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Free Ike’s Place Saturday
By - posted 11/23/2012
Freebies

As long as you don’t mind waiting eight weeks to get paid back, make your tummy happy with Ike’s Place and get a $25 credit thanks to AMEX on “Small Business Saturday.“ After hitting the big stores on Black Friday, support your local businesses in SF and check out the mom-and-pop more...

$8 Giants Tickets
By - posted 11/23/2012
Deals

Super cheap Giants tickets are going on sale super early – on Black Friday to be exact (well, since it’s the Giants it’s “Orange & Black Friday”). >> Beginning at 10am on November 23, 2012 you can purchase tickets online or in person at all Giants Dugout Store locations. Cheap Tip: In 2012 there were NO more...

Funcheap’s Food Social
By - posted 11/23/2012
Eat & Drink

Food Social, a street food incubator marketplace, features locally produced fare by the Bay Area food scene’s next big talents along with live music, a DJ and a fun social atmosphere. On Friday after Thanksgiving, FuncheapSF is pairing up with Food Social to throw an epic Black Friday event stuffed full of more...

Apple’s Black Friday Sale
By - posted 11/22/2012
Deals

Apple kicks off their annual one-day sale with deals on iPads, MacBooks, iPhone touches and more. The discounts aren’t huge (expect to save about 10% off) but given that Apple rarely discounts their products, this actually is a pretty good deal – enough so that CNN even thinks this is more...

Thanksgiving Parking: How Not to Get a Ticket
By - posted 11/21/2012
Cheap Tips

If you’ve got better things to do than be with your family on Thanksgiving Day 2012 and need a car to run those errands you’ll pretty much have free reign while parking anywhere in the city. Although parking hazardously is always ticketable and towable – as is parking in a red or blue more...

Thanksgiving Events
By - posted 11/20/2012
Get Out: Events

Super Sugar Castle
By - posted 11/18/2012
Holidays

Get in the holiday spirit by joining the Westin St Francis for the annual debut of one of the country’s largest sugar castles on November 21, 2012. Executive Pastry Chef Jean-François Houdré and his team have perfected this 12-foot rotating holiday sugar castle, which this year features the top “newsmakers” of more...

Snowflakes on Market
By - posted 11/18/2012
Holidays

Attend the 5th Annual Snowflakes on Market lighting ceremony on November 20, 2012 at 6:30 p.m. in front of the cable car turn-around at Powell and Market streets. Snowflakes on Market Street will feature the lighting of giant illuminated snowflakes on Market Street’s signature “Path of Gold” light poles from November 20 through more...

Giant Bubble Party
By - posted 11/18/2012
Fun & Games

Oakland soap bubble artist Mike L. Miller invites bubble enthusiasts of all ages to come bubble with him in Mosswood Park at 11 am on Sunday, November 18, 2012. Bring your favorite bubble toys and gadgets or simply watch the show as he uses one-of-a-kind equipment to launch soap bubbles of all sizes and shapes high more...

Free Bacon Day
By - posted 11/17/2012
Deals

Every day until Thanksgiving, The Pork Store Cafe is giving a free side of bacon for anyone mentioning “The Food is Bad and The Service is Slow” – with the purchase of a meal. Yup, free bacon! But you gotta buy something substantial to go with it. The Pork Store’s Free Bacon Deal November more...

Presidio Creek Geek Hike
By - posted 11/17/2012
Get Out: Events

Join Thinkwalks outdoors for a vigorous, hilly 6-mile hike (rain or shine) with others fascinated by SF springs and creeks plus get schooled with mini-lectures about the region. Unlike the usual Thinkwalks, this will be long, hikey and with only occasional historical presentations. Presidio Creek Geek Hike Sunday, November 18, 2012 (9:15 am – more...

Camp-In Movie Night
By - posted 11/16/2012
Get Out: Events

Catch an outdoor screening of  the camp classic Wet Hot American Summer at an urban camp-in in San Francisco at a pop-up campsite. Rice Paper Scissors are combining their love for food, movies, and the outdoors on Saturday, November 17, 2012 for The Camp-In, a pop-up dinner (for purchase), urban camping and more...

1,000 Bodies Project
By - posted 11/16/2012
Only in San Francisco

Ever wanted to bare it all?  The 1000BodiesProject is a nude art photo project based in Norway where you get to be both the subject and the one pushing the button. That’s right, strip down in an empty studio (so no one is watching and to keep it from being creepy) wear a more...

Winter 2012 Fireworks
By - posted 11/16/2012
Fairs & Festivals

Enjoy a winter fireworks display and a special free “Disney on Ice” performance which takes place on the outdoor ice rink on Justin Herman Plaza as The Embarcadero Center hosts their 26th Annual free winter carnival and lighting ceremony when more than 17,000 lights illuminate the San Francisco Skyline. 2012 Embarcadero Lighting Ceremony Friday, more...

CANstruction 2012
By - posted 11/12/2012
Only in San Francisco

Teams of architects, engineers and contractors will compete to design and build giant structures created entirely out of canned food for the 2nd Annual San Francisco CANstruction 2012. At the end of the exhibit, all cans will be donated to the SF Food Bank. CANstruction 2012 November 12-17, 2012 – Weekdays 9a-5p – Saturday 8:30a-2p One Market, more...