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Cherry Blossom Festival
By - posted 4/14/2013
Fairs & Festivals

The 2013 Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival will be held on Saturdays and Sundays, April 13-14 and April 20-21, 2013. The festival will be held on Post Street between Laguna and Fillmore Streets. There will be food booths, cultural performances, karate, live bands, Japanese sword demos, tea ceremonies, taiko drumming, origami demos and more. 46th Annual more...

Sunday Streets
By - posted 4/13/2013
Fairs & Festivals

Sunday Streets (March – October 2013) is San Francisco’s official block party – a sorta-monthly roving neighborhood celebration and five hour street party where the streets are closed to vehicles so pedestrians, roller skaters, bicyclists, yoga classes… everyone except for cars can take over the streets for an afternoon. >> Funcheap is proud more...

National Grilled Cheese Day
By - posted 4/12/2013
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Celebrate National Grilled Cheese Day 2013 at this one-day-only event with a bevy of food trucks serving up their unique versions of grilled cheese sandwiches at SoMa StrEat Food Park on Saturday, April 13, 2013. Plus it’s a dance party with DJ DeeJay Julicio. (Elbo room and Clift hotel) spinning until 4pm fun and games (skeeball, beer more...

DogFest 2013
By - posted 4/10/2013
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DogFest 2013 is a mutt-tastic festival at one of the most dog-friendly parks in the city and the biggest dog event in San Francisco. Watch doggies compete for Best Trick, Best Costume, Best Coat, Best Ears and more. Local celebrity dog show judges include Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Go’s and more...

Grilled Cheese Day
By - posted 4/9/2013
Eat & Drink

April 12th is “National Grilled Cheese Day.” Yes, it’s another made up holiday, but one that Funcheap loves in all its crunchy cheesy gooeyness. So corporations like Tillamook cheese, fast food joints like The Melt are going to give you a bunch of free sandwiches to celebrate, and even Funcheap has put more...

Free Concert & Beer Night
By - posted 4/9/2013
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Up In Arms presents New & Next; A monthly music experience sponsored by 7×7 and Funcheap featuring up and coming bands & DJs in a happy hour environment. April 2013 features two of Up In Arms’ favorite local noisemakers, Oakland pop-electronic project, Yalls, a DJ set by Parentz, plus other special guests. Lubricate on beer more...

Coachella 2013 Live Streaming
By - posted 4/9/2013
Freebies

Couldn’t make it down to SoCal for Coachella but still need your concert fix? Youtube is live streaming three stages of music from Coachella 2013 for free on April 12-14, 2013. 2013 Highlights include Metric, Foals, Tegan and Sara, Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Friday), Dropkick Murphys, Hot Chip, The Postal Service, Phoenix, more...

Robot Block Party 2013
By - posted 4/8/2013
Geeks

In celebration of National Robotics Week, Silicon Valley’s Robot Block Party 2013 returns to the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Lab at Stanford on Wednesday, April 10, 2013, from 1-6pm. Come and see robots on display from Silicon Valley companies representing the best in research, industrial and consumer robotics. Robot Block Party 2013 Wednesday, April more...

Oakland Earth Expo
By - posted 4/8/2013
Fairs & Festivals

Renew your commitment to a cleaner, greener, healthier Oakland and you, at the Oakland Earth Expo 2013 on April 10, 2013. Oakland’s annual EarthEXPO is a popular and festive lunchtime environmental fair connected to Earth Day. Up to 100 green businesses, government agencies, community and environmental groups and environmental artists exhibit more...

Free Cone Day
By - posted 4/8/2013
Freebies

Tuesday, April 9 is Free Cone Day 2013 at Ben & Jerry’s, and you know what that means… Free ice cream for you. As long as you don’t mind waiting in really long lines, almost all Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Shops in the Bay Area (and around the world, for that more...

March Madness 2013: Title Game Watch
By - posted 4/7/2013
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April’s Top 10
By - posted 4/7/2013
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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...

2013 Greek Parade & Festival
By - posted 4/6/2013
Fairs & Festivals

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...

$1 Book Day
By - posted 4/5/2013
Deals

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...

Grand Opening: Museum of Craft & Design
By - posted 4/3/2013
Artsy Fartsy

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...