FREE HALLOWEEN BLOCK PARTY: Nightmare on Front Street
Get ready for a spook-tacular Halloween celebration in the heart of downtown San Francisco…and it FREE!
Join us for Nightmare on Front Street, a hauntingly fun block party featuring themed cocktails, Multiple areas with live music and DJs , creepy-cool activities, and costumes galore — all happening within California’s first-ever Entertainment Zone on Front Street. Think New Orleans or any other major city where you can enjoy an adult beverage outdoors and enjoy the company of your friends and neighbors!
Experience Halloween like never before at some of San Francisco’s favorite venues, Schroeder’s, Harrington’s Bar & Grill, and Royal Exchange, join Front Street for one massive outdoor celebration — where you can sip, dance, and mingle right in the street with your favorite spooky spirits.
What to Expect
Themed Food & Drinks
Schroeder’s: Haunted beer hall with blood-red brews & monster-sized pretzels.
Harrington’s Bar & Grill: Halloween-inspired bites & creative cocktails.
Royal Exchange: Ghoulish potions & eerie snacks that will make your taste buds scream.
Costume Contests Show off your best look at 4:30 PM and 7:30 PM
Prizes for Most Creative, Scariest, and Funniest costumes!
Live Music & DJs
3–4 PM & 6–7 PM: Live band playing Halloween-themed covers.
2–10 PM: DJs spinning spooky beats all day long.
Activities & Atmosphere Explore each bar’s unique haunted theme, enjoy outdoor drinks, dance in costume, and celebrate Halloween San Francisco-style.
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Get into the Halloween spirit at our after-hours event.
Explore eerie artifacts from our collection, including 19th-century hand-blown glass eyeballs used to study infectious diseases. Plus, enjoy a specialty cocktail as you discover the weird and wild history of medicine.
Ocular Oddities: After Hours Friday, October 31, 2025 | 5:30p – 7:30p Truhlsen – Marmor Museum of the Eye, 645 Beach St, SF FREE – RSVP Required (spots are limited)
This event is 21+.
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The wait is over. CNN’s “Best Food Festival in the Country,” returns for 2025 to a brand new waterfront home at China Basin Park.
After a five-year break, the San Francisco Street Food Festivalreturns November 8-9, 2025 at a new waterfront location – China Basin Park in Mission Rock.
The two-day event, named “Best Food Festival in the Country” by CNN, marks La Cocina’s 20th anniversary and brings together more than 25 La Cocina alumni and Bay Area chefs serving food that reflects the region’s wide range of cultures and cuisines.
Hosted by the nonprofit incubator La Cocina, the festival celebrates two decades of supporting women, immigrants, and people of color in starting and growing local food businesses. The 2025 edition will be a smaller, community-focused event, more in line with the festival’s early years, while still highlighting some of the Bay Area’s most recognizable La Cocina businesses.
Early Bird GA $7.70 (ends Oct. 12, 2025 at 11:55p) – afterwards GA tickets will rise $14.14
Food and drinks are purchased separately from vendors.
Children under 12 enter free.
Getting There: Located in China Basin Park, across McCovey Cove from Oracle Park, accessible via Muni T Third line, biking, or walking from Caltrain and Mission Bay. Limited paid parking nearby.
On the picturesque coast around Half Moon Bay, the stunning geography and autumnal beauty create a breathtaking sight to behold. The journey offers its own reward, with stunning views of seaside farmland, expansive fields of orange, whimsical scarecrows, rustic barns, and inviting pumpkin patches for picking. It’s the perfect moment and place to savor the simple beauty and abundance of fall, and Half Moon Bay celebrates the season like no other.
The world-famous Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival is the season’s signature event, drawing hordes of visitors to the “World Pumpkin Capital” for an epic festival on historic Main Street. This year’s 53rd annual festival will be held on October 18-19, 2025 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free.
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Gamma (gamma.app) is lighting up SF Tech Week with something never done before: a dazzling drone show over the Bay, paired with a massive projection on the iconic Ferry Building RSVP here!
Join us as we celebrate San Francisco with the nation’s first ever (!) large scale drone & projection show — and we’re inviting YOU to be a part of it! Submit an idea that we will bring to life as part of the show.
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek. a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
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Although there is a full week of events, the epochal annual air show takes place October 10-12, 2025 when fans from across the Bay converge on hills, rooftops and all along the waterfront to behold the spectacular taking place over San Francisco Bay between Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz.
Held annually between the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz, The San Francisco Fleet Week Air Show Presented by United attracts fans from all over the globe. San Francisco Fleet Week is dedicating this year’s Air Show to the U.S. Navy’s 250th anniversary.
“There’s not a better air show lineup in North America than San Francisco Fleet Week 2025,” said Jim Breen Chairman and CEO of The Air Show Network. “The show has an incredible blend of all time favorites, especially the Blue Angels, a special appearance by the Canadian Snowbirds, many specialty acts and a history making first with demonstrations by all three U.S. F-35 Fighters including the Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force”.
