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Hedge Gallery :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., February 17 until Sat., April 21
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Raised in an artistic family, Christophe Come began making jewelry and bronze sculpture under the prestigious tutelage of French sculptor Louise Derbre. The young artist’s interest in the ornamental, however, quickly gave way to a fascination with the fundamental. He was particularly...
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Embarcadero
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Free Events, Arts, Art - Openings & Events, Art - Ongoings, Art - Galleries |
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Have you ever seen a Gritchen in your kitchen? Or dared to dance with the One-Legged Zantz? We can’t think of a better time to start than during the final days before Christmas. Long out of print, Don’t Bump the Glump was Shel Silverstein’s first and strangest collection of...
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Mission/ Bernal Heights
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Literary Events, Free Events, Family Events, Children's Events, Arts |
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Conservatory of Flowers :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Tue., January 3 until Sun., April 15
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Bottom line: Playland at the Beach is where the ice-cream-and-cookie concoction known as the It's-It came from. People love their memories of the amusement park -- San Francisco's answer to Coney Island (1926-1972) -- and that's cool, but let's be serious: the It's-It. For those of you trying...
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Sunset (Outer)
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Free Events, Festivals, Family Events, Arts |
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He got his start producing icily aggressive gangsta rap beats for Harlem's Dipset crew, but AraabMuzik — the stage moniker of Rhode Island native Abraham Orellana — is pioneering a new flavor of moody electronica. As numerous online videos prove, Orellana is a virtuoso of the MPC, a...
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Hayes Valley/ Tenderloin
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Nightlife, Music, Free Events |
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Sometimes, we need a little bit more than just poetry and music. Sometimes we have the urge to witness a wild-eyed man with one sweater sleeve missing shove pieces of paper into a coconut and then set it on fire - all while someone yells about why bird porn is a serious issue. The 16th &...
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Mission/ Bernal Heights
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Poetry, Performing Arts, Music, Literary Events, Free Events, Community Events, Arts |
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Harvey's :
Every week Tuesday, 9:00pm
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Comedy shows in bars can be an odd mix, especially when a birthday or bachelorette party means lots of stiff drinks and dildos strapped to the heads of the women tearing it up in their final hours before marriage. These giggling dickheads can be a comedians worst nightmare, as...
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Castro/ Noe Valley
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Free Events, Comedy |
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Alta Plaza Park :
First Sunday of every month, 2:30pm
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They're squat, fat, and prone to a myriad of health issues. They resemble miniature Ewoks and can be heard blocks away by their heavy snorting and grunting. Of course the people of San Francisco want to dedicate one day each month to this creature, the pug. Pug owners, enthusiasts, and friends...
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Japantown/Pacific Heights
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Pets, Free Events, Community Events |
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Women's Building :
Fourth Sunday of every month, 1:00pm
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In the beginning it was, of course, Ohlone Indian. Then it was Spanish-Ohlone. Were there Russians? It was Italian. Then it was Irish and German. As far as we can tell, the Mission District was never Chinese, but this is San Francisco, so why shouldn't it have been? It was Mexican, and then it...
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Mission/ Bernal Heights
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Tours, Free Events, Arts |
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Did you know that when the Golden Gate Bridge gets hot, it sits low in the saddle? Course you didnt: You dont have a Bridge Thermometer, which looks like one of those scenic coin-op binoculars crossed with a first-person shooter. Peer into it (no coin needed!) and it shows the...
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Marina/ Cow Hollow
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Museum Exhibits & Events, Games, Free Events, Family Events, Children's Events, Arts, Tours |
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Fabric8 :
Daily from Mon., October 3 until Fri., August 31
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We went to Rome once. One thing that blew our minds was the public art. Theres so much of it that some has been reclaimed by the needs of everyday life. You see people taking lunch on whats left of an ancient fountain or a big sculpture that anywhere else would be surrounded by...
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Mission/ Bernal Heights
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Parks & Preserves, Free Events, Arts, Art - Galleries |
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Alcatraz Island :
Every week Friday, Sunday, 9:30am
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To our recurring surprise, many locals never get the idea to visit Alcatraz, because traveling by boat to an island to walk around cellblocks is just something they don't like do. How come? Because tourists get that idea, every day, by the shorts-wearing boatloads. Here's your solution: The...
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North Beach/ Chinatown
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Tours, Parks & Preserves, Home & Garden, Free Events |
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RayKo Photo Center :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Wed., January 18 until Tue., March 6
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Most of our smartphones contain digital cameras that rival the best that money could buy less than a decade ago. We often pay hundreds of dollars for these devices. And what do we do with them? Filter our 8-megapixel masterpieces through apps such as Hipstamatic and Instagram, to lend that...
