Been meaning to give yoga a try — or get back into it after a long hiatus? During National Yoga Month, September 2009, you’re invited to start your journey into a healthier, more balanced lifestyle. Here’s how to get one week free yoga when you sign up for a Yoga Month Card at yogamonth.org. 1. Choose [...]

The Oktoberfest By The Bay at Pier 48 in San Francisco isn’t free or cheap, but you can get a $10 discount off admission with a promo code. You can also get 2 for 1 tickets for Sunday, “German Day.” Come for the German beer & wine ($6), the traditional Bavarian dancing by the Nature [...]

Here’s a 2 for 1 wine tasting deal offered by Hall Winery. You can download and print the coupon below to get Two Tastings When You Purchase One. You can sample the portfolio of HALL wines, relax in arbor-covered courtyards, and take in the original works of modern art and sculpture from the Halls’ personal [...]

The Tapestry Arts Festival in San Jose will showcase a variety of arts and crafts along with live entertainment featuring dance, theatre, blues, rock, jazz and classical music. You’ll also find the usual fun festival food (artichokes, calamari, barbecued meats, kettle corn, dessert crepes), a kids creativity zone, and a design for living home and [...]

Want to see a film screening projected digitally right onto Coit Tower? Check it out on November 25 and 26th (Thanksgiving) when a film about the American Indians’ two-year occupation of Alcatraz will be projected onto the North-East portions of Coit Tower from neighborhood rooftops. You can listen to the audio of the two-hour film [...]

If you’ve ever seen the comedy troupe Blue Blanket Improv, you know it’s never the same show twice. Each show is made up on the spot with scenes built entirely upon audience suggestions. You can catch the laugh out loud show every second Saturday this year at Enso, a yoga studio, performance space, gallery, and [...]

Here’s a new SF $5 Comedy Showcase that looks hilarious. (Found it first on the SquidList with a nice no heckling not — you wouldn’t anyway, right?)  This sounds like a great opportunity to check out the up and coming  comedians in the Bay Area. BYOB. DEAL: Laugh you head off at the Comedy Showcase [...]

Check out the World of Orchids Show & Sale in the East Bay this weekend. You can buy orchids for your garden, participate in raffles, ask questions about keeping your plants healthy, or just enjoy the displays and demonstrations. DEAL: World of Orchids Flower Show regular price only $2 (Children Free.) WHERE: Pleasant Hill Community [...]

San Francisco’s Treasure Island Music Festival is this weekend with a spectacular line-up of musicians that includes: The Decemberists, The Flaming Lips, Girl Talk, MGMT, MSTRKRFT, Limousines, Crown City Rockers, and more. We found a promo code for $15 Off for early tickets through October (see below). However, that was a better deal during earlybird [...]

The Half Moon Bay Art and Pumpkin Festival is almost upon us, so I’m getting ready to hide out with the rest of the Half Moon Bay residents. That’s right, I live in Half Moon Bay now. The locals tell me they don’t leave their houses during the Pumpkin Fest. I went last year, though, [...]

Family Movie Nights — Take the family out for a FREE screening of the Oscar nominated animated hit movie UP, on Friday, February 19th at Serramonte Shopping Center in Daly City. The screening is hosted by Serramonte Center and Flick Nation with an introduction by Dennis Willis, KGO movie critic. WHAT’S THE DEAL: Family Movie [...]

Movies in the Park are all the rage this summer for Bay Area families, and Foster City has them, too. The Youth Advisory Committee, along with local vendors, will provide food to snack on during the movie. Expect a crowd of about 500. DEAL: [Expired] Free Movies in the Park. WHERE: Leo J. Ryan Park [...]

Join in the celebration of the men and women of our armed forces during San Francisco Fleet Week 2009, a spectacular weekend family event featuring the Navy Blue Angels, a Parade of Navy ships and other exciting demonstrations. Along with the Blue Angels survey flights and Parade of Fleet Week Naval ships, events will include: [...]

Litquake 2009 is a San Francisco literary festival that showcases hundreds of the Bay Area’s finest writers for a week of readings, discussions, films, cross-media happenings and more. Litquake was founded by Bay Area writers as a week-long literary spectacle for book lovers, complete with cutting-edge panels, unique cross-media events, and hundreds of readings. Since [...]

Fiesta on the Hill is a community based, high-profile and energetic Festival with an attendance of over 20,000 friends and neighbors from San Francisco‘s Bernal Heights area, neighboring communities and the greater Bay Area. The event is in its 21st year and continues to grow. The Festival benefits the Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center whose mission [...]

The 19th Annual San Carlos Art & Wine Faire will present the work of more than 290 of high quality, hand-picked artists and their treasure trove of ceramics, pottery, watercolor, oil paintings, photography, wood working and jewelry. You’ll find the usual fun festival food, plenty of wine, microbrews, sodas, and water to drink, and live [...]

The 7th Annual Spice of Life Festival, in North Berkeley, is a  five-block long food and art fair that celebrates the spice of life with cooking demos and samples by local chefs, gourmet food, beer and wine. There’s also a farmers market, artist exhibitions, yoga and bodywork demonstrations, and fun free kids activities. Activities not [...]

The Sandcastle Contest at Ocean Beach is Northern California’s largest sandcastle building event. The contest is open to the public, free of charge, and supported by the local construction industry, including architects, engineers, and contractors who come together to support arts education in Bay Area schools. Leap hosts this spirited competition between teams of architects, [...]

The Wizard of Oz at Berkley’s Julia Morgan Center for the Arts – You can now get Half-Price tickets “The Wizard of Oz,” directed by award-winning Jon Tracy and musical direction by Phil Gorman. With bungee-jumping monkeys, glowing orbs, clowning and classic shadow play, The Wizard of Oz takes you over that classic rainbow in [...]

If you like big outdoor music bashes, the place to be this weekend is Golden Gate Park at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass concert. It’s FREE and the lineup includes: Abalone Dots, Aimee Mann, Boz Scaggs, Neko Case, Emmylou Harris, Mavis Staples, Marianne Faithful, and Gillian Welch, MC Hammer, Ricky Skaggs, Lyle Lovett, The Chieftains, and [...]