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Coming in February:

• Chinese New Year Parade – http://www.chineseparade.com/
• SF Beer Week – http://sfbeerweek.org/
• San Francisco Independent Film Festival – http://www.sfindie.com/
• MacWorld – macworldexpo.com
• Valentine’s Day in San Francisco – http://www.sfstation.com/valentines/
• SF Zoo’s Valentine Dinner – http://www.sfzoo.org
• Pillow Fight – http://www.pillowfight.info/
• Friends of Brazil Carnaval Ball – http://www.friendsofbrazil.org/
• San Francisco Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival http://www.sfbluegrass.org
• Pacific Orchid Exposition – Fort Mason Festival Pavilion – http://www.orchidsanfrancisco.org/poe.html

• 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!

• 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.

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.

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

• Holiday Ice Rink at Union Square
• Kristi Yamaguchi Holiday Ice Rink
• The Golden Gate Express: Model Trains at SF’s Conservatory of Flowers
• Fisherman’s Wharf Holiday Lights & Sights Parade – Lighted Boat Parade

And the most awesome of all, the Hiller Aviation Museum….Santa Arrives by Helicopter.

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.