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Oakland’s Starline Social Club Closing Down
East Bay, Goodbye, Oakland Unfortunately, Oakland’s Starline Social Club has announced it is closing. The club took to Instagram to announce that the club is going up for sale and will cease operations on January 1 after their last show on New Year’s Eve. Thanks to KQED for sharing the news about the final hurrah will more...
Check Out 20+ SF Fire Stations Decked Out for the Holidays for 2022
Holiday Lights, San Francisco San Francisco Fire announces the 3rd annual Fire Station Community Holiday Decorations Competition for 2022. During the 1940s, stations would compete for the best decorations and best-decorated stations for the Holiday seasons. This tradition was lost in the 1950s, and last year we brought it back. Firefighters and their respective stations more...
SF Chinatown’s 1st Holiday Light Festival
San Francisco For the first time, San Francisco Chinatown is lit up for the holidays. Chinatown is hosting its first-ever Holiday Light Festival through the end of the year. When the initial idea was kicked around, it was going to be a low-key holiday lane with 20-30 businesses participating, but now over 200 Chinatown businesses more...
SF’s New Central Subway (Supposedly) Will Get High-Speed 5G
Brand New, San Francisco, Transportation San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), and Mobilitie, the leading wireless infrastructure provider in the United States, recently announced they will bring wireless connectivity to the Central Subway system in time for its grand debut in January 2023. Passengers of the highly anticipated Central Subway will have unlimited access to ultra-fast more...
Sneak Peek Inside SF’s Famous Storybook Christmas House
Bay Area Favorites, Christmas, San Francisco You may have seen Caleb Simpson‘s famous house tour videos on Tik Tok and Instagram. He makes MTV Cribs-style videos for this generation. Normally, his videos feature apartments in New York from everyday people to designers to celebrities, but now the content creator has popped up in San Francisco. In this more...
SF Getting Rid of 1,000+ Parking Spaces in 2023
San Francisco, Transportation Thanks to ABC7 for letting us know that due to new SFMTA Bus Stop Guidelines that the city will be removing approximately 1,200 parking spaces to help make it easier and safer for people to board Muni buses, especially those with mobility issues. The new guidelines, which were approved by the more...
SF’s 117-Year-Old Bar “Savoy Tivoli” Reopens After 4 Years
Bars, Reopening, San Francisco, Sponsored After a four year closure, the historic 117-year-old open-air bar, Savoy Tivoli of North Beach, will finally officially re-open on Thursday, Dec 15, 2022. In 2018, The Savoy was forced to close while the building that houses it underwent a city mandated earthquake retrofit. Prior to that, the Savoy had been more...
Huge End-of-2022 Craft Market at Hangar 1’s Alameda Distillery
Holidays, Sponsored On the third Sunday of each month from 11a-5p, enjoy browsing through Head West Marketplace’s 100+ local craft and plant merchants at Hangar 1 Vodka’s Alameda distillery, which is a converted WWII-era airplane hangar. This Sunday (December 18th) it’s your prefect chance to pick up last minute gifts from local more...
Bay Area Might Get a New 4-Lane “State Highway 239”
Brand New, East Bay, Transportation By Bay City News Public comments are being accepted for a proposed new state highway that would connect state Highway 4 in eastern Contra Costa County to either Interstate Highway 580 in Alameda County or a location further east at Interstate Highway 205 in San Joaquin County. State Highway 239 would connect more...
SF’s Mel’s Drive-In Offering $4 Burgers for 75th Anniversary
Deals, Indoor Dining, San Francisco Mel’s Drive-in, the iconic 1950s-style diner is celebrating its 75th anniversary with turn-back-the-clock prices on December 14, 2022 at all four of its San Francisco locations – giving 75% off some of their classic dishes – meaning that for one day only a burger and fries runs for only $4.24. Please more...
Bay Area Holiday Tradition “Bethlehem A.D.” Ending After 30 Years
Bay Area Favorites, Celebrations, Christmas Thanks to SF Gate for sharing the news that one of the USA’s largest living nativity scenes is hosting its final Bethlehem A.D.. a Bay Area tradition for the past 30 years. Sadly, the “Disneyland of Nativity scenes” is hosting its last event in 2022 because the land has been more...
USA’s Largest Holiday Light Arts Fest “Let’s Glow SF” Returns to SF
Artsy Fartsy, Holiday Lights, Only in San Francisco Let’s Glow SF returns to Downtown San Francisco for the second year in a row. The free, outdoor holiday light arts festival is returning with more artists’ holiday-inspired works projected across some of downtown’s most notable buildings. From 5-10pm nightly, running Friday, December 2, 2022 – Sunday, December 11, 2022, is more...
SF’s Great Highway Will Stay Car-Free on Weekends Until 2025
Bay Area Updates, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches, San Francisco Thanks to SF Chronicle for sharing the news that San Francisco’s Great Highway will remain car-free on weekends for the next three years through December 31, 2025 after the Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday. The Great Highway stretches 3.8 miles down San Francisco’s western coast, bordering Ocean Beach. Every weekend more...
Santa Visits Oakland Zoo to Pass Out Presents to Animals
Adorable, East Bay, Oakland In adorable news, Santa visited the Oakland Zoo to treat the animals to some holiday presents. Santa zipped around the Zoo on a festively decorated golf cart with a giant sack of presents he delivered to all the animals on the “nice” list. Watch the elephants, tigers and more unwrap and more...
The Great Dickens Christmas Fair is Back for 2022
Bay Area Favorites, Christmas, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Only in San Francisco After two years, The Great Dickens Christmas Fair is finally back in person. Now in its 38th season, this is your chance to visit old-timey London, at the historic Cow Palace Exhibition Halls. The Great Dickens Christmas Fair is a one-of-a-kind immersive adventure into Victorian London ~ an elaborate holiday party with more...
