SF City Guides
Spring is here with free ice cream, new museum openings and doggie festivals – It’s April 2013 and great ready to plan ahead for fun for the month. Witness the wackiest parade in SF on “St. Stupid’s Day” (4/1), bring your pooch to the biggest dog festival in the city (4/13), celebrate more...
The 2013 Hellenic Cultural Parade on Sunday, April 7, 2013 celebrates the 192nd anniversary of Greek Independence Day (when they battled the Ottoman Empire) with a day of Greek food, music and dancing. You’ll see paraders march down Market Street dressed in the clothing of Greek freedom fighters from the early 19th century, as well more...
Held at Fort Mason Center’s Festival Pavilion, the San Francisco Public Library’s 2013 Spring Book Sale will feature over 250,000 books, DVDs, CDs, books on tape, vinyl and other forms of media in over 70 categories from April 3-7, 2013. Everything is $3 or less, with a 3-2-1 scale: $3-hard cover more...
The Museum of Craft & Design is finally opening its doors to the public during a free Grand Opening community celebration at their permanent location in the Dogpatch on April 6, 2013. Rather than featuring paintings or traditional sculpture, the Museum showcases other types of artwork that range from furniture, kinetic more...
The Mission Arts Performance Project (MAPP) sprawl over 20+ venues as well as public spaces, street corners, BART stations, cafes, bars, taquerias, homes all over La Mission from around 6pm until late. The event features taking common spaces and for one chaotic evening transforming them into whatever we want including free live more...
#KittenCamp is a fun event for web-loving, ad industry folk to watch memes, drink free beer and listen to a selection of awesome guest speakers. Hear talks by the folks behind viral promotion start-up, FanDrop; Ken Pontac, writer and director of the awesome internet sensation, Happy Tree Friends; and the creators more...
Take the afternoon off from work and join 5,000+ Giants fans at AT&T Park to watch the defending World Series champion SF Giants vs. LA Dodgers live from Dodger Stadium. The Giants open 2013 on the road in LA, so this first game of the season will be shown on the huge more...
The 35th Annual St. Stupid’s Day Parade is a celebration of stupidity on April 1, 2013. Wear something silly, bring your solo socks, spare pennies and losing lottery tickets and gather with all the other stupids at the Embarcadero Plaza (foot of Market Street) at noon. 35th Annual St. Stupid’s Day Parade Monday, April more...
Yes, officially announced for 2013! Watch dozens of contestants at Bring Your Own Big Wheel 2013 (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...
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the kabuki-inspired cross-dressing nuns-of-fun, host their 34th Easter Sunday in the Park on March 31, 2013 at Dolores Park. There’s a family-friendly Children’s Easter at 11am, but the real fun follows after the kids head home with adult-friendly fare like the Easter Bonnet Contest, burlesque and more...
San Francisco just can’t seem to do anything normal. And that’s the way we like it! Sure, for 2013 you can attend the traditional egg hunts and sunrise services atop a mountain, but our city just needs to do some things a bit different – with a wacky Easter parade on more...
Friday Nights at the de Young is a free weekly after-hours art “happening” in the museum’s public spaces. The event has a new theme every week, but typically includes an eclectic mix of live music, dance performances, film screenings, panel discussions, lectures, artist demos, hands-on art activities and more. Plus the observation tower more...
The second annual Mid Riff is The Bold Italic’s microhood party on Thursday, March 28, 2013 from 6-8pm, focusing on Market Street between 6th and 7th. Mid Riff is an evening of discounted eats, complimentary libations, special deals, art openings, and live performances. “Mid Riff” Central Market Microhood Block Party Thursday, March 28, more...
The annual Macy’s Flower Show is a celebration of flowers, food, art and music at Macy’s Union Square from March 24-April 7, 2013. The 2013 theme is The Painted Garden which celebrates the rich jewel tones, gleaming golds and spicy earthtones of South Asia through food and flower demos, artist exhibits, fashion events more...
