The Weekend in Cheap | August 19-21
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 to spend your Friday listening to some Pitchfork-approved tunes at an intimate and exclusive concert by distorted lo-fi mastermind Dirty Beaches in the Clift Hotel’s swanky Velvet Room venue.Clift Hotel (495 Geary St., SF) | Friday, August 19 | 9p-1a | FREE*
*RSVP required
Saturday, August 20
SF Street Food Festival
Sample fare from some of the most hyped-about restaurant and mobile eateries in the city like Pizzeria Delfina, Bi-Rite Creamery and Beretta at La Cocina’s 3rd Annual San Francisco Street Food Festival, which will stretch along Folsom Street for four blocks of pure foodie heaven.Folsom Street, Mission District (Folsom St. from 22nd St. to 26th St., SF) | Saturday, August 20 | 11a-7p | FREE*
*Free admission, just buy your food.YBCA Free Day
Show up to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for a self-curated art event with performances, films, music, workshops and refreshments, and see everything from a literary death match to heavy metal-inspired quilting at this free, full day of films, food trucks and fine art.Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (701 Mission St., SF) | Saturday, August 20| Noon – 8pm | FREE*
*Free admission, food vendors will be extra.Golden Gate Park Scavenger Run
Make sure to stretch before the Half Full Running Club’s photo scavenger run around Golden Gate Park and do either the short (4-6 miles) or long course (10+) with your teammates to win prizes for all the panting you’re sure to do.Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park (100 John F. Kennedy Dr., SF) | Saturday, August 20 | 8a | FREE
Sunday, August 21
Stern Grove Festival 2011: SF Opera
The renowned San Francisco Opera and its orchestra will perform an afternoon of arias and solos with internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano Dolora Zajick for a free performance in the park at this Sunday’s installment of the 2011 Stern Grove Festival.Stern Grove (2750 19th Ave., SF) | Sunday, August 21 | 2p | FREE
What about the week ahead? Just because it’s no longer the weekend, doesn’t mean the fun ends.
Monday, August 22– A peep show reading at the Booksmith
Tuesday, August 23- “The Maltese Falcon” & free wine-tasting
Wednesday, August 24– YouTube happy hour, “Swingers” & swing-dancing
Thursday, August 25 – Dinosaur NightLife, free jazz @ Yoshi’s
