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14 Fun Things to Do in the SF Bay Area This Weekend: February 9-11, 2024 Your Weekend Plans: Take to the streets for North Beach’s annual Mardi Gras 2nd Line Parade, see SF’s Balmy Alley transform into Lovers Lane for a Valentine’s Day Block Party, be on the lookout as the World more...
Thanks to San Francisco Botanical Garden for sharing the news that the first of their beautiful magnolias are blooming. One of San Francisco’s most breathtaking natural marvels, the annual bloom of more than 200 rare and historic magnolias with trees reaching 80 feet, is typically at its peak from mid-January through March at the SF Botanical Garden. Velvety more...
To help bring more people to Chinatown, San Francisco just announced that it is now offering 2 hours free parking at the Portsmouth Square Garage throughout the month of February to help celebrate Chinese New Year. 2 Hours Free Parking at Portsmouth Square Garage – Feb. 2024 733 Kearny Street (btwn, Clay more...
Experience phenomenal artists and stunning concerts at the season’s lowest prices for 20+ upcoming concerts. The best seats will go quickly. Get your sweetheart an early Valentine’s Day gift and enjoy up to 50% OFF on the concerts below!* Act now—sale ends Thursday, February 8 at 11:59pm San Francisco Symphony Winter Sale Up to more...
5 Fun Things to Do in the SF Bay Area This Weekend: February 2-4, 2024 Your Weekend Plans: Celebrate the Year of the Dragon at SF Chinatown’s Flower Market Fair, Lunar New Year X Black History Month Festival, shop the indoor/outdoor Sucka Flea Pop-Up at El Rio and more! See our full weekend more...
Beginning Friday night, January 26, 2024, elements from artist Charles Gadeken’s illuminated installation Entwined Meadow will dazzle visitors to UN Plaza with changing light and color, the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department announced today. The nine shrub sculptures, each composed of hundreds of LED lights at varying heights, arrived at more...
2024 will be a treat for skywatchers. To see Earth’s best show, all you need to do is look up. Here are all the best celestial events to look forward to in 2024 including meteor showers, supermoons, and eclipses. For some Americans, the highlight for 2024 will be the long-anticipated total more...
For the first time in four months, it’s finally legal again to have a bonfire at Ocean Beach. During the “No Burn” Season (which runs from November 1 to the end of February), bonfires are not allowed, but starting March 1, 2024 bonfires are back through the end of October more...
9 Fun Things to Do in the SF Bay Area This Weekend: January 26-28, 2024 Your Weekend Plans: Celebrate the Year of the Dragon at Oakland Chinatown’s Lunar New Year Bazaar, support the San Francisco Giants for the free FanFest Tour in San Jose, hunt down SF’s giant Lunar New Year dragon statues more...
San Francisco Recreation and Park Commissioners recently approved changing the name of Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park to Blue Heron Lake. William W. Stow, the lake’s original namesake, was a State Assembly Member between 1854 and 1857 and served on the City’s park commission in the 1890s. He was also more...
A mini version of San Francisco’s 1939 “Worlds Fair” is coming to Treasure Island for just one day only on Saturday, January 20, 2024. Dan and Armando Vargas, master model builders, are creating an exquisite miniature model of the Golden Gate International Exposition. The illuminated model is almost complete and the Vargas more...
San Francisco’s Harvey Milk Plaza will be reimagined as a welcoming, vibrant space that honors and celebrates Harvey Milk’s life and legacy, celebrates his enduring importance to the LGBTQ+ community, and inspires all by acting as a beacon of hope to marginalized communities worldwide. The Friends of Harvey Milk Plaza more...
February 10, 2024, marks the first day of the Year of the Wood Dragon. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco is proud to bring back the public art project, Zodiac on Parade featuring the mythical Dragon, to its list of festivities this Lunar New Year. The public art project, more...
Named one of the world’s top ten parades, the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco is the largest celebration of its kind outside of Asia. It was started in the 1860s and takes place the weekend of the Chinese New Year Community Street Fair (Feb. 24-25, 2024). Typically, nearly 100 more...
Fun Things to Do in the SF Bay Area This Weekend: January 19-21, 2024 Your Weekend Plans: See SF’s brand new 2024 heart sculptures, take a night stroll to see Napa’s Lighted Art Festival, road trip to Sacramento for San Francisco Giants 2024 FanFest Tour and much more! See our full weekend events more...