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New Year’s Eve Fireworks
By - posted 12/30/2013
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Ring in the New Year with 200,000 fellow bundled-up San Franciscans for a waterfront fireworks tradition as the city once again hosts a free waterfront midnight fireworks show on New Year’s Eve. San Francisco New Year’s Eve Fireworks | 2014 Tuesday, December 31, 2013 | 11:59 pm Embarcadero from Mission to Folsom FREE Arrive by more...

2014 New Year’s Eve Guide
By - posted 12/27/2013
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Midnight Embarcadero Fireworks Show Bundle up with 200,000 of your closest friends for the annual midnight show along the Embarcadero in San Francisco. – Best places to watch the fireworks – Take a Sierra Club-led hike and watch from the hills – Getting there (BART/Caltrain/Muni details) – Free Cab Rides Home Fireworks photo credit: Darvin Atkeson ————————————————————————– Free New Year’s Eve Events & Parties – Beachfront Ramones more...

Free Cabs on New Year’s Eve
By - posted 12/26/2013
Freebies

Revelers in San Francisco and East Bay will be offered a potentially life saving treat this New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2013 – a free cab ride home. Safe and Sober Free Cab Ride Home Program New Year’s Eve 2014 Berg Injury Lawyers offer free cab rides home only in SF and Sacramento, more...

Urban Nerf Gun Spy Game
By - posted 12/25/2013
Fun & Games

Jericho is an urban spy game with Nerf guns played sneaky in public settings all over SF like malls and parks, where everyone assumes the role of a spy like a giant secret game of Capture the Flag. Each team of “agents” will carry out missions where they will need to more...

Five Free Ways to Celebrate New Year’s Eve
By - posted 12/24/2013
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Photo credit: Darvin Atkeson It seems that nearly every club in SF thinks New Year’s Eve is all about hiring some DJ you’ve never heard of and sprinkling a dash of confetti on the table – and then that allows you to be charged a ridiculous cover. No more! >> See Funcheap’s entire more...

Free Christmas Radio Stations
By - posted 12/23/2013
Holidays

Looking for a soundtrack for your last-minute wrapping or for tearing open your presents?   Here’s a list of free online radio stations playing Christmas classics, silly holiday songs and background music for the season. Free Online Christmas Radio Stations & Albums – Spotify: Traditional Christmas Music – Spotify: Michael F*cking Buble Christmas Album – Spotify: An ’80s Christmas – Spotify: A Foggy more...

49ers Playoff Hunt
By - posted 12/23/2013
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Can the 49ers win the NFC West? Watch the Niners beat down the Arizona Cardinals during the weekly Funcheap Food Truck Football Party. FREE with Facebook RSVP (Click “JOIN”) We’ve got food trucks, a lots of big screen TVs, $2 PBRs, $3 Anchor Steam, and $12 Bottomless Mimosas. What’s at Stake? Playoff scenarios 1) more...

Free Peet’s Coffee Day
By - posted 12/23/2013
Freebies

Peet’s will be serving complimentary brewed coffee and tea all day as a way to thank their customers and encourage you to make charitable donations on Christmas Eve. Participating Peet’s location will be accepting donations and will make up to $1,000 of customer contributions to a local non-profit organization supporting their communities. Each Peet’s picks more...

Kinky White Elephant Gift Exchange
By - posted 12/22/2013
Only in San Francisco

Wicked Grounds, SF’s first (and only) kink cafe and boutique, is throwing a rather unique eve of Christmas eve party on December 23, 2013) with your kinky family. They’ll have fun with human gift wrapping (yes, we think this means you are putting wrapping paper with tape and bows on your fellow more...

49ers “Fight for the Playoffs” Game Watch
By - posted 12/22/2013
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Watch the 49ers beat the Atlanta Falcons and clinch a playoff spot during the weekly FunCheap Food Truck Football Party. We’ve got food trucks, a lots of big screen TVs, $2 PBRs, & $3 Anchor Steam. FUNCHEAP 49ERS TAILGATE GAME WATCH PARTY Monday, December 23, 2013 | 5 pm SoMa StrEAT Food Park, more...

Merry Flipping Christmas
By - posted 12/22/2013
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SF Weekly tips us off to a fun Sunday night pre-Christmas variety show at Amnesia including the silky ’70s-influenced retro-pop of Bart Davenport (Loved Ones, Honeycut), Sonny & The Sunsets’ witty, arty garage-pop; the lonesome, Appalachian-tinged warbling of Paula Frazer (Tarnation) and more. – Read more at SF Weekly Merry Flipping Christmas Variety Show Sunday, December more...

Antique Vibrator Museum
By - posted 12/21/2013
Only in San Francisco

The weird and wonderful history of the vibrator is on fascinating display at Good Vibrations’ Antique Vibrator Museum during an exclusive private tour on Sunday, December 22, 2013 at 5 pm. Showcasing collectibles from the 1800s to the 1970s, this impressive collection tells a fascinating story of history, health, and sexuality. Curator and more...

$1 Movie Day
By - posted 12/21/2013
Deals

The New Parkway, a cool community theater in Oakland with couches and quirky seating, a beer and wine license, and a full food menu, celebrates their one year anniversary by showing movies for just $1 all day. The New Parkway Anniversary Sunday, December 22, 2013 The New Parkway, 474 24th St, Oakland, CA $1 all movies more...

Renegade Craft Fair
By - posted 12/21/2013
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The Renegade Craft Fair Holiday Sale returns to the Concourse Exhibition Center from 11 am-6 pm on December 21 -22, 2013 where you’ll find 250+ of today’s very best indie crafters, DIY workshops, DJs, food, a free photo booth, a DIY gift wrap station, booze and plenty more. All of your last more...

14 Hours of The Bay Lights
By - posted 12/21/2013
City Insight

Many people view the Winter Solstice grimly as the shortest day of the year, but The Bay Lights, the world’s largest LED light sculpture, offers us a brighter outlook. We can now relish Winter Solstice as the longest night of the year—because The Bay Lights will shimmer for more than 14 hours more...