Is the rain getting to you? In about three months we’ll start to hear about dry conditions and water rationing. February is a pretty active month. Check out our nifty, condensed annual city event calendar. Here is a summary:
Coming in February:
The holidays are over, and things are pretty slow around town. Not much going on. But here are some things that are coming up:
- SF Sketch Fest
SF Sketchfest was founded in 2001 as a way to showcase the talents of six Bay Area sketch comedy groups: The Fresh Robots, Kasper Hauser, The Meehan Brothers, Please Leave the Bronx, Totally False People and White Noise Radio Theatre.
- Some highlights:
- Julia Sweeney
JAN 27, 8PM AT YOSHI’S SAN FRANCISCO
- DAY 4: Sunday, January 17
The SF Sketchfest Tribute to Conan O’Brien
with Conan O’Brien in person
Hosted by Jimmy Pardo
with special guest Andy Richter
2pm @ Herbst Theatre $50/$40/$30
- DAY 8: Thursday, January 21Inside Joke:
Monty Python’s Terry Jones with Monty Python and the Holy Grail 35th Anniversary 7pm @ The Castro Theater $20
- Noir City – San Francisco’s NOIR CITY festival returns to the majestic Castro Theatre for ten days, January 22–31, 2010. The theme for this eighth incarnation of the world’s most popular noir film series is part and parcel of classic noir: “Lust and Larceny.”
So you can laugh or get dark…all in January!
My partner Erik went to the Warfield last night. The show was really fun. They played all the hits plus rockabilly Christmas classics. This is a yearly event and we highly recommend for next year.
So the Holidays are in full gear, I’m feeling like I missed Santacon, what other cool stuff is coming up? Here is the list:
- Avatar Opens Up – Another Titanic size hit for James C. But go see Up in the Air first.
- Art of Prince - San Francisco Art Exchange
- Aniversary Show MOMA
- Saturday – Unsilent Night - Boombox Christmas Parade, 7:30 Delores Park
“Now hitting its 15th year, Unsilent Night has been performed across the world, from Berlin to Tallahassee, and has been recreated in the studio for a gorgeous CD on Bang on a Can’s Cantaloupe Music label. One of few Christmas albums actually worth buying, the disc is an ambient wash of heaven-sent shimmer, recognizable as seasonal mostly for its modulating bells and time-stretched hymnal melodies.”
- The Onion
- Sunday – 7th Annual Brian Setzer Orchestra Christmas Extravaganza, Warfield, evening
Widely recognized as the father of modern day rockabilly, Brian Setzer continues to nurture the tradition with The Brian Setzer Orchestra, a 17-piece ensemble which elevates the stripped down sound of his renowned band The Stray Cats to exponential sonic heights.
As always, you can check out my annual city events calendar that leaves out all the ongoing stuff that other calendars get cluttered with.
Sunday December 13th, 2009 is “Bill Graham Menorah Day” in Union Square with a full day festival capped with the lighting of a giant 25-foot tall mahogany menorah in in the middle of the square.
Jewish Music 3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Dreidel House – Arts & crafts 3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Each child will be able to light their own Menorah
Ceremony with Local dignitaries begins at 4:15 p.m.
Actual lighting at 5:00 p.m.
If you were driving around the city yesterday, you saw the hoardes of Santas. I thought it might be the Flaming Lips in town. But I asked one of the Santas and they said “Santacon”. Here is the lowdown:
From the website: http://santacon.info/San_Francisco-CA/
SantaCon is for adults – where guys & girls of legal age dress up like Santa and go cavorting around town for no better reason than that it’s huge fun. The first SantaCon took place in San Francisco in 1994 and was sponsored by The San Francisco Cacophony Society.
Santacon San Francisco
Check out some of the cool things you can do with kids this holiday season:
And the most awesome of all, the Hiller Aviation Museum….Santa Arrives by Helicopter.
Monday, November 2, 2009 at 7pm at 24th & Bryant Streets, in the Mission District of San Francisco.
STARTS at 24th & Bryant
Walk on Bryant
Right on 25th st (Garfield Park on Left)
Right on Mission (Mission Cultural Center on Left)
Right on 24th st
Right onto Harrison
END at Garfield Park (26th & Harrison)
More information.
No Castro Halloween this year…for real.
So here is an idea, the whole flash mob thing organized around setting up spontaneous dance parties in the street.
CALLING ALL SF HALLOWEEN LOVERS!
Let’s take back Halloween in San Francisco with a big costume / dance party at the Embarcadero!
WHERE: EMBARCADERO at Ferry Plaza (in front of the Ferry Building)
WHEN: SATURDAY, OCT. 31st at 9:00 PM
HOW:
- If you have a costume wear it – COSTUMES HIGHLY ENCOURAGED!
- If you have an out door music set up of any kind (like a DJ, or a music bike, or a band, or even a boombox) BRING IT (If you know anyone who has one, GET THEM TO COME! – see below!*)
- SOMEWHERE ON YOUR COSTUME, WEAR ONE OF OUR “FIX IT” BADGES (see below)
- HELP clean up after yourself AND OTHERS
- IF YOU SEE ANYONE BEING A JERK, INTERRUPT THEM BY SMILING AT THEM AND THANK THEM FOR COMING TO HALLOWEEN!
OPTIONAL: BRING TREATS TO GIVE OUT!
WEBSITES:
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=160795072105
This page: http://www.flashdance.org/hw/Halloween2009.html
