One of San Francisco's longest-running street festivals is back for 2023, the Union Street Festival. It's free and here are the dates, details, bands, food, beer, drinks and everything you need to know about it. Dates: June 3-4 Location: Union Street from Fillmore to Octavia streets Admission: Free Hours: 11 a.m.-7 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. on … [Read more...]
San Francisco & Bay Area Top Summertime Events 2023 Dates & Information Guide
Contrary to popular legend, San Francisco is not as cold in the summertime as some places are in the winter. Oh sure, stand at Fisherman's Wharf a late afternoon when the fog rolls in over the bay and a sunny day suddenly turns chilly. Thus all the souvenir stores selling San Fransisco sweatshirts to unsuspecting tourists. San Francisco in the summertime is a fun place to … [Read more...]
A Brewfest, Concerts & Pop-Up Food Highlights Presidio of San Francisco Summertime Events
The Presidio of San Francisco is a giant park with great views of the Golden Gate Bridge that locals know as a great outdoor hangout spot. And in the summer of 2023, it has several events and happenings that add even more to its natural allure. Free Community Events Including Live Music & The First-Ever Brewfest All summer, there are community and cultural events … [Read more...]
Stern Grove Festival Announces 2019 Lineup Of Free San Francisco Sunday Concerts
Isley Brothers Playing In August; Other Shows Involve The Symphony, Jazz & Hip Hop The free San Francisco Sunday summer concerts are back for 2019 as the Stern Grove Festival returns for its 82nd season. Taking place June 16-Aug.18, Stern Grove Festival is the Bay Area’s original outdoor music festival with a ride range of music from rock, hip-hop, jazz, … [Read more...]
Alcatraz Cruises People’s Sunrise Ceremonies 2018 San Francisco Dates & Details
Event Honors Indigenous Peoples Of The Americas Alcatraz Cruises and the National Park Service in San Francisco are hosting its two annual Indigenous People’s Sunrise Ceremonies for 2018 on Monday, Oct. 8 and Thursday, Nov. 22. The Indigenous People’s Sunrise Gathering is a commemoration of the 1969-71 occupation of Alcatraz by the “Indians of All Tribes” and are … [Read more...]
Stern Grove Festival Free San Francisco Sunday Concerts 2019 Dates & Lineup
All You Need To Know About Sunday Afternoon Shows The Stern Grove Festival, a series of free summertime concerts in a park in San Francisco, takes place on Sunday afternoons in a relaxing picnic-style setting. The 2019 dates of June 16-Aug. 18. Held Sundays from 2 until 4:30 or 5:30 p.m., they take place among the 70 acres of eucalyptus forest at Sigmund Stern … [Read more...]
San Francisco Blog: Bay To Breakers 2019 5 Important Things To Know
Costumes But No Floats And A 'Zero Tolerance' Alcohol Policy The 2019 Bay To Breakers is Sunday, May 21, from 8 a.m., until, well, you make it back to town. Some could call this a "fun run" in that it's not a serious foot race, but it's really much more than that, it's a rolling street party of sorts that goes 12K from the bay (under the Bay Bridge) to the … [Read more...]
Is The Bay To Breakers 2017 Zero-Tolerance Policy A Party Pooper?
San Francisco Event Is Better With Beer By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger The 2017 Alaska Airlines Bay to Breakers is under a "zero tolerance" policy for alcohol, as stated prominently on the event's website. A little further down, I happened to notice, one of its sponsors is Angel City Brewery. It's good to see beer is, in some way, still a part … [Read more...]
Bay To Breakers 2017 Begins San Francisco’s Summer Of Fun Events & Festivals
Union Street Festival, North Beach Festival Fillmore Jazz Festival & Sausalito Art Festival Give Locals & Visitors Plenty Of Things To Do In SF San Francisco is celebrating the Summer of Love in 2017, but at the same time it's having another summer of fun, as in events and festivals. And it begins ever before summer begins, with the Bay to Breakers, a crazy foot … [Read more...]
Bay to Breakers 2019 Top Party Tips For San Francisco’s Wild Street Event
Here's How to Have Fun – at B2B Without Any Worries It used to be one of America's great events, a full-filled walk through the streets of San Francisco, full of floats, stops for keg stands and sudden outbreaks of block parties. It was the Mardi Gras of the West Coast. Except that you were in the parade, not watching it from the sidelines. Naturally, there was … [Read more...]
Stern Grove Festival San Francisco Celebrates 80th Season In 2017
Free Concerts During The Summer Of Love This is the Summer of Love in San Francisco, and here's one thing to love when you're in San Francisco this summer: free concerts. The Stern Grove Festival is celebrating its 80th anniversary this summer. It runs from June 25-Aug. 27 in Sigmund Stern Grove, a beautiful outdoor amphitheater in San Francisco's Sunset district, … [Read more...]
New Year’s Eve San Francisco 2017 Fireworks Best Viewing Locations & Bars
Where To Watch & Drink On NYE The City by the Bay shoots fireworks over the bay on New Year's Eve. San Francisco celebrates the end of the old year and the beginning of the new one with a free midnight show framed by the Bay Bridge. Called "Fireworks Over The Bay," it takes place off Pier 14 at the foot of Mission Street and the Embarcardero. People line up on … [Read more...]
Where I Want To Be This Weekend: Bay To Breakers
Memories Of The Tiki Bar & Discovery Channel Song By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger I miss the tiki bar. The kegs in shopping carts were fun, the handstands out of the kegs in the shopping carts, the rolling beer pong table and other creative creations that were a part of the wild and crazy Bay to Breakers were great. But nothing beat the tiki … [Read more...]
Bay To Breakers 2023 San Francisco’s Biggest Party: The Ultimate Review
You can no longer push shopping carts with kegs or roll big floats – we miss the tiki bar! – down the streets. But Bay to Breakers is still the biggest, most fun, lively and top singles party event in San Francisco. Held the third Sunday in May (that would put it on May 21 in 2023), it's a rolling block party, San Francisco's version of Mardi Gras in New Orleans. In fact, … [Read more...]
Union Street Festival San Francisco Review Tips Singles Scene
Annual Event Is One Of The Top Street Parties In San Francisco Booths, bands and beer. Oh, the beer. Just two weeks after the crazy and whacky Bay to Breakes mobile party, the city of San Francisco hosts the Union Street Festival. Like Bay to Breakers, it's a open invitation to cut loose and party in the city streets. This is one of the city's many street festivals and, … [Read more...]