Beginning November 25, 2013, the UCSF Library will host “Surviving and Thriving,” an exhibition from the National Library of Medicine that explores the rise of AIDS in the early 1980s and the evolving response to the epidemic over the last 30 years. View historic photographs, pamphlets, and other materials that illustrate more...

Get naked or as bare as you dare at another nude protest against the nudity ban at Jane Warner Memorial Plaza on Sunday, November 17, 2013.  Allegedly, VOX German TV will be flying in from Germany to document the San Francisco body freedom movement. This protest will be in one of the biggest reports about nudists more...

To help add to the excitement of Make-A-Wish “Batkid” Day in San Francisco on Friday, November 15, 2013, The San Francisco Chronicle will be passing out 1,000 copies of a special-edition “Gotham City Chronicle.” The limited edition papers with the awesome headline of “Batkid Saves City” will be distributed in more...

Come join the Make-A-Wish Foundation for a fun-filled day of everything Batman as San Francisco becomes Gotham City on November 15, 2013. The city, along with hundreds of volunteers will be granting the wish of 5-year-old Miles to be Batman. In his daily life, Miles is battling a very real foe in the more...

Join the San Francisco Railway Museum for Muni Heritage Days to view and ride many of Muni’s historic vehicles, which are not normally in regular service, on November 2-3, 2013. Museum admission is free. Regular fares will apply for Muni, Streetcar and Cable Car rides. All vintage vehicle excursions will start and more...

On October 8, 1933, San Franciscans gathered together atop Telegraph Hill to celebrate the creation of Coit Tower, a simple fluted tower rising high into the sky, designed by Arthur Brown, Jr. On October 8, 2013 San Franciscans will once again gather together to celebrate the Coit Tower spirit and the generosity more...

If you love the FuncheapSF website and all the free events we dig up, we’d love to ask you to take a few minutes and vote for FuncheapSF as “Best Overall Website” in the San Francisco Bay Guardian‘s annual “Best of the Bay” Readers Poll for 2013. The poll is long, over more...

The 30th Annual Folsom Street Fair, a true Only in San Francisco original, covers 13 city blocks filled with 400,000 people in their most outrageous leather/rubber/fetish attire enjoying the world’s largest leather fair. The festival features over 200 exhibitor booths selling fetish gear and toys, a massive live stage with top-name indie more...

Heroes and villains battle (and party) together within an urban theatrical landscape during an all-day street fair filled with seven stages of burning man camp-style entertainment, human hamster ball races, sexy robots, a super hero boot camp, a costume contest, and more on Saturday, September 28, 2013. Superhero Street Fair 2013 Saturday, September 28, 2013 more...

Celebrate fog — San Francisco’s most salient meteorological phenomena at the Exploratorium’s first-ever Fog Festival from noon to 5 pm on Saturday, September 28, 2013. Some events will occur in the free, public space in front of the museum. Museum admission is required for all other events. Bid adieu to Fog Bridge, more...

Most of us have periods of romance with the cities where we live. For Gary Kamiya, life-long San Francisco Bay Area resident—and co-founder of Salon—the romance has never died. There’s no question that Cool Gray City will make you fall more madly for San Francisco.  Cool Gray City of Love with author Gary more...

If you decide to break out the ta-tas on Sunday, you might have a lot of company.  It’s International “Go Topless” Day on August 25, 2013, a quasi-protest against the fact that men (and not women) can be topless started by a mildly insane UFO religious group called the Raelians. But never mind more...

If San Franciscans like to describe their city as “49 square miles surrounded by reality,” the visionary ideas that were too grandiose for even San Franciscans to consider remain some of the most fantastic designs for any city in the world. Imagine the Ferry Building surrounded by office towers, a grand casino on Alcatraz, more...

Join in a fun chase through San Francisco during the third annual Great Scavenger Hunt hosted by the Burning Man Project from noon to 4 pm on Saturday, July 27, 2013. Chase down and photo document all of the items on your list in teams of 3-6 for the chance to earn prizes and see more...

Check out BART’s “Fleet of the Future” when a full scale plywood mock up of two-thirds of a train car interior will be set up for free public viewing at MacArthur Station in Oakland from 2-7 pm on July 23-26, 2013. You can kick the tires (metaphorically… this thing is made of more...