MINI EVENTS from Fun & Cheap SF
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FunCheapSF):
Friday
1/6 5:30 pm FREE Oysters in 1/2 shell & DJs at El Rio - Mission Dist.
Free Food
1/6 6:00 pm FREE Palo Alto Art Walk Art
1/6 6:00 pm $8 Friday Night @ Oakland Museum of California - Jazz,
drinks & exhibits Museum
1/6 7:00 pm FREE Rope Bondage Art Exhibition - methodical weaving -
Mission Dist.
Femina Potens Gallery - During the hours of interactive performances
the weaver, Midori, will create and web silently in methodical
motions. Guests who sit or stand still for extended periods in the
space may be woven silently into the creation Odd
1/6 8:00 pm FREE acoustic band "Ariel" @ Wilmot's Books - Alameda
Live Music
1/6 9:00 pm $5 - REM Tribute Band "Chronic Town" @ 4th St Tavern -
San Rafael Live Music
1/6 9:00 pm FREE "Decade" 80s dance club & One Hit Wonders trivia
contest @ Catalyst DJ / Club
1/6 10:00 pm FREE "SPF 7" Head To Headline odd comedy evening - union
sq. Comedy
Saturday
1/7 8:00 pm FREE "The Stand Up Project" comedy night - union sq.
Comedy
1/7 10:00 pm $5 Beatropolis & Kosmic Renassance - drum n bass @
Amnesia Live Music
Sunday
1/8 All Day FREE "Yoga Day" - Yoga Class & Vegetarian Meal - Inner
Sunset Health
1/8 11:00 am FREE families get into your choice of 23 museums/zoos
today only - Family Appreciation Day
Families with children 18 and under get in free to their choice of
venues: Chinatown Alleyway Tours, Asian Art Museum, California
Academy of Sciences, Cartoon Art Museum, Giant's SBC Ball Park Tours,
SF MOMA ,Conservatory of Flowers, deYoung Museum, Exploratorium, Coit
Tower, Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco Zoo Museum
Monday
1/9 All Day $5 cheap movie tix for Metreon Jan 06 (Mon thru Thus, any
showings!)
download coupon for unlimited $5 tickets (normally it's $10) for any
movie at the Sony Metreon movie theater for the entire month of
January - also a coupon for a free "super size" of any soda. Movies
1/9 7:00 pm $12 - Porchlight: A Storytelling Series @ Cafe Du Nord
not your ordinary book reading. top notch authors, musicians,
comedians give 10 minute off the cuff speaches & thoughts on a single
topic. This month, Porch Light celebrates a new year of fresh
resolutions with our annual "I Quit," show. Literature
1/9 9:00 pm $5 rock n roll punk "Uncommon Men From Mars" @ Thee
Parkside Live Music
Tuesday
1/10 6:00 pm FREE screening of KQED's "Negroes with Guns" @ Main
Library Movies
Wednesday
1/11 6:30 pm FREE book Reading "The Bone Weaver" about weaving family
stories into fiction Literature
1/11 7:00 pm FREE fun, informative, informal lecture series "Black
Holes" @ Bazaar Cafe
Ask A Scientist is a quriky lecture series where nerds of all types
get together over coffee, to hear a fun lecture by a supernerd of his
or her field. This month it's Astronomy professor Andrew Fraknoi's
"Black Holes, Space Warps, Time Machines: Einstein's Universe in
Everyday Language" Lecture
1/11 7:00 pm FREE book reading by first US woman to attempt to climb
Mt. Everst Literature
Thursday 1/12 and beyond...
1/12 12:00 am $6 - Art Opening, Music, Cocktails and more! - SOMA
1/12 5:00 pm $5 - Asian Art Museum's two-part "Groundbreaking
Painters of 18th Century Kyoto"
1/12 5:30 pm FREE art opening for sound/video/mixed media "Private
Transits"
1/12 7:00 pm FREE book reading by former Sierra Club Director "In the
Thick of it"
1/12 7:00 pm FREE book reading Baghdad Bulletin: Dispatches on the
Occupation @ City Lights
1/12 7:00 pm FREE comedy showcase w/ the pencil guy from the SF
Giants TV ads - SOMA
1/12 7:30 pm FREE bookreading "Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied
Iraq." @ Cody's SF
1/12 8:00 pm FREE *Crooners & Songbirds Night of Early Cowboy Songs*
@ Wilde Oscar's
1/12 9:15 pm $7 - Thrillville's Sexy Sword n' Socery Show - movie &
live bellydancers @ Parkw
1/12 10:00 pm $5 - another great U.K. band from Manchester "The
Longcut" @ Popscene
1/13 12:30 pm FREE lunchtime book reading Amy Tan "Saving Fish From
Drowning" @ Cody's SF
1/13 7:30 pm $5 - Poetry & Pizza Night (All you can eat Escape from
NY Pizza ) Downtown
1/13 9:30 pm FREE - REM Tribute Band "Chronic Town" @ Britannia Arms
- San Jose
1/14 All Day $10 unique annual San Francisco Ocean Film Festival @
Fort Mason
1/14 11:00 am FREE Psychic Faire & Spiritual Healing Festival -
Mission Dist
1/14 2:00 pm FREE instore concert "Sole Vibe w/ Raks One" gritty
eclectic hip hop - amoeba
1/14 6:00 pm FREE opening reception for MFA artists, plus live music
& free wine - Napa
1/14 7:00 pm FREE Hootenany Night "Songwriter's Station"
bluegrass/country/folk - Lower Haigh
1/14 7:30 pm FREE art opening Atmospheres and Iterations - Art Show
and Performances
1/14 8:00 pm $15 - Kristin Hersh (of Throwing Muses) live concert @
Swedish American Hall
1/15 12:00 pm FREE the sewing guy - he mends your clothes for free
for a good story - tenderln
1/16 7:00 pm FREE book reading - Joanne Harris (author of "Chocolat")
@ Books Inc. Laurel Vil
1/16 9:00 pm $15 - Rob Dickson (singer of "Catherine Wheel") @ Cafe
Du Nord
1/17 12:30 pm FREE book reading on SF neighborhood books by Arcadia -
must read for SF locals!
