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The Weekend in Cheap | Sept. 9-11
By - posted 9/7/2011
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This weekend in San Francisco features festivals celebrating car-free streets and chocolate, along with a fall fashion event, free beer dance party and a 9/11 symphony remembrance performance. Here’s our picks for our favorite five things to do this weekend – September 9-11, 2011. Friday, September 9 Scoutmob DJ Party & Free Beer more...

Fashion’s Night Out 2011
By - posted 9/7/2011
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As if you needed an excuse to shop, Fashion’s Night Out is an annual event taking place on September 8, 2011 that makes shoppers descend on San Francisco like locusts looking for great deals and fun shopping parties. FuncheapSF’s Top Fashion’s Night Out Events for 2011 Macy’s – DJs, Food, Wine, Mocktails and more...

SF’s Peer-to-Peer Parking Experiment
By - posted 9/5/2011
City Insight

What if you needed to park in downtown SF and you had really cool friends with an apartment who let you park in their space as long as you were out by an agreed time? Sounds great, right? But what do you do if you don’t know anyone who lives in more...

Free Shakespeare in the Park 2011
By - posted 9/4/2011
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Think of this like those outdoor movies in Dolores Park but instead it’s a live play featuring the works of Shakespeare. Bring your friends, dates, a blanket and a picnic (don’t forget a bottle of wine) to enjoy the 29th season of free professional theater throughout the summer thanks to more...

Giro di San Francisco
By - posted 9/3/2011
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Il Giro di San Francisco (formerly the “San Francisco Gran Prix”) is an annual bike race around the streets of San Francisco that’s had competitors cruising around the city since 1975. Free for spectators to come and watch, check out the 2011 route map to stake out your spot for these more...

The Weekend In Cheap | Labor Day 2011
By - posted 8/31/2011
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This weekend in San Francisco features an outdoor cinema crawl, concert and BBQ, as well as an independent publishing expo,  plush Egyptian exhibitions fit for a king and, of course, some Labor Day celebrations to start your week off right. Here’s our picks for our favorite five things to do this weekend more...

SF Zine Fest 2011
By - posted 8/31/2011
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Join SF’s most interesting writers, cartoonists, illustrators and DIY publishers this Saturday and Sunday, September 3rd and 4th 2011, for the 10th Annual San Francisco Zine Fest. From 11am-6pm at the San Francisco County Fair Building in Golden Gate Park, more than 150 writers, cartoonists, crafters, illustrators, printmakers, and other artists more...

Market Street Music Festival 2011
By - posted 8/30/2011
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Make your Mondays merrier and your Thursdays a little jazzier with the annual People in Plazas Music Festival all summer long. Between July and September, there will be over 150 concerts in 18 different outdoor venues on or near Market Street, from the Embarcadero Center to The Castro, so that residents, office more...

Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2011
By - posted 8/29/2011
Fairs & Festivals

The 2011 Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents over 90 free outdoor events from May to October including music, theater, circus, dance, poetry, family festivals and children’s programs with artists from Africa, Bali, Italy, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, the Philippines, Sweden, China and the Bay Area. Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2011 May through October FREE and open more...

Free Summer Cocktails & Tapas Night
By - posted 8/23/2011
Freebies

Join Indie Industries for the opening of their newest store on Market Street in the Castro on Friday, August 26th from 6-9pm.. Enjoy complimentary classic summer cocktails and a tapas & dessert bar while meeting local designers. Indie Industries Launch Party Friday, August 26, 2011 (6-9p) – 2352 Market Street (btwn Noe more...

2011 San Francisco Reggae Festival
By - posted 8/23/2011
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It’s a little bit of the Caribbean in the city at this year’s San Francisco Reggae Festival on Saturday, August 27 from 11 a.m. till 6 p.m. at the Fillmore Center Plaza. 2011 San Francisco Reggae Festival Fillmore Center Plaza (Fillmore St. & O’Farrell St., SF) – Saturday, August 27 | 11a-6p – FREE Enjoy more...

The Weekend In Cheap | August 26-28
By - posted 8/22/2011
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This weekend in San Francisco features a store opening with tons of freebies, a skate-off & chili cook-out and an undercover Easter egg hunt, along with a J-Pop festival and MJ tribute flash mob. Here’s our picks for our favorite five things to do this weekend – August 26-28, 2011. Friday, August more...

Four Barrel Free Coffee Day
By - posted 8/18/2011
Eat & Drink

It’s time to toast to one of the city’s best roasts at Four Barrel Coffee’s 3rd Birthday Bash on Tuesday, August 23 at their Valencia storefront. To celebrate three years of being in business, they’ll be giving away free coffee & espresso drinks all day long and bringing in two Skee more...

The Weekend in Cheap | August 19-21
By - posted 8/18/2011
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This weekend in San Francisco features both a lo-fi and high-class concert, as well as a street food festival, scavenger hunt in Golden Gate Park and self-curated art event. Here’s our picks for our favorite five things to do this weekend – August 19-21, 2011. Friday, August 19 The Clift Sessions 2011: Dirty Beaches RSVP beforehand more...

Top 10 Cheap Eats | SF Street Food Festival
By - posted 8/16/2011
Fairs & Festivals

With an explosion of local eateries that can be found anywhere from street corners to BART stations, mobile food stands have become so popular that La Cocina’s  2011 San Francisco Street Food Festival is coming back yet another tempting time. Taking over 6 blocks of the Mission for a delicious day more...