{"id":360552,"date":"2026-06-14T17:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T17:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/360552\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T17:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T17:46:09","slug":"north-beach-festival-returns-to-san-francisco-for-its-70th-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/360552\/","title":{"rendered":"North Beach Festival returns to San Francisco for its 70th year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of San Francisco\u2019s oldest street fairs celebrates a milestone this year as the North Beach Festival returns for its 70th edition over Father\u2019s Day weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The free festival takes over the city\u2019s historic Italian neighborhood Saturday-Sunday, June 20-21, with more than 200 artisan vendors, an all-day lineup of live music on four stages, outdoor bars for attendees ages 21 and older, as well as family-friendly activities.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights of the event include an Italian street painting promenade, where artists create large-scale chalk art on the pavement.<\/p>\n<p>The festival also features the longstanding, popular Blessing of the Animals ceremony at