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Funcheap’s April Fools’ Pop-Up Comedy Weekend
By - posted 4/1/2016
Get Out: Events

Funcheap takes over Folsom Street Foundry with #HellaFunny and converts it into a pop-up comedy club for one weekend only. We’ve hand-picked some of the Bay Area’s best comedians from Last Comic Standing, America’s Got Talent, Conan, SF Sketchfest,  The Comedy Store and more. Plus DJ Spin on the 1s and 2s, drink more...

2016 Holi Festival & Color Fight
By - posted 4/1/2016
Celebrations

The colorful, ancient spring festival of Holi will once again be celebrated at Bishop Ranch in San Ramon, so get ready to get messy and have a lot of fun at this free gathering. 2016 Holi Celebration Friday, April 1, 2016 | 5:30-8 pm 2600 Camino Ramon, San Ramon FREE Holi is an ancient festival more...

St. Stupid’s Day Parade
By - posted 4/1/2016
Celebrations

The Annual St. Stupid’s Day Parade is a celebration of stupidity, so wear something silly, bring your solo socks, spare pennies and losing lottery tickets and gather with all the other stupids at the foot of Market Street to do the silliest walk of all. 38th Annual St. Stupid’s Day Parade Friday, April 1, more...

Metallica’s Free Intimate Berkeley Concert for 300
By - posted 3/31/2016
Get Out: Events

Metallica recently performed before 40,000 at AT&T Park. But now they’re scaling it back just a touch and performing a super rare teeny tiny instore performance for just 300 people at Rasputin Music in Berkeley on April 16, 2016. > Watch the Free Live Steam on Facebook at 4pm It’s all for more...

TOMS Warehouse Sale
By - posted 3/30/2016
Deals

TOMS shoes warehouse sale comes to San Mateo with huge discounts on all shoes, bags and eyewear for men, women, youth and toddlers (Tiny TOMS) inside 50,000 sq feet of shopping. The pricing varies from sale to sale, but is generally 50-70% off retail prices. Expect to hunt for great deals on sunglasses, plus tons of styles and sizes more...

Vote “Funcheap” in 2016 Best of SF Weekly Poll
By - posted 3/30/2016
Only in San Francisco

If you like all the events we dig up on Funcheap, we’d love to ask you to pretty please take a few minutes and vote for Funcheap as “Best Website” in the SF Weekly‘s annual “Best of the San Francisco” Readers Poll for 2016. The poll is long – over 150 questions – feel more...

2016 Spring Big Book Sale
By - posted 3/27/2016
Deals

Held at Fort Mason Center’s Festival Pavilion, the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library’s Spring Big Book Sale will feature over 250,000 books, DVDs, CDs, books on tape, vinyl and other forms of media in over 70 categories. Friends of the SF Public Library 2016 Spring Big Book Sale March 30-April more...

2016 Weiner Dog Easter Egg Hunt
By - posted 3/27/2016
Easter

Come see dozens of doxies dressed up like bunnies or in their Sunday best sniffing out Easter eggs filled with treats. 2016 Weiner Dog Easter Egg Hunt Saturday, April 2, 2016 | 10 am Oak Hill Park, 3005 Stone Valley Rd, Danville FREE, but an RSVP is appreciated if you’re bringing your doxie. There will be an more...

Bring Your Own Big Wheel
By - posted 3/26/2016
Only in San Francisco

What’s that sound kids? It’s the sound of Big Wheels rolling! Watch dozens of contestants at Bring Your Own Big Wheel 2016 (BYOBW) risk humiliation and serious injury racing their big wheels (those giant plastic tricycles from when we were kids – no rubber wheels allowed) down the crazy curvy Vermont & more...

SF’s “Hunky Jesus” Contest & Easter Festival
By - posted 3/26/2016
Fairs & Festivals

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the kabuki-inspired cross-dressing nuns-of-fun, host their 37th Easter Sunday in the Park at Hellman Hollow in Golden Gate Park. There’s a family-friendly Children’s Easter celebration at 11 am, but the real fun follows after the kids head home with adult-friendly fare like the Easter Bonnet Contest, burlesque, more...

Union Street Easter Festival
By - posted 3/25/2016
Fairs & Festivals

The Annual Union Street Spring Celebration and Easter Parade is not your average street fair or formal parade. It can best be described as wonderful, wacky, elegant and fabulous, with everything from roller-blading cows and creative self-propelled mini-floats to garden areas, sophisticated fashions and beautiful classic and art cars. 25th Annual Union Street more...

Three Day of Unlimited Free Coffee in SF
By - posted 3/25/2016
Freebies

Enjoy three days of unlimited free coffee when CUPS, a mobile app that helps independent coffee shops connect with local coffee drinkers, launches in the San Francisco Bay Area. There will also be massive discounts on their 15-cup plans for all new SF users (15 cups for $15). > Download CUPS on iOS or Android more...

SF Has 3rd Worst Traffic in America. Ouch.
By - posted 3/24/2016
City Insight

Nor-Cal? More like Slow-Cal They can’t win a World Series or an NBA title, but LA did finish first at something. Our smoggy neighbors to the south had the worst traffic in America for 2015. But don’t get too cocky SFers, San Francisco claimed the third spot with an average of 75 hours more...

Asian Art Museum’s $5 Thursday Nights
By - posted 3/23/2016
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...

Fort Mason’s Epic One-Night-Only Artist Takeover
By - posted 3/23/2016
Artsy Fartsy

“Fort Nights: Neon Robot Iceberg” kicks off a new era at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, one of community-focused events and exhibitions curated by FMCAC. This event, which is the first in the Fort Nights series, features more than 22 artists and musicians exploring site-specific multi-media art across more...