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Saturday Beer Blowout
By - posted 3/31/2012
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Speakeasy Brewery is a great place to spend a Friday happy hour… with probably the freshest pint in the city. And now they’re busting into the weekend! FuncheapSF presents Speakeasy’s “Saturday Beer Blowout” on March 31st – a one-night-only bash with live music, games, brewery tours, food trucks, cheap beer and small more...

A Guide to Bay Area Flea Markets
By - posted 3/31/2012
City Insight

Are you an avid antiques-seeker who loves the thought of treasure troves and trinkets? Then check out FuncheapSF’s guide to the best places in the Bay Area to hunt for bargains, and finally score that obscure B-side or Art Deco bureau you’ve been searching for. What’s your favorite flea market in the Bay more...

Cleantech “Eco City” Festival
By - posted 3/26/2012
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Fifteen hand-picked companies representing the automotive, solar, wind, building materials, energy efficiency and smart grid industries will run the show, displaying their coolest products and illustrating this year’s theme: “The Power of Global Partnerships”. The two-day 2012 Cleantech “Eco City“ festival will take place on March 27 and 28 on Justin Herman Plaza, in more...

PBR Art Party & Free Beer
By - posted 3/26/2012
Artsy Fartsy

Enter your PBaRt into the competition and your work might just be featured in a Pabst Blue Ribbon national billboard. More importantly, you’ll earn some free beer! Madrone Art Bar will host PBaRt Submission Happy Hours on Thursday 3/29 and Friday 3/30 from 6-9pm.  All submissions will be entered in the national more...

“Air Sex” Championships
By - posted 3/25/2012
Only in San Francisco

What’s better than “air guitar?” how about “air sex!” Yup, there’s an actual competition for people who like to fake doing the nasty on stage. See SF’s best air sexers compete on stage at the Elbo Room in the 2012 Air Sex Championships: Preliminary round. It’s all done tongue in cheek, of more...

SF’s Best Cheap Dates
By - posted 3/25/2012
Valentine's Day

Strapped for cash but still want to make that date one to remember? Rid yourself of those dating doubts – San Francisco has plenty to offer that special someone. Take a gander at these penny-saving plans and let the sparks fly! FuncheapSF’s Top 6: Cheap Date Ideas What’s your idea of the perfect more...

The Treasure Island Flea
By - posted 3/22/2012
Freebies

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...

Off the Grid 2012
By - posted 3/22/2012
Eat & Drink

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...

Free Late Night Bus: Bar Hopping in Oakland
By - posted 3/22/2012
City Discoveries

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...

San Francisco Winter Art Walk
By - posted 3/21/2012
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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...

Whitney Houston Flash Mob Dance
By - posted 3/21/2012
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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...

Nail or Fail: Bartender Showdown
By - posted 3/18/2012
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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 Free Jazz Month
By - posted 3/18/2012
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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...

Brides of March 2012
By - posted 3/18/2012
Only in San Francisco

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: Final Day
By - posted 3/18/2012
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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...