City Insight
If you have the day off on Memorial Day, why not spend part of your day learning something new about the city you love. San Francisco City Guides will be offering thirteen free guided walking tours on Memorial Day Monday. All tours are free and open to the public, but donations are welcome. Memorial Day more...
Join in for a San Francisco book launch event like no other, celebrating the people, cultures, and artists that make the Mission District a community. In his latest photography book, The Mission, Dick Evans captures the pulse of life in the Mission District, the San Francisco neighborhood known for its murals more...
From Friday, March 31 to Friday, April 7, 2017 the SFMTA is closing off a small segment of northbound Octavia Street, from Linden to Hayes streets, for the Octavia Open Street events that will experiment with opening this block for people who want to walk or bike more in the more...
Join environmentally conscious people all over the globe by turning off your lights for one hour on Saturday night and instead use light candles, or simply enjoy the dark of the night. In a show of support, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Bay Lights, along with dozens of buildings, monuments all over the country all turn more...
Three federal judges at San Francisco’s 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in a challenge of President Trumps executive order on immigration on Tuesday, February 7, 2017. (read more on SF Gate) The hour-long hearing is scheduled to start at 3pm at the courthouse at 95 Seventh St. in more...
Wild SF Tours, the funky leaders of people’s history tours in San Francisco neighborhoods, are offering free tours from February 1-15, 2017. Journey through the city with radical artist-guides, and explore the history and social movements that shaped our beloved city. Free but you must book online to reserve a space. Donations more...
The San Francisco Arts Commission presents an extensive exhibition of work by legendary 60s rock ‘n’ roll photographer Jim Marshall and a new Market Street Poster Series featuring contemporary perspectives on the Summer of Love by local artists As part of a citywide celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Summer of more...
Shaping San Francisco is a series of free lectures, which aim to excavate the city’s lost history. It’s a place to meet and talk unmediated by corporations, official spokespeople, religion, political parties, or dogma. Shaping San Francisco Periodic Wednesdays | 7:30 pm Eric Quezada Center for Culture & Politics | 518 Valencia St., SF FREE January more...
As our cities continue to grow, the potential to use historic buildings becomes greater than ever. The new book The Past and Future City addresses how historic preservation can go beyond the physical renovation and activation of old buildings and address issues like affordable housing, inequality, sustainability and displacement. Join SPUR more...
Got any overdue books from the library at home that you haven’t wanted to return because you’re worried about the fine? Now’s your chance! For the first time since 2009 the San Francisco Public Library is offering their “Fine Forgiveness Program“ from January 3 – February 14, 2017. For six weeks more...
Take a moment and give back to the community this Thanksgiving. Read on below for organizations across San Francisco and the Bay Area in need of volunteers to help spread food and warmth to those less fortunate. Know of another volunteering opportunity for Thanksgiving 2016? Let us know! Thanksgiving Day Block Party San more...
Does size really matter? In the realm of skyscraper architecture, perhaps. Although there was initially some confusion as to when exactly this happened, ABC7 News says the Salesforce Tower is now SF’s tallest building, having finally surpassed the height of the Transamerica Pyramid, which stands at a static 853 feet. This makes more...
If you love the FuncheapSF website and all the free events we dig up, we’d love to ask you to take a few minutes and vote for FuncheapSF as “Best Overall Website” in the San Francisco Bay Guardian‘s annual “Best of the Bay” Readers Poll for 2016. Yes, the Guardian is back! more...
On September 24, 2016, 16 community gardens will be open to the public for enjoyment, education and to celebrate these unique green spaces. Activities include workdays, BBQs, a plant sketching event, photography, and compost and tree pruning workshops. ere will also be a hub of activity at the Golden Gate Park CommUNITY Garden. View the more...
Each San Francisco neighborhood (defined by zipcode) can visit the California Academy of Sciences for free over a three-day weekend (Friday, Saturday, or Sunday) in the spring and fall of each year. So that means as long as you have a driver’s license or other proof of residency, you can save yourself more...
