Get Out: Events
Fifteen hand-picked companies representing the automotive, solar, wind, building materials, energy efficiency and smart grid industries will run the show, displaying their coolest products and illustrating this year’s theme: “The Power of Global Partnerships”. The two-day 2012 Cleantech “Eco City“ festival will take place on March 27 and 28 on Justin Herman Plaza, in more...
The San Francisco Gallery Art Walk is a free, self-guided, and public event centered around the Union Square art galleries on Post and Sutter. Held Saturday, March 24th, from 12pm to 5pm, the Winter Art Walk enables you to peruse each of the nine galleries on the itinerary and discover hundreds more...
You say you wanna dance with somebody? Here is your chance to show your love for Whitney Houston and show San Francisco your moves. Whitney Houston Flash Mob Day Friday, March 23, 2012 Market & Castro, SF – Show up: 6:15p – Performance: 6:30p Want to Participate?: 1) Watch the awkward instructional video and learn the dance. Don’t worry, more...
Join Drambuie Liqueur – a blended Scotch whisky libation of herbs and heather honey – for an epic clash of the cocktails at a bar near you, as local master mixologists compete to see whose Rusty Nail remix reigns supreme. Try cocktails from top bartenders and compete in bar games. In more...
Yoshi’s San Francisco may have the big out-of-town headliners in their main room, but for a peek at some of the Bay Area’s best local jazz talent, they’ve opened up their jazz lounge for free live music seven nights a week (usually 6:30p to 11p) as part of Yoshi’s Local more...
The Creators Project will transform Fort Mason into a colossal two-day indoor art and technology festival featuring towering multimedia art installations, film screenings, and panels. Although there’s no live music on Sunday, there’s still tons to do with artworks on display all weekend, and over the course of the festival we’ll be screening films and hosting more...
Stuck in SF when all the fun is happening in Austin? Sub Pop records will be at Monarch in SoMa on Friday, March 16, 2012 livestreaming their SXSW Records showcase from Austin on the big screen featuring Niki & the Dove, Spoek Mathambo and THEESatisfaction with Claude VonStroke in house in SF to keep more...
Too many yoga classes are like slow forms of Pilate: meant only as physical exercise. If you want something far more contemplative, closer to yoga’s original spiritual nature, come to Yoga on the Labyrinth Tuesday nights inside Grace Cathedral. Yoga teacher Darren Main incorporates live music into the practice, adding more...
Want to play a little bingo and win some prizes while breaking a sweat? Play “Bicycle Bingo” a weekly series at Oakland’s Actual Cafe where the bingo machine is actually a hacked-together bicycle contraption built by Monkey Likes Shinythat shuffles and dispenses the bingo balls. Plus volunteers from the audience get to ride the bike to more...
The White Elephant Sale has taken one person’s trash and recycled it into someone else’s treasure for more than 50 years. The biggest rummage sale in Northern California, the White Elephant Sale is housed in a 96,000-square-foot warehouse arranged into 17 departments with millions of items from vintage clothing to sporting goods, jewelry, art, furniture, more...
Join JB Rumburg, Other Avenues’ Cheesemonger for the Tour du Fromage–a bicycle ride highlighting his favorite independent cheese shops in San Francisco. JB will share his cheese expertise and experiences by way of bicycle. The ride will take you to the far reaches of the fromage frontier–from Ocean Beach to North more...
LA’s Famous “Pancakes & Booze” Underground Art Show has made a home in San Francisco and is back in town March 2nd & 3rd for a two-day spectacle. For a $5 cover charge expect to see the works from over 75 underground and emerging artists, live body painting, live audio and more...
What do Death Cab for Cutie, White Stripes and The Shins have in common? They’ve all played at San Francisco’s Noise Pop Music Festival, now in its 20th year of blowing up bands that you might not have heard of yet, but could be huge in six months. So here’s your more...
Looking for a few cheap laughs? We’ve got a list of free comedy open-mics for every day of the week. The truly savvy will go to Brainwash on Thursdays during happy hour (5-7) to get in a couple of $5 pitchers of PBR before the free comedy open mic at 7, more...
The Noise Pop Photo Retrospective takes a look back at the past 19 years of Noise Pop Festivals: the artists, the fans and the clubs that have shaped the yearly event from what began as a single, sweaty night in a small club to the sprawling San Francisco institution it more...
