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Taco-Chella 2016
By - posted 5/6/2016
Fairs & Festivals

It’s Taco Time San Francisco! Your favorite festival is back courtesy of SoMa StrEat Food Park and FunCheapSF. Get ready for TacoChella & Lucha Libre! We’ve got a day celebrating Mexico’s best and most beloved street food plus delicious drink specials and TWO live Lucha Libre wrestling shows! Come early, more...

Virgin America’s $49 Flight Sale
By - posted 5/4/2016
Deals

Virgin America has put together a pretty good sale for nonstop fares from SFO to LAX for $49 each way along with decent deals to other cities like $59 fares to San Diego and Portland for fall travel September 7 to November 16 There’s also an unadvertised $44 fare to Las Vegas for May, June more...

Eight Awesome Downtown Oakland Walking Tours
By - posted 5/4/2016
Get Out: Events

Downtown Oakland is undergoing a renaissance that has captured national media attention. Get a glimpse of both today’s vibrant scene and landmarks from Oakland’s past during the 2016 Oakland Tours season. Free 90-minute walking tours of downtown Oakland are offered every Wednesday and Saturday through October for 2016. The twice weekly guided tours more...

San Francisco Cinco de Mayo Festival & Block Party
By - posted 5/1/2016
Fairs & Festivals

Enjoy Cinco de Mayo in the Mission with an annual all day family-friendly celebration held as a block party on Valencia Street with live music, cultural performances, and more. 12th Annual Cinco de Mayo Festival Saturday, May 7, 2016 | 10 am to 6 pm Valencia between 21st and 24th, Mission Dist., SF FREE The celebration will showcase more...

Star Wars Day
By - posted 5/1/2016
Fun & Games

Rare San Francisco Guided Walking Tours
By - posted 4/30/2016
Get Out: Events

San Francisco City Guides offers dozens of free guided walking tours, all over the city, throughout the year. But things get special during the months of May and October each year, when the San Francisco weather is particularly pleasant, City Guides add a slate of rare neighborhood explorations to its year more...

SF’s Most Bad Ass Lowriders
By - posted 4/30/2016
Cinco de Mayo

See 100+ of SF’s classic lowrider cars from the ’40s, ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, along with lowrider bicycles and motorcycles when the San Francisco Lowrider Council presents the annual Cinco de Mayo “Give Something Back” Lowrider Show. 3rd Annual Cinco de Mayo San Francisco Lowrider Car Show Sunday, May 1, 2016 | 10 more...

How Weird Street Faire
By - posted 4/30/2016
Fairs & Festivals

For the 17th annual How Weird Street Faire, SoMa will be filled with art and performances, vendors, tasty food and drinks, and all of the colorful weirdness that San Francisco is famous for under the 2016 “The Cosmic Stew” theme. All ages are welcome. Boogie down to ten dance music stages with music by Symbiosis, more...

Renegade Craft Fair
By - posted 4/29/2016
Artsy Fartsy

Come out for a weekend of fresh, modern design from DIY makers featuring exciting special features and installations, inspiring hands-on workshops, yummy food and drinks, and more as the Renegade Craft Fair returns to San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center’s Herbst Pavilion with 180+ makers. Renegade Craft Fair: San Francisco April 30 – May 1, more...

Stern Grove Festival’s 2016 Schedule Announced
By - posted 4/28/2016
Fairs & Festivals

The Stern Grove Festival has been throwing free concerts in the park every summer since 1938. If you don’t mind arriving early to spread out your blanket to stake your spot, it’s an excellent way to spend a relaxing Sunday in a beautiful park setting watching free performances from top touring acts and more...

SF’s City Hall Under Attack (For a Movie)
By - posted 4/27/2016
Only in San Francisco

San Francisco’s City Hall is getting under siege tonight, but don’t be alarmed. It’s just for filming a 2017 ABC miniseries “When We Rise” which chronicles the gay rights movement in the U.S. starting in 1969 staring Guy Pearce along with Whoopi Goldberg and Rosie O’Donnell and directed by Gus more...

Opening Day on the Bay
By - posted 4/25/2016
Fairs & Festivals

Celebrate Opening Day on the Bay at the Treasure Island Sailing Center with free sailboat rides, kayaking, and stand up paddle boarding, plus enjoy music, family activities and food. 2016 Opening Day & National Safe Boating Day Saturday, April 30, 2016 | 11 am to 4 pm Treasure Island Sailing Center, 698 California Ave, #112, more...

How to Get Free Passes to the 2016 Art Market
By - posted 4/25/2016
Fairs & Festivals

Art Market San Francisco will return to the Fort Mason Festival Pavilion this spring to celebrate its sixth edition. Following record breaking sales, city-wide partnerships, and attendance of over 25,000 visitors in 2015, the 2016 edition of Art Market San Francisco is pleased to present a significant selection of contemporary and more...

Free BART Massage Day
By - posted 4/25/2016
Freebies

The BART-based concierge, blinq, is giving away free massages from Massage on Demand company, Zeel. Stop by the Montgomery BART station blinq pod between 4-7 pm these next two Wednesdays (April 20 and 27, 2016) for a free chair or table massage from some of the most trusted hands in the business. Free BART Massage more...

Super Duper Free Burger Day
By - posted 4/25/2016
Freebies

Super Duper, a yummy, sustainably-minded Bay Area burger joint, will offer free mini burgers for the first 100 people in line at each location on Monday, April 25, 2016, starting at 3 pm. (Translation: four-ounce, all natural Niman Ranch beef patty with cheese, lettuce, tomato, onions, and Super sauce on a toasted sesame bun.) New in 2016: more...