SF City Guides
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2025 (Oct. 3-5): Everything You Need to Know
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Only in San Francisco Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is one of the largest, free-est and beloved music festivals in the country. Be one of over 750,000 attendees over the three-day musical extravaganza in beautiful Golden Gate Park. Save the date as Hardly Strictly Bluegrass makes its return for 2025. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2025 Friday- Sunday, October 3-5, more...
SF’s Brand New 38-Mile Trail Circles the Entire City
Outdoorsy, San Francisco San Francisco now has a walking route that traces nearly every edge of the city. Called The Roundabout, the new 38-mile perimeter trail connects shoreline paths, neighborhood greenways, parks, and public art into one continuous loop. The trail starts and ends at the Ferry Building and can be completed in about more...
SF Hosts Rare “Willie Mays” Museum for One Week Only (Until Sept. 27)
Local Icons, Museums / Cultural Institutions, Wow For one week only, fans can step inside a rare “pop-up museum” dedicated to the life and legacy of baseball legend Willie Mays. Nearly 450 items from Mays’ personal collection, including his two National League MVP awards, 1954 World Series ring, Gold Gloves, and even his high school diploma, are more...
CA’s 3rd-Largest Farmers Market to Launch Big 2027 Upgrade
Bay Area Favorites, Groceries / Supermarkets After more than a decade of planning, Marin’s farmers market is finally getting a forever home. The Agricultural Institute of Marin (AIM), the nonprofit behind some of the Bay Area’s biggest markets, just signed a 40-year lease with Marin County to create a permanent market space at the Marin County Civic more...
“Blue Bottle” to Close Huge Oakland Spot After 11 Years
Eat & Drink, Goodbye, Oakland Blue Bottle Coffee is shutting down one of its biggest Bay Area cafés. The spacious shop inside Oakland’s historic W.C. Morse building at 4270 Broadway will serve its last latte on Friday, September 26, 2025, after 11 years in business. Blue Bottle first opened in the landmark building in 2014, making more...
This is SF’s Wild Underground Robot Fight Club
Geeks, San Francisco SF nightlife just got weirder. Ultimate Fighting Bots, the city’s “first robot combat league,” brought hundreds of techies, artists, and curious locals to the basement of “Frontier Tower” (a 16-floor private club/tech space lab at 995 Market St. (at 6th St., right across from The Warfield) for a cyberpunk-style robot more...
Union Square’s $40 Million Makeover Coming to Powell Street
Artsy Fartsy, Brand New, Downtown San Francisco Union Square is planning a $40 million makeover for the three blocks of Powell Street between Market Street and Union Square. The redesign includes a giant suspended “golden lantern” of hundreds of programmable LED bulbs above the cable car turnaround, plus rows of glowing globe lights strung in a zigzag pattern more...
SF’s New $4.1 Million Treehouse-Inspired Playground
Bay Area Updates, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches, San Francisco Families in San Francisco’s Sunset District have a brand new playground to check out with the reopening of Stern Grove Playground. Set among the grove’s tall trees just off Sloat Boulevard, the renovated play space has been redesigned with a woodland theme. The new features include tree-like towers, climbing nets, log more...
SF’s 113-Year-Old Clay Theater to Return After 4 Year Closure
Local Icons, Reopening, San Francisco The historic Clay Theater at 2261 Fillmore Street is coming back to life. Closed since 2020, the 113-year-old single-screen cinema will be restored with 200 seats, upgraded sound and projection, and a refreshed lobby. Plans filed this week call for over 500 screenings a year, plus space for talks, community more...
Big Sur’s Scenic Waterfall Trail Finally Reopens
Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches, Reopening, Road Trip One of Big Sur’s most beloved hikes is finally back. California State Parks just reopened the Pfeiffer Falls Trail in Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park after more than a year-long closure caused by storm damage. The short but scenic .75-mile trail winds through a shady redwood canyon and ends at a more...
Berkeley’s New $1.99 Burger Joint
Brand New, East Bay, Eat & Drink Campus Burgers, the South Bay’s ultra-cheap smash burger spot, just opened a new location near UC Berkeley and it is already drawing huge crowds. The menu is built for student budgets: $1.99 hamburgers, $2.99 cheeseburgers, and $4.99 double cheeseburgers, plus fries, shakes, and sodas. This is the third Campus Burgers, joining more...
Driverless Waymo Rides Coming to SFO
Brand New, Transportation, Travel Waymo can now operate at San Francisco International Airport, a major step for the autonomous ride-hailing company. The permit allows the company to roll out service in three phases. First, Waymo will test vehicles around the airport with a human driver. Then it can test fully autonomous rides with Waymo more...
SF’s “Flower Piano” Festival is Back September 12-21
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, San Francisco, Sponsored Flower Piano is back! Find hidden pianos in SF’s Botanical Garden. Flower Piano is set to return to the Botanical Garden this September 2025 for 10 days—September 12-21, with a special opening night event on Friday, September 12. In the final days of summer and celebrating its 10th anniversary, Flower Piano will more...
Bay Area’s Best Pumpkin Patches for 2025
Bay Area Favorites, Fun & Games, Halloween Get into the fall spirit by picking out your favorite pumpkin at a local pumpkin patch. Best of all, nearly all of the pumpkin patches listed below offer free admission for all. Some fun fall activities like their corn mazes or hayrides may require a fee though. Here’s a list of more...
SF’s 21st Amendment Brewery Closing After 25 Years
Bars, Eat & Drink, Goodbye, San Francisco Sad news for Bay Area beer lovers: SF-born 21st Amendment Brewery is shutting down. Both the South Beach taproom and the San Leandro brewery will close their doors on November 4, 2025. 21st Amendment helped kick off SF’s craft beer scene back in 2000, opening just as Pac Bell Park (now more...
