If you’re trying to get in to the Treasure Island Festival this weekend and are willing to do some volunteer work in exchange for $1 addmission, then you’re in luck: Some friends of ours at Clean Vibes and SFEnvironment.org dropped us a line to let us know that there are

Past How-To Nights at Bazaar Cafe have taught us how to get a book published, how to grow veggies, and how to make a telescope, among other things — all for FREE.  This month, Jeff Potter, author of Cooking for Geeks, will be at the cafe to teach all you

Wondering what to do for fun this week?  Feeling a little dead inside?  Wake yourself up with a FREE event for each of the 5 senses! SEE: There’s nothing like a Charlie Kaufman/Spike Jonze collaborative mindfuck to topple you into an existential crisis. Catch a FREE screening of Adaptation this

In case you’ve been living under a VERY LARGE ROCK, your San Francisco Giants* are currently leading the NLDS against the Atlanta Braves after that torturous series against the Padres to win the NL West. Naturally, the best way to support your team in a postseason like this is to

If there is one thing I hate more than romantic comedies, it’s action movies. Why pay to go see Michael Bay blow shit up like a 10 year old when you can just as easily do the same thing, and for cheaper, in your backyard? Movie prices have gotten out

Loud noises!  Sailors!  Gay guys in hot pants!  These fit right into a game I like to call “Halloween, Pride or Fleet Week?”  One look out the window should tell you (as if you don’t already know, you savvy San Franciscan, you) that it’s FLEET WEEK and you know what

The merry crew of Hard French is pulling up anchor from the river and sailing to Potrero Hill this weekend, as the official arbiters of fun for the Out Loud Comedy Festival Wrap Party.  Usual dancing to the discos is at perennial garden spot, El Rio, but the port for