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Walk to Work Day 2016
By - posted 4/4/2016
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San Francisco was the nation’s first city to officially launch Walk to Work Day  – walking just 15 minutes of your commute counts and your efforts be rewarded with some free goodies. Be a part of this fun and festive day of encouragement celebrating the most healthy, sustainable form of transportation: walking. Walk more...

Free Day at the San Francisco Zoo
By - posted 4/4/2016
Freebies

The San Francisco Zoo, Northern California’s largest zoological park and conservation center, periodically offers free admission for San Francisco residents. > The next free date is Wednesday, April 6, 2016 This urban oasis, nestled against the Pacific Ocean, provides a comfortable climate all year round.  You’ll enjoy seeing the 250 different animal species more...

Golden Gate Park Turns 146
By - posted 4/3/2016
Celebrations

Golden Gate Park, one of the world’s most iconic parks, turns 146 years old on Monday, April 4, 2016. Nearly a century-and-a-half ago, park engineer William Hammond Hall and master gardener John McLaren carved out an urban oasis from a vast, windswept expanse of sand dunes. The result: a verdant, horticulturally diverse more...

SF’s 23-Foot Tall Glow-in-the-Dark Bunnies
By - posted 4/3/2016
Artsy Fartsy

A hip-hoppin’ large-scale, temporary public art installation by artist Amanda Parer will be installed in Civic Center Plaza in April. Because, bunnies. San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza will host Intrude available to all of San Francisco residents and visitors to enjoy 24 hours, 7 days a week beginning April 4th through April 25, 2016. The more...

SF’s Beat Poetry & Jazz Celebration
By - posted 4/3/2016
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In celebration of the birth of the Beat Generation in San Francisco, the InterContinental Mark Hopkins has partnered with the Beat Museum to bring legendary poets to riff alongside local jazz musicians for a weekly series at the Top of the Mark. Enjoy themed cocktails and bites alongside a poetry and more...

$1 Book Day at 2016 “Big Book Sale”
By - posted 4/3/2016
Deals

Held at Fort Mason Center’s Festival Pavilion, the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library’s Spring 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 3, more...

Off the Grid’s “Picnic in the Presidio” Returns for 2016
By - posted 4/1/2016
Fairs & Festivals

Off the Grid hosts a full season of Picnic at the Presidio from 11 am to 4 pm every Sunday through the fall at the Main Parade Ground Lawn. > The 2016 season kick off is Sunday April 3rd  Get ready for yummy offerings available for purchase from San Francisco’s favorite eateries and food trucks, a more...

SF’s Weird & Wild Flowers That Bloom in April
By - posted 4/1/2016
Only in San Francisco

It’s been a wet winter and that means spring is going to be crazy good at San Francisco Botanical Garden … the curators tell us that everything is budding up and looking very juicy … After four dry years, this winter has brought much needed rain to California, and some very wild flowers are more...

Funcheap’s April Fools’ Pop-Up Comedy Weekend
By - posted 4/1/2016
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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
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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...