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1st Annual 24-Hour Marathon “Moby-Dick” Reading
By - posted 10/24/2015
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“Our first port is San Francisco…and thence, I hardly know where.” — Herman Melville, 28 May 1860 San Francisco welcomes Herman Melville back to the Barbary Coast with a marathon reading of Moby-Dick at the Firehouse at Fort Mason on October 24 and 25, 2015. The event will feature over 100 readers and more...

Free Comedy & Pizza Night
By - posted 10/24/2015
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Comedians with Criminal Records is a unique showcase of comics who’ve had troubles with the law in the past. This may be the only show in America where if you don’t laugh, you might get stabbed (just kidding… we hope). And did we mention free pizza? (while supplies last, of course) more...

The NBA’s Free Concert at Pier 43
By - posted 10/24/2015
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The NBA is kicking off the 2015 season with an exclusive all-day celebration at Pier 43 in San Francisco highlighted with a free concert on the pier which will be broadcast live on TNT. Things start with a high energy outdoor concert on the pier at 3pm by alt rockers X Ambassadors, followed by a free more...

The “Popcorn Anti-Theater” Bus Tour
By - posted 10/24/2015
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Disturbing puppetry troupe Shadow Circus Creature Theatre presents an homage to youth summer camps. ‘Sasquatch’s Scary Stories to Tell by the Campfire‘ using the Popcorn Anti-Theater Bus to motor between three scenic sites (turned stages) in San Francisco. A Funcheap exclusive, save $10 off tickets – pay just $15 ! Sasquatch’s Scary Stories Bus Tour: LIVE Saturday, more...

Chipotle’s $3 “Boo-rito” Day
By - posted 10/24/2015
Eat & Drink

On Halloween 2015, come dressed up in costume, and add something unnecessary to it from 5 pm to close and you’ll score a full size boorito for just $3 at any Chipotle location. Normally these beasts clock in at an obscene $7-$9. Scoring your Boorito is simple: start with any standard Halloween costume, then include more...

San Francisco’s “Bonfire” Sessions
By - posted 10/23/2015
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The 2015 JanSport Bonfire Sessions are returning to San Francisco for a night of performances by Cathedrals, The She’s and Heartwatch while you enjoy free beer (they usually have this every year) at SoMa StrEat Food Park on Saturday, October 24, 2015. And typically (if permits allow) there’s firepits of some kind and free s’mores. There are more...

San Francisco City Hall Ghost Tour
By - posted 10/23/2015
Halloween

Disinterred remains, assassinations and other ghostly lore form the focus of this tour, plus little-known facts such as the cemetery that once covered Civic Center. Hear snippets from interviews with city employees that detail chilling paranormal activity. 2015 Halloween Ghost Walk at City Hall Friday, October 23, 2015 | 6:30 pm San Francisco City more...

SF Examiner’s 2015 Food & Drink Tasting Party
By - posted 10/21/2015
Eat & Drink

The San Francisco Examiner’s 1st annual Readers’ Choice competition awards your favorite local businesses. You’re invited to come celebrate the winners at this exclusive party with an evening of food, drinks and DJs at Drake. That’s right, celebrate with unlimited tastings of chocolate, bacon, Indian, rum and wine tastings. SF Examiner’s 2015 Food & more...

“Back to the Future II” Day
By - posted 10/20/2015
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Great Scott! Is it 2015 already? 30 years ago, Marty McFly traveled in his DeLorean and arrived in the future on October 21, 2015  in Back to the Future II. This can only mean one thing – the Future has arrived. Oh yeah, and arriving on a hoverboard or in a DeLorean greatly more...

The Great San Francisco Sock Hop
By - posted 10/20/2015
Celebrations

“The Great San Francisco Sock Hop” is a happy hour event to collect socks for the homeless. Bring a pack of new socks (or a minimum $5 donation for Glide) and you’ll get a beer float with Tiger Beer and Humphry Slocombe, and you’ll get down to some great Motown music courtesy more...

2015 Día de los Muertos Exhibit
By - posted 10/20/2015
Artsy Fartsy

Now in its 16th year, the annual Day of the Dead exhibition at SOMArts Cultural Center, October 9–November 7, 2015, merges traditional Mexican altars with contemporary art installations to present a visually stimulating array of perspectives remembering, honoring, and celebrating the dead. Inspired by cherished relationships, current events, and personal and more...

Google’s $5 Million Bay Area Non-Profit Giveaway
By - posted 10/20/2015
Only in San Francisco

Converting a liquor store into a community-based learning and tutoring center. Providing millions of dollars of 0% interest loans to small businesses. Breaking the poverty-to-prison cycle by building a residential alternative to prison for young adults…. That’s just a sample of the innovative ideas from local Bay Area nonprofits you can more...

Market Street’s New “Outpost”
By - posted 10/18/2015
City Discoveries

Building on the success of the Market Street Prototyping Festival held last spring, the Central Market Showcase will bring back a collection of projects for one month that tests ideas for improving San Francisco’s main thoroughfare. Believing that artists and designers can be provocative agents in helping us to reimagine our more...

Adult Swim’s Free Drive-In TV Tour Comes to SF
By - posted 10/18/2015
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When Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim tours the country, you can bet it will be with a large, inflatable object in tow. They’re back on the road in 2015 with a six-week, 15-city national tour of their pop-up drive-in theater. Adult Swim will screen unaired episodes of its shows which change throughout the tour more...

The Final “Sunday Streets” of 2015
By - posted 10/17/2015
Fairs & Festivals

Sunday Streets (March – October 2015) 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, yoga classes, and everyone except for cars can take over the streets for an afternoon. Funcheap is proud more...