SF City Guides
The Treasure Island Flea is a monthly flea market showcasing the best of the Bay’s talent. Shop from hundreds of local vendors selling everything from vintage to indie design, new merchandise and antiques along with food vendors. The Treasure Island Flea offers a changing selection of eclectic merchandise from indie designers, up-cyclers, collectors, more...
30+ food trucks and street food carts in a huge circle with a full bar and bands in the middle? Now that’s a party! Off the Grid, a roaming mobile food extravaganza, is back at Fort Mason Center for their first Friday night food truck party of 2012 beginning March 23, 2012. This more...
Cruise through Oakland’s Chinatown and Civic Center, whether it be on the way to your office or the Uptown with the Free B Downtown Oakland Shuttle. Offering service from BART, the Alameda/San Francisco Ferry and Amtrak Capitol Corridor to downtown Oakland offices, with stops on the weekends along Telegraph Ave. and more...
The San Francisco Gallery Art Walk is a free, self-guided, and public event centered around the Union Square art galleries on Post and Sutter. Held Saturday, March 24th, from 12pm to 5pm, the Winter Art Walk enables you to peruse each of the nine galleries on the itinerary and discover hundreds more...
You say you wanna dance with somebody? Here is your chance to show your love for Whitney Houston and show San Francisco your moves. Whitney Houston Flash Mob Day Friday, March 23, 2012 Market & Castro, SF – Show up: 6:15p – Performance: 6:30p Want to Participate?: 1) Watch the awkward instructional video and learn the dance. Don’t worry, more...
Join Drambuie Liqueur – a blended Scotch whisky libation of herbs and heather honey – for an epic clash of the cocktails at a bar near you, as local master mixologists compete to see whose Rusty Nail remix reigns supreme. Try cocktails from top bartenders and compete in bar games. In more...
Yoshi’s San Francisco may have the big out-of-town headliners in their main room, but for a peek at some of the Bay Area’s best local jazz talent, they’ve opened up their jazz lounge for free live music seven nights a week (usually 6:30p to 11p) as part of Yoshi’s Local more...
Grab a wedding dress and join the brides as more than a hundred people in wedding dress (men, women and in-betweeners) parade through the heart of San Francisco, strolling through Union Square, shopping at fancy stores and drinking in local bars. All you need for this event is a white wedding more...
The Creators Project will transform Fort Mason into a colossal two-day indoor art and technology festival featuring towering multimedia art installations, film screenings, and panels. Although there’s no live music on Sunday, there’s still tons to do with artworks on display all weekend, and over the course of the festival we’ll be screening films and hosting more...
Rain or shine, San Francisco knows how to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day (and the Friday before) with a good and cheap variety of block parties, pub crawls, festivals and parades . Here’s a few of our favorite 2012 St. Patrick’s Day themed events in San Francisco and the Bay Area. more...
Watch NCAA March Madness all day while trying to eat 10 corn dogs 100 tater tots and down 10 PBR in one sitting – what better way to spend the Saturday before you get admitted to the ER! What is National Corn Dog Day? National Corndog Day (actually sponsored by Foster Farms, more...
Stuck in SF when all the fun is happening in Austin? Sub Pop records will be at Monarch in SoMa on Friday, March 16, 2012 livestreaming their SXSW Records showcase from Austin on the big screen featuring Niki & the Dove, Spoek Mathambo and THEESatisfaction with Claude VonStroke in house in SF to keep more...
If you’re a hacker or an artist, you will discover what seems to be a wonderland. NoiseBridge is a nonprofit warehouse in the Mission that sparks creativity, learning and sharing, and it is entirely free to the public and open 24/7. The warehouse’s rent and expenses are paid entirely through donations more...
Out-of-towners like to visit Napa Valley for a bit of wine tasting. But what about visiting Oakland for a bit of coffee tasting? Every Tuesday and Sunday at 2:00pm, the Webster Street Blue Bottle Coffee in Oakland offers free public cuppings. That’s what they call tastings when it’s with coffee. You know all more...
Too many yoga classes are like slow forms of Pilate: meant only as physical exercise. If you want something far more contemplative, closer to yoga’s original spiritual nature, come to Yoga on the Labyrinth Tuesday nights inside Grace Cathedral. Yoga teacher Darren Main incorporates live music into the practice, adding more...
