Upcoming Calendar of fun cheap and unique bay area events July 7 - July 13 , 2006
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Thanks to the The Stand Up Project for sponsoring funcheap this week!
Six great comedians for only five bucks (that's because funcheapers get 1/2 price tickets this weekend if you bring a copy of this email to the box office. All other suckers have to pay $10)
Saturday, July 8th - 8pm - The Clubhouse - 414 Mason 7th Floor (@ Geary) only $5 admission with this email!
Performers: Michael Slack won the 2005 Rooster T. Feathers comedy competition, Debra Campo is the producer of Comedy Slam at Sam's, Ali Mafi won USF's Last Comic Standing, Tom Smith who performs regularly at the Green Room and the Purple Onion
Headliner: Anthony Hill has opened for Brian Regan, Bob Saget and more
Hosted by: Bob Brindley who's been seen in national commercials for the PS2 and Saturn
Friday, July 7th
7/7 12:00 pm FREE dreamy SF indie pop "The Invisible Cities" lunchtime concert @ 101 Calif. Live Music
7/7 5:00 pm FREE "Keep the A's in Oakland" Tailgate party - beer, food, live bands @ Coliseum Parking Lot
Rally to keep A's in Oakland. Food and beer (Everett & Jones, and Firestone Beer for the first 250), 2 bands, djs, city leaders will speak. in parking lot B tailgate area of Oakland Coliseum on Hegenberger side. Baseball
7/7 5:30 pm FREE art reception "Locked out in America!" about US labor movement - Mission Art
7/7 6:00 pm FREE Palo Alto Art Walk Art
7/7 7:00 pm $10 Night Photography Art Reception & unlimited Pinball playing - alameda Pinball
7/7 9:00 pm FREE ~ No Cover Charge All Night to "Decade" 80s dance club @ Catalyst DJ / Dance
Saturday, July 8th
7/8 1:30 pm FREE SF Mime Troupe live outdoor performance & music @ Berkeley Theater
7/8 3:00 pm FREE Writers Workshop to help working people tell their stories @ Exit Theater Workshop
7/8 6:00 pm FREE live big band jazz concert for kids & families @ Potrero Park Live Music
7/8 7:00 pm FREE Hootenany Night - 4 folk/roots/old-timey country bands @ Cafe Int'l
this is the last edition of the great hootenany night for a while. all ages, free show at the quirky cafe international at haight and fillmore Live Music
7/8 9:00 pm FREE b4 10:30p "Diskotronic" electro,retro,futuristic dj night @ RX Gallery DJ / Dance
7/8 9:00 pm $7 New Wave City 80s dance club w/ tons of giveaways @ DNA Lounge DJ / Dance
Sunday, July 9th
7/9 10:00 am FREE 2nd annual Healthy Living Fair @ JCCSF - California & Presidio Health
7/9 10:30 am FREE San Francisco General Strike Walk & History Talk @ Ferry Building Political Activism
7/9 11:00 am FREE places to watch World Cup soccer Final with HDTV - Italy vs. France Sports
7/9 2:00 pm FREE live music @ Stern Grove - Every Sunday @ 2pm - San Francisco Symphony Live Music
7/9 2:00 pm FREE Merola Opera Program outdoor live opera @ Yerba Buena Gdns Theater
7/9 5:00 pm FREE book reading for the 12th annual LaborFest arts festival @ City lights Literature
7/9 7:00 pm FREE Two intriguing films about the Israeli/Palestenian Conflict @ Velo Rouge Film
7/9 7:00 pm FREE Buyer, Be Fair" Film Screening and Reception @ ATA - Mission Political Activism
7/9 7:30 pm FREE Shakespeare in the Park 'The Tempest' - Pleasanton Theater
7/9 9:00 pm FREE Jimmy Leslie Band -new orleans rock funk @ Boom Boom Room Live Music
Monday, July 10th
