SF City Guides
SF’s Central Subway Finally Fully Opens January 7
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, San Francisco, Transportation It’s been a long time coming, but San Francisco’s long-awaited Central Subway is finally fully opening with daily service starting January 7, 2023. The Central Subway Project aims to improve public transportation in San Francisco by extending the Muni Metro T Third Line through SoMa, Union Square and Chinatown. By providing a direct, more...
SF’s Winterfest Beer & Comedy Friday Nights (2022)
Get Out: Events, San Francisco Speakeasy Ales & Lagers has been defiantly brewing small batches of beer in San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood since 1997. Come celebrate this legacy with a special month-long “Novemberfest”-themed pop-up comedy festival every Friday night for four weeks only. RSVP for Secret Guestlist – Free $10-$20 Friday Nights starting September 23, 3022 – Four weeks more...
Fremont is Named the Safest City in California
East Bay Thanks to KTLA for sharing the news about Wallet Hub’s 2022’s Safest Cities in America ranking. WalletHub compared more than 180 cities across 42 key indicators of safety under three categories: home and community safety, natural disaster risk and financial safety. Fremont, California made the top 20 for Safest Cities in the more...
SF’s First Topless Club Might Become an Official “Legacy Business”
Only in San Francisco Thanks to Eater SF for sharing the news that San Francisco’s first topless club, which is possibly the very first topless bar in the country, is pushing to become an official legacy business. The “first original gentleman’s club in the US,” the Condor Club opened in North Beach in 1964 and more...
Golden Gate Park’s Lighted Forest is Back for 2022
Artsy Fartsy, Bay Area Favorites, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches, San Francisco Entwined, the iconic illuminated art installation, returns to Golden Gate Park on December 1. Entwined will be hosted at Peacock Meadow for its third season from December 1, 2022 to March 12, 2023. This dazzling forest of light first welcomed parkgoers as a safe and joyful outdoor destination in 2020 and more...
SF’s Iconic ‘Hot Cookie’ Rolls Back Prices to 1997
Bay Area Favorites, Eat & Drink, Local Icons, Only in San Francisco Thanks to our friend Broke-Ass Stuart for sharing the news that San Francisco’s famous Hot Cookie in the Castro, 407 Castro St., is celebrating 25 years. Established in 1997, Hot Cookie is a Castro icon – famous for its large selection of freshly-baked, chewy cookies, its notorious Penis and Vagina Cookies, more...
Dungeness Crab Season Delayed: No Crabs for Thanksgiving
Bay Area Updates, Eat & Drink California fish and wildlife officials are delaying the opening of the commercial Dungeness crab season to protect endangered humpback whales and other marine life from deadly entanglements. The state Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Risk Assessment and Mitigation Program determined that too many whales are present at this time for more...
SF Chinese Restaurant Lowers Prices w/ “Inflation Discount”
Deals, Eat & Drink Thanks to SF Gate for sharing the news that while nearly every restaurant has raised its prices, one San Francisco restaurant is taking a different approach. Lazy Susan, a Chinese-American takeout restaurant, located in West Portal at 811 Ulloa Street, is lowering its prices by offering an inflation discount. You’ll receive 10% more...
Brand New Bi-Rite Market Coming to Russian Hill
Bay Area Favorites, Brand New, Eat & Drink, Local Icons, San Francisco Thanks to Eater San Francisco for sharing the news that cult favorite Bi-Rite Market is opening its third shop in San Francisco. Bi-Rite has been a San Francisco institution for more than 80 years, and now they’re expanding with a new location in Russian Hill, which joins locations in Divisadero Street and more...
Golden Gate Bandshell Hosts 110+ Free Concerts in 2022
Bay Area Updates, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, San Francisco Golden Gate Bandshell welcomes back live performances with a diverse lineup of musicians to play free concerts at historic landmark. Live music has returned to the Golden Gate Bandshell’s iconic stage with a series of free outdoor concerts in Golden Gate Park, the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, San Francisco more...
Sculpture of 100 Old Vibrators Coming to SF
Artsy Fartsy, Sponsored Magic Wand’s ‘Pleasure as Art’ Sculpture, a sculpture made out of 100 decommissioned wand vibrators, is coming to Good Vibrations in San Francisco next month. The exact opening date has not yet been announced, but it’s expected to be on view starting in early December 2022. The piece was created by visual artist more...
SF’s Polk Street “Trick or Treat” Trail 2022
Fairs & Festivals, Halloween, San Francisco, Sponsored Join Discover Polk CBD, Russian Hill Neighbors, & Lower Polk CBD for an afternoon of family-focused Halloween fun up and down Polk Street. From 11am to 3pm, we’ll have child (candy) and adult (e.g. wine tastes, tiny beers, and cheese samples, etc.) trick-or-treating at dozens of Polk Street merchants from Union Street to all the way to Geary! And more...
Check Out SF Chinatown’s Brand New Lanterns
Artsy Fartsy, Brand New, San Francisco San Francisco’s Chinatown has some brand new illuminating art. Lantern Stories: San Francisco is a new public art installation of 29 illustrated lanterns by award-winning interdisciplinary artist Yu-Wen Wu was installed in October 2022 and illuminates San Francisco Chinatown’s history, culture, and community. Creating a luminous canopy on the 600 more...
SF Tops National Geographic’s “Best of the World” Destinations for 2023
San Francisco, Travel Thanks to National Geographic for naming San Francisco to their annual list of the world’s best destinations for travelers, 25 Breathtaking Places and Experiences for 2023, and we couldn’t agree more. San Francisco made this year’s list as a fantastic family-friendly destination under their Family: Inspiring Journeys for All Ages category, more...
BART-themed Jack-O’-Lantern Stencils for Halloween
Artsy Fartsy, Halloween Carving a pumpkin is an art. The “oooos” and “aahhs” of trick-or-treaters coming to your door as they check out your carefully crafted pumpkin is something we all love to hear. From the classic jack-o’-lantern to a favorite cartoon character, there’s so much to choose from when it comes to more...
