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Head to Treasure Island for a free weekend of world-class dragon boat racing, spectacular cultural performances, and fun-filled activities for the whole family at the largest competitive dragon boat festival in the United States. The festival features upwards of 110 dragon boat teams and 3,500 dragon boat paddlers racing 500 and more...
A five-day music festival featuring performances by local and national acts, the 2011 Berkeley Old Time Music Convention consists of everything from an open cabaret to an illustrious stringband contest in venues throughout Berkeley. So check out their schedule and come to watch jam sessions and square dances, or just to learn a more...
An annual, worldwide event that inspires city dwellers everywhere to transform metered parking spots into temporary parks for the public good, Rebar’s PARK(ing) Day is coming back to the city for 2011 on Friday, September 16. These city-wide mini-parks can be used as performance spaces, reading lounges or just resting places by passerbys, more...
Whether you want to go to get drinks or play life-sized board games on a Wednesday night, Funcheap will help you find something to liven up your mundane midweek nights. Funcheap’s Guide to Wednesdays Ten+ free and cheap things to do each Wednesday in San Francisco. Got a great tip for something fun and more...
Get schooled at the two-day Paul Frank’s Academy of Awesome Tour, which makes a stop at the 16th Annual Ghirardelli Square Chocolate Festival for a full weekend of family-friendly activities and more. >> Saturday & Sunday, September 10 & 11, 2011 – Noon to 5pm | FREE Join Julius and friends at the more...
This weekend in San Francisco features festivals celebrating car-free streets and chocolate, along with a fall fashion event, free beer dance party and a 9/11 symphony remembrance performance. Here’s our picks for our favorite five things to do this weekend – September 9-11, 2011. Friday, September 9 Scoutmob DJ Party & Free Beer more...
As if you needed an excuse to shop, Fashion’s Night Out is an annual event taking place on September 8, 2011 that makes shoppers descend on San Francisco like locusts looking for great deals and fun shopping parties. FuncheapSF’s Top Fashion’s Night Out Events for 2011 Macy’s – DJs, Food, Wine, Mocktails and more...
Think of this like those outdoor movies in Dolores Park but instead it’s a live play featuring the works of Shakespeare. Bring your friends, dates, a blanket and a picnic (don’t forget a bottle of wine) to enjoy the 29th season of free professional theater throughout the summer thanks to more...
Il Giro di San Francisco (formerly the “San Francisco Gran Prix”) is an annual bike race around the streets of San Francisco that’s had competitors cruising around the city since 1975. Free for spectators to come and watch, check out the 2011 route map to stake out your spot for these more...
This weekend in San Francisco features an outdoor cinema crawl, concert and BBQ, as well as an independent publishing expo, plush Egyptian exhibitions fit for a king and, of course, some Labor Day celebrations to start your week off right. Here’s our picks for our favorite five things to do this weekend more...
Join SF’s most interesting writers, cartoonists, illustrators and DIY publishers this Saturday and Sunday, September 3rd and 4th 2011, for the 10th Annual San Francisco Zine Fest. From 11am-6pm at the San Francisco County Fair Building in Golden Gate Park, more than 150 writers, cartoonists, crafters, illustrators, printmakers, and other artists more...
Make your Mondays merrier and your Thursdays a little jazzier with the annual People in Plazas Music Festival all summer long. Between July and September, there will be over 150 concerts in 18 different outdoor venues on or near Market Street, from the Embarcadero Center to The Castro, so that residents, office more...
It’s a little bit of the Caribbean in the city at this year’s San Francisco Reggae Festival on Saturday, August 27 from 11 a.m. till 6 p.m. at the Fillmore Center Plaza. 2011 San Francisco Reggae Festival Fillmore Center Plaza (Fillmore St. & O’Farrell St., SF) – Saturday, August 27 | 11a-6p – FREE Enjoy more...
This weekend in San Francisco features a store opening with tons of freebies, a skate-off & chili cook-out and an undercover Easter egg hunt, along with a J-Pop festival and MJ tribute flash mob. Here’s our picks for our favorite five things to do this weekend – August 26-28, 2011. Friday, August more...
This weekend in San Francisco features both a lo-fi and high-class concert, as well as a street food festival, scavenger hunt in Golden Gate Park and self-curated art event. Here’s our picks for our favorite five things to do this weekend – August 19-21, 2011. Friday, August 19 The Clift Sessions 2011: Dirty Beaches RSVP beforehand more...
