Stuff To Do If You're Bored
Saturday, there's the Canvas Gallery 5th Anniversary Party. $10 gets you in any time between 6 p.m. and 2 a.m. for food and drink specials, live music, and the chance to rub shoulders with real live artists.
Sunday: we're going to the David L Pharr Historic Streetcar Facility's fifth annual Open House celebration. This is such a cool event, we can't thank SFist Matt enough for sending it our way: from 11:00am and 4:00pm, you'll be offered free access to the yard at Market & Duboce Streets, "where kids of all ages will be free to climb aboard the handful of streetcars we'll have on site, including Muni's latest acquisition PCC No. 1080*, and the cars currently under restoration, Market Street Railway Co. trolley No. 798, and Moscow/Orel tram No. 106. Market Street Railway directors and volunteers will be on hand to answer questions and talk about the future of our organization and its mission, and also about the F-line, and the forthcoming E-line." For $5 you can buy tickets to take two special streetcar rides along unusual routes, and every kid who rides will get a special kid's pack (OMG there's a conductor's hat!).
The worst thing about writing this column is that here we are, perched on the cusp of Weekend Fun, and yet we have to think about what we're doing Monday. We'll get over our depression at how every day brings us closer to death with Monday night's 6 p.m. "Inventioneering Architecture" opening reception at CCA. Kicking off a month-long interactive exhibition an accompanying lecture series on Swiss architectural teaching, "Inventioneering Architecture" features "a 40-meter-long (131-foot-long) platform of an imaginative cross-section of the Swiss Alps, imported from Switzerland and created specifically for this event." No word yet if that dude from the Matterhorn wil be there.
Tuesday: we'll try to get SFist blocked by as many workplaces as possible by going to the Shuck and Swallow contest at McCormick & Kuleto’s, from 6 to 8 that night. For $25 you can enter to see how many oysters you can down in 10 minutes, which is sooo much classier than when they do the same thing with hot dogs. Nowhere in any of the materials we received was any mention of prizes made, but we're sure thay're fabulous.
Wednesday: we'll really need a drink, so we're going to Annie's from 5:30 to 8 for a special happy hour in honor of 80s band Devo.