SF City Guides
Free Outdoor Events at Thrive City (Sept-Oct. 2022)
Fairs & Festivals, Outdoorsy, San Francisco, Sponsored Don’t miss your last chance to check out the final weeks of Thrive City’s 2022 schedule of 25+ free festival-style events all summer long with free concerts, outdoor comedy spectaculars, fitness classes, giveaways and epic movie nights on the Bay Area’s biggest outdoor screen at Thrive City, the plaza right in more...
Free Labor Day Weekend Drive-In Movie Night (Sept. 4)
Drive-In Movies, East Bay, Free Movie Screenings, Get Out: Events The West Wind Drive-in movie theaters in Concord and San Jose host a Free Drive-in Movie Night over Labor Day Weekend. Details are sparse for now, but typically on their free movie nights, they have music, games, and of course, free movies for the whole family. All movies are double features. Admission is free. Gates more...
50 Mile “High-Speed” Rail (SF to San Jose) Moves a Step Closer
Bay Area Updates, Transportation By Eli Walsh, Bay City News Foundation The California high-speed rail governing board approved the final environmental documents Thursday for the San Jose-to-San Francisco section, completing clearance of the project’s Northern California leg. The California High-Speed Rail Authority’s Board of Directors approved the environmental impact report and statement for the roughly more...
Bay Area Whole Food Stores Installing Creepy Palm Scanners for Checkout
Bay Area Updates, Groceries / Supermarkets Thanks to SF Eater for sharing the news that Amazon is installing Amazon One palm scanners in at least half a dozen Whole Foods stores in the Bay Area. Amazon One is a free, contactless service that lets you use your palm to pay, enter, or identify yourself. In a Whole more...
SF’s Castro AIDS Mural Is Back (and Gorgeous) After Graffiti Attack
Artsy Fartsy, Causes, Murals, Only in San Francisco, San Francisco After some jerkwad defaced the “Hope for the World Cure” Mural in the Castro with graffiti back in late December 2021, artists helped restore the mural back to its original glory and gave it a bright and colorful update. In addition to getting covered in graffiti, the mural, originally painted in more...
SF is Getting a Mother F*cking Cat Festival (Sept. 23-25)
Fairs & Festivals Friends of felines get your kittens ready…. the San Francisco Cat Extravaganza, a three-day festival of all things cats is coming to the Cow Palace on September 23-25, 2022. (Will we have to call it the “Cat Palace?”). The festival, which also has stops in England, Peru, Dallas, Colombia, Florida, Portugal, more...
Bay Area City Named “America’s Happiest City” for 2022
Bay Area Updates, East Bay Forget about leaving your heart in San Francisco. It turns out that Concord is America’s happiest city. An analysis released Thursday by HouseFresh.com, a site focused on improving residential air quality, placed Concord in the Number One slot. “The hometown of Tom Hanks is said to be a quiet and pleasant place more...
Señor Sisig Coming to SF’s Ferry Building (August 24)
Brand New, Only in San Francisco, Outdoor Dining, San Francisco San Francisco favorite slightly overpriced (but still f*cking delicious) filipino fusion street food Senor Sisig is opening up a new brick and mortar location in the Ferry Building on August 24, 2022! You’ll get all your yummy sisig favs, with a new menu of shareable bites plus sisig tortas, bite-sized ube more...
BART Testing New Unlimited Ride “Bay Pass”
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, San Francisco, Transportation, Travel The Metropolitan Transportation Commission — in conjunction with BART and all other transit agencies participating in the Clipper fare payment system — this week launched a two-year pilot program to study the impact of a single pass that will provide some 50,000 Bay Area residents free access to all bus, more...
SF’s Gorgeous Dahlias are at Peak Bloom
Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches, San Francisco The Dahlia is San Francisco’s official flower and is currently in bloom mid August 2022 through approximately Labor Day. Check out the Dahlia Garden in Golden Gate Park (map) by the Conservatory of Flowers to see these beautiful flowers in their peak form. See if you can spot Dahlias in distinctive more...
SF’s “Wu Tang Flan” Gets Brick-and-Mortar Spot in 2023
Bay Area Favorites, Eat & Drink, Only in San Francisco, San Francisco, Takeout / Delivery, What's Closed / What's Open Thanks to EaterSF and SF Gate for letting us know that after years of doing pop-ups throughout San Francisco, “Chicano Nuevo,” a Baja-inspired restaurant will finally open up a brick-and-mortar location in Bernal Heights in 2023. Chef and owner Abraham Nuñez, brought his family recipes from Chula Vista to Excelsior trying more...
Chase Center’s New Free Outdoor Comedy Night (Aug. 12)
Fairs & Festivals, San Francisco, Sponsored Get ready for 2022’s second outdoor comedy takeover of Chase Center’s Thrive City w/ SF’s top comics, DJs and giveaways. Friday night laughs are coming (again)! as the team behind the Bay Area’s popular HellaSecret comedy shows comes to Thrive City, the plaza surrounding Chase Center, to continue 2022 “Live at Thrive more...
SF’s First Ever “CrawlTiki” Pub Crawl is August 13th
San Francisco, Sponsored CrawlTiki, brought to you by CrawlSF and Funcheap, is San Francisco’s first tropical-themed pub crawl and the perfect way to “get away” without leaving the city. Get ready for a summer night filled with $3 beer, $4 cocktails, $4 shots and tropical-themed drinks. While we can’t guarantee the day will offer more...
SF Giving Away Free Fashion Photo Shoots (If You’re Eco-Friendly)
Fairs & Festivals, Freebies, Green, Sponsored Hey San Francisco! Want your own FREE high-fashion photo and chic reusable mug or reusable bag? Don’t miss the most glamorous (and environmentally friendly) fashion event of the year. You’ve probably seen the local advertising campaign for REUSE all over the city. Now you can get your own professional quality REUSE more...
One Minute of Stunning Drone Footage of Giant Ocean Beach Waves
Only in San Francisco, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches San Francisco’s Ocean Beach is an iconic surf spot. Thanks to The Inertia for showcasing Solomon Fragakis’s stunning drone footage over the picture-perfect swells. The one-minute edited video shows just how big Ocean Beach is and how lucky we are to have some of the best waves in the world. This video more...
