San Francisco Bay Area Events, Things To Do This Week: April 21, 2025
Festivals, street fairs, galas, fundraisers, downtown city food/drink events, spring events, music & more: East Bay, South Bay, Peninsula, San Francisco & beyond.
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Updated: April Calendar of Events (more added this weekend/today)
New: May Calendar of Events (includes recommendation of where to work remotely in SF and some events beyond May likely to sell out ASAP).
Updated: San Francisco Happy Hour
New: Free Things To Do In The South Bay | East Bay | Marin County
Weekly Recommendation
This week’s recommendation is the watermelon kombucha at Cultured Pickle Shop in Berkeley. I admit, I am not a big kombucha but this one was pretty amazing (flavors vary by the season). As with several past weekly recommendations, this one was named as a SF Chronicle Top 100 pick recently.
See the full archived weekly recommendations here.
San Francisco Bay Area Weekly News Roundup
A curated mix of local/state news. Check out my news write-ups here.
Kaiser strike by mental health workers drags on, setting a US record, as talks resume -CalMatters
Goodwill to close 11 Bay Area locations, lay off staff after major merger -SF Chronicle
Slump deepens: Bay Area, California lose thousands of jobs in March -Mercury News
‘My teacher hurt me’: mother reports anti-immigrant aggression towards her son at a school in Redwood City -Peninsula 360
ICE eyes takeover of toxic, scandal-plagued Bay Area prison for immigrant detention -El Tecolote
Trump plans order to cut funding for NPR and PBS -NPR
Historic Marin City public housing community approved for $266.6M revitalization project -Local News Matters
Pope Francis’ legacy remembered in Bay Area for LGBTQ, immigration, environmental stands -Mercury News
‘There’s a reckoning to be had’: SF Dems move to push party to the center. -Politico
SF foundation doles out first of $5 million arts grants -SF Examiner
Discounted overdose-reversal medicine available to any Californian -CalMatters
Free CCSF Tuition Was Meant to Last 10 Years. It Might Need a New Deal -The Frisc
San Francisco Bay Area Events This Week, Things To Do
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