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Kwanzaa in San Francisco
By - posted 12/26/2010
Fairs & Festivals

The Village Project presents San Francisco’s 10th Annual Kwanzaa Celebration, with seven days of community events striving to unite and strengthen the family, community and nation, by highlighting each of the seven principles of Kwanzaa (the Nguzo Saba). 2015 San Francisco Kwanzaa Celebration December 26, 2015 through January 1, 2015 All Over San Francisco FREE There will be more...

December Birthday? Free $20 Bar Tab!
By - posted 12/26/2010
Deals

Are you a December baby? Or, do you have a friend who is? If you like drinking & eating for free you better find one quick! The Royal Exchange, a popular after-work sports bar & restaurant in the Financial District with 32 different micro, imported and domestic beers (and a full more...

Merry Cheapmas, San Francisco!
By - posted 12/22/2010
Get Out: Events

San Francisco pretty much empties out except for tourists around Christmas. (Parking is never easier all year than it is in my neighborhood the week before New Years) But for those of us left to hold down the city there’s fortunately still plenty to do and plenty of deals to be more...

Half-Price Holiday & New Year’s Eve Deals
By - posted 12/22/2010
Deals

Around the Holidays, everyone wants to treat themselves to a little show, a little outing in the town, a little pizzazz. Problem is, it can get a little pricey out there. Lucky for you, there’s help around from FunCheap where we post events everyday that are fit for small budgets. But there’s more...

San Francisco’s Nerd Nite
By - posted 12/8/2010
Get Out: Events

San Francisco’s always been a city of character but especially good characters: interesting, cultured, artistic, educated, talented and plain old smart people. Try one of these admittedly nerdy (we use that word lovingly at FunCheap)  events and you might run into some of these good people. Plus you won’t break the bank and more...

$2 All-Day Muni Passes
By - posted 12/8/2010
Deals

Remember the good old days when you could sweet talk muni driver into giving you a “late night special” transfer even though it was only 6pm? Now that budget cuts have taking their toll, Muni has been enforcing the 90 minute rule on transfers a bit too strictly for more...

The Ask Dr. Hal Show
By - posted 12/7/2010
Get Out: Events

Bring your burning (preferably sciencey) question, the one that keeps you up at night, and get that itch scratch by the absurdly vast intellect of Dr. Hal Robins. Ask Dr. Hal – Consult the Oracle Fridays in December 2010. Pre-show at 8 pm. Show at 9 pm. – $10; no one turned away for more...

FuncheapSF 2010 Holiday Party
By - posted 12/6/2010
Get Out: Events

Free Beer, Free Nibbles, Free Stuff, Fun & Games – get ready for the 2010 FuncheapSF Holiday Party on the evening of December 17th! FuncheapSF is  taking over Sports Basement on Bryant Street and bringing in a keg, lots of nibbles and as many prizes and giveaways and Johnny more...

Free Weekend BART Travel in December
By - posted 11/25/2010
Win Stuff

Santa came a bit early and dropped off a tons of great prizes and tickets to Funcheap. And we’re turning around and giving them all away to you! Want to ride BART for free any weekend in December? Want to see the saucy French Postcard dance revue at the Dickens Fair more...

A Circus That’s Really Underground
By - posted 11/25/2010
City Discoveries

You could say: San Francisco’s Circus Finelli is so underground it’s in a basement. But the truth is that the small ensemble of lady clowns that put on a bi-monthly show at Stage Werx offers the same old-world charm of performing arts as any marquee show in town but more...

Black Friday Shopping Survival Guide
By - posted 11/24/2010
Deals

Are you game for waking up at 4am to crowd yourself into a big box store just to max out your credit card while saving $10 on a blu-ray player? After family arguments and trying to determine what to do with all of that leftover turkey, the annual Black Friday more...

Win Tix: Holiday Lights & Sights Tour
By - posted 11/21/2010
Win Stuff

For Thanksgiving weekend and beyond, FuncheapSF has a ton more fun contests and freebies for those of us that are staying in San Francisco – like fun cocktail crawls, free tattoos, Thanksgiving night concerts, walking tours and more. You don’t have to answer any stupid trivia questions. – all you need more...

A 19th Century Chop Shop
By - posted 11/9/2010
City Discoveries

Bookbinding is the art of physically assembling and sewing the pages and spine of a book by hand – a skill that was made more or less obsolete for the purpose of mass production of books with the dawning of the Industrial Revolution. The non-profit American Bookbinders Museum in the Mission more...

Where to Stop & Think
By - posted 11/1/2010
City Discoveries

San Francisco is full of beautiful vistas and iconic monuments, but how do you get away in the middle of all the chaos of the city? These are five places that are nestled within the city that are great places to go and wax philosophical with life’s big questions. >> What more...

SF’s Best Free Wi-Fi Spots
By - posted 11/1/2010
City Discoveries

Last fall, the Wall Street Journal reported on a sadly disturbing trend of coffee shops in New York City actually locking up their electrical outlets and pulling the plug on unlimited free wi-fi use for its customers. Thankfully (so far) there’s no sign of a mass wi-fi revolt in San Francisco. more...