Arts & Entertainment Sunday’s Folsom Street Fair Ropes In Brontez Purnell, More Bars Selling To-Go Alcohol, and a New Truck Stage You’re bound to have a ball at Sunday’s Folsom Street Fair, with more leather bars than ever selling to-go cocktails, Brontez Purnell headlining the main stage, and the former bar and now pop-up Truck rocking its own new disco/play space.
Arts & Entertainment How Weird Street Faire Is On for Saturday, After Four-And-A-Half-Month Delay The 2024 How Weird Street Faire was postponed not even 48 hours before the event in May, but will indeed rear its weird head again on Saturday for what will be the street fair’s 25th anniversary.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Pride Draws an Estimated 50,000 People to Downtown Oakland Parade and Celebration The news wasn’t all bad coming out of Oakland this weekend, as the 14th annual Oakland Pride brought a parade, concerts, dance pavilions, and tens of thousands of people to show Oakland being “Rooted in Pride.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Weekend’s Bizerkeley Food Fest Set to Serve Up ‘Meat Eater-Approved Vegan Food’ The Bay Area’s big Labor Day weekend street fair will be Sunday’s fourth annual Bizerkeley Food Fest, with samples and delicious dishes galore of eats “made by vegans for a meat eater's tastebuds.”
Arts & Entertainment Downtown SF Oktoberfest Will Be the First Boozy, Open-Container ‘Entertainment Zone’ Party The streets will be closed to cars and the beer steins flowing at Oktoberfest on Front, as the Oktoberfest block part will be California’s first alcohol-drenched “entertainment zone” party under new legislation.
Arts & Entertainment Yet More Outdoor Downtown ‘Entertainment Zone’ Parties Could Be Coming Under New Legislation From Aaron Peskin As downtown San Francisco tries to party its way out of the lack of foot traffic and the office vacancy problem, Supervisor Aaron Peskin has introduced a measure that would streamline the permitting process to create more outdoor parties.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland First Fridays Reportedly at Risk Again, Amidst Rising Event Costs and Lower Foot Traffic After returning from a four-month hiatus earlier this year, we have a report that the popular First Fridays event in Oakland may be on the rocks again, with financial concerns over permitting costs and fewer vending spots.
Arts & Entertainment How Weird Street Faire 2024 Will Indeed Happen, Rescheduled to September 21 The 25th anniversary How Weird Street Faire was abruptly postponed not even 48 hours before its gates were scheduled to open in early May, but the festival has announced it will be held on September 21, 2024, with an “Autumn Equinox” theme.
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 Saturday’s How Weird Street Faire Abruptly ‘Postponed,’ Not Even 48 Hours Before the Event Saturday's 25th annual How Weird Street Fair will not be held on Saturday, as organizers suddenly blame a bad weekend weather forecast, and will “postpone” the event until maybe June.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland’s First Fridays Announces Its Return From Hiatus Next Weekend For First Friday April The popular outdoor nighttime street fair Oakland First Fridays has been on hiatus since January, but recently announced they’re bringing the event back for the First Friday of April, next Friday, April 5.
Arts & Entertainment Bearrison and How Weird Street Faire Both Set to Unleash SF Wildness on Saturday It’s effectively the final weekend of festival season in San Francisco, and South of Market will be pumped up with both the Bearrison Street Far and How Weird Street Faire on Saturday.
Arts & Entertainment Haight Street Fair Suddenly ‘Postponed’ Just Ten Days Before the 2022 Event The Haight-Ashbury Street Fair will not wear flowers in its hair as scheduled next Sunday, June 12, but organizers say they are “aiming for the end of the summer” with a replacement date.
Arts & Entertainment Your SF Summer and Fall Street Fair Mega-Preview, Covering Every Weekend From June to October There are free, public street fairs and festivals in San Francisco every single weekend from June until well into October, and we’ve catalogued every single weekend’s free-of-charge festivities for the next four months.
misc Dore Alley/Up Your Alley Fair 2010 Photos On Sunday, SoMa's Dore Alley turned up the heat for their annual sex fetish festival, the Up Your Alley Fair. Described as a smaller Folsom Street Fair, but for adults (let's face it,
SF News Photos: How Weird Street Faire 2010 Sunday was the annual How Weird Street Faire, which took place on Howard Street (get it?), and it was just as colorful and lively as ever. Although no one showed up wearing a
Arts & Entertainment Help Break a World Record at Sunday's How Weird Street Faire As noted in SFist This Weekend, the How Weird Street Faire, which is Bollywood themed this year, is happening on Sunday afternoon. Apparently, the fair organizers are gunning to win the record for
misc Not Your Ordinary Thursday Night In Oakland Although we have yet to confirm this, Oakland is not just a city full of crime, poverty, and unbearable heat. Oakland is, in fact, a lot of fun. Or so we're told. You
misc How Weird Street Fair Photos On Sunday, the annual How Weird Street Fair took place on Howard Street (get it?), with many residents showing up for the organized fun festivities wearing very bright colors. Described as a way
SF News Day Around The Bay --Our city rules. [Examiner.] --Today's Matt Gonzalez Mayoral Candidate Magic Eight-Ball reading: Maybe yes. [Left in SF.] --The Punk Rock Sideshow at the Hemlock is hosting a benefit concert next Monday (July 16th)
SF News More Muni Problems? Shocking! OMFG there totally just a street fair in the Haight! Did you know it was coming? Muni apparently did not, as the bus arrangement were decidedly last-minute. (Either that, or Muni simply didn't
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Other events: --SF Women Against Rape present the documentary "NO!" at the Women's Building. 5-7:30 p.m., $5-$15 sliding scale, Audre Lorde Room, 3542 18th St. (x Valencia). --Bohemian Carnival --
SF News No Booze, No Justice Due to complaints about all the drunken mayhem often associated with the fair, fair organizers had hoped to make the neighbors happy by installing beer gardens where drinking would be allowed. It didn't
SF News Week Around The -Ists Celebrate Ben Franklin's 300th birthday with the Bikini Bandits and Phillyist! (NSFW). Speaking of Mr. Franklin, send in a picture of Ben (or Ed Rendell) with a red tongue and win a free
SF News North Beach Is Italian For No Booze Oh wait, there's going to be no booze allowed this year? Nevermind. Apparently, some people have been complaining about the drunken hordes of frat boys, Marina girls, and aging alcoholics who have descended
