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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
Get Out: Events

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
Get Out: Events

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...

Breakdance San Francisco
By - posted 10/17/2015
Fairs & Festivals

The BBoy Connection Jam is back with free dance classes, lock and pop showcases, DJs, graffiti art, dance and cypher battles and more during Sunday Streets with the highlight being the Kids Dance Battle. The BBoy Connection Jam Sunday, October 18, 2015 | 11 am to 4 pm Valencia and 23rd, The Mission, SF FREE Think of more...

San Francisco’s “Trolley Dances”
By - posted 10/17/2015
Artsy Fartsy

Each year, Epiphany Productions transforms the city’s streets into stages through San Francisco Trolley Dances, a series of free contemporary dance performances along a Muni line. For the price of a Muni ticket, you’ll get a “hop-on, hop-off” Muni tour to experience an extraordinary lineup of Bay Area dance luminaries performing 8- more...

Funcheap’s Lit Crawl Night
By - posted 10/16/2015
Get Out: Events

Long before Hollywood movies, the Bard of Avon knew that when it comes to entertaining the masses, sex sells. At this special Litquake event, we delve into the work of Will and find all the naughty bits with three rounds of trivia (with prizes!) and some improvised Shakespeare to set more...

de Young 10th Anniversary
By - posted 10/15/2015
Celebrations

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of their remodeled home in Golden Gate Park, the entire museum (not just the permanent galleries) will be free from 10am to 10pm. The de Young hosts 12 hours of live music, performances, art-making and free admission – including our special exhibitions ‘Jewel City: Art from San Francisco’s more...

Clarion Alley Block Party
By - posted 10/15/2015
Fairs & Festivals

Come on down to Clarion Alley Mural Project, nestled between Mission and Valencia and 17th and 18th, and check out the murals while listening to some great tunes as well. In the spirit of Clarion, it’s free for everyone. They are taking donations to help buy paint for the next year more...

Bay Area Science Festival
By - posted 10/15/2015
Fairs & Festivals

Created by the Bay Area’s scientific, cultural, and educational institutions, the Bay Area Science Festival returns to San Francisco for 10 days of science and technology lectures, games, art exhibits, workshops, hand-on activities and more at a locations throughout the Bay Area. 2015 Bay Area Science Festival October 22 – November 7, 2015 All over San more...