bars, galleries, restaurants, stores, cafés, community spaces, a bookmobile, a vibrator store, and a police station. It’s 99 events, more...