SF City Guides
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...
The Creators Project will transform Fort Mason into a colossal two-day art and technology festival featuring towering multimedia art installations, live music performances, film screenings, and panels. Saturday, March 17, 2012 is a 14-hour art, food truck and music bash with headliners Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Most people have to enter a ticket lottery to more...
Aventine hosts their fourth annual St. Patrick’s Day Alley block party in the financial district on Friday, March 16, 2012. Expect to get a good buzz on with about 1,500 people in the alley a DJ, live music, four remote bars (serving Guinness, Harp, Jameson shots and more) and wash down more...
All around the globe tens of thousands of bike riders are riding naked in protest to our dependency on oil. The San Francisco edition of 2012 World Naked Bike Ride Day will meet at the east side of the fountain in Justin Herman Plaza on March 10th. Meet at 11:00am for body painting (Bring body more...
Chronicle Books are re-opening in the Metreon, and they’ve got a weekend full of events and discounts planned. From 6-9pm on March 8, customers can mingle and enjoy delicious treats in store. Stop by all day to see the new space and browse our variety of art, craft, illustrated children’s titles, gift more...
Sunday Streets is San Francisco’s official block party – a sorta-monthly roving neighborhood celebration where the streets are closed to vehicles so pedestrians, roller skaters, bicyclists, yoga classes… whoever can take over for an afternoon. The Kick off event on March 11, 2012 takes place along the Embarcadero from Fisherman’s Wharf to more...
Why spend this St. Paddy’s weekend holed up in a single bar, when you can hit up some of the best watering holes in SF with $1 beers, $3 cocktails and $4 Jameson shots. The city will be buzzing with energy on St. Patrick’s Day, so meet some new friends while more...
Want to play a little bingo and win some prizes while breaking a sweat? Play “Bicycle Bingo” a weekly series at Oakland’s Actual Cafe where the bingo machine is actually a hacked-together bicycle contraption built by Monkey Likes Shinythat shuffles and dispenses the bingo balls. Plus volunteers from the audience get to ride the bike to more...
Attend an exclusive free sneak preview advanced screening of 21 Jump Street, the brand new comedy action film the day before the film opens. 21 Jump Street Sneak Preview Thursday, March 15, 2012 (7p) Secret Theater Location in SF Based on the hit cop TV show on Fox from the late ’80s, Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum and more...
In 2012 the two-day San Francisco History Expo at the Old Mint (in SoMa) showcases 30+ mini-museums set up by local and neighborhood organizations featuring oral histories, artifacts and photographs. There will also be a special exhibition of 42 photographs, “Elegant Pit Stops,” a display of historic garages in the city, plus historic films, special programs and more...
The White Elephant Sale has taken one person’s trash and recycled it into someone else’s treasure for more than 50 years. The biggest rummage sale in Northern California, the White Elephant Sale is housed in a 96,000-square-foot warehouse arranged into 17 departments with millions of items from vintage clothing to sporting goods, jewelry, art, furniture, more...
Join JB Rumburg, Other Avenues’ Cheesemonger for the Tour du Fromage–a bicycle ride highlighting his favorite independent cheese shops in San Francisco. JB will share his cheese expertise and experiences by way of bicycle. The ride will take you to the far reaches of the fromage frontier–from Ocean Beach to North more...
LA’s Famous “Pancakes & Booze” Underground Art Show has made a home in San Francisco and is back in town March 2nd & 3rd 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 more...
In this expensive city full of alcoholics, it is dangerous to know that there are several bars offering deals that make you very happy while making your liver hate you. So when you’ve just missed bus after work and have an extra $2 to burn, it’s time to loaded instead. Here’s more...
