Upcoming Calendar of fun cheap and unique bay area events Oct 19 - Oct 26
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It's our party!!! 1st Ever Funcheap.com Happy Hour (Thu 10/26) is on Thursday!
Let's bring this thing to the real world! After three years of funcheap emails and giveaways, it's time for the very first event we've ever thrown. We hope you'll join us for a happy hour at the cool bar ez5 in the Financial District. We'll have cheap drinks, trivia questions from the authors of the cool & quirky travel book "San Francisco: The Unknown City," we'll be playing great music handpicked by Johnny, and giving away tons of prizes. Best of all, this is your chance to meet other funcheapers including both founders Johnny and Shannon. We can't wait to meet you all!
* When: Thursday, October 26th - 6 to 8pm
* Where: ez5 Bar - 682 Commercial (btwn Sacramento & Clay, Kearny & Montgomery) - Financial District
* How Much: Free!
Thursday, October 19
10/19 5:00 pm $5 Thursday evening admission to Asian Art Musuem (open 'til 9pm) Museum
10/19 6:00 pm FREE fashion show, spa treatments and cocktails Fashion
10/19 6:00 pm FREE Girls Night Out - make-overs, music and cocktails - Bloomingdales Shopping
10/19 7:00 pm FREE book reading Andy Summers (of The Police) his memoirs @ Booksmith Haight Literature
10/19 7:00 pm FREE Slideshow and Lecture on Japan's Underground Sex Clubs Literature
10/19 7:00 pm FREE book reading on 1970s radical group "The Weatherman" @ Modern Times Literature
10/19 7:30 pm FREE Seymour Hersh lecture "Thinking Humanity After Abu Ghraib" Stanford Lecture
Friday, October 20
10/20 10:00 am FREE lectures "Thinking Humanity After Abu Ghraib" @ Stanford Univ. Lecture
10/20 11:00 am FREE (w/ muni pass or transfer) "Trolley Dances" modern dance troupe on N Judah Dance
10/20 12:00 pm FREE noontime indie pop concert "Honeycut" @ UC Berkeley Live Music
10/20 6:30 pm FREE "Movies that Matter' film, q&a & dessert "Coach Carter" - Oakland Film
10/20 8:00 pm 2 for 1 tix! ($5 for 2) to police drama parody "basket of justice" @ Off Market Theater
10/20 9:00 pm FREE (b4 11p) Cinemasque: European Masquerade Ball @ Canvas Gallery Dance
Saturday, October 21
10/21 10:00 am FREE Prenatal & Postnatal Health Expo @ Sports Basement Expo
10/21 11:00 am FREE (w/ muni pass or transfer) "Trolley Dances" modern dance troupe on N Judah Dance
10/21 6:30 pm FREE Bonfire & Havdalah @ Berkeley Marina Outdoors
10/21 7:00 pm FREE lecture "Best American Comics '06" with Harvey Pekar @ All Saints Church Literature
Sunday, October 22
10/22 11:00 am FREE (w/ muni pass or transfer) "Trolley Dances" modern dance troupe on N Judah Dance
10/22 7:00 pm FREE standup comedy @ Red Victorian w/ Amir Malekpour - Haight Comedy
Monday, October 23
10/23 7:00 pm FREE Trivia Night hosted by "The Rocket Scientist" @ Canvas Gallery Fun & Games
10/23 7:00 pm FREE live music - psychadelic jazz improv @ Brainwash Cafe - SOMA Live Music
Tuesday October 24
10/24 7:00 pm FREE Appearance by Author & Filmmaker of "Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill" Literature
Wednesday, October 25
10/25 6:30 pm 2 for 1 movie night: Little Miss Sunshine @ Parkway (pizza/beer/couches) Film
10/25 7:00 pm FREE bookreading on geology and the 1906 SF Earthquake @ The Booksmith Literature
10/25 7:00 pm FREE eco film "The Future of Food" @ Varnish - SOMA Film
10/25 8:00 pm $8 Bart Davenports groovy new band "Honeycut" @ Rickshaw Stop Live Music
10/25 8:00 pm FREE Dominican dance class "Bachata" @ Cafe Cocomo Dance
Thursday, October 26
10/26 6:00 pm Save the Date! {{{ The First Annual Official Funcheap Happy Hour! }}}
it's finally here! at ez5 in the Financial District. Meet the funcheap crew, trivia thanks to the authors of San Francisco: The Unknown City, prizes, great music johnny has chosen and of course cheap drinks Happy Hour
10/26 6:00 pm FREE Lonely Planet presents: Traveling with Kids @ Oakland Library Travel
10/26 6:30 pm $10 Classical Chinese Dances & Music - Asian Art Museum Dance
10/26 7:00 pm FREE Ski Bum Party: Extreme Beer Specials And Free Pizza Free Food
Friday, October 27th and beyond...