Typically featuring a headlining performance by the world renowned U.S. Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron, additional performers showcasing thrilling aerial acrobatics and patriotic displays include:
U.S. Navy Blue Angels
U.S. Marine Corps Fat Albert C-130J Super Hercules
United 777
USAF F-35A Demo with Heritage Flight
Marine F-35B Demo
Navy F-35C Demo with Legacy Flight
Canadian Snowbirds
Patriots
Ace Maker T-33
Randy Howell & Cory Lovell Dual Demo
Jack Aces Three Ship P-51 Demo
San Francisco Fleet Week Air Show is the only air show in the United States with a commercial airliner, the United 777, performing a fully choreographed act. This year’s event also marks the Canadian Snowbirds’ first return since 2017.
CHSA is excited to present the ONE FAMILY BLOCK PARTY, a celebratory day of unity, safety, and solidarity, that will take place on Waverly Place in San Francisco Chinatown on October 4.
Inspired by the life, legacy, and love of Bruce Lee, this fun-filled event will feature:
Musical performances by rapper Unlearn the World and the SF Hip Hop Foundation
DJ sets by DJ Qbert, DJ Kendo, and DJ Agana
Martial arts demonstrations
Pop-up art
A very special panel discussion about martials arts as an expression of resistance to empire and affirmation of cultural heritage featuring Dr. Bernard James Remollino and Jeff Chang, author of MIRROR WATER ECHO: BRUCE LEE AND THE MAKING OF ASIAN AMERICA
In addition, CHSA will be launching its new “mobile museum,” a public activation of hands-on artmaking.
Get ready for some free, family-friendly fun and celebration of heritage and community.
Saturday, October 4, 1-4pm Waverly Place, between Clay & Washington Sts
ONE FAMILY BLOCK PARTY is presented in partnership with Chinese for Affirmative Action and On Waverly. For more information, follow CHSA.
See you there!
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San Francisco’s beloved dumpling celebration returns bigger than ever during Fleet Week 2025. World of Dumplings brings together over 20+ restaurant vendors, live music, beer garden, cooking demos, trivia, eating contests, cultural performances, and family-friendly fun—all at the Ferry Building. Entry is free, but registration is required to access activities.
World of Dumplings Sunday, October 12, 2025 | 11a-5p Ferry Building, 1 Ferry Building, SF FREE entry – RSVP Required to access all activities at the event.
‘World of Dumplings’ brings people together by celebrating our different cultures and communities through our shared love of dumplings – highlighting our similarities and embracing our delicious differences.
Whether they are the wontons of China, the gyozas of Japan, the momos of Nepal, the manties of Turkey, raviolis of Italy, or the empanadas of Spain – we love all dumplings!
This will be during San Francisco Fleet Week so bring the whole family!
What to expect:
20+ Restaurant Vendors
Beer Garden
Cooking Demonstrations
Music & Entertainment
Eating Contests
Raffle Prizes
Dumpling Trivia
Family Activities
Cultural Performances
And more exciting new additions to be announced!
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RSVP now for a chance to win special access to our reserved seating section and cozy up right by the screen.
EVENT INFORMATION:
Admission is free and open to all Event starts at 5pm. Film screening begins after sunset (around 7pm). Guests are encouraged to walk, bicycle or take public transportation to all Sundown Cinema park screenings. It can get chilly out there, so bring a blanket and cozy clothes to keep warm. Please leave your alcohol and weapons at home. Pack out what you pack in.
ABOUT SUNDOWN CINEMA: The San Francisco Standard is pleased to announce the return of Sundown Cinema, a free outdoor movie series spread across iconic San Francisco parks. Sundown Cinema, beloved since 2003, paused in early 2025 after its sponsor closed due to financial issues. The Standard decided we just couldn’t let this tradition disappear — especially when the city is so very back, baby. So we’re relaunching Sundown Cinema. Featuring a curated lineup of films, food trucks, and more, Sundown Cinema is the ultimate movie night under the stars. Admission is free and open to all.
ABOUT THE SAN FRANCISCO STANDARD:
The San Francisco Standard is the Bay Area’s fastest growing source for news and information. Whether it’s an investigation into political corruption or a guide to the best wine bars in town, we provide San Francisco—one of the most dynamic cities in the world—with the journalism it deserves.
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Get ready for the 35th Annual Autumn Moon Festival. This highly anticipated event will take place on Saturday, September 27, and Sunday, September 28, 2025, from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm. The festival will take place on Grant Avenue, between California and Broadway, where attendees will see a variety of exciting activities, including arts and crafts vendors, delicious food stalls, live music, local contemporary entertainment, mooncakes, lion dancing, and more.
The festivities will kick off on Saturday (9/27/25) with a grand parade at 11:00 am, led by Mayor Daniel Lurie, beauty queens, cultural performers, and lion dancers. Following the ribbon-cutting ceremony, the Yau Kung Moon Association will present a lion dance and martial arts performance, setting the stage for a day filled with diverse and exciting entertainment.
The 2025 theme is Monkey King to celebrate this mythical character known as Sun Wukong. The Monkey King will make a special appearance at this year’s Autumn Moon Festival along with acrobatic followers of the Shaolin monks on both Saturday and Sunday. The Monkey King, a central character in the 16th Century Chinese novel Journey to the West, is a powerful, mischievous, and rebellious figure. Born from a magical stone, he possesses supernatural abilities, including immense strength, shapeshifting, and the ability to travel vast distances in a single bound. His presence at the Autumn Moon Festival is a celebration of this rich cultural heritage.
