San Francisco’s City Hall is getting under siege tonight, but don’t be alarmed. It’s just for filming a 2017 ABC miniseries “When We Rise” which chronicles the gay rights movement in the U.S. starting in 1969 staring Guy Pearce along with Whoopi Goldberg and Rosie O’Donnell and directed by Gus more...

The San Francisco Yerba Buena Chapter of the California Native Plant Society’s 11th annual Native Plant Garden Tour happens from 11 am to 3 pm Sunday April 24, 2016. 11th Annual Native Plant Garden Tour Sunday, April 24, 2016 – 11:00 am to 3:00 pm All Over San Francisco FREE > Printable Garden Map (PDF) The free, self-guided tour is more...

Are you ready to experience San Francisco’s first Gladiator-Style Guinness World Record 1,000 Man Pie Fight? Join and enter an all-out pie war battlefield while help raising awareness and funds for a new, local non-profit. Will this event actually take place? Who knows! Funcheap has no idea if this is just more...

The Mermaid Atlantis and her pod Norcal Narwhals, invite you to swim like a fish at pools all over the Bay Area. Who is invited? Any one who can swim. Any age, gender, etc are welcome to swim with our Mer Pod. Please be safe, we are not life guards or more...

The San Francisco Zoo & Gardens recently welcomed a new addition to the giraffe family, a female calf born Friday, April 8, 2016 at 9:40 am in the Bernard Osher Foundation Giraffe Barn. Mother, Barbro, and her calf are in excellent condition. The calf stood up and took her first steps more...

It’s been a wet winter and that means spring is going to be crazy good at San Francisco Botanical Garden … the curators tell us that everything is budding up and looking very juicy … After four dry years, this winter has brought much needed rain to California, and some very wild flowers are more...

If you like all the events we dig up on Funcheap, we’d love to ask you to pretty please take a few minutes and vote for Funcheap as “Best Website” in the SF Weekly‘s annual “Best of the San Francisco” Readers Poll for 2016. The poll is long – over 150 questions – feel more...

What’s that sound kids? It’s the sound of Big Wheels rolling! Watch dozens of contestants at Bring Your Own Big Wheel 2016 (BYOBW) risk humiliation and serious injury racing their big wheels (those giant plastic tricycles from when we were kids – no rubber wheels allowed) down the crazy curvy Vermont & more...

Explore your kink and feel the Bern. Bring a donation of any amount and get spanked by Professional Dominatrix. All proceeds will benefit Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign. Spankings Against Banking Saturday, March 19, 2016 | 1pm to 5pm Praxis, 3047 24th St., San Francisco Donations go to Bernie for President Praxis is a worker-owned community workshop more...

Explore San Francisco’s amazing history at the annual San Francisco History Expo as the Old Mint becomes a series of pop-up museums of San Francisco history with dozens of organizations celebrating and telling the stories of the City’s unique past. 2016 San Francisco History Days  – Saturday, March 5 | 11 am to more...

Stop by the Crave Pop-Up Shop, put on by the SF-based modern sex toy company responsible for the first crowd-funded vibrator and the sexy wearable tech creation, the Vesper vibrator necklace. Join in on the closing party on Friday, February 26, from 6-10 pm to check out their shop, sip some more...

Feathers will fly at this fun, flash-mob type event which takes place annually on Valentine’s Day. It’s Pillow Fight. In the past, nearly 1,000 San Franciscans descended on Justin Herman Plaza with feather-stuffed pillows to run Braveheart-like at full speed at one another to lovingly beat the crap out of each more...

Who cares about 50 Cent, Joe Montana or any of the other so-called “celebrities” that are descending on San Francisco for Super Bowl. We’re all about the pugs. To help promote Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl Cafe at the Ferry Building (Feb 4-7), Minnie & Max – those world-famous head-tilting pugs – are more...

The Bay Lights will be re-lit on January 30, 2016 in time to shine for Super Bowl 50 and beyond, thanks to generous private donors and an agreement between the non-profit Illuminate the Arts.  Photography Lucas Saugen Leo Villareal’s masterwork of public art of 25,000 lights LED attached to the bridge’s 300 more...

Become sea lion savvy and learn more about California sea lions, marine life, and bay conservation on the annual “Sea Lion Encounter,” in celebration of the anniversary of their arrival to Pier 39. The boisterous barking pinnipeds began arriving in droves shortly after the Loma Prieta earthquake hit San Francisco in October more...