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Potrero Hill
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Photography, Free Events, Arts, Art - Ongoings |
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Robert Koch Gallery :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., January 5 until Sat., February 25, 5:30pm
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America once had a national war. It happened about 150 years ago. It was over slavery and state sovereignty and also about land. It lasted about four years, and the nation still can’t shake it. Now consider Israel. Since its beginning in 1947 it has existed in a perpetual state of armed...
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North Beach/ Chinatown
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History, Free Events, Arts, Art - Ongoings, Art - Galleries |
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As a self-described "logical extension of a free public library," our local free walking-tour company is, like most libraries, a fascinating mash of nerdy and white-hot rad. The San Francisco City Guides walking tours happen every day (except major holidays), are free, and follow in the...
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Union Square/ Financial District
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Tours, History, Free Events, Arts |
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City Kayak :
Every week Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
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Kayakers are like surfers. They get started, and the next thing you know, other parts of their lives begin to fall by the wayside. They try to get you to go with them. And no finer kayak evangelist exists than Ted Choi of City Kayak; he has introduced many, many paddlers to the joys of the...
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South of Market
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Sports - Participatory, Outdoors, Free Events, Children's Events |
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Armed with stringed instruments and intense training from the likes of Juilliard and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Classical Revolution is on a mission to change the way classical music is perceived and performed in this city. Conceived in late 2006, the collective's intent has been...
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Mission/ Bernal Heights
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Music, Free Events |
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What do the following things have in common? The dining room of the Victoria Sanatorium in Colfax, Iowa. Severe damage in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, from the 1964 Good Friday earthquake. A gas station owned by a black man in 1941 in a town called Brooklyn Bridge, Kentucky. You probably...
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Sunset (Inner)
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Shopping, Pop Culture, History, Free Events, Flea Markets, Arts |
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Do yourself a favor: Today is the California Academy of Sciences Free Day. Emphasis on day -- perfect for the funderemployed, who more than anyone deserve a day of brain-melting beauty. So ditch the gray pounding and run-run-run pace of the city, in favor of the 4-story rainforest exhibit, to...
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Richmond (Inner)
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Zoo & Animals, Museum Exhibits & Events, Free Events, Family Events |
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Amnesia :
Every week Wednesday, 7:00pm
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The term "gaucho" commonly refers to nomadic South American cowboys, which is pretty indicative of how the San Francisco band Gaucho plays its version of Gypsy jazz: in Gaucho's hands, le jazz manouche is left playfully unchained to the genre's European historical foundations, allowing the...
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Mission/ Bernal Heights
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Music, Free Events |
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Art Haus :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., January 6 until Sat., March 31, 6:00pm
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South of Market
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Art - Openings & Events, Free Events, Art - Ongoings, Art - Galleries, Arts |
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John Baldessari helped kick the conceptual art movement into high gear in the 1960s, when he started incorporating photography and text into his paintings. Later he became fond of setting himself a task (“Throw three balls in the air to get a straight line”) and documenting the...
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Potrero Hill
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Free Events, Arts, Art - Openings & Events, Art - Ongoings, Art - Galleries |
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El Rio :
Every week Monday, 9:00pm
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No other sexually ambiguous club night wears its Kierkegaardian handle quite as well as Gay/Not Gay. Guests walking into El Rio on a Monday evening immediately succumb to a meltdown of libidinal uncertainty and psychological ambiguity. Fortunately, DJs Mrs. Robinson and Jenny Hoyston spin a...
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Mission/ Bernal Heights
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Nightlife, Music, LGBT Events, Free Events |
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Hemlock Tavern :
Every week Monday, 10:00pm
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You can blame Al Gore for the dearth of quality punk rock in the jukeboxes of America. Not because of his li'l censor-happy P.M.R.C. wife (who's done plenty of damage, no doubt), but because Al had to go and invent the internet. What a bum! Even dives with great jukes are phasing out their...
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Nob Hill/ Russian Hill/ Fisherman's Wharf
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Nightlife, Music, Free Events |
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Pop's Bar :
Third Tuesday of every month, 9:00pm
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If you've spent any significant time in the punk underground, no doubt you've been forced to draw your own personal "Emo Line," i.e., the line your Superior Musical Taste won't allow you to cross when the music gets too pop, too pouty, or too un-punk to admit liking in public. This...
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Mission/ Bernal Heights
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Music, Free Events |
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Som Bar :
Every week Wednesday, 10:00pm
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In the male-dominated world of DJs, local selectors Green B and Daneekah have managed to tilt the spotlight toward the ladies with their dancehall releases and long-running reggae party Coo-Yah!. The two met one day on Haight Street while flyering for separate parties, and began DJing together...
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Mission/ Bernal Heights
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Nightlife, Music, Free Events |
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