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Fleet Week 2014
By - posted 10/11/2014
Fairs & Festivals

Look up in the sky when you hear the roaring of jet engines and head down to SF’s northern waterfront for San Francisco’s annual Fleet Week airshow and festival. Fleet Week 2014 October 9-13, 2014 Northern Waterfront, SF FREE

Ocean Beach Music & Art Festival
By - posted 10/10/2014
Fairs & Festivals

In 2014, the world-renowned Noriega Street will be home to the first annual Ocean Beach Music and Art Festival (formerly Outer Noriega Street Fair) featuring six stages, over 10 food vendors, two beer gardens, over twenty live music acts, live art installations, a kids zone, a mobile petting zoo, and a pumpkin patch.  2014 more...

The Oktoberfest Games
By - posted 10/10/2014
Eat & Drink

Celebrate Oktoberfest at SoMa StrEat Food Park and their communal picnic tables just like in Munich. Not just with awesome German microbrews and tasty German-inspired food truck dishes, but also with The Oktoberfest Games – sausage tossing, stein holding contests and beer barrel sip and spin. The 2014 Oktoberfest Games Saturday, October 11, more...

Ocean Beach Sand Castle Contest
By - posted 10/10/2014
Fairs & Festivals

Northern California’s largest sandcastle building event, the 31st annual Leap Sandcastle Contest is a spirited competition between teams of architects, engineers, contractors, designers and local elementary school students at Ocean Beach (just below the Cliff House). There’s also a community castle for everyone to join in to build. Photo credit: David Yu Leap’s 31st Annual Sandcastle more...

Funcheap’s Private Champagne Party
By - posted 10/8/2014
Eat & Drink

Help kick off SF’s newest happy hour with Funcheap – You’re invited to join us at the Bubble Lounge on Friday, October 10, 2014 for the “Happiest Hour” We will have a private “most happiest” hour from 4-5pm that requires a secret password at the door for entry. You’ll get early entrance more...

The Oktoberfest Games
By - posted 10/7/2014
Get Out: Events

Celebrate Oktoberfest at SoMa StrEat Food Park and their communal picnic tables just like in Munich. Not just with awesome German microbrews and tasty German-inspired food truck dishes, but also with The Oktoberfest Games – sausage tossing, stein holding contests and beer barrel sip and spin. The 2014 Oktoberfest Games Saturday, October 11, more...

The Rare “Blood Moon” Rises
By - posted 10/7/2014
Geeks

There is a total eclipse of the full moon on the night of October 7-8, 2014. This is the Northern Hemisphere’s Hunter’s Moon – the name for the full moon after the Harvest Moon. It’s also a Blood Moon, and this eclipse is the second in a series of four more...

“Yeast Nation” Bizarre Musical: Funcheap Night
By - posted 10/7/2014
Deals

For one night only, use secret code FUNCHEAP to get 50% off tickets to Ray of Light’s new musical “Yeast Nation”. Ray of Light teams up with Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann, the brains behind the Tony Award winning Urinetown, to develop the West Coast premiere of this bizarrely hilarious rock more...

Meteor Shower Night
By - posted 10/7/2014
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October’s Draconid meteor shower – sometimes called the Giacobinids – radiates from the fiery mouth of the northern constellation Draco the Dragon, with the peak dates on the evenings of October 7-8, 2014, starting at nightfall. Because the radiant is located so far north on the sky’s dome, this shower favors temperate more...

Litquake 2014
By - posted 10/6/2014
Fairs & Festivals

The 15th annual Litquake, features hundreds of authors and journalists in a myriad of separate events throughout San Francisco from October 10-18, 2014. >> Funcheap hosts our first Litquake event: “San Francisco on $0 a Day” during Litcrawl on Saturday, October 18th – FREE with RSVP Litquake seeks to foster interest in literature more...

SFO Lit for the Giants
By - posted 10/6/2014
City Discoveries

Even our airports are excited about the Giants for the 2014 NLCS playoffs! Courtesy of @flysfo

Electric Vehicle Week 2014
By - posted 10/5/2014
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Test-drive the latest electric vehicles as EV Week 2014 kicks off with a free two day festival and expo  in Civic Center next to the Asian Art Museum at Fulton Street Plaza (between Hyde & Larkin Streets) on October 6-7, 2014. Pre-register to test drive the BMW i3, the latest Nissan LEAF, Honda Accord, more...

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass: Streaming Concert Archive
By - posted 10/4/2014
Fairs & Festivals

Did you see an awesome set at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass this year and want to relive it (without the heat and 500,000 people?) Or did you miss one of the concerts because you couldn’t get there in time, or there were too many awesome bands to see at once? Fortunately HSB recorded more...

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2014
By - posted 10/4/2014
Fairs & Festivals

October 3rd through the 5th marks the 2014 rendition of one of the largest (and free-est) music festivals in the country. Be one of 750,000+ at San Francisco’s own Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2014 Three days, seven stages, over 100 artists Friday-Sunday, October 3-5, 2014 | 11 am-7 pm Hellman Hollow, more...

Sweep City! Giants vs. Nationals Game Three
By - posted 10/3/2014
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Let’s go for the sweep! Come to SoMa StrEat Food Park for a huge game watch – game one of the National League Divisional Series. It’s a perfect time to play hooky, get food truck grub, enjoy the beer garden and be part of the awesome playoff atmosphere at SF’s biggest game more...