Arts & Entertainment Fillmore Jazz Festival Back On Thanks to Donation This year's Fillmore Jazz Festival, which had been canceled as of last week due to lack of funds, has been saved thanks to local billionaire Chris Larsen.
Arts & Entertainment SOMA Nights Kicks Off Thursday With Dance Party, Promotions on Folsom Street Bars, restaurants, and retailers on Folsom Street between 7th and 10th streets are having a multi-block party Thursday night, with drink specials, vendors, and a DJ dance party on an alley.
Arts & Entertainment Cole Valley Is Your Newest Boozy ‘Entertainment Zone’ After Board of Supervisors Approval The to-go cocktails will be flowing on a few Cole Valley sidewalks during street-closure events, as the SF Board of Supervisors just made that neighborhood SF’s newest “entertainment zone” where establishments can sell to-go drinks during fairs and night markets.
Arts & Entertainment How Weird Street Faire Is Calling It Quits and Shutting Down After 25 Years The beat will not go on for San Francisco’s raviest street fair of them all, as the How Weird Street Faire has announced it will not put on the event in 2025, nor any years in the future.
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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wiener Proposes New Downtown Booze Zones Where You Can Walk Around With To-Go Drinks State Senator Scott Wiener has introduced new legislation to create "Entertainment Zones" to help San Francisco's downtown with its economic recovery, activating certain designated areas where people would be free to roam with their booze.
Arts & Entertainment Sunny Dore Alley Fair Day Brings Out Pre-Pandemic-Sized Crowd Sunday marked the first Up Your Alley fair day on Folsom Street since the pandemic that looked and felt just like the old days, rampant nudity and all.
Sponsored Dive into the Vibrant and Culturally Rich 67th Annual North Beach Festival San Francisco's renowned North Beach neighborhood, also referred to as Little Italy, is preparing to celebrate its vibrant history and the cultural melting pot it is today at the 67th Annual North Beach Festival taking place on Father's Day weekend, June 17th and 18th.
Arts & Entertainment Gigantic Weekend of Events Is Upon Us, With Street Closures Galore It’s the first ‘Everything’s happening this weekend’ weekend, with Folsom Street Fair, the Portola festival, a Cat Extravaganza, and that's just scratching the surface.
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.
Arts & Entertainment Here's The Only 2017 SF Street Fair And Festival Guide You Will Need It's not officially summer yet but it is officially fair season in San Francisco, a city where day drinking is pretty much required on weekends between May and October, with or without a
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Best Looks From The 2017 How Weird Street Faire Sunday marked the 18th annual How Weird Street Faire in SoMa, one of SF's kookier annual street parties (on Howard Street) that grew out of the early days of Burning Man and our
Arts & Entertainment Photos: 2016's How Weird Street Faire Gets Weird Once More Wigs, goofy costumes, stilts, rave wear, dogs dyed pink, house music, day drinking, day rolling, and plenty of sunshine were all major parts of this year's How Weird Street Faire. This was the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Weekend We Got Fat and Learned Butchery at Oakland's Eat Real Fest It was a festival-heavy weekend for us, what with Outside Lands bridging the generations through music, food, wine and Tom Jones, and the first annual Eat Real Festival in Oakland, a celebration of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Street Food Fest: Crowded, Pricey, Yet Delicious & Drunken The first annual SF Street Food Fest went down on Saturday, and pretty much half of San Francisco showed up to the one-block-long festival. The thing got a ton of buzz, a piece
Arts & Entertainment More Pics from Bay to Breakers 2009 The weather was hot and nice and a good time was had by all -- except those in heavy gorilla suits -- new regulations be damned. (Some pics semi-NSFW!) Check out earlier Bay
