The next fee-free days at U.S. National Parks will be September 25, 2010, 2010. More than 100 national parks will waive entrance fees for certain Free Days this year, including several in the San Francisco Bay Area, like Muir Woods, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, and some of our California favs like Yosemite National [...]

UPDATE 8/30/10: Just added four new ticket discounts for MLB Baseball SF Giants games at AT&T Park. Tickets are still available foir Athletics / Red Sox games at Oakland Coliseum at around half off the regular price. Bay Area baseball fans, this deal’s for you. You can get discount tickets for up to half off [...]

UPDATE 8/30/10: New iFly SF Bay Half Off discount. Want to experience all the thrill of skydiving without the danger, expense, or restrictions? Now you can do it for about half off at iFly SF Bay in Union City, CA. This is the only vertical wind tunnel of it’s kind in the San Francisco Bay [...]

A delightful new exhibit at the Oakland Museum of California is included as part of OMCA’s free day: PIXAR: 25 Years of Animation (July 31 – January 9, 2011). The PIXAR exhibit may also be discounted to Half Price later this week as another one of the Daily Deals (according to a source at the [...]

Here’s a Labor Day weekend event (Saturday, September 4, 2010) that looks like fun, and you can get tickets for half price. the Day of Discovery Festival at Wente Vineyards in Livermore (about 35 minutes east of San Francisco). The good news is you can get tickets for only $14 (regular price is $29 to [...]

Want to get $4 tickets to see Toy Story 3, Inception, The Kids Are Alright, Eat Pray Love … ? If you like to go to the movies but don’t like how the ticket prices add up, this AMC Theaters $4 movie ticket deal will save you up to $8.50 per ticket (although a surcharge [...]

On Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day (September 25, 2010) you can get in FREE to hundreds of participating museums. San Francisco Bay Area museums on the list include Cal Academy, CJM, Chabot Space & Science Center, Hiller Aviation, Coyote Point Museum, and several others. Don’t just show up at a museum, though. You need to fill [...]

The genie steals the show in this delightful stage version of Disney’s Aladdin at Berkeley Playhouse, a program of the Julia Morgan Center for the Arts. Regular tickets are $33, but you can get them for $15 (plus $5 fees). This west coast premiere of Disney’s animated tale features all the familiar characters and songs [...]

The deals are growing at Restaurant.com with tons of new dining establishments added in Bay Area cities. So I thought I’d give you an extra heads up about this great opportunity to save. Dining out in Bay Area cities can take a bite out of your budget, but who wants to give it up? Not [...]

Oakland Raiders will play the St. Louis Rams at Oakland Coliseum on September 19, 2010. You can get tickets at about half off, plus a free meal voucher. “Tom Cable kicks off his second full season as head coach leading his new quarterback Jason Campbell and Pro Bowl cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha against the NFC’s St. [...]

Art in Carnegie Park, Livermore (September 18, 2010) is a fun end-of-summer event that draws thousands of visitors to Carnegie Park to view art demonstrations, buy arts and crafts directly from local artists, listen to live music, and enjoy local wine and food. Visitors can also browse LAA’s art gallery, a co-op run by the [...]

The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is the visual arts center of the University of California, Berkeley. Every First Thursday of every month you can enjoy free admission. And on some Friday Nights, admission is just $7 for the museum’s L@te Friday mixers. L@TE Friday, 9/3/10: Gallery B: Terry Riley Celebrates 75–After [...]

Why just eat out on the cheap when you can eat out on the cheap with a view? When you know the current Restaurant.com promo code, you can dine on the cheap all over the Bay Area, at a wide range of restaurants and locations. So hard to choose, though, so here’s just a sampling [...]

Cal Shakes not only takes the classics and gives them a twist all summer long, they do so at a stunning outdoor location in the East Bay hills between Berkeley and Orinda. Go early and stroll through the sculpture garden. You can buy sandwiches, beer, wine, coffee, hot cocoa and sweets at the cafe, or [...]

Pleasanton Summer Concerts In The Park, at Lions Wayside Park, take place on most Fridays all summer through September 4, 2010. Is there another weekly Bay Area summer concert in the park that I should mention? Please write in and tell us about it. [Check out the other posts on Bay Area Music In The [...]

Shakespeare in the Park performances will take place from July through September 2010, in three locations, starting in Pleasanton, continuing in Cupertino, and wrapping up in San Francisco in September. No tickets or reservations are required. No seating is provided, so arrive early for the best patch of grass and bring a blanket and picnic [...]

If you enjoy Bay Area art walks, here’s a good one to go to: Oakland Art Murmur, a group of Oakland venues that have art receptions every first Friday of the month. You can enjoy the usual Art Walk experience, with some of the best art galleries opening their doors and offering complimentary appetizers, wine [...]

Just a reminder: Bay Area On The Cheap includes separate category pages so you can find all the deals, discounts, free events, and special offers currently available in each part of the SF Bay. If you RSS us and haven’t been to the site lately, we’re now rich in content. As this website grows, we’ll [...]

The Oakland Underground Film Festival announced their summer 2010 lineup of film screenings and salons and it looks like fun. The scheduled events run through September 3, 2010. The opening film screening, on Friday, April 23, is free, and offers a great way to enjoy the best work of our local filmmakers, projection and installation [...]

Daily deal sites are springing up in San Francisco like spring daisies. Some are cropping up in the East Bay and San Jose, too. Starting with Groupon, LivingSocial, JuiceInTheCity, SpecialDeals, Groopswoop, SocialBuy, Liquor, Zozi, HomeRun, PlumDistrict, BuyWithMe, Mamapedia, and a bunch of others (with more coming soon), these websites offer a deal or two a [...]