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SF’s Iconic 420 Festival in Golden Gate Park Canceled for 2024
Bay Area Favorites, Bay Area Updates, Festival Updates Just announced, sadly, San Francisco’s annual 420 Festival in Golden Gate Park has been cancelled for 2024. Instead, Robin Williams Meadow will host its first ever field day with kickball and volleyball tournaments. The City’s annual 420 festival will not be held in Golden Gate Park next month, the San Francisco more...
SF’s “Terror Vault” 1874 Halloween Haunt is Back for Spring ($20 Off Tix)
Bay Area Favorites, Deals, Get Out: Events, Halloween, Only in San Francisco, San Francisco, Sponsored San Francisco’s premiere haunted attraction returns for a brand new season with “The Initiation” an all-new, bigger, and more terrifying theatrical and immersive experience from the insane mind of Peaches Christ. Brand new for Spring 2024: After a completely sold out run in Halloween, Terror Vault is taking over The Mint once more...
SF’s 2024 Chinese New Year Parade w/ Awkwafina as Grand Marshall
Bay Area Favorites, Celebrations, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Lunar New Year, Only in San Francisco, San Francisco Named one of the world’s top ten parades, the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco is the largest celebration of its kind outside of Asia. It was started in the 1860s and takes place the weekend of the Chinese New Year Community Street Fair (Feb. 24-25, 2024). Typically, nearly 100 more...
SF’s Beloved (and Oldest) Toy Shop “Jeffrey’s Toys” May Close After Holidays
Bay Area Favorites, City Insight, Getting Help, San Francisco Sadly, ABC7 has shared the news that San Francisco’s oldest toy store, Jeffrey’s Toys, located at 45 Kearny Street, may sadly close its doors permanently after the holidays. If you have any last-minute Christmas shopping, consider stepping into Jeffrey’s Toys to help keep the family-owned and operated toy store afloat. more...
SF Honors 12 Historic Businesses With Legacy Status
Bay Area Favorites, San Francisco The San Francisco Small Business Commission continues to recognize longstanding, community-serving, and culturally vital businesses, unanimously approving 12 businesses for the Legacy Business Registry. Currently, a total of 388 businesses have been added to the Legacy Business Registry since it started in 2015. The recent entrants include: City Art Gallery 2.0 (aka more...
Golden Gate Park’s Iconic “Stow Lake” Getting A New Name
Bay Area Favorites, Only in San Francisco, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches Thanks to SF Gate for sharing the news that a “short list” of new names for Golden Gate Park’s Stow Lake has been released. The decision comes after years of scrutiny surrounding the lake’s namesake, William Stow – a 19th-century California Assemblymember, who expressed his antisemitism openly throughout his political career. more...
Golden Gate Park’s Lighted Forest is Back for 2023
Artsy Fartsy, Bay Area Favorites, Holiday Lights, San Francisco San Francisco’s popular “Entwined” Lighted Forest in Golden Gate is back* from December 7, 2023 – April 28, 2024. *Pending permit approval, of course! The Entwined installation is still pending approval. It was reviewed at Wednesday’s Visual Arts Committee meeting, and next will be up for final approval at an upcoming more...
Oakland’s First Fridays Going On Hiatus Starting in January
Bay Area Favorites, Bay Area Updates, East Bay, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Oakland Thanks to KTVU for sharing the unfortunate news that Oakland’s First Fridays block party is going on hiatus. The popular, lively monthly street fair, happening on first Fridays, has announced they will be taking a break from the festival. Although attendance isn’t down, it receives between 15,000 to 35,000 attendees each more...
Copper Spoon, One of Oakland Few Late-Night Restaurants, Closes Down
Bars, Bay Area Favorites, Goodbye, Sponsored, What's Closed / What's Open One of the few great “after-shift: late night drink and dinner spots in Oakland is closing down for good after six years. A rarity among good restaurants in Oakland (and San Francisco, for that matter) Copper Spoon at 4031 Broadway, served food until 11pm on weekdays and until 12:30am on weekends more...
Sen. Diane Feinstein Public Memorial & Funeral at SF’s City Hall (Oct. 4-5)
Bay Area Favorites, Brand New, Community, Goodbye, Local Icons, Only in San Francisco, San Francisco U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who died last week at the age of 90, will lie in state Wednesday, October 4, 2023 at San Francisco City Hall and a public funeral service will now be held Thursday on the steps of the building. On Wednesday, the public will be invited to pay more...
SF’s Huge “TreasureFest” Returns to Treasure Island in 2024
Artsy Fartsy, Bay Area Favorites, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches, San Francisco, Things to Do For the first time since November 2019, the massive “TreasureFest” makes its return to Treasure Island on February 24-25, 2024. Announced on September 19, 2023, Treasure Fest, a huge 18,000+ weekend festival will once again take over the eastern side of Treasure Island for 11 monthly weekend-long festivals starting in February more...
SF’s Ferry Building to be Raised 7 Feet to Protect from Sea Level Rise?
Bay Area Favorites, Bay Area Updates, Local Icons, Only in San Francisco, San Francisco, Uplifting, Wow Thanks to NPR for letting us know about San Francisco’s bold (and expensive) new plan to protect the important city buildings in case sea levels continue to rise. And so SF’s iconic Ferry Building may soon be getting a lift. Although there are no actual plans or specific proposals in place more...
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Unveils Final Lineup For 2023
Bay Area Favorites, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Parks & Beaches Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Unveils Final Lineup For 2023 Additions Include: Bettye LaVette, Big Richard, Buddy Miller, Cassandra Lewis, Dawes, deadramones, Della Mae, Dry Branch Fire Squad, The Go To Hell Man Band, The Jerry Douglas Band, Jimmie Dale Gilmore & The West Texas Exiles, Jon Langford & The Bright Shiners, Laurie Lewis & more...
SF’s Oldest Gay Bar “The Stud” is Coming Back!
Bay Area Favorites, Bay Area Updates, Brand New, LGBTQ+, What's Closed / What's Open The Stud, the country’s only cooperatively owned LGBT bar that had been in operation for 54 years but shut down in May of 2020 is coming back! SF’s oldest Gay Bar dating back to 1966 was originally located on Folsom where Holy Cow is now. In 1987 the bar moved to more...
A Massive “Sky Heart” Tribute to Tony Bennett is Coming to SF
Bay Area Favorites, Celebrations, Local Icons, Only in San Francisco, Outdoorsy Antenna Theater’s “Heart of San Francisco” has appeared over the Golden Gate Bridge for several years. It is drawn by a sky-writing plane, one-mile high. It is meant to be a virtual manifestation of the essence of San Francisco’s soul and visionary spirit. For 2023, the Antenna Theater will dedicate The more...