7/10 10:00 am FREE 1906 Earthquake Walk: It Can't Happen Here Walk/Tours
7/10 10:00 am FREE Photography Exhibit - previously unseen photos of the Rolling Stones Art
7/10 7:00 pm FREE Ask A Scientist KQED lecture series "Gray Whale Mystery" @ Canvas Gallery Lecture
7/10 7:00 pm FREE book reading Death In The Haymarket, A Story of Chicago, @ modern times Literature
7/10 9:00 pm $5 Zeitgeist Int'l Film Festival (odd outdoor films, benches & beer) Mission Film
Tuesday, July 11th
7/11 7:00 am FREE see Willie Brown & Will Durst duke it out live on 960 AM - downtown SF Radio
7/11 12:30 pm FREE live poetry readings "Dare We Dream In Concrete" @ Yerba Bueana Gdns Poetry
7/11 7:30 pm FREE left-leaning book reading "Confessions of a Former Dittohead" @ Modern Time Literature
Wednesday, July 12th
7/12 7:00 pm FREE Desert Art Preview (see burning man art being made) @ Crucible - oakland Art
7/12 7:00 pm FREE Memoirs, Non-fiction, Poetry and Stories "LaborFest" @ New College - Missio Literature
7/12 8:00 pm $5 Finnish jazz trumpet player Andre Sumelius Trio @ Cafe Royale Live Music
7/12 9:00 pm $5, jug band Jimbo Trout & The Fish People @ The Ivy Room - albany Live Music
Thursday, July 13th
7/13 5:00 pm $5 Asian Art Museum evening "Three Gorges Project: Paintings by Liu Xiaodong" Museum
Friday, July 14th and beyond...
7/14 5:00 pm FREE Bastille Day street party in SF's little French Quarter (downtown)
7/14 7:00 pm $5 Celebrate Bastille Day with French films and Music - SOMA
7/14 9:00 pm FREE Silicon Cowboys - covers of zeppelin, doors, zztop @ kingshead in campbell
7/15 10:00 am FREE Earthquake walk/lecture along with discussing labor movement @ Ferry buidli
7/15 1:00 pm FREE outdoor concert North African Music @ Yerba Buena Gdns
7/15 7:00 pm FREE Lewis Black (of The Daily Show) book reading @ Cody's Books SF
7/16 7:00 pm FREE comedy showcase w/ Danny Delchi @ Red Vic Hotel - Haight
7/18 7:00 pm FREE lecture on one woman's story of survival in the wilderness - REI Berkeley
7/18 7:30 pm FREE lecture Geoffrey Nunburg: Talking Right @ Modern Times
7/19 5:00 pm FREE The Traditions of Sarawak, Borneo Through Music,
7/19 5:30 pm $5 per problem solved "Rent an Expert" communal sharing of knowledge
7/19 7:00 pm FREE lecture on one woman's story of survival in the wilderness - REI San Fran
7/20 8:00 pm FREE middle-eastern surf rock @ Edinburgh Castle
7/22 11:00 am FREE Tour de Fat 2006 - bike rodeo, beer, live music, firejumping bike acts
7/22 12:00 pm FREE 10th Annual Urban Youth Arts Festival w/ breakdancing - Precita Park
7/23 10:00 am FREE San Francisco Theater Festival - 70 theater groups, 10 stages @ Yerba Buena
7/23 2:00 pm FREE african diamond-mine documentary "Touch One! Touch All!" @ Parkway Oakland
7/24 10:00 pm $5 Smiths tribute band "This Charming Band" @ Annie's Social Club
7/25 7:00 pm FREE Ask A Scientist lecture series 3rd Anniv. Trivia Party - Bazaar cafe
7/28 12:30 pm FREE watergate's John Dean book reading "Conservatives w/o Conscience" @ Staceys
7/28 9:00 pm $8 odd & weird indie rock band "Irving" @ Bottom of the Hill
7/29 10:30 am FREE "Beading Binary" class for kids @ the Intel Museum - Santa Clara
7/29 8:00 pm FREE The Howard Stone Comedy Talk Show - Mountain View
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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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