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Ocean Beach Bonfire & Jazz Mafia
By - posted 10/2/2016
Celebrations

Reset your system with a modern spin on a 600-year-old Rosh Hashanah ritual called tashlich to get rid of last year’s bad karma and start the new year off fresh. JCCSF and Reboot by the shore invite you to Ocean Beach for a brief, engaging ritual and joyful noise accompaniment from shofar more...

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
By - posted 10/2/2016
Fairs & Festivals

2016 brings San Francisco the 16th annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, one of the largest, free-est and beloved music festivals in the country. Be one of over 750,000 attendees over the three-day musical extravaganza in beautiful Golden Gate Park. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2016 Three days, seven stages, over 100 artists Friday-Sunday, Sept. 30, Oct. 1 and Oct. more...

Asian Art Museum’s Free Sunday Celebration
By - posted 10/1/2016
Artsy Fartsy

It’s that time of year again, when the museum gears up for its annual Filipino American History Month Celebration. This year’s theme of “Movement” focuses on the traditions of dance, martial arts, word and art of the Philippines. Celebrate Filipino American history and culture at the Asian Art Museum’s annual festival more...

2016 SoundWaves Music Festival
By - posted 10/1/2016
Get Out: Events

The Soundwaves music series returns to Jack London Square with free live music on the Oakland waterfront. Locals and visitors are invited to bring a blanket or lawn chair for this festive afternoon of fabulous music including high-energy blues and bluegrass from Dirty Cello, Afro-Latin funk from Sang Matiz, and more...

Re:Make Festival 2016
By - posted 10/1/2016
Artsy Fartsy

Ready for a creative day like no other? Join them (and thousands of others) at the Re:Make Festival 2016 to tap into your own creativity. Grab a bite to eat at the food trucks, snap a pic in one of the many photo booths, eat 3D printed food, check out more...

The 1st Ever “Bay Day”
By - posted 10/1/2016
Only in San Francisco

Bay Day is like Earth Day – for 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 largest and most more...

An Epic Prince Karaoke Party
By - posted 9/30/2016
Get Out: Events

Join in for the glamorous conclusion of the Prince-inspired exhibition and event series curated by Glen Helfand, After Pop Life, for an evening of opulent visuals, Prince-inspired fashion, karaoke, and dancing in the atrium of the fittingly titled Minnesota Street Project. After Pop Life Closing party Saturday, October 1, 2016 | 8pm to more...

Jet Blue Sale: $19 Flights from SFO
By - posted 9/28/2016
Deals

We’ve never seen this kind of fare sale on a real airline (Frontier doesn’t count). On a very few select routes, you can fly as cheap as $19.10 one way from SFO to Long Beach or Las Vegas. The flight is actually $4.15 with $14.45 in taxes. Our good friends at The more...

The Final “$5 Thursdays” at Asian Art Museum
By - posted 9/27/2016
Deals

Want to visit the Asian Art Museum without the weekend crowds and for less than half of the price? Try Thursday nights. The Asian Art Museum is open late on Thursday nights (5-9 pm) and tickets are just $5 (normally it’s $15) to see the amazing permanent collection with the Cafe open late, and more...

Come Out & Play Festival
By - posted 9/27/2016
Fun & Games

The Come Out & Play Festival is back celebrating a sixth year of bringing play to the Bay with new and innovative real-world games happening all over San Francisco. 2016 Come Out & Play Festival September 24 – October 8, 2016 All over San Francisco FREE (festival games only, special events are paid) This year, Come Out more...

Vote Funcheap “Best of the Bay”
By - posted 9/27/2016
City Insight

If you love the FuncheapSF website and all the free events we dig up, we’d love to ask you to take a few minutes and vote for FuncheapSF as “Best Overall Website” in the San Francisco Bay Guardian‘s annual “Best of the Bay” Readers Poll for 2016. Yes, the Guardian is back! more...

Trump vs. Clinton: The Game Show
By - posted 9/24/2016
Fun & Games

Vote with your brain! It’s the ultimate opportunity to test your democratic right to game-show fun. Funcheap and its running mate, The Big Quiz Thing, come to DNA Lounge for an evening of political-themed multimedia team-quiz excitement. The 2016 Election Game Show Spectacular with Funcheap and The Big Quiz Thing Wednesday, September 28, 2016 | more...

SF’s Biggest Debate Watching Party
By - posted 9/24/2016
Get Out: Events

Trump and Clinton have blasted away at each other for months… and now they are scheduled to square off three times in prime-time debates leading up to the presidential election in November. Join us at SoMa StrEat Food Park for a debate watch party and enjoy the nail-biting vitriolic exchange. Happy hour more...

Korea Day Festival
By - posted 9/24/2016
Fairs & Festivals

The Asian Art Museum‘s Korea Day festival is back for its eighth year with presentations by notable musicians, artists, performers and more – with gallery tours, artists’ demonstrations, art and craft activities, a K-Pop Lounge, and other experiences inspired by traditional and contemporary Korean culture. 2016 Korea Day Sunday, September 25, 2016 | 10:30 am to more...

$1 Book Day
By - posted 9/24/2016
Deals

The Big Book Sale celebrates its 52nd year of the Friends of the SF Library featuring over 500,000 books, DVDs, CDs, books on tape, vinyl, and other forms of media in 70 different categories, all for $1-3, at the Fort Mason Center’s Festival Pavilion. The Big Book Sale is free and open to the public and more...