SF City Guides
Celebrate Opening Day on the Bay at the Treasure Island Sailing Center with free sailboat rides, kayaking, and stand up paddle boarding, plus music, family activities and food. 2014 Opening Day & National Safe Boating Day Saturday, April 26, 2014 | 11 am to 4 pm Treasure Island Sailing Center, 698 California Ave, #112, Treasure more...
Join J Tall (organizer of the massive BatKid Flashmob, Macklemob , and the Whitney Houston flashmob) for a rollicking dance rendition of Pharrell’s “Happy” in Yerba Buena Gardens at 7:15 pm on Thursday, April 24, 2014. Pharrell’s “Happy” Flashmob Thursday, April 24, 2014 | 7:15 pm Yerba Buena Gardens, SF FREE, but an RSVP is requested. Watch the instructional more...
The West Wind Drive-in movie theaters in Concord and San Jose host a Free Drive-in Movie Night, plus a festival with live music and games. All movies are double features. Admission is free. Gates open at 6 pm. Films start at dusk. Arrive early.
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To help you travel in May and June, Jet Blue is on sale for two days only with $49 fares from SFO and Oakland to Long Beach. If you drove from SF to Long Beach and back you’d probably pay about $129 just for gas! >> Search for $49 fares $98 Round Trip – more...
Join J Tall (organizer of the BatKid Flashmob, Macklemob , and the Whitney Houston flashmob) for a rollicking dance rendition of Pharrell’s “Happy” in Yerba Buena Gardens at 7:15 pm on Thursday, April 24, 2014. Pharrell’s “Happy” Flashmob Thursday, April 24, 2014 | 7:15p Yerba Buena Gardens, SF FREE, but an RSVP is requested. Watch the instructional video more...
The Contemporary Jewish Museum celebrates Passover with six free days of admission from April 17-22, 2014. It’s the perfect time to catch the timely Passover-themed exhibit Arthur Szyk and the Art of the Haggadah. Free Admission Week – Passover April 17-22, 2014 Contemporary Jewish Museum, 736 Mission St. FREE Thursday, April 17 – 11am to 8pm Friday, April more...
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the kabuki-inspired cross-dressing nuns-of-fun, host their 35th Easter Sunday in the Park on April 20, 2014 at Hellman Hollow in Golden Gate Park. There’s a family-friendly Children’s Easter celebration at 10 am, but the real fun follows after the kids head home with adult-friendly fare like more...
Yes, officially announced for 2014! Watch dozens of contestants at Bring Your Own Big Wheel 2014 (BYOBW) risk humiliation and serious injury racing their big wheels (those giant plastic tricycles from when we were kids – no rubber wheels allowed) down the crazy curvy Vermont & 20th streets – the actual more...
Let’s file this one under “unofficial.” There’s no permits issued, it’s not really legal, but usually the city tends to turn a blind eye when thousands turn up on Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park on April 20th each year for a giant smoke out. Let’s just pray for no federal more...
The Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival is said to be the second largest festival outside of Washington, D.C. to celebrate the blooming of cherry blossoms and is held at one of three remaining Japantowns in the United States. 47th Annual Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival Saturdays and Sundays, April 12-13 and April 19-20, 2014 Japantown (Post more...
It’s now a little bit cheaper to do your Sunday shopping in San Francisco if you have a car. The SFTMA reinstated free Sunday parking at meters after a year-long experiment with charging for Sunday parking Free Sunday Parking at Meters in San Francisco – Begins July 6, 2014 Sunday Parking Exceptions: – Four-hour time limits more...
Held at Fort Mason Center’s Festival Pavilion, 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. SFPL 2014 Spring Book Sale April 16-20, 2014 | 10 am to 6 pm Fort Mason Festival Pavilion, more...
Andres Amador is an earthscape artist from San Francisco who is well known for creating massive sand drawings on the beach using only a rake and some volunteers. His next project is at Ocean Beach from 7:30-9:30 am on Saturday, April 19, 2014. Saturday’s event is not a collaborative workshop, but more...