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Huge “Painted Lady” Estate Sale
By - posted 6/21/2014
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 This gorgeous four-level Victorian was the site  of many movies, TV programs and media ads (“Invasion of the Body Snatchers”, “Streets of San Francisco” and “Evening Magazine” to name just a few). This estate (40 years of collecting) will most surely impress one and all with an unusual eclectic mix including victorian, more...

Pier 70 Free Festival
By - posted 6/20/2014
Fairs & Festivals

A summer series of free community events breathes new life into an historic shipyard and iron works in Dogpatch. During the daytime, the waterfront site is taken over by a vintage market, car show and pop-up roller disco for all ages. At night, it’s playtime for adults with a 1920s cocktail party more...

ULUV “Pop-Up” Music Day
By - posted 6/20/2014
Fairs & Festivals

ULUV Music Day is a connected set of free, public music events with 100+ artists performing in parklets, parks, BART Stations, the Ferry Building and other public spaces on the 21st of June to celebrate music and the people who create it. The day’s highlight is a 6pm Music Flashmob at Dolores Park more...

38th Annual SF Free Folk Festival
By - posted 6/19/2014
Fairs & Festivals

Now in its 38th year, the San Francisco Free Folk Festival is a two-day music and dance festival, similar to “Hardly Strictly Bluegrass,” but indoors. The festival celebrates with five stages of non-stop folk of all kinds from all over the world. There are over 60 free live concerts, a folk film festival and over 50 more...

Stern Grove 2014
By - posted 6/18/2014
Fairs & Festivals

The Stern Grove Festival has been throwing free concerts in the park every summer since 1938. If you don’t mind arriving early to spread out your blanket to stake your spot, it’s an excellent relaxing Sunday in a beautiful park setting to hear free music ranging from Smokey Robinson to Andrew more...

USA vs. Ghana: Best Places Watch 2014 World Cup
By - posted 6/16/2014
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Every four years the soccer fanatics in San Francisco put everything on hold for a month to watch every possible game of the World Cup. The USA seeks revenge against Ghana on Monday, June 16, 2014 at 3pm live from Brazil. Ghana knocked the USA out of both the 2010 and more...

Gay Men’s Chorus: Pride Musical Sneak Peak
By - posted 6/16/2014
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The Gay Men’s Chorus visit The Edge for Musical Mondays every Monday night after choir practice, and now you get to see what they’ve been working on. Their next show Dazzle, playing June 25th-27th, brings us the best of Broadway…with a twist. Come see a sneak preview, and possibly win tickets more...

50¢ “Wings Wings” Night
By - posted 6/15/2014
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We hope you can all come by This Sunday from 5-8pm and celebrate the fact that Wing Wings is still here after three years. There will be DJs, Beers, Jarritos, BBQ Sandwiches from Sergio Ornelas and Kyle Paul, as well as Snow Balls from PizzaHacker. Wings will be 50 cents from 5-8pm more...

Opera on Tap
By - posted 6/15/2014
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Opera on Tap is a non-profit organization whose mission is to break down the stereo-type that opera is a stuffy or an elitist art form, by bringing it to bars. Local singers let their hair down and bring you into what feels like an after hours back stage party, singing some more...

“Jurassic Park” The Musical
By - posted 6/15/2014
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Dinosaurs and showtunes come together in this inventive new musical. Winner of Best Musical at LA’s 2013 Ovation Awards and NY Fringe Festival 2010, Triassic Parq examines love, faith and science through a hilarious lens with singing dinosaurs. “Flat-out ingenious” -New York Times “Monstrously funny” -Time Out New York Traissic Parq: FUNCHEAP NIGHT Thursday, more...

7 Last Minute Father’s Day Adventures
By - posted 6/15/2014
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OK, it’s Sunday morning and you don’t even have a tie to give to your dad? There’s still time to put together a little adventure that maybe will convince him you had it planned all along. Seven Last Minute Father’s Day Ideas | 2014 San Francisco & the Bay Area Get Dad Free more...

Union Square Free Circus Festival
By - posted 6/14/2014
Fairs & Festivals

Come one and all, big and small to the 2014 season of clowning, hula hoops, contortion, music, unicycles and acrobats and more at the Picklewater Free Circus Festival with a month of free Sunday shows at Union Square. 2014 Picklewater Free Circus Festival Sundays, June 15-July 6, 2014 | 2pm Union Square, SF FREE – more...

Northern California Pirate Festival
By - posted 6/14/2014
Fairs & Festivals

Embrace your inner pirate this Father’s Day Weekend and set sail for the biggest playground for all things pirate at the annual Pirate Festival in Vallejo’s Waterfront Park. 2014 Northern California Pirate Festival Saturday-Sunday, June 14-15, 2014 | 10 am to 6 pm Vallejo Waterfront, 298 Mare Island Way $10 in advance (price may go up at more...

60th Annual North Beach Festival
By - posted 6/14/2014
Fairs & Festivals

Considered one of the country’s original outdoor festivals, the North Beach Festival celebrates its 60th anniversary in historic North Beach. 2014 Annual North Beach Festival Saturday & Sunday, June 14-15, 2014 | 10 am to 6 pm Grant Avenue and Columbus Avenue, San Francisco FREE > View the 2014 Entertainment Schedule The festival site includes numerous quaint streets in the heart more...

Film Night in the Park 2014
By - posted 6/14/2014
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Every summer Film Night in the Park puts on free outdoor movies in parks throughout San Francisco and the Bay Area. Films are free of charge in beautiful park settings and projected on a giant outdoor screen. Arrive early, spread out a blanket, and picnic prior to the screening, but avoid more...