10/27 12:00 pm FREE City College biology lecture: Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
10/27 8:00 pm FREE lecture Annie Leibovitz A Photographers Life 1990-2005 @ Jewish Com. Cente
10/27 9:00 pm FREE First Annual Beatnik Hop (50s/60s) jazz & beatnik rock'n'roll - N.Beach
10/28 1:00 pm FREE Farley's 16th Annual Pet Fest
10/28 8:00 pm $5 custom freak style dance party (surf & 80s bands) @ Arcadia Hotel West Oaklan
10/28 8:00 pm $12 Halloween Bash w/ Police, Cure, Smiths, D.Mode tribute bands @ Rockit Room
10/29 12:00 pm FREE Marathon Writing Session & Workshop - Bernal Heights
10/29 1:00 pm FREE San Francisco Civic Symphony concert @ Sir Francis Drake Hotel Ballroom
10/29 1:00 pm FREE "Most Unusual Pumpkin Contest" @ Expressions Gallery - Berkeley
10/29 6:00 pm FREE book launch "A Writer's San Francisco" & Writing Salon Open House - bernal
10/30 7:00 pm FREE Ask A Scientist lecture series "Memory in the Aging Brain " - Bazaar cafe
10/31 7:00 pm FREE book reading "Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife" @ Booksmith Haight
10/31 7:00 pm FREE Hallowwen Comedy Showcase w/ Danny Dechi @ Java on Ocean
10/31 9:00 pm FREE Modular Halloween Party @ Mezzanine - forget the crowds in the castro!
11/2 5:00 pm FREE first thursdays - art galleries open late, usually free wine & nibbles
11/2 6:00 pm FREE Lonely Planet author event - Jay Cooke & New York City @ Oakland Library
11/2 7:00 pm FREE lecture "On the Trail of CIA's Rendition Flights" @ City Lights
11/3 12:00 pm FREE City College biology lecture: The Fate of Toxic Metals: Geomicrobiology
11/3 6:00 pm FREE Palo Alto Art Walk
11/3 6:30 pm FREE screening of Bowling For Columbine, film discussion & free dessert - Oaklan
11/3 7:00 pm FREE Artmurmur - simultaneous art gallery openings and parties - Oakland
11/3 7:30 pm $5 Poetry & Pizza (poetry readings & all you can eat pizza!) @ Escape from NY
11/4 10:00 am $10 Icer Air huge ski jump / snowboad fest @ AT&T Park w/ Ladytron & Jurassic 5
11/5 6:30 pm FREE Jazz: Henry Irvin Trio w/ vocalists Dorothy Lefkovits @ Bird/Beckett
11/6 6:30 pm FREE lecture Swiss Research in Multimedia, Security and Networks - n.beach
11/7 9:30 am FREE admission to de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park - 1st Tues of Month
11/8 6:00 pm FREE Yoga of the Breath and Meditation: An Art of Living Workshop
11/12 7:00 pm FREE Ask A Scientist lecture series "Why We Study Monkeys" @ Canvas Gallery
11/13 10:00 am FREE 1906 Earthquake Walk: It Can't Happen Here
11/16 6:00 pm FREE Lonely Planet author event - Traveling in Hawaii @ Oakland Library
11/17 12:00 pm FREE outdoor concert by indie singer-songwriter "Matt Costa" @ UC Berkeley
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What is funcheapSF.com? - A free web calendar & and emailing list of events - we hate spam and we won't clog your inbox. and when you sign up you don't even have to give us your email address if you don't want to. we usually send out one email a week with all the weeks events, usually between 20 and 50. Occassionally we'll send out another email to let you know of a great event or discount that's just come up. or, if you like, you can just view our calendar. we don't care! whatever you want. this was set up by just a couple of underemployed san franciscans who want to share their list with you. no corporations, just wholesome cheap goodness.
Going out and having fun in San Francisco is just too expensive. That's why we started funcheapSF. A free website where cheap bastards like ourselves get together to share tips and events going on in the coming days.
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1) visit www.funcheapSF.com
2) click on "Join This Group"
that's it! then you'll have to option to receive email listings and view our web calendar.
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