Get ready to ring in the Year Of The Tiger on February 27th with the 2010 Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco Chinatown. The parade features floats, firecrackers, extravagant costumes, and local color on the streets. The dramatic 201 ft long Golden Dragon at the end of the parade to the sound of 600,000 [...]

San Francisco Chamber Orchestra Family Concerts are a great way for Bay Area families to discover and enjoy classical music. Check out the upcoming February 2010 concerts in Berkeley, San Mateo, and San Francisco, in collaboration with the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir.
The upcoming Feb. 27 and 28 performance: Family Concert II: Music and Song [...]

The 2010 SF IndieFest features dozens of in-your-face irreverent indie features and shorts and is known for hosting interesting parties.
You can buy a 5-film discount voucher for $50, or a 10-film discount voucher for $90. The vouchers are redeemable for hard tickets at the Roxie box office on the day of the shows you pick, [...]

Many San Francisco art galleries stay open late every first Thursday of the month for a casual open house. The SF Thursday Night Art Walks offers a great opportunity to meet local artists, drink wine, soak up the culture, and catch up with friends after work. You can also wander into some of the galleries that are [...]

PIER 39 Tulipmania returns to Pier 39 in February 2010. This free floral event features a lush display of colorful tulips on both levels of PIER 39. You can also join one of the free guided tulip tours. The tulip tour guides will point out the many tulip varieties such as Apricot Beauties, Texas Flames, [...]

OVO by Cirque du Soleil Half Off Tickets – The half off discounts from Goldstar are back, plus now you can get Valentine’s Day special offer — Buy One Get One tickets when you buy before Feb. 14 — straight from the source. These are for upcoming performances of Cirque du Soleil Ovo in San [...]

Trade in your old jeans and get 25% off a new pair during the third annual Teens for Jeans drive. This is also a great opportunity for teens to collect jeans for homeless teens in Haiti.
“Just drop off any pair of your gently worn jeans to any Aéropostale store between January 19th and February 14th [...]

Sure, we love it here in the San Francisco Bay Area, but sometimes we all need to get away. Here’s a screaming airfare deal from Virgin America, an another from British Airways, both via Travelzoo
Virgin America: “For one week only, Virgin America has cut nonstop fares from San Francisco to $44-$104 each way. Fly up [...]

If you’ve been waiting for a half off Alcatraz Island offer, read on.

Note: There was a delay for this Alcatraz special offer since we posted it earlier, but good news! It’s back on. And if you bought a Go San Francisco card through this post during the delay, you can have the Alcatraz offer [...]

Some of you SF cheapsters may have taken advantage of Aquarium of the Bay’s recent free days for San Francisco residents (which I told you about here). We have some terrific news: the Aquarium is rolling out a series of free days for residents throughout the Bay Area. The full lineup by Bay Area county [...]

Parking rates in the San Francisco Bay Area can really add up. Fortunately there’s a free resource that lets you instantly search and compare parking rates and locations in real time for daily and even monthly parking in San Francisco, Oakland, all airports, and dozens of other major cities around the U.S. The website BestParking.com [...]

It’s Love Boat time again with Hornblower Dinner Cruise deals. The San Francisco Bay Hornblower Cruises and Events are always popular with SF locals and tourists — especially when you can get them for less.
The Hornblower cruises will sail you around the San Francisco Bay past the Golden Gate Bridge and Bay Bridge, and [...]

It’s great to save money by riding a bike around San Francisco instead of driving. It’s even better to maintain your bike yourself among friends at the Bike Kitchen, a do-it-yourself donation-based bicycle resource run by volunteers.
We’re told it’s not the least bit intimidating, even if you’re all thumbs. If you like riding bikes, you’ll [...]

You know we love the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, and we’ve posted about their skip-the-line discount tickets and free days and locals days and even a way to get discounts on Nightlife, the museum’s Thursday night mixer. Now they’re offering several weeks worth of Free Days to active military, firefighters, police, and [...]

California Academy of Sciences is now hosting Nightlife, so you get to hang with the party animals and the museum animals at the same venue. Every Thursday night …

San Francisco’s Dine About Town is coming around again, January 15 through 31, 2010, presented by the San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau. Many of San Francisco’s finest restaurants will offer two-course lunches for $17.95 and three-Course dinners for $34.95. If you happen to have an American Express Card, you can also get a $15 [...]

Monster Energy AMA Supercross in SF – Big O Tires has a coupon discount for up to $10 off the Monster Energy AMA Supercross, scheduled for January 30, in San Francisco. The amount of the discount depends on the price of your ticket.
If you’ve never seen Supercross, its a motorcycle racing sport where off-road motorcycles [...]

Now get up to $20 Off Tickets to California Academy of Sciences — Cal Academy has so much to offer, we want to go again and again. Maybe that’s why it was named by Conde’ Nast Traveler as one of the ‘New Wonders of the World.’ Check out their cool new video tour.
I’ve posted about [...]

On January 16 through 18, 2010, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) celebrates their 75th anniversary, with a series of FREE exhibitions and events “illustrating the stories of the artists, collectors, cultural visionaries, and community leaders who founded, built, and animated the museum.”
SFMOMA will also launch a multimedia tour of the collection that [...]

The 2010 Russian Festival in San Francisco has a tag line that says it all: “Take a trip to Russia without leaving the Bay Area.” The Festival will take place January 29, 30 & 31, 2010, and they’re offering Buy One Get One Free (BOGO) tickets for Friday night (Jan 29). This year’s theme is [...]