Watch the Season 3 premiere of Downton Abbey live on KQED at Elixir, one of San Francisco’s most historic bars while sipping period cocktails from 1920s London. Celebrate the return of the Grantham clan as the English country estate enters the 1920s and a new era post-WWI. 1920s Classic London Cocktail Party Elixir mixologists will more...

Celebrate two legends who share a birthday and a record label at the annual San Francisco DJ celebration on January 5, 2013 with DJs Shindog (New Wave City), Moonshine (Bangers & Cornbread), Cammy and Andy Twill playing everything from Hound Dog to Diamond Dogs, plus a guest appearance by Bowie Sermon, Glam-Rock Mass By The more...

It’s January 2013 and so shed that holiday hangover and plan ahead for fun for the month. Get ready to show your knickers for No Pants BART Ride Day (1/13) celebrate the Sea Lions on their 23rd Anniversary of arriving in Pier 39 (1/18-21), sample your way through 30 of the more...

You had us at “burlesque” and “creepy puppets” As Oakland Art Murmur winds down on your Friday night, find your way to the Stork Club on 23rd and Telegraph around 9pm for the perfectly strange after-party – The First Friday Follies burlesque show – a monthly free event featuring dancing girls, sometimes more...

Housed within the walls of San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, the Exploratorium is a collage of hundreds of science, art, and human perception exhibits. Free admission on first Wednesday of each month; however, due to capacity limits, groups of 10 or more are required to make reservations or will not more...

We hope you’re rested and recovered and ready to start out 2013 active! There’s a whole slate of fun things to do on New Year’s Day, January 1, 2013 to help get the new year off to a great start. Whether it’s continuing your dancing and drinking, taking a serene moment to more...

Dress in white and get ready to shake it down on the dance floor to the beats of Brazil native DJ Rubens Kroy for a Brazilian White Party on Saturday, December 29, 2012. There will be $5 drink specials on caipirinhas, Brazil’s national cocktail. Brazilian White Party Saturday, December 29, 2012 (10p to late) Bacchus Kirk, more...

Want to hear the soundtrack of your life while downing cocktails & beers staring at just $1? Of course you do, so join Battle of the Decades every Wednesday at Monroe. There is a live DJ, two rooms and an outdoor patio and tiered pricing synced with music of its decade. Battle Of The Decades Every Wednesday, more...

Opt out of today’s traffic gridlock and last-minute mall madness for a serene Christmas Eve hike on December 24, 2012 called “Miles from Macy’s. Join docents Keith Johnsgård and Harry Cornbleet on this annual Christmas Eve hike and experience the serene silence and smog-free air of a world without concrete. You’ll more...

It’s Doomsday — go out with a bang, Disco or Die. Mayan legend states that the only way to the other side is to dance to 70’s disco music while Armageddon takes place. Since the world might end on Friday, December 21, 2012, Mighty has decided the best way to celebrate more...

So December 21, 2012 is supposed to be the end of the world, right?  It’s not just the Mayans that proclaimed it… R.E.M. had something to say about it as well, so it must be true. Whether doomsday actually comes or not on Friday, we’ll be prepared (with free lift tickets, block more...

See one of the Bay Area’s coolest all-girl bands, listen to an all vinyl DJs set and help your self to a super-short 30 minute open vodka bar all for just 5 bucks at Tricycle Records’ 2012 Holiday Party at Public Works on December 19, 2012. Tricycle Records’ 2012 Holiday Party Wednesday, December more...

Ready to celebrate New Years? Come get ready for a New Years-level pregame party featuring a fashion show, board games, and music.  Complimentary sparkling wine is provided at the event. Eventbrite NYE Pre-Game Party Tuesday, December 18, 2012 (6p) The Parlor, 2801 Leavenworth, SF FREE with RSVP Want to drink for free?  Bring one unwrapped more...

Every Monday night, San Francisco’s Hubba Hubba Revue burlesque and variety show comes to shake their tasselled nipples, flutter their bejewled eyelashes and wiggle their powdered bums in downtown Oakland’s Uptown nightclub. Hubba Hubba Revue Every Monday; Doors at 9pm, show at 10:15pm. The Uptown, 1928 Telegraph Ave.  Oakland $5 (most shows) Getting there: The Uptown is just more...

The rock concert venue The Independent goes dark on monday night… dark knight that is.  Every so often the Indy hosts Monday night free movie screenings called Cinema Drafthouse. Admission is free, but there’s a two-drink minimum (which we’ve never actually seen enforced). During movie nights, the Independent also usually serves pitchers of more...