Besides the wide range of food than can be found in San Francisco, the many fashion styles you can encounter and the climate difference between a sunny corner and a corner in the shadow, San Francisco is full of those little details that make it unique in one or another sense.
Fun and cheap was one of my first discoveries, it’s an amazing webpage (http://sf.funcheap.com/) where you can find a list of any sorts of cultural, recreational, musical or gastronomic events for all tastes, interests and low budgets. Many of them are free or at least reachable at a very affordable price. Through this page I discovered for example the Food Trucks that gather on certain Fridays at Fort mason around a band. You can go, eat and chill out with some beers while enjoying the music. Trucks form a circle and offer food from all over the world. My recommendation: Vietnamese, Pica Pica Maize Kitchen (the best Venezuelan “arepas” I have gotten since I arrived to the US), and crème Brulee.
The California Academy of Sciences offers on Thursdays the event NightLife. This is a weekly event where visitors of ages 21 and older can enjoy music, science, entertainment and cocktails, while experiencing the Academy’s world-class exhibits with friends. Each weekly installment features something new and different. I happened to go when the theme was sustainability. Sustainable cocktails, food, exhibits and a cooking class accompanied by an amazing exhibit of Lizards and serpents were taking place. A highly recommended event.
Two exhibits of Picasso’s private collection at the same time in the same city. Indeed, at this exact moment, and until October the 9 of 2011, The Young museum, located at the Golden Gate Park is showing the masterpieces of the Musee National Picasso from Paris. And, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is showing, until September the 6th, the Steins Collect. This exhibition draws on collections around the world to reunite the Steins' holdings of modern art, bringing together works by Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant Garde (Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and many others). For Picasso lovers, this are MUST see.
Festivals featuring the best of San Francisco diversity. In May 28 and May 29 took place one of California's largest multi-cultural celebration, and one of San Francisco's most popular and cherished traditions, the San Francisco Carnaval. This was a display of Latin American and Caribbean cultures with an array of food, music, drumming, dancing, live music, and a Grand Parade on Sunday. In the same vein, on June the 25th and 26th took place the 2011 San Francisco Pride event. The theme was "In Pride We Trust" and was selected by Pride's membership at their Annual General Planning Meeting in September. Just as in Bay-to-Breakers, you could find the widest range of costumes: from guys dressed in French aristocracy to a priest blessing naked people. A note on the side: the day of the mission festival, some friends and I decided to head to Castro neighborhood to visit. We were pleasantly surprised by 4 men, completely naked, on a Sunday afternoon at 4 pm, just hanging, chatting with each other, chatting with dressed people and having coffee. Just like that, no more preambles, no more explanations. Just SF …
San Francisco’s Lunatic characters. I can say that almost EVERYDAY I meet someone hallucinating in his/her own created world after, quite probably, a combination of amazing drug cocktails. People screaming out loud mad at the entire world, a guy shooting imaginary guns or a women walking in circles, are the type of characters that make part of the San Francisco scene. But maybe the most amazing one was the scene of a guy who was picking imaginary things from the floor and who suddenly started climbing the corner of a building and who ended climbing almost 3 meters. He truly believed he was Spiderman! After having climbed the wall calmly, he decided to go down with an impressive ability and just keep walking and picking imaginary stuff from the floor…..no concerns, he just continued his way.
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