SF City Guides
Rise and shine and enjoy a sunny crisp New Year’s Day Brunch picnic with bottomless mimosas, sangria & micheladas, DJs spinning killer Reggae and Dub Roots, and college football bowl games on the TVs. Enjoy mind-blowing brunch & hangover cure specials from 10+ different food trucks and pop-up vendors including spicy noodle soups of Burma, more...
If you choose to get hammered on New Year’s Eve, rest assured you can get home safely for free via bus, train or light rail if you live anywhere other than the East Bay and North Bay. Within San Francisco, get free rides on Muni all night starting at 8 pm on more...
We’re Number 2! We’re Number 2! According to a recent 10-month cross-country study by Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema, San Francisco is the second best place in all of America to get your eating out on. Sietsema even created a map of his recommended SF eateries and drinkeries including everything from Boulevard more...
So you’re saying there’s a “chance…” Due to a massive solar eruption about to hit earth, you might notice power fluctuations, radio blackouts and even GPS might be affected. But more importantly, there’s a small chance that it could make the Northern Lights visible in the Bay Area in the final days of more...
San Francisco City Guides offer free guided walking tours of many different neighborhoods in the city and will be offering a full slate of free tours on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and the day after. Have friends and relatives in town with nothing to do? Gather up the folks and show more...
Over half of all Americans received an unwanted gift last year. This year, for the first time ever, eBay is inviting people to their local mall to do something entirely new: sell. Instead of letting unwanted gifts linger at home – which more than a third of Americans have been doing more...
Traverse the city on an all day hike that will go through the major hills of San Francisco to soak in all the great views. The entire loop encompasses every kind of city and park terrain; some parts are quite steep, but much of it is flat. Meet at Martha & Brothers Coffee in Bernal Heights at more...
Think everything’s closed on Christmas Day? The Contemporary Jewish Museum is open and free, and it’s a great chance to check out the current exhibits and a few special events during this annual CJM Community Day — an admission-free, fun-for-all extravaganza. Contemporary Jewish Museum Free Admission Day Friday, December 25, 2015 | 11 more...
City Hall gets in the Christmas spirit each year Photo credit: Koji Kawano Grace Cathedral and Huntington Park Photo credit: Nob Hill Association Reach for the dome at Neiman Marcus Photo credit: Lisa Bettany The twinkling Transamerica Pyramid beckons you home Photo credit: Joel Thai The Goddess of Victory looks up to Christmas Union Square. Photo credit: Tony Onorati Time Travel more...
Peet’s will be serving complimentary brewed coffee and tea all day as a way to thank their customers and encourage you to make charitable donations on Christmas Eve. Participating Peet’s locations will be accepting donations and will match up to $750 of customer contributions to a local non-profit organization supporting their communities. Each Peet’s picks more...
In a recently released private collection of over 100,000 historical images of San Francisco from the 1850s-1970s are being seen for the first time in brand new light on OpenSFHistory.org, a program of the Western Neighborhoods Project. Photo Credit: Emiliano Echeverria/Randolph Brandt Collection via OpenHistory.org The collection, which just went online more...
You know who you are, and you probably have accepted your fate by now – you are a gift-getting procrastinator. And you probably have enough shame at this point to not want to face the mobs of stressed out shoppers in the giant mall. An no self-respecting San Franciscan can get a more...
Experience acclaimed media artist Janet Cardiff’s masterwork, an immersive and moving sound installation in its California debut from November 14, 2015–January 18, 2016 The Forty Part Motet is a 40-part choral performance of English composer, Thomas Tallis’s 16th-century composition Spem in Alium, sung by the Salisbury Cathedral Choir. The performance is more...
Say goodbye to race-themed Tiffany’s necklaces and running into the strong arms of firemen at the finish line. Because this year, Nike has decided to “just not do it” when it comes to hosting the 2016 Nike Women’s Half Marathon in San Francisco. For the past 12 years, the popular and inspiring more...
Both Bay Area drive-ins (Concord and San Jose) are showing Star Wars with regular tickets for $7.95 (kids are just $1). Or if you’d looking for the absolute best deal, Tuesdays are just $5 – probably what you might have paid to see Return of the Jedi back in 1983. $5 “Family more...
