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Ocean Beach Music & Art Festival
By - posted 10/10/2015
Fairs & Festivals

The world-renowned Noriega Street will be home to the 2nd Annual Ocean Beach Music and Art Festival (formerly Outer Noriega Street Fair) featuring six stages, over 10 food vendors, two beer gardens, over 20 live music acts, live art installations, a kids zone, a mobile petting zoo, and a pumpkin patch.  2015 Ocean Beach more...

Corgi Con at Ocean Beach
By - posted 10/10/2015
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The NorCal Corgi Con is a wonderfully bizarre beach day event for dogs (and their pawrents) bringing together thousands of enthusiastic Corgis, their owners and wannabes too on Ocean Beach directly across from the Beach Chalet from 10 am to 2 pm on Saturday, October 10, 2015. The day will be back with more...

Funcheap Night: LIZZIE The Musical
By - posted 10/8/2015
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Use secret code FUNCHEAP to get $15 tickets to Ray of Light’s new musical “LIZZIE” along with a complimentary beer. Exclusive for Funcheapers 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 more...

San Francisco Mayor Battle
By - posted 10/8/2015
City Insight

Can Broke Ass Stuart fix San Francisco? Will Mayor Ed Lee retain his mayoral post? Find out for yourself as the League of Women Voters San Francisco hosts a comprehensive candidate forum for the San Francisco Mayoral election. The candidates will answer questions from the League of Women Voters of San Francisco and the more...

The $6 Roller Disco
By - posted 10/4/2015
Fun & Games

Come skate, drink, and mingle with Coffee Meets Bagel (a new dating app) at the Church of 8 Wheels. They’re throwing their first ever roller disco, right here in SF on Tuesday, October 6 from 8-10pm. Coffee Meets Disco Roller Disco Tuesday, October 6, 2015 | 8pm to 10pm Church of 8 Wheels, 554 Fillmore more...

Free Exploratorium Day
By - posted 10/3/2015
Freebies

The Exploratorium is a twenty-first-century learning laboratory, an eye-opening, always-changing, playful place to explore and tinker featuring hundreds of science, art, and human perception exhibits. While they don’t have monthly free days, they do host several special events throughout the year offering free admission for all.

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
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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...