Only in San Francisco
“Santarchy” is an annual city-wide Santas-only pub crawl. This flash mob-type event brings together hundreds of slightly sober people dressed in Santa costumes parading around the city, visiting landmarks (like walking down Lombard Street) drinking at bars and causing general mayhem. And just so you know, wearing a santa hat isn’t more...
Join the city for a night of remembrance of the lives and untimely deaths of supervisor Harvey Milk and mayor George Moscone on the anniversary of their 1978 assassinations and commemorating the spontaneous candlelight march the night of the shootings. Milk & Moscone Annual Candlelight Vigil & March Sunday, November 27, 2011 (6-8p) Castro more...
To town, Santa Yoda is coming! Watch master LEGO builders construct a gigantic Xmas-themed Star Wars Lego statue in Union Square all weekend beginning Friday, November 18th at Noon. A 12-foot-tall (and a rather pudgy 10-foot-wide) statue of Yoda in a Santa costume is being erected over three days somehow in support of more...
Ike’s Place, the most celebrated sandwich shop in the Bay Area, is in the running to have one of their custom creations voted the greatest sports sandwich in the country. The “Matt Cain” created by Ike’s is entered into the 2011 ESPN “Fanwich” contest – a towering sandwich with more...
Emperor Norton was one wacked out dude – a San Francisco legend (the “frank chu” of his era times a thousand) – Joshua Abraham Norton proclaimed himself Emperor of the United States and even printed his own currency which was honored throughout The City in the 1850s and 1860s. Tonight more...
