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2015 Korea Day Festival
By - posted 9/19/2015
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Round up your favorite folks for the ultimate family-friendly Korean-style festival, now in its seventh year. Enjoy live performances, gallery tours, art-making activities, food tastings and other experiences dedicated to Korean culture. For the festival’s feature performance, classically trained duo KABAM, who interpret Korean folk music through a contemporary lens, will more...

The Oktoberfest Games
By - posted 9/19/2015
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Celebrate Oktoberfest at SoMa StrEat Food Park and their communal picnic tables just like in Munich. Not just with awesome German microbrews and but also with The Oktoberfest Games – sausage tossing, stein holding contests and beer barrel sip and spin. The 2015 Oktoberfest Games Saturday, September 19, 2015 (11:30am to 4:30pm) SoMa StrEat more...

“Caltopia” UC Berkeley Campus Festival
By - posted 8/20/2015
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Caltopia is an annual free two-day campus festival at the start of the UC Berkeley school year that’s free for the entire community – you don’t have to be a student to get in on the action and giveaways. 2015 Caltopia Sunday-Monday, August 23-24, 2015 | 10 am to 4 pm UC Berkeley FREE Over more...

Four Barrel’s $1 Coffee Day
By - posted 8/15/2015
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It’s time to toast to one of the city’s best roasts at Four Barrel Coffee’s 7th Birthday Bash at their Valencia storefront. Every year is a special treat with delicious coffee, birthday cake, ice cream, a petting zoo and games for kids. Four Barrel’s 7th Birthday Bash Wednesday, August 19, 2015 | 7 am to more...

Civil War Days
By - posted 8/10/2015
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Fort Point is called to action once again. Experience first-hand the momentous era of the American Civil War from live re-enactors, through infantry and artillery demonstrations, medicine in the 1800s, music, Victorian dance, and exhibits displaying the lives of men, women, and children of days past. Civil War Living History Day Saturday, more...

Bastille Day Block Party
By - posted 7/12/2015
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Bastille Day at an Irish Pub? Mais oui, laddy? The Irish Bank celebrates 2015 Bastille Day with a block party on Bush (at Mark Lane) from 5 pm to midnight on July 14, 2015. Bastille Day Block Party Tuesday, July 14, 2015 | 5pm The Irish Bank, 10 Mark Lane, SF FREE – Admission is free more...

Bastille Day 2015 Party Guide
By - posted 7/9/2015
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San Francisco 4th of July Fireworks
By - posted 7/1/2015
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San Francisco Pride Parade
By - posted 6/26/2015
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Art meets politics in a fleet of floats, vehicles, and marchers along Market Street during the San Francisco Pride Parade, one the nation’s largest LGBT events, starting at 10:30 am on Pride Sunday. Bring a rainbow flag and come cheer on dykes on bikes, bears in straps, trannies in gowns, and others from SF’s colorful LGBT more...

SF Celebrates Gay Marriage Ruling
By - posted 6/26/2015
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In a landmark ruling by the Supreme Court issued Friday, same-sex marriage is now legal in all 50 states. Read the actual Supreme court ruling. While this doesn’t change things much in California (it was already legal here and in 36 other states), we should get ready for a big celebration more...

“Pink Saturday” Block Party in the Castro
By - posted 6/25/2015
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The night before the Pride Parade, The Pink Party takes over the streets of the Castro by closing them to cars and then pumping multiple sound stages to celebrate a long-time tradition of bringing a fabulous, queer and community-focused street party to raise money for local, LGBT non-profit organizations. Photo Credit: Erin more...

SF’s City Hall 100th Birthday Celebration in 30 Seconds
By - posted 6/20/2015
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San Francisco City Hall celebrated its 100th birthday with a big 5-hour celebration on Friday, June 19th highlighted by a fantastic LED light show on the facade of City Hall. Couldn’t make it to Civic Center for the event? Here’s the entire light show in just 30 seconds. The biggest cheers for more...

SF Botanical Garden 75th Anniversay
By - posted 5/30/2015
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2015 marks 75 years since San Francisco Botanical Garden opened to the public as a place of beauty, learning and inspiration. To honor this anniversary, they’ve designed a day just for you. Enjoy free admission for all – normally $7 for non-SF adult residents. The celebration features family activities, giant puppets and a sing-a-long, more...

San Francisco Carnaval
By - posted 5/21/2015
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The 2015 San Francisco Carnaval Festival (May 23-24, 2015 from 10 am to 6 pm) transforms Harrison Street into a wonderland of food, music, dance, art, crafts. The 2015 theme is Agua Sagrada, which is Spanish for “sacred water.” It symbolizes the universal reverence for the most basic element of life.. Photo credits: Oliver Klink more...

Bike To Work Day 2015
By - posted 5/13/2015
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It’s the 21st annual Bike to Work Day so grab your bike and join tens of thousands of people pedaling to the office on Thursday, May 14, 2015. The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition hosts a robust Bike to Work Day event with 22 Energizer Stations with snacks and bike doctors, plus more...