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Oakland Coffee Shop Creates Community
Coffee is a staple of most American’s days. Whether you take it black in the morning, or iced in the afternoon after work. Oakland has a unique take on the ancient drink that is aiming to help build a community and provide good jobs to Bay Area residents. Bay area native Keba Konte co-founded Guerilla Café in North Berkeley in 2005. He has a background as an artist and an activist. The focus was to source coffee from Blue Bottle and produce from local farms. Being a very compassionate man, he also wanted to make sure that he was providing good jobs for young and diverse employees.
Walking Tours
San Francisco is a town full of iconic locations that everybody knows of. You pay a bunch of money to go on a bog standard tour of the city that may get you some nice photos, but almost no actual knowledge of the city and it’s history. If you’re looking for deep insight and lore, you might want to check out San Francisco City Guides. They provide walking tours of the city that may show you something the other companies can’t provide you.
Peace, Love, and Music
2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the Summer Of Love. 1967 was a high point for the counterculture movement of the Boomer generation. San Francisco became an outpost for the youth of the day, a place where they could come together and let their feelings on the world be known. Most of this exploration came in the form of music. So it’s only natural that San Francisco is looking to celebrate its historical and cultural importance with a large variety of events around the city this year. Here’s some information on the places you need to be out and about this summer.
2017 Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival
Whether you are a car collector, car enthusiast, or a fan of car racing, the 2017 Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival will fulfill your desire to gape at beautiful vehicles in beautiful surroundings. Hosted from June1st to June 4th, the 2017 Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival is the latest addition to a popular event that takes place yearly at the Sonoma Raceway.
35th Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival
There are few musical styles that can be as convincingly claimed as “American” than jazz. Born out of the joie de vivre of the post-war attitude found in many American cities after WWI and combined with the compelling passion of musical styles like gospel and blues, jazz weathered the storm and scandal of its infancy (when it was seen as immoral and sinful) and is now considered one of the most illustrious and dignified styles of musical expressions available to musicians. If you love jazz, if you like jazz, or even if you don’t, you will want to know about the 35th Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival happening over the course of two weeks in Hayes Valley, only a short hop from downtown San Francisco.
Petaluma Music Tour
Big things sometimes come in small packages. Petaluma California is only an hour north from San Francisco, but from a lifestyle standpoint, it can seem light years away. The town has been cast multiple times as a sleepy town in multiple classic movies. Perhaps most famous, it was used as the shooting location for George Lucas’ classic ‘American Graffiti’. In fact, the yearly event in the town is Butter and Egg Days Parade. Not quite the thing that your average Silicon Valley developer might find interesting on a Saturday afternoon. It’s a town of rich agricultural heritage and pride. For most city dwellers, it is a town that you pass through on your way to tour a winery.
BottleRock Music Festival
Napa Valley is known world-wide for its breathtaking beauty and for its fondness for the grape. Wine and song are certainly important to the area. That’s why, the BottleRock Festival will have it’s 5th annual incarnation this year. The festival runs from May 26-28 2017. You can view the lineups and the packages here. It promises a lot to offer for music fans of any stripe. Rock and pop fans will get their fill from big name acts like Foo Fighters, Tom Petty, and Maroon 5. Rap artists include rap legends The Roots, Warren G, and House Of Pain. The line up is vast and varied, but don’t think that music is the only draw the festival provides.
Memorial Day Weekend in San Francisco
What better way to spend the long holiday weekend – and the official kick off to summer – than with a trip to San Francisco. San Francisco is home to one of the country’s largest and longest running Memorial Day traditions. Every year on Memorial Day starting at 10:30 AM, members of the military, family and friends gather at the National Cemetery in Presidio to honor those who have died for our country. Open to the public, the service last until 1:30 PM. While at the National Cemetery, be sure to check out some of the other attractions, including two World War II era boats that now serve as floating museums. A trip to Fort Point National Historic Site is also worth the trip.
San Francisco Unified School District Arts Festival
Over the course of nine days, from April 29th until May 7th, The San Francisco Unified School District will host the SFUSD Arts Festival, a great way to immerse yourself in student art, upcoming voices, and creativity that is unshackled from the highly commodified world of artistic production. Working through a wide range of mediums, students in grades preK through 12th from the San Francisco area have worked to cultivate their budding talent, and the SFUST Arts Festival is the time for the public to take a peek into the artistic world of young people.
PICYA Opening Day Parade
For 100 years, the Pacific Inter-Club Yacht Association (PICYA) has officially kicked off the official yachting season in San Francisco with its one-of-a-kind parade and festival to celebrate all things nautical. Popular among both boat enthusiasts and people who just want to get out, enjoy the sun, and relax by the bay, the Opening Day on the Bay is a time to shake off the cobwebs that San Francisco’s grey winters see crawling over our lives.
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