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2015 Filipino American History Celebration
By - posted 10/3/2015
Artsy Fartsy

Celebrate Filipino American history and culture at the Asian Art Museum’s annual festival featuring free admission, art displays, music, dance, stories and other performances. 2015 Filipino American History Month Celebration Sunday, October 4, 2015 | 10:30 am to 4 pm Asian Art Museum, 100 Larkin St., San Francisco FREE – RSVP on Facebook The 2015 theme, “Ugnayan Lahi,” is the weaving more...

The Castro Street Fair
By - posted 10/2/2015
Fairs & Festivals

A huge daytime costume party, the Castro Street Fair is once again filling the streets of the Castro with several stages of entertainment, unique costumes, art and food. Bring a little of your inner freak to the festivities and experience a full day of live music, strange performances, DJs, an urban more...

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2015
By - posted 10/2/2015
Fairs & Festivals

October 2-4 marks the 2015 rendition of one of the largest (and free-est) music festivals in the country. Be one of over 750,000 attendees at San Francisco’s own Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2015 Three days, seven stages, over 100 artists Friday-Sunday, October 2-4, 2015 Hellman Hollow, Lindley & Marx meadows in Golden Gate more...

Rare San Francisco Walking Tours
By - posted 10/2/2015
Get Out: Events

San Francisco City Guides offers dozens of free guided walking tours, all over the city, throughout the year. But things get special during the months of May and October each year, when the San Francisco weather is particularly pleasant, City Guides add a slate of rare neighborhood explorations to its year more...

Awesome Drone Footage of Hardly Strictly Blugerass
By - posted 10/2/2015
City Insight

Drone photographer Beto “Mooncricket” Lopez (who also happens to be an awesome breakdancing rollerskater) shot this drone footage of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in 2013. It’s only when you get up high do realize how enormously huge this festival is. October 2-4 marks the 2015 rendition of one of the largest (and free-est) more...

Your Face on a Pancake. Seriously
By - posted 10/1/2015
Artsy Fartsy

Everyone knows that breakfast is the most important meal of the day; everyone also knows that people love selfies. Leveraging state-of-the-art technology, the marketing geniuses at Holiday Inn Express combined the two to bring the ‘Pancake Selfie Express’ to San Francisco’s Pier 41 from 2-8 pm on October 2-3, 2015. World’s more...

Candlelight Tours of Fort Point
By - posted 9/30/2015
City Discoveries

See the historic Fort Point by the light of candles and stars on this evening tour with a park ranger as your guide. Candlelight tours are available Saturday evenings (6:30pm) during the months of November to February. UPDATE: All November & December Dates are FULL Reservations are required by phone to (415) more...

$15 Tickets: “Lizzie” The Murder Rock Musical
By - posted 9/29/2015
Deals

For four shows only, use secret code FUNCHEAP to get $15 tickets to Ray of Light’s new musical “LIZZIE.” America’s favorite axe-wielding double-murderess comes to the Ray of Light stage for a rocking Bay Area premiere. LIZZIE (September 25 – October 17) imagines the story behind the legendary murderess (allegedly) & 1892 tabloid more...

HellaMotown: SF’s Biggest Motown Dance Party
By - posted 9/28/2015
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Like Marvin Gaye? Stevie Wonder? The Temptations? Funcheap and Stroy Moyd team up to bring you #HellaMotown aka the Biggest Motown Dance Party in San Francisco. Bring your Thursday night dancing shoes and join DJ Josef with an F (SF) and DJ Spin (London) to bust-a-move, start a soul train and shake what yo mama more...

Aerial Dancing in a Tenderloin Alley
By - posted 9/28/2015
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​ Choreographer and aerial site-artist Jo Kreiter presents an off the ground dance production suspended between buildings in a Tenderloin alley. Needles to Thread: Dancing Along These Lines in Continuum Alley is the third in a trilogy of site-specific aerial dances about urban poverty, Needles to Thread takes on the issue of more...

The Great Cable Car Chase
By - posted 9/27/2015
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Lace up your sneakers and get ready to join A Runner’s Mind for a challenge truly unique to SF, The Great Cable Car Chase. The Great Cable Car Chase The Last Tuesday of Every Month | 7pm A Runner’s Mind, 3575 Sacramento Street FREE but RSVP Required Includes snacks to fuel your run, and refreshments more...

Karl Loves SF
By - posted 9/27/2015
City Discoveries

Photographer Toby Harriman just happened to be in the right place at the right time to take this amazingly beautiful shot of the Golden Gate Bridge kissed by Karl the Fog. One those rare moments when your in the right spot at the right time. #AlwaysSF #SanFranc… http://t.co/qApTUYj6oD pic.twitter.com/QIytPg1Lzu — Toby Harriman more...

A Rare Super Blood Moon Eclipse over SF
By - posted 9/26/2015
City Insight

Thanks to an optical illusion in the sky, the moon will appear bigger and brighter than normal in the San Francisco Bay Area in the night, during what astronomers call a “supermoon.” Photo credit. David Yu. There’s also a total eclipse of the moon on the night of September 27-28, 2015. more...

The 1st Ever “Bay Area Bold” Festival
By - posted 9/25/2015
Fairs & Festivals

Bay Area Bold Festival is a community celebration day packed with music, dance, film, multimedia talks, and interactive artistic and cultural performances from Bay Area Bold partners and festival participants. 2015 Bay Area Bold Festival Saturday, September 26, 2015 | 11 am to 5:30 pm Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco FREE, more...

Superhero Street Fair
By - posted 9/24/2015
Fairs & Festivals

Heroes and villains battle (and party) together within an urban theatrical landscape during an all-day street fair filled with seven stages of DJs and Burning Man-style entertainment, a sexy Superheroine Burlesque Show, comic exhibits, a Hero vs Villain Kostume Kontest, food trucks amazing art and more. 2015 Superhero Street Fair Saturday, September 26, 2015 | 1-11 more...