Get Out: Events
The country’s largest dance week comes back to San Francisco (as well as the East Bay, North Bay and South Bay) for 2011. The festival runs for 10 days April 22-May 1 and this year is bigger than ever with over 400 free dance events, a huge opening celebration, and dance more...
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the kabuki-inspired cross-dressing nuns-of-fun, will be hosting their 32nd traditional Easter Sunday on April 24, 2011 in Dolores Park. The event starts out all kid-friendly with the traditional Children’s Easter (11a-Noon). But the real fun follows after the kids head home with adult-friendly fare from such more...
Looking to get in a little nature but are on a budget? How about visiting one of our nation’s national parks absolutely free. To make it easier to experience America’s great Outdoors, the National Park Service is waiving entrance fees (and even car fees) for National Park Week, so visitors can more...
Janet Jackson (or “Ms. Jackson” as I call here) will be in San Francisco for two big shows at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. And both nights the Bay Area Flash Mob will be there to greet her with a choreographed flash mob dance outside the auditorium (no ticket needed) more...
When natural disasters strike faraway countries, distances suddenly shrink as our compassion grows. The tragedy that struck Japan is particularly rattling because of the San Francisco Bay Area’s own history with earthquakes beginning with the one 105 years ago that all but destroyed our nascent city at 5:12am on April 18, more...
SF Refresh is six daylong citywide events that enable San Franciscans to receive free whole body care in community garden settings in 2011. Activities include: gardening classes, yoga, life coaching, meditation, trauma care, nutrition classes, massage, acupuncture, movement classes, preventative health care information and even bicycle-powered smoothies. The next SF more...
It’s nearly impossible to describe the Games of Nonchalance without giving it all away. And that, in itself, says something about the kind of experience it offers: a chance to see the city as a pervasive playground. Players show up at a downtown San Francisco office and the game begins in more...
This weekend in San Francisco features a series of contrasts: thigh-burning hikes or street food gluttony & discount boozing; beautiful cherry blossoms or descend into chaos with highly literate anarchists. Only in San Francisco, right? Here’s our picks for our favorite five things to do this weekend – April 8-10, 2011. Friday, more...
Celebrating all that is weird and wonderful, Obscura Day on April 9, 2011, is an international day in 103 cities during which unusual places full of local hidden lore open their doors including several in San Francisco and the Bay Area. Find out about the wonderful books in the private more...
Free Final Four BBQ at Northstar: Butler (+3.5) vs. UConn – It’s the final men’s college basketball game of the year, so go for broke and get yourself fed on a Monday night. Northstar cafe (don’t worry about the name “cafe,” it’s actually a full neighborhood bar with great $3 happy hour draughts) will more...
If April showers bring May flowers then what does an April heatwave bring? Lots of fun, free things to do apparently! Here’s our picks for our favorite five things to do this weekend – April 1-3, 2011. Friday, April 1, 2011 Lower Haight Spring Art Walk & Scavenger Hunt Spend your Friday night wandering more...
Fanboys, geeks and superhero wannabes are flocking to WonderCon, the annual comic book, sci-fi and movie convention at the Moscone Center South. Come join in on the fun with all kinds of movie previews, panels of comic book artists, autograph sessions, exhibits, special showings and workshops, vendor booths and, as always, more...
Pop music princess Britney Spears — warts, hits and all —is coming to San Francisco for a free concert at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on Sunday March 27th that will be taped for Good Morning America. This concert was originally scheduled to be outdoors in the Castro, but was more...
Usually it’s San Francisco that gets all the free sneak preview movie screenings, but this week it’s the East Bay’s turn as Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley throws open its doors for free advanced screening of the spooky “Insidious” on Wednesday night. From the director/writer team of the original Saw comes a more...
From the director/writer team of the original Saw comes a free sneak preview screening of the brand new supernatural thriller, “Insidious” two weeks before the film opens to the public. The screening takes place at 7:30pm on Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at a theater in San Francisco easily accessible by more...
