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FRIDAY 10
Ten Years walking tour Meet outside 1240 Valencia, SF; www.shapingsf.org. 1pm, free. Take an audio walking tour through the book titled Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-1978, a selection of essays about the city’s gay rights and other identity-based social movements and anti-gentrification efforts that spread beyond San Francisco. This self-guided tour features ten sites along 24th Street from Valencia to Bryant. Find out where a lost anti-Vietnam war mural hides, where radicals hung out in the barrio, and more. Can’t make it? That’s fine – folks can take a virtual tour online. Feeling ambitious? Print out a map and visit all 24 sites for a blast from the past history lesson of this amazing city’s radical roots.
“Artifacts of Living” photo show Curator, 1767 Church, SF; (415) 970-9828, www.curatorsf.com, www.amscott.org, Facebook: Artifacts of Living. 6-9pm, free. Check out the collection of photos taken with a 1960s Olympus Pen Camera by local photographer Andrew Martin Scott. His photography is contemporary, yet his photos have a vintage quality looking as though they were taken decades ago. Not so, and no iPhone Hipstamatic or any other make-my-photo-look-old-and-cool apps were used either. Get nostalgic for the good ol’ days with images of decaying signs, rusty old cars, antique bikes, and an assortment of old barns, pawn shops, laundromats, liquor stores, barber shops and coffee joints. And it wouldn’t be a proper art opening without booze, so no need to B.Y.O. since the smart folks at Curator have that covered.
SATURDAY 11
We (heart) San Francisco Urban Bazaar, 1371 Ninth Ave., SF; www.urbanbazaarsf.com. 5-10pm, free. It’s good to know that there are places in this town where you can shop with a conscience – or at least not have to worry about funding less-than-decent labor practices or environmental harm. Inner Sunset’s Urban Bazaar is one such place that stocks a bevy of locally sourced and fair trade goods ranging from jewelry and house wares to up-cycled apparel. Celebrate San Francisco and its artisans at a party featuring free flowing beer and wine, pizza form Little Star, and arts and crafts from locals like Rick Kitigawa, Samantha Barsky, and more.
SUNDAY 12
Bayview Music Festival and Sunday Streets Third Street, from Mendell Plaza to 18th and Mississippi and various detours through Dogpatch and Potrero Hill, SF; www.sundaystreetssf.com. 11am-5pm, free. This edition of the popular car-free street fair celebrates healthy living in the communities of Bayview-Hunter’s Point, Dogpatch, and Potrero Hill with Mendell Plaza on one end of the route and 17th Street and Carolina at the other (be sure to check out the map online for the exact route.) You can expect the usual – local vendors, healthy food, people-watching, and family fun. But there will also be an all-day Music festival featuring Juan Escovedo and the Latin All-Stars, Ashling Cole of Graham Central Station, and more. Included on the entertainment bill is a shrimp n’ grits cook-off where several local restaurants will compete for the grand prize – quiet satisfaction knowing that she or he has the tastiest recipe.
MONDAY 13
Hard Rock’s memorabilia extravaganza Hard Rock Cafe, Pier 39, Embarcadero and Beach, SF; (415) 956-2013, www.hardrock.com. 11am-5pm, free. Hard Rock Cafe, the chain of rock-n-roll themed restaurants with locations all over the world, has scoured its massive collection of memorabilia for the best of the best and will be displaying it all at their San Francisco location. There is a ton to see, including the jacket John Lennon wore on the cover of Rubber Soul, Buddy Holly’s glasses, Marc Bolan’s guitar, Peter Frampton’s talk box, Michael Jackson’s famous “Beat It” attire, Neil Young’s poncho – and the crème de la crème – Justin Bieber’s skateboard.
Dine-out for Lyon Martin Andalu, 3198 16th St., SF; (415) 621-2211, www.andalusf.com, www.savelyonmartin.org. www.andalusf.com. 5:30-9:30pm, cost of dinner and drinks. You have to eat today, right? You may as well dine for a good cause at this popular Mission restaurant that is donating proceeds from the evening’s dinner sales to Lyon Martin Health Services – the progressive women and transgender health clinic that faced foreclosure earlier this year. The Save Lyon Martin community group has raised a whopping $500,000 in only three months to prevent the clinic from shuttling it’s doors, however they still need to raise more funds to ensure that the doors stay open. So loosen a notch on your belt, because the more you eat, the more you inevitably give back. That, and also the fact that fried mac and cheese is on the menu. Yum!