Arts & Entertainment Your San Francisco Summer and Fall 2025 Street Fair Mega-Preview, Spanning From May to October With the start of May comes the kickoff of street festival and fair season, along with Bay to Breakers and plenty more fun to be had under the sun — when it decides to come out.
Arts & Entertainment Your SF Summer and Fall Street Fair Mega-Preview, Covering Every Weekend From May to October There are free, public street fairs and festivals in San Francisco pretty much every single weekend from now until well into October, and we’ve catalogued every single weekend’s mostly free-of-charge festivities for the next five months.
Arts & Entertainment Ocean Beach Music + Arts Festival, Formerly the Noriega Street Fair, To Make Waves Again Next Month The city’s westernmost street fair returns so you can get your pumpkin patch on without leaving the city, with ten live music acts just announced.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eat Drink SF Returns In Pared-Down Form Next Week At the Midway The big annual food festival known as Eat Drink SF is now in its 11th year, and this time around it's switching up the venue again and paring down to one day — Saturday, August 24.
Arts & Entertainment Steve Earle, Iron & Wine, and Calexico All Part of Teaser Lineup For Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2019 As is tradition, organizers of this year's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival have begun teasing out the lineup with a mystery medley, and so we now know who a few of the performers will be, including Bettye LaVette and The Meat Puppets.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All-You-Can-Eat Taco Fest In San Jose Runs Out Of Tacos, Chaos Ensues An apparently poorly organized taco and beer festival in the South Bay on Saturday promised unlimited tacos and beer tastings, but for the second time (!) vendors ran out of food and beer and it was just a whole lot of line-standing.
Arts & Entertainment 36th Annual Fillmore Jazz Festival Kicks Off With Free Music All Saturday Fillmore Street is bopping and grooving this weekend with the sounds of the Fillmore Jazz Festival — a two-day affair with multiple stages between Eddy and Jackson Streets.
Arts & Entertainment Inaugural MAX Festival Kicks Off Thursday In SF, Melding Art, Science and Space Exploration A new multi-disciplinary, eclectic new cultural festival kicks off tonight at the Exploratorium, but there are multiple events happening at venues across the city all weekend.
Arts & Entertainment Sneak A Peek Inside The Seinfeld Apartment And Paddy's Pub Replicas At Colossal Clusterfest It's a first-of-its-kind three-day comedy festival in San Francisco, and we've been talking about it for months now, but it's now here, starting Friday, June 2: Colossal Clusterfest. A lot of Bay Area
Arts & Entertainment New Comedy Central Festival Clusterfest Releases Daily Lineups, Single Day Tickets On Sale Tomorrow Comedy Central has a willing guinea pig in San Francisco for its big foray into the festival game with Colossal Clusterfest here on June 2-4. The 30,000 ticket, 50 comedian festival organized
SF News Mexico's Consul General Invites Donald Trump To SF's 'MEX I AM' Fest Presidential hopeful cum recently-axed Macy's clothing "designer"/reality television star Donald Trump has been cordially invited to a huge San Francisco celebration that kicks off next week. But will the billionaire be interested
Arts & Entertainment Can't-Miss Bay Area Festivals In 2015 This post is a collaboration between Expedia and Gothamist staff. San Francisco is a meeting ground for music, food, ethnic and cultural background, you name it. It only makes sense we should have
Arts & Entertainment The SFist Guide To LitQuake, Happening This Week Sure, Treasure Island may be happening this weekend, but so is LitCrawl, and throughout the week there are dozens of small events around the city for the literarily inclined. LitQuake, for those unfamiliar,
Arts & Entertainment Do This Litquake Thing Tonight: Stories About Doubt, Debt, Drugs, And Determination (By Margaret Seelie) Litquake may have started this past weekend, but it's not too late to dive into this annual literary festival that's been growing in San Francisco since 2002. Tonight's event, "Sometimes
Arts & Entertainment NSFW: Scenes From Folsom Street Fair 2013 Fetish fans arrived en masse to the 30th Folsom Street Fair in SoMa for day full of fun, sun, whips, chains, and brazen nudity. The event, which raised $325,000 for local and
SF News Burners Beware: Federal Agents Will Be In Costume As they have in previous years, undercover federal agents are currently roaming Black Rock City, in proper playa garb, trying to bust unsuspecting souls for drugs. The place is not, in fact, the
Arts & Entertainment Official Outside Lands Poster Tips Hat To SF's Groovy, Drug-Addled Past In a choice move, Outside Lands commissioned Peter Max, the German illustrator known for his use of psychedelic shapes, to create the official Outside Lands 2013 poster. And here it is, in all
Arts & Entertainment Video: Burning Man's First Year In The Desert (1990) Burning Man first started out as an indie festival at Baker Beach in 1986. Years later, in 1990, before many of you were born, the festival moved to the desert. The following footage
Arts & Entertainment Crazy, Sexy Faces From How Weird Street On Sunday afternoon, loads of Burning Man types stumbled downtown for the annual How Weird Street Faire in SOMA. Lots of color, glitter, flash, and zombie makeup was found. Noted photographer Bhautik Joshi
Arts & Entertainment Girl Talk, Gossip, Public Enemy Headline Treasure Island Music Festival 2012 A slew of brassy and sassy musical comedy stars will headline this year's Treasure Island Music Festival. Ha! No. No, not really. But wouldn't that be spectacular, oui, if Broadway show tunes and/
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: How Weird, Balloonacy, And More! This weekend promises to be quite nice, and hopefully for the half-naked attendees at the How Weird Street Faire, temperatures will get above 70 on Sunday. Join thousands of people to "celebrate the
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Record Store Day, Naked Bike Ride & More! Record Store Day 2012: Iggy Pop is the ambassador of this year's nationwide Record Store Day happening on Saturday, featuring a special Iggy And The Stooges Record Store Day release, plus many more
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: The Creators Project The Creators Project: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Squarepusher, and HEALTH are part of a big line-up of bands rocking Fort Mason this weekend as part of a colossal two-day art and technology festival
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Top 5: Giants FanFest, Men In Tights Super Bowl Show As you'd expect, there are lots of Super Bowl festivities happening on Sunday. We've highlighted a couple, along with a few other non-sports items. Enjoy! Giants FanFest: All your favorite Giants players will
Arts & Entertainment Gallery: Day of the Dead 2011 Yesterday's general strike in Oakland may have overshadowed the Day of the Dead festivities, but there was still a big crowd celebrating the holiday in the Mission last night. SFist contributors Kapshure, Micke
