Fun & Games
If you still haven’t come out to play at SOMArts’ 2012 Come Out and Play exhibition, here is your last chance to check out the exhibit and play games. The gallery is free and open to the public Tuesdays through Fridays, noon to 7pm through December 19, 2012. Our favorite game more...
The 25th Anniversary celebration of Street Fighter will culminate at the Grand Finals event at the Hyatt Regency SFO in Burlingame on Saturday, December 8th from 10am to 9pm. Admission is free, and the first 1,000 guests will receive goodie bags filled with exclusive Street Fighter collectibles. Fans can expect: A barrage of bonus more...
The top rated Game of Thrones podcast, Boars, Gore, and Swords, comes to Murphy’s Pub to record Please, Please, Don’t Kill Me, a gameshow based on Game of Thrones. Stand up comics compete to avoid beheading. With a turnip truck full of SF Sketchfest alum and a Comicon hall full of more...
SF’s best barbacks battle it out in Fernet Branca’s annual Barback Games in a gladiator-style competition of keg changing and ice bucket relays, along with live music, DJs, circus acts, live screenprinting and more. Fernet-Branca Barback Games Sunday, December 2, 2012 (8p) Regency Ballroom, 1300 Van Ness, SF FREE with RSVP (21+) Fernet-Branca hosts an awesome more...
Oakland soap bubble artist Mike L. Miller invites bubble enthusiasts of all ages to come bubble with him in Mosswood Park at 11 am on Sunday, November 18, 2012. Bring your favorite bubble toys and gadgets or simply watch the show as he uses one-of-a-kind equipment to launch soap bubbles of all sizes and shapes high more...
Watch test pilots redefine air travel when they launch their homemade, human-powered flying machines off a 30-foot ramp into the chilly McCovey Cove waters in “hopes” of achieving flight at the 2012 Red Bull Flugtag on November 10, 2012. This is the 10th anniversary of the very first Flugtag which took more...
Jericho is an urban spy game with Nerf guns played sneaky in public settings all over SF like malls and parks, where everyone assumes the role of a spy like a giant secret game of Capture the Flag. Each team of “agents” will carry out missions where they will need to more...
Northern California’s largest sandcastle building event, the 29th annual Leap Sandcastle Contest is a spirited competition between teams of architects, engineers, contractors, designers and local elementary school students at Ocean Beach (just below the cliff house) on October 20, 2012 from 10am to 4pm. There’s also a community castle for everyone more...
Subpar Miniature Golf in Alameda is not your normal mini golf course. Yes, it’s got 18 holes of mini-golf play… but this is your chance to play Gulliver to a lillpution Bay Area as each hole is a shrunk down slice of our cities by the bay. Test your putting skills through this indoor golf more...
Celebrate the Grand Opening of CityTarget in the Metreon and come out for a free weekend of roller skating fun at C9’s Roller CityTarget rink in Yerba Buena Gardens for on Saturday, Oct. 13 and Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012. The 80-foot long by 60-foot wide rink has been installed for guests to more...
Join the Squirt Gun Mafia and a crowd of Bay Area hydrophiles for a giant squirt gun battle in the park as we attempt to settle a dispute that has plagued mankind for centuries – the themed battle of Mythical Creatures vs. Science Come dressed to support your team and bring more...
Applications are now being accepted from avid aviators brave enough to pilot their homemade “air” crafts into the depths of McCovey Cove in San Francisco on November 10, 2012 as part of the 2012 Red Bull “Flugtag.” Approximately 35 teams will be chosen to compete in the international flying spectacle. The more...
Bike over to the USF campus for the “Bike With Friends” Bike Fair and enjoy free bike-powered smoothies and spin art, tandem bike rides, and free bike repairs. USF Bike Festival Tuesday, September 4, 2012 (11:30a-1:30p) USF, Gleeson Plaza, 2130 Fulton St, SF FREE FREE bike-blended smoothies FREE bike-powered spin art FREE bike repair stand FREE tandem bike rides Come more...
The Showdown, an urban DJ saloon presents a not-so-average night of rowdy interactive trivia called “Quiz in my Pants: hosted by Captain Joe Garvey of CLASH – The California League of Adult Scavenger Hunters. What makes it interactive? Inter-team challenges, DJ interludes and a half-time limbo party that will knock your socks more...
Want free stuff to play with? Are you good at breaking things? Leafcutter Designs wants you! Leafcutter designs is a creative studio run by San Francisco artist Lea Redmond who dreams up and creates miniature and strange little art pieces and whimsical goods – like the world’s smallest post office, teeny more...
