Chinese New Year Parade and Festival: Festival-goers might actually enjoy a dry Chinese New Year extravaganza this year. Leave those umbrellas and ponchos as home! more ›

Carnaval Festival & Grand Parade: Danny Glover is the grand marshal of the 33rd Annual Carnaval Parade. Accompanying him at the helm will be Giants’ mascot Lou Seal and the 2010 World Series trophy. Check out the festival all day on Saturday and Sunday, and the parade starts on Sunday morning at 9:30 a.m. more ›

Looking for a fun lunch-time activity this week? Or perhaps you're a non-9-to-5er? Check out a few day-time events happening this week. more ›

Sorry this is so late folks! There are quite a few things going on this weekend that SFist already gave you a heads-up about, including the Disposable Film Festival, Shop for Japan, and the Artisan Cheese Festival in Petaluma. Yum! Here are some more things happening -- if you feel like leaving your cozy abode on this rainy weekend. more ›

A friendly and patriotic reminders: San Francisco Veterans Day Parade begins at 11 a.m., starting along Second and Market Streets.It will then head up Market to Seventh and McAllister, ending at Civic Center Plaza. For information on similar parades happening throughout the Bay Area, visit KTVU. Er, scratch that. Yeah.The parade happened on Sunday. Heh. Nevermind. Ahem. Carry on... more ›

For your viewing pleasure, here's another batch of World Series Parade photos. A few gems? Brian Wilson's presence causing a near riot, Gavin Newsom, Aubrey Huff's rally thong, Frank Chu, Pablo “The Panda” Sandoval celebrating at Buca di Beppo, and more. more ›

If you're stuck at work, you can view the Giants World Series victory parade live on SFist. Loads of confetti, fans, teammates in their own cable car, and orange and black attire as far as the eye can see. (Check out parade photos here!) An historic day for San Francisco and the Bay Area. Congratulations, everyone. more ›

Giants World Series parade photos. Way to go, Giants! more ›

Bay City News/SF Appeal reports that fans have been gearing up for the big ticker-tape parade since last night, as some die-hards arrived at Civic Center as early as 10:30 p.m., planning to camp out. Muni's added extra Metro trains this morning to accommodate the crowds, BART's running longer trains, and Golden Gate Ferry has added two extra morning departures. We suspect heading to the parade on foot might be your best bet though. more ›

FunCheapSF has the scoop on the historic Giants' Ticker Tape Parade and Celebration, which takes place on Wednesday morning at 11 a.m. in honor of the Giants' first World Series win. more ›

Troy Holden was on the scene at the rather damp 20th Annual Farley's Pet Parade in Potrero Hill this afternoon. The dogs were not amused, but they sure looked cute! more ›

Yesterday, the 32nd annual St. Stupid's Day Parade bumbled and stumbled starting in Justin Herman Plaza, expertly spreading "annoyance to several financial institutions throughout the financial district more ›

Celebrate this day of fools by dressing/acting goofy and making some noise at the "32rd" Annual St. Stupid's Day Parade. Meet the crowd at Justin Herman Plaza at Noon and spread annoyance to several financial institutions throughout the financial district. Bring pennies, socks, dead lottery tickets, pink slips, and eviction notices. Drums and costumes are encouraged. more ›

SF Citizen's Jim Herd captured some great photos of the Ninth Annual Cesar E. Chavez Day Parade and Festival yesterday. The parade started at Dolores Park, and the street fair was on 24th Street. Looks like there was a good turn-out. See all the photos at SF Citizen. more ›

Why was downtown so congested on Saturday afternoon? Because of the annual St. Patrick's Day parade. Here are a few images of the cloyingly family-friendly festivities that took place that day. You'll find images of Gavin and Jen, David Chiu, an increasingly handsome Ross Mirkarimi, gingers, the elusive SF blue-collar worker, and more. more ›

There's a lot to love about SF's fantastic Chinese New Year parade -- and a lot of love the parade as well. Marching for the fifth time in a row this year is API Equality, and LGBT advocacy group serving the Asian and Pacific Islander communities. And you can join them! more ›

Source: the ever-brilliant Jim Herd at the Anime Costume Parade. more ›

Well, it's been fun. The trailers, the megawatt celebrity sightings, the lights, the cameras, the not being invited to cast/crew parties -- SFist will miss it all. As most of you know, Gus Van Sant's biopic -- the story of assassinated San Francisco Supervisor and gay rights advocate, Harvey Milk -- started shooting in January. This past Sunday, the production came to an end. Alas. more ›

Everyone's behaving a little bit funny this weekend, and it's throwing the city's transit into a tizzy. An absolute tizzy! We haven't been this tizzied in MONTHS. more ›

Photo of a flyer promoting an unofficial Halloween parade on Market Street more ›

Critcal Mass Halloween photos more ›

This morning a press conference was held in front to City Hall about this Saturday's March to End the War Now. The parade (grumble), which will start at City Hall and drain into Dolores Park (next to the worldwide Michael Jackson choreography routine), will be honored with its own day. It seems that the Board of Supervisors passed a resolution making October 27 "End the War in Iraq" Day. (And that day only.) Hopefully, Newsom won't wuss out and pull the resolution like he recently did with el Snoop Dogg. more ›

San Francisco and the Bay Area are getting ready to throw a big (albeit somewhat belated) celebration for Philip Glass’ 70th birthday with concerts all over the place and, of course, the premier of Glass’ new opera Appomattox. And the kick-off is this Friday night with a very special and rare intimate recital courtesy of San Francisco Performances. Mr. Glass will be playing several of his pieces with cellist Wendy Sutter and percussionist Mick Rossi at Herbst Theater. more ›

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Wow, we're getting all alternative lifestyle on you these days, aren't we? But wait! We have another fun bit of homophobia with which to beat you senseless: Jerry Lewis saying "illiterate fag" during his annual Parade of the Crippled Children Telethon. Such fun! Such classic comedy! Check it out here. more ›

You know you've made it in San Francisco as a marginalized group when you start getting in fights with other marginalized groups -- so a local bisexual advocacy/social group is under fire for their policies excluding certain transgender persons. more ›

Are you ready? Today's the big day! International Left Handers' Day! Wheeeeee! How do you plan to celebrate? Is your costume ready for the parade? Are your out-of-town friends all coming? We heard that Bevan Dufty is going to ask every business in the city to file for bankruptcy in order to prevent rowdiness. more ›

What with Paris Hilton's release earlier this week and the upcoming celebration of American Independence (sorry, Londonist!), we've been thinking a lot about freedom. Freedom to vote, freedom to choose, and most importantly, freedom to blog. Here are a few things we're happy we've been free to blog about this week. more ›

The Pride Parade is one of the best photo-ops of the year, isn't it? The yearly celebration gives us an opportunity to step back, examine ourselves, and then breathe with relief, "yup, still gay." more ›

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