Arts & Entertainment The 11 Best St. Patrick’s Day Parties in San Francisco Éirinn go do these things, as St. Patrick’s Day is Sunday, the parade is Saturday, and the block parties kick off on Friday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Xmas In September: Meadowood Announces 12 Days Of Christmas Chef Lineup The lineup for the Restaurant at Meadowood's annual holiday festival of international chef talent is out, and it's yet again an impressive one. After taking 2016 off from hosting the two-week December blowout
Arts & Entertainment Popular Pier 70 Halloween Party 'Ghost Ship' Rebrands Itself 'LoveBoat Halloween' Many of us assumed that the big two-night Halloween costume rave known as Ghost Ship, which lately has been happening in the abandoned warehouse on Pier 70, would likely have to change its
SF News 10 Arrested For Starting Fights At Alameda County Fair The Alameda County Fair, usually a pretty peaceful holiday weekend event, was almost ruined by a troupe of ne'er-do-wells on the Fourth. 10 people ranging in age from 15 to 20 entered the
Arts & Entertainment Once Again, SF Fireworks Were Half Obscured By Fog, But Not In The Mission And Lower Haight! Tourists, East Bay families, and assorted San Franciscans flocked to the Embarcadero Tuesday night to see if this year might be the exception in which the fireworks aren't shot into a fog bank
SF News Thousands Of Travelers Cram Bay Area Airports For July 4th Weekend Getaways Get away weekend at oakland intl airport. Fourth of July holiday. Extremely busy here already @kron4news pic.twitter.com/8Upw8b0FqL— Will Tran (@KRON4WTran) June 30, 2017 It's a big big travel weekend, and
SF News East Bay Bust Nabs Nearly 400 Pounds of Illegal Fireworks Mission District residents (and terrified dogs) are well aware that the nightly boom of illegal fireworks is already underway as we sit within a week of July 4th. SFist reminds you that all
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Last-Minute Ideas For Treating Mom On Mother's Day Around The Bay Area Sunday is Mother's Day and while she's done basically everything for you, you've probably dropped the ball on celebrating your mom. SFGate threw together a list of San Francisco restaurants that are still
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Grab Easter Brunch Where It Won't Be Insanely Crowded Sunday is Easter, and though most of you probably won't be observing the day with a visit to church, it is very commonly a traditional day to brunch. Whether you're headed to Golden
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This Thing: Passover Seders at Wise Sons Deli Next week is Pesach, i.e. Passover on the Jewish calendar, and even secular Jews who haven't set foot in a temple in decades still like this sacred holiday tradition, and the communal
Arts & Entertainment Photos: St. Patrick's Day Celebrations In Downtown SF Yes, St. Patrick's Day is still four days away, but SF typically does their parade and official celebration on the Saturday before the actual day, which this year meant that the festivities happened
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 12 Best Irish Bars In San Francisco Not all Irish bars are created equal, despite how similar many may seem. San Francisco, having had a long history of Irish immigration and a continuing strong relationship with the country including annual
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Ring In Mardi Gras In SF If you have friends in New Orleans right now you're probably feeling a little bit jealous of the fun they're having, because that city obviously owns Mardi Gras. But nonetheless, it is also
SF News SF Remembers Martin Luther King With Marches, Free Museum Admission, And More Just days after the third and final march from Selma to Montgomery on March 28, 1965 a tired but persistent Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood before an audience of 5,000 and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Celebrate Russian New Year's Since We're Almost Part Of Russia Now San Francisco has long had a significant Russian-American community, centered around Little Russia in the Outer Richmond, a neighborhood which is consequently home to a number of Russian restaurants. And as you may
Arts & Entertainment Seven New Year's Eve Parties For Locals Like so many other holidays these days, New Year's Eve is amateur hour for a remarkable number of people who don't know how to drink. It's also a traditional time when people in
Arts & Entertainment Precita Park Got Its Annual Christmas Snowman San Francisco snowman. pic.twitter.com/V76XF8owzX— anthony brown (@anthonybrown) December 25, 2016 The anonymous Bernal Heights resident who for several years running has imported some snow to Precita Park and installed a
Arts & Entertainment Holiday Palate Cleanser: The Secret Chord Progression That Makes A Song Sound Christmas-y Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" are two of the most popular and beloved Christmas songs of all time. And they share the same chord
Arts & Entertainment Go Hear This: Metallica's Lars Ulrich Reading 'The Dinosaur That Pooped Christmas' Part goofily scatological holiday children's book and part parable of Christmas-related greed, The Dinosaur That Pooped Christmas is a 2012 work of literature by Tom Fletcher and Dougie Poynter of pop-punk band McFly.
Arts & Entertainment Pre-Travel Palate Cleanser: What Not To Do On A Plane Most of these words of advice should be no-brainers, but since you may very well be getting on a plane today or tomorrow, or even next week, please let the puppets from Glove
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: What Are Your San Francisco Christmas Traditions? Dear Rain, After over a decade of living in San Francisco but flying "home" every year, it occurred to me that, uh, this is my home! So I'll be staying in the city
Arts & Entertainment The Strand Theater Welcomes The Skivvies With Their Underwear-Clad 'Holiday Roadkill' Bringing some saucy (and pretty gay sounding) fun to The Strand next week are The Skivvies, the Broadway duo of Nick Cearley and Lauren Molina, and their holiday revue of classics, covers, and
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Best New Year's Eve Shows You Can Still Make Plans To See by Adrian Spinelli Options for a New Year’s Eve: stay home and mope, go to a house party and make questionable decisions, or you can make a good decision (followed by subsequent
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week The annual slog/joyous crush (depending on how you see it) of holiday parties is upon us, and whether you're boozing it up with friends in annual fashion or drinking to deal with
SF News Photos And Video From A Very Soggy SantaCon 2016 Santas Galore, @ellagreeneyes get yer a55 up here!! #SantaCon2016 #SantaConSF pic.twitter.com/k09MAH1lmh— Betsy (@studio_gal) December 10, 2016 The annual virus tradition of drunken holiday cheer known as SantaCon went down
