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“Horrors of Love” Valentine’s Haunted House
By - posted 2/9/2014
Only in San Francisco

Come all to the most frightening Valentine’s event of the year. The group behind Zombie Christ haunted house and Faetopia brings you another interactive labyrinth of art and horror. Two evenings of frightful glances into the secret love lives of zombies, weirdos, and codependents. Be warned: No sexuality or sentiment will more...

Operation “Street Love”
By - posted 2/9/2014
Valentine's Day

Valentine’s Day = Roman fertility festival, Chaucer’s love poems, bank-breaking gifts, and Hallmark cards with stuffed animals… it is our modern day holiday of love. For many people it can be a day of loneliness, whether they have a love or not… enter Operation Street Love. Operation Street Love Thursday, February 13, 2014 (6pm) Meet more...

San Francisco Zoo Lunar New Year Celebration
By - posted 2/8/2014
Get Out: Events

Get into the San Francisco Zoo for free if you were born in the Year of the Horse (1930, 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002 and 2014) to enjoy a day of Chinese New Year performances and activities at the zoo on Sunday, February 9, 2014. The zoo features interactive, culturally-themed family more...

The Best of SF Beer Week 2014: On a Budget
By - posted 2/8/2014
Fairs & Festivals

$5 All-You-Can-Dance Class Day
By - posted 2/8/2014
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Sample bite-size bits from a range of dance classes for just $5 at All You Can Dance for Just $5 from 1-5 pm on February 8, 2014. Dance local as you enjoy ballet, modern/contemporary, hip-hop, jazz, Middle Eastern Dance, Theater Jazz, Bollywood and more. All You Can Dance for Just $5 Saturday, February 8, more...

Valentine’s Snail Mail Social
By - posted 2/7/2014
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Arch Drafting Supplies is hosting a Valentine’s Snail Mail Social where you can make and send a Valentine to your sweetie the old-fashioned way with help from artists Carolee Wheeler and Annie Yu. They’ll have vintage typewriters, free custom stationery and all sorts of embellishments you can use for free, so get out from behind the more...

BCBG Warehouse Sale Extravaganza
By - posted 2/7/2014
Deals

Join the BCBG  Warehouse Sale Extravaganza with over 2,000 dresses, tops, bandage skirts, cashmere, or find the perfect cocktail dress for Valentine’s Day with sizes 0-12, all up to 70% off (with an additional 10% if you pay cash). BCBG Warehouse Sale Extravaganza Saturday, February 8, 2014 | 10 am to 3:30 pm Fort Mason more...

Candlelit Ferry Building Night
By - posted 2/6/2014
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Experience the magic and beauty of the waterfront at night; the annual “Food From the Heart” will kick off in the candlelit Grand Nave of the 1898 Ferry Building. Food From the Heart Friday, February 7, 2014 | 5-7:30 pm Ferry Building, SF FREE but bring cash for food The public is invited to stroll more...

Fauxtest: Fake Protest Day 2014
By - posted 2/6/2014
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Join San Francisco’s Second Annual Fauxtest (pronounced foe-test), a fake protest where people can vocalize whatever they want – no matter how insignificant or silly the cause. Embrace hypocrisy and irony, air petty annoyances and gripes, facts, truth and nontroversy by making funny signs and marching down Valencia Street. Bring a flashlight. Fauxtest more...

F*ck Your New Year’s Resolution Party
By - posted 2/5/2014
Celebrations

Ahhhh…It feels really good to finally have kicked those New Year’s Resolutions to the curb doesn’t it? I’m really glad we were able to help you do that. I mean, I feel like we really shared something, hell maybe we did. The end of the night is a little hazy. Anyways, more...

Yoda Origami Folding Contest
By - posted 2/4/2014
Artsy Fartsy

Join in on a Yoda-folding contest with Tom Angleberger on February 5, 2014. Attention all budding Jedi warriors, join Tom Angleberger, author of the awesome “Origami Yoda” series, and test your origami skills. Fold a Yoda, you will; win a prize, you may; check out these books, you should. Yoda Origami Folding Contest Wednesday, February 5, more...

Hackfest 2014
By - posted 2/4/2014
Geeks

The 2014 Hackfest will be bringing together designers, developers, product managers, producers and the next generation of talent together over the duration of two days to get creative and build future TV and app concepts on February 5-6, 2014. Hackfest 2014 February 5-6, 2014 Moscone Center West, 800 Howard Street, SF FREE but an RSVP more...

Free Waffle Wednesday
By - posted 2/2/2014
Eat & Drink

Join b.street waffles for their monthly Free Waffle Wednesday at the Capital One 360 Café in the Financial District and enjoy a complimentary waffle from 9-11 am, or while they last. The waffles have been called “to die for” and come in tasty flavors like TCHO chocolate, maple-bacon, salted caramel and many others. One flavor will be featured more...

Free First Tuesdays at the de Young
By - posted 2/2/2014
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Founded in 1895 in Golden Gate Park, the de Young Museum is a landmark art museum to showcase the museum’s priceless collections of American art from the 17th through the 20th centuries, and art of the native Americas, Africa, and the Pacific. The museum was designed by the renowned Swiss architecture more...

People’s Painting Party
By - posted 2/2/2014
Artsy Fartsy

Come and make works of art with your friends. Temple will provide the paints, brushes and canvases; all you need is your creativity for The People’s Painting Party. Designed to abolish the midweek doldrums, they seek to bring painting to the proletariat with co-creative canvases, The People’s Art Market (live art and more...