1/17 7:30 pm FREE book reading "Bazaar Bizarre" offbeat ideas for
handmade wares @ Modern Tim
1/18 7:00 pm FREE film - "Out of the Pit" Dog Fighting in Chicago -
oakland
1/18 7:00 pm FREE book reading & launch for "Best Gay Erotica 2006" -
Castro
1/18 7:00 pm FREE book reading "Huey" about the founder of Black
Panthers @ City Lights
1/18 7:30 pm $7 - Cool trippy indie pop "The Love X Nowhere" @ Cafe
Du Nord
1/20 9:00 am FREE Winter Waterfowl Paddle & Scavenger Hunt - Gilroy
1/20 5:00 pm FREE art reception - unique artwork created at the SF
City Dump - @ City Dump
1/20 7:00 pm $5 New Comedy Showcase, free drink and free raffle
ticket - Alameda
1/21 9:00 am FREE hlelp restore the hidden wilderness of Glen Canyon
Park w/ One Brick
1/21 11:30 am FREE book reading "Miss Poppy's Guide to Raising
Perfectly Happy Children" Codys
1/21 1:00 pm FREE art reception - unique artwork created at the SF
City Dump - @ City Dump
1/21 2:00 pm FREE book reading Kerouac's "On The Road": From East to
West @ Main Library
1/21 2:00 pm FREE live instore "Rogue Wave" indie pop band @ amoeba
haight
1/21 6:00 pm FREE bookreading by fmr US Senator Gary Hart on religion
& politics - Codys Tele
1/22 6:00 pm FREE Dave Eggers book reading w/ lola vollen "Surving
Justice" @ Cody's SF
1/23 7:00 pm FREE book reading by former US Senator Gary Hart @ The
Haight
1/23 7:00 pm FREE book reading "Sex and the Seasoned Woman" about
life after 50 - ACWLPB
1/23 7:30 pm FREE two weeks of Intro to Square Dancing Classes -
Sunset Dis
1/24 7:00 pm FREE "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" book reading
by fmr NSA recruit
1/25 12:30 pm FREE book reading "The Tao Gal? s Guide to Real Estate"
@ Stacey's
1/25 7:00 pm FREE book reading by 22 year SF Police Officer & his
dramatic photographs
1/25 7:30 pm FREE book reading "A Total Waste of Make Up" about
turning 30 - Alameda
1/26 8:00 pm $8 musical tribute to Singer Songwriter Townes Van Zandt
@ 12 Galaxies
1/27 12:30 pm FREE book reading "Coincidences, Chaos, and All That
Math Jazz" @ Stacey's
1/28 7:30 pm FREE book reading by humorist Dave Barry "Money Secrets"
@ Cody's Telegraph
1/28 10:00 pm $12 "Of Montreal" quirky band if you like Arcade Fire @
Bottom of the Hil
2/3 7:30 pm $5 - Poetry & Pizza Night (All you can eat Escape from NY
Pizza ) Downtown
2/4 12:00 pm FREE Goodie Bag Stuffing for the SF Half Marathon & 5K
2/5 6:00 pm FREE Jazz: Henry Irvin Trio w/ vocalists Dorothy
Lefkovits @ Bird/Beckett
2/7 7:00 pm Free book reading "How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved
America" ACWLPB
2/7 7:30 pm FREE book reading "Reclaiming the American Liberal
Tradition" @ Modern Times
2/8 7:00 pm FREE book reading Sarah Vowell "Assassination Vacation"
ACWLPB
2/9 9:15 pm $7 Sexy Sci-Fi Spy Valentien's Show - Movie w/ live
burlesque @ Parkway
2/18 All Day The Swearing Festival @ Edinburgh Castle
---> MORE INFO ON THESE EVENTS can be found on the Fun & Cheap SF web
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http://www.FunCheapSF.com
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