San Francisco Travel Blog
41st Annual Decorator Showcase Friday Night Opening Party
The San Francisco Decorator Showcase has spent the past 41 years building up a strong reputation as one of the decoration industries touchstone events. The SFDS gathers together the Bay Area’s best and brightest who are working in areas such as interior design and landscape design for a month long showcase of their work and their visions.
Lake County Events
Are you looking for some good outdoor events to go to in the Lake County area in the next couple months? Well we have a couple of events that just might make your list. Lake County houses some of our area’s best wineries, so expect these events to feature some of your favorite drinks. However, these events are appropriate for everybody in the family, get away from the city and out into nature.
Earth Day San Francisco 2018
Earth Day celebrations return to San Francisco this April! Celebrating the 49th consecutive year of this major event, Earth Day San Francisco 2018 is an all-ages festival that seeks to raise awareness for our need to take better care of our planet.
Spring Open Studios 2018
Over the past hundred years, San Francisco has acted as a powerful beacon for artists looking to reinvent, challenge, and discover themselves. From filmmakers to musicians to poets to painters, the Bay Area is the home they have looked for their entire lives. This helps explain why the city boasts of so many wonderful art galleries, bookstores, cafes, and other spaces that host and nurture artists of all kinds.
51st Annual Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival
It is very likely that you are familiar with the notion that the advent of spring means the blooming of the cherry blossoms in Washington DC. But did you know that San Francisco, itself a home to thousands of cherry trees, has the second largest festival in America celebrating the occasion of their blooming? It’s true! The Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival is considered to be one of the largest celebrations of cherry blossoms and Asian culture in the entire country, and it is the largest single event revolving around these things on the West coast.
Return of the Polk Street Spring Wine Walk
Since last spring, wine aficionados from San Francisco and the surrounding area have gathered together to enjoy the longer days, (slightly) warmer nights, and the love of wine. The Polk Street Spring Wine Walk, as it has come to be called, runs the entire length of Polk Street that lies between Post and Filbert Street, giving participants ample time and space to taste some of the best wines produced throughout California.
27th Annual Union Street Easter Parade & Spring Celebration
Are you ready for spring? We are! And to prove it, we want to share just how excited we feel about the upcoming 27th Annual Union Street Easter Parade & Spring Celebration. Taking place on April 1st, the event goes from 10:00 in the morning until 5:00 at night, giving you a whole day to join in the electrifying fun of breaking out of your winter slumber with thousands of others throughout the Bay Area.
Disposable Film Festival
San Francisco, with its stunning natural beauty, its long-standing artistic scene, and its unique multi-cultural heritage has become a benevolent home to the film industry. Although it doesn’t trade in the glamorous neon and gold displays of Hollywood, the Bay Area has nevertheless attracted the tastes of those looking for a somewhat less obvious (some might say more refined) film experience.
35th Annual San Francisco International Beer Festival
Beer.
Would it be fair to say that we almost love our parents as much? Would it be reasonable to admit that it fills us with a sense of the sublime as Edmund Burke understood it? Would it be socially acceptable to admit that waiting for the release of a certain dry-hopped IPA left us more emotionally exhausted than the birth of our second child?
Baseball Returns for the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland A’s
You don’t need to be a huge fan of sports to enjoy going to a baseball game. As American as endless highways, Winnebagos, and Cliff Bars, baseball has been lodged into the psyche of our nation even before Kevin Costner decided to mow down his cornfield in order to play catch with his dead dad. Ever since the regular season ended last September, millions of people around the country have been watching their calendars, waiting for that beautiful spring day when the dugouts will disgorge teams prepared to battle one another over the course of the next six months for that enviable prize of the World Series title.
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