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Events across San Francisco and the wider Bay Area: music, arts and nightlife; food, drink and festivals; outdoors, sports and active.

Oct 26, 2026

Five weeks, three holidays, and one deadline this Saturday

Day of the Dead fills the Mission, nine Warriors home dates land at Chase Center, and Dickens Fair Early Bird pricing ends October 31.

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Oct 12, 2026

Five weeks, and a Finals in our own building

The Valkyries host the first WNBA Finals games ever played in San Francisco, the Warriors open at home, and autumn festivals run from Half Moon Bay to Sonoma.

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Sep 28, 2026

Five weeks of the real San Francisco summer, ending on a Saturday Halloween

A catch-up edition for five weeks of fall: Fleet Week, Hardly Strictly, Valkyries playoff nights, pumpkins on the coast and a Halloween weekend.

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Sep 14, 2026

Five weeks from the Moon Festival to the pumpkin fields

A catch-up edition for mid-September to mid-October: Portola, Folsom, Hardly Strictly, Fleet Week, the Giants' last homestand and the Valkyries' run-in.

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Aug 31, 2026

Five weeks, and the best free weekend of the year at the end of them

Labor Day weekend opens a five-week run that ends with Hardly Strictly free in the park, plus Portola, Folsom and the Giants' last homestand.

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Aug 17, 2026

Festival season just ended and the city is better for it

Outside Lands packed up ten days ago and Stern Grove closed with Al Green yesterday afternoon.

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