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Pancakes & Booze Art Show
By - posted 6/12/2012
Artsy Fartsy

LA’s Famous “Pancakes & Booze” Underground Art Show has made a home in San Francisco and is back in town June 15 & 16, 2012 for a two-day spectacle. For a $5 cover charge expect to see the works from over 75 underground and emerging artists, live body painting, live audio and visual effects, a photo booth, more...

Tuesday Night Skate
By - posted 6/10/2012
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Come join D. Miles, the GodFather of Skate in San Francisco, the roller skaters from Golden Gate Park and the Black Rock Roller Disco for Funkytown –  a fun new Tuesday night skating experience. Come roll to a mix of funk, disco and R&B that will change your concept of fun more...

PBR Pop-Up Comedy Night
By - posted 6/10/2012
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Mission District culture blog Uptown Almanac and PBR are teaming up  to bring a boozy evening of stand-up comedy back to the Roxie Theatre stage. Eight of the Bay Area’s finest comics bring you laughs for a full 90-minute show, plus there’s tons of free PBR for everyone to drink, more...

SF Free Folk Festival
By - posted 6/10/2012
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Now in its 36th year, the San Francisco Free Folk Festival is a two-day music, dance and workshop festival featuring folk traditions from around the globe in a “Hardly Strictly Bluegrass” type indoor event. On June 9-10, 2012 from noon to 10pm at Presidio Middle School in San Francisco, the SF Free Folk Fest celebrates with more...

Free U.S. Open Tickets
By - posted 6/8/2012
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The world’s best golfers come to San Francisco to compete in the 112th U.S. Open at The Olympic Club in Lake Merced on June 11-17, 2012. Tickets to the grounds to watch the 2012 tournament range from $50 to $125 per day (if you can even get them – the U.S. more...

Lake Merritt DJ Dance Party
By - posted 6/7/2012
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Ecstatic Dance East Bay gives five DJs an hour each to make you dance, sweat and let loose at the Lake Merritt Bandstand, right on the edge of the water on what promises to be a fun & hot afternoon –the forecast calls for 82 degrees and sunny! Ecstatic’s 4-Year Anniversary more...

Glitter Bomb Prom
By - posted 6/5/2012
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Come give prom the big glitzy middle one and express your dreamy dark heart with prom wear that shows just how much you don’t care about white ties and oppressive satin. We are taking back prom…and blowing it up into a million microscopic bits of irregular iridescence and fag flash. So bring more...

World Naked Bike Ride
By - posted 6/5/2012
Only in San Francisco

The San Francisco edition of  2012 World Naked Bike Ride Day – Northern Hemisphere edition will meet at the northeast side of the fountain in Justin Herman Plaza on June 9th. Meet at 11:00am  for body painting (Bring body paints, washable markers, watercolors or other easily removed media to apply slogans and designs to your more...

Toothpick Golden Gate Bridge
By - posted 6/2/2012
Only in San Francisco

Check out a an exhibit presented by Ripley’s Believe It or Not  including a 13-foot model of the Golden Gate Bridge, constructed out of 30,000 toothpicks and glue in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco. In addition you can view a 1/3rd scale model of a cable car more...

Free Day: California Academy of Sciences
By - posted 5/30/2012
Freebies

The California Academy of Sciences is a world-class scientific and cultural institution in Golden Gate Park, a 400,000 square foot structure that houses an aquarium, a planetarium a natural history museum and a 4-story rainforest all under one roof. California Academy of Sciences: Free Sunday For 2012,The Academy is changing its free more...

Bank of America Free Museum Weekends
By - posted 5/30/2012
Deals

Most museums in the Bay Area have a free admission day once a month for the general public, but that can get awfully crowded and sometimes the free days are in the middle of the week which can make it tough for working folk. Personally, Funcheap are fans of credit unions, more...

Krispy Kreme Donut Day
By - posted 5/29/2012
Freebies

Friday June 1, 2012 is National Doughnut Day, supposedly a real holiday created in 1938 by the Salvation Army honor the women who served dougnuts to soldiers during World War I. In celebration, Krispy Kreme is offering a free donut today at all participating stores including those in Concord, Daly City, more...

OminoDay 2012
By - posted 5/29/2012
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OminoDay is a free day-long outdoor music festival which will provide a social, musical, artistic and cultural celebration for the families and youth of San Francisco. Inspired and in memory of Andrew “DJ Domino” Ele, who was a spiritual leader, youth advocate, do and community activist, this festival was his more...

Lonely Planet Giveaway
By - posted 5/27/2012
Win Stuff

Every place is the centre of the world to somebody and has its own riches and wonders.  The authors of these 30 real-life tales in this brand new Lonely Planet travel book “Tales From Nowhere” find passion, surprise and illumination in the middle of Borneo or Beijing, in a Mayan mountain more...

$5 French Wine & Cinema Class
By - posted 5/27/2012
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To help non-French speakers discover French cinema, The Alliance Française of San Francisco is offering a weekly Tuesday night class centered around a French film and conversation. The class will take place in their cozy theater with wine, refreshments and free popcorn. >> Don’t know French? Don’t worry… all films are screened with more...