One evening each summer, AT&T Park hosts the annual Opera at the Ballpark event. While the San Francisco Opera is performed at the War Memorial Opera House, it’s simulcast onto the 103 foot wide, high definition screen at the baseball stadium. Opera-goers at the ballpark can watch the entire performance while lounging on the lawns(…)
San Francisco showed its true colors over the last weekend of June for its 45th anniversary Pride Celebration and parade. Two days of festivities included musical and dance performances on a number of stages around Civic Center on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, and the Pride Parade on Sunday Morning. The event, which began in the(…)
Capurro’s Restaurant Review – Most of the restaurants around Fisherman’s Wharf have a bad rap. For years, locals have shunned the dining options in this touristy part of town as overpriced and overrated. These eateries have remained popular among tourists for their location and local seafood offerings, and many are long-time family-run operations, so I(…)
Every year on the third Sunday in May, thousands of runners and revelers take to the streets of San Francisco for the annual Bay to Breakers race. The 12k race begins just blocks from the San Francisco Bay on Howard and Main, and crosses the city, passing the Painted Ladies of Alamo Square, through the(…)
On April 25, Golden Gate Park’s Murphy Windmill was engulfed in a sea of orange as San Francisco’s Dutch community came out to celebrate King’s Day (Koningsdag). The birthday celebration for King Willem-Alexander took place the Saturday before the official holiday takes place in the Netherlands on April 27. The free event was put on(…)
Over two weekends in April, San Francisco’s Japantown hosted the 48th annual Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival. The event is the second largest Cherry Blossom Festival in the country, after Washington DC, taking place around Peace Plaza and the Japan Center along Post at Buchanan. The 2018 event will be held from April 14-22, and(…)
It’s the kind of reckless idea a brave kid with no concept of mortality would dream up: racing your bike down the steepest, curviest street in the city. Only, it wasn’t a kid who started it, and it’s mostly adults who race. As we learned from watching Tom Hanks jump on his indoor trampoline in(…)
Community Day at the Palace of Fine Arts Throughout 2015, San Francisco’s lasting monument to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, the Palace of Fine Arts, will host a celebration of the event’s 100th anniversary. The world’s fair first opened on February 20, 1915, and welcomed visitors from near and far for about ten months, until(…)
Though Hanukkah celebrations last eight days and Christmas lasts just one (arguably two), Christmas events take over the whole month of December, and have gradually been creeping up through November. Meanwhile, Hanukkah gets overshadowed by Christmas and its weeks of decorations and festivities, and San Francisco’s largest Hanukkah celebration at Union Square is no exception.(…)
Boudin Bakery has a strong association with San Francisco as its oldest business and most famous sourdough. The foggy San Francisco air and the dough starter dating back over 165 years has given the city’s sourdough its distinctive tangy flavor and has made sourdough synonymous with San Francisco. The bakery’s flagship location next to Fisherman’s(…)
