SF City Guides
The folks at Surfing Magazine spent 36 hours surfing these awesome waves at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach. Their glorious photos capture the magnitude of these breaks which are the main reason surfers are addicted to the ocean. Check out Surfing Magazine’s 22 awesome photos of Ocean Beach There persists an underground surfing culture you wouldn’t expect in more...
Celebrate the Lunar New Year with a mini traveling festival of free lion dancing performances at several San Francisco Public Library branches. 2016 Lunar New Year Lion Dancer Celebrations Saturday, January 16, 2016 10:15 – 10:45 am: Chinatown/Him Mark Lai 11:15 – 11:45 am: North Beach 12:15 – 1 pm: Eureka Valley/Harvey Milk Memorial 1:15 – 1:45 pm: Presidio 2:00 – 2:30 pm: Anza Library 3:00 more...
Super Bowl 50 is set to take place at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, home of the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, February 7, 2016. For the first time in Super Bowl history, the game will be branded with the Arabic numeral 50 instead of the Roman Numeral ‘L’. Of more...
Every year on the third Monday in January, over 15,000 attendees come to San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Gardens to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy. 2016 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration Monday, January 18, 2016 | 11 am to 5 pm YBCA, 701 Mission St., San more...
Celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with an MLK Day festival, march and parade around Yerba Buena Gardens, held annually on the third Monday in January. Attend a full day of free and exciting events, festivals and programs, as well as a march and parade from Caltrain to Yerba more...
Come celebrate the publication of two California-centric books, This Bridge Will Not Be Gray, an all ages picture book about the Golden Gate Bridge, written by Dave Eggers and illustrated by Tucker Nichols. Plus this night will celebrate Some Recollections of a Busy Life, a reissue of Dave Eggers’s great great more...
SF Beer Week is a ten day celebration that showcases the Bay Area’s brewing heritage and contemporary craft beer scene. Have a pint… or a few… at over 600 events in San Francisco and the Bay Area from January 22-31, 2016. There are beer dinners, food and beer pairing events, trivia nights, beer tastings, more...
Yoga Journal Conference San Francisco is back for three days of classes and workshops, many of which are special free events open to the public. Be sure to also stop by the Yoga Marketplace products and services for healthy, balanced living, plus demos, acoustic music, community classes, AcroYoga flying sessions, and much more. 2016 Yoga more...
Become sea lion savvy and learn more about California sea lions, marine life, and bay conservation on the annual “Sea Lion Encounter,” in celebration of the anniversary of their arrival to Pier 39. The boisterous barking pinnipeds began arriving in droves shortly after the Loma Prieta earthquake hit San Francisco in October more...
Since the passing of the perpetually dilated, ground control technician-ing, androgynous British songster born David Robert Jones, aka David Bowie, aka Ziggy Stardust, aka Sacred Silversexual, aka guy surrounded by puppets in Labyrinth, earlier this week, Bay Area fans, and the entire internet, have come together to celebrate, remember, and more...
“Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Come out on your day off to hear live music, visit a museum for free, watch a film festival, hear special lectures, or take a day ON and volunteer in your community to address issues of poverty, hunger, more...
David Bowie’s art and music inspired many across the globe, and few places on earth can boast the number of freaks, space oddities, gender-benders and hot tramps than San Francisco. In true SF fa-fa-fa-fashion, we bid farewell to our favorite Starman with DJ parties, screenings of his films and cocktails named in his honor. Let’s dance and more...
Every year, we start out feeling bold and excited, when in actuality we should be realistic and probably lower our self-expectations. We start out saying ridiculous things to ourselves like, “I’m going to lose weight,” “I will eat healthier,” “I will read more books,” etc., etc., you get the idea. more...
Oakland Restaurant Week, is your opportunity to experience the trendy culinary scene everyone is talking about from January 14—24, 2016. For 10 days, top Oakland restaurants will offer special prix-fixe lunch and/or dinner menus at $20, $30, $40, and $50 price points. That’s two weekends of awesome deals to feed your inner foodie. 2016 more...
The internet was created for two things that both happen to start with the letter P; pussycat videos and, you know, the other p word that happens when two or more people and a camera really love each other. Enjoy a day full of one of these Ps (the first one) more...
