Arts & Entertainment Steam Carnival Bringing Aerialists, High-Tech Demos And The Famous Dunk Tank Flambé To Pier 48 The STEAM Carnival premiered in 2014 in Los Angeles to nearly 15,000 fans after funding the event through a notably successful Kickstarter campaign. The next stop for the Carnival is the 100,
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Hotels Even Locals Should Check Out Not to rain on anyone's parade, but that foggy Bay Area winter is already rolling in. The warm weather's waning, people are digging out their fleece, and vacation plans are beginning to switch
Arts & Entertainment Preview An Upcoming Documentary On The Sharps, Humanitarians In The Nazi Refugee Crisis In early 1939, Waitstill and Martha Sharp, a young Unitarian minister and social worker, moved to Prague and aided hundreds of refugees fleeing Nazi persecution. Join the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to preview
Arts & Entertainment If Actual Rent Prices Were Motivational Posters We don't bank, watch TV or order food like our parents, so why buy a house like they did? SoFi is a lender taking that concept to heart with its awesomely fast and
Arts & Entertainment You No Longer Have An Excuse Not To Start A Personal Website Looking for a job? Displaying your work? Growing a business? Keeping a journal? There are a lot of reasons to have a personal website, and we've all seen some stunning examples out there.
Arts & Entertainment Fight The Good Fight: Difficult But Necessary New Documentary Focuses On Dog Farming Trade No one wants to talk about it, but it's a real issue: dogs are sometimes consumed for their meat in parts of Southeast Asia. It's not glamorous, it's not easy and it's not
Arts & Entertainment Yes, You Can Be Free Of Student Loan Debt In Your 30s You've done everything right: you graduated from college, you got a great job, you pay bills on time, you might even have a 401k. But that nagging feeling you can't shake? Yeah, it's
Arts & Entertainment Driving The Bay To 100,000 City CarShare is celebrating 50,000 members by waiving sign-up fees and giving existing members $50 for referring a friend. The background story: last month City CarShare, the Bay Area's original nonprofit carsharing
Arts & Entertainment My Grandkids Will Not Believe How I Met My Husband One day, I'll be able to brag that it was my generation that witnessed the invention of online dating, and I'll tell my grandkids that I met their grandfather on Happn. As single
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What Really Is Your Cup Of Tea? Given a choice, would you choose something that's personalized to your tastes and liking over something that's "off the shelf"? Chances are you are nodding your head in agreement. And why not. We
Arts & Entertainment SF Home Buying For Regular People, Week 4: It's Okay If You Already Have Debt Three weeks ago: Saving for 10 percent down, not 20. Two weeks ago: Putting paperwork out to pasture. One week ago: Competing when your salary is... fine. This week: Not letting debt get
Arts & Entertainment How Happn Saved My Life When I Moved To San Francisco Caroline. When I got a job offer in San Francisco, I had mixed emotions. I was thrilled, since living in sunny California was a fantasy I'd always had, but I was also pretty
Arts & Entertainment The Best Place to Chill on the Las Vegas Strip For the “coolest experience” in Las Vegas, make an expedition to Minus 5° Ice Bar. Located within the Shoppes at Mandalay Place, everything except for the floor and the ceiling is made out
Arts & Entertainment SF Home Buying For Regular People, Week 3: You Don't Have To Have $1 Million In Cash Two weeks ago: Saving for 10 percent down, not 20. One week ago: Putting paperwork out to pasture. This week: How to compete in a hot real estate market. GRIPE #3: You can't
Arts & Entertainment SF Home Buying For Regular People, Week 2: Navigating The Mortgage Hellscape Last week: down payments get the axe. This week: paperwork is stupid. GRIPE #2: Buying a house is top-5 on the list of Life's Little Nightmares. THE TRUTH: No one in 2015 should
Arts & Entertainment Last Chance To See Contemporary Art In Asian Art Museum's <em>28 Chinese</em> Would you like an "eye-opening overview of China's contemporary art scene of the past two decades"? If so, then SF Weekly suggests 28 Chinese, now in its FINAL WEEKS (yikes). It's a striking
Arts & Entertainment SF Home Buying For Regular People, Week 1: You Don't Have To Have 20% Down FALLACY #1: You'll be kind of old by the time you save enough to buy a house. THE TRUTH: Reduce your down payment and you're already over the biggest home-buying hurdle. If you
Arts & Entertainment Where To Wear 5 Suit Styles (And Look Better Than Everyone Else) In SF It takes a special kind of Bay Area man to just wear a suit, you know, around. If you aren't in finance or law, you probably don't even find much of a chance
Arts & Entertainment See Faces that Shaped America at the National Portrait Gallery From George Washington to George Carlin, Sequoyah to Rosa Parks, James Monroe to Marilyn Monroe, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery is home to the icons of our nation’s history and culture.
Arts & Entertainment No Life's Too Small Recently, the shocking reality of puppy mills has been put in the spotlight. The terrible conditions being photographed and recorded have prompted more and more people to find their loving companion from the
Arts & Entertainment A <em>Disneyland</em>® Resort Vacation Made Easy Located ½ mile and a 5-minute free Dream Machine shuttle ride away, the Anaheim Majestic Garden Hotel puts you in the perfect place for a magical family vacation. And with their Grand Opening Package
Arts & Entertainment Happn & Spotify Aim to Prove the Quickest Way to One's Heart is Through the Ears Music speaks volumes about a person, no matter how loud it's played. We identify with certain songs at different times, and those tunes can change with our mood. Are you currently a Death
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SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Experience An Extraordinarily Bold Night This post is brought to you by Tecate Light. Three friends. One Fight. Beautiful women and The Black Eagle. Watch the most extraordinarily epic night ever now. For more information, visit Tecate on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Relationships 101: Make A Night In Your New Night Out This post is a sponsored collaboration between Plated and Gothamist staff. Sign up for Plated today! Part of dating is getting out there and experiencing things together, whether it's happy hour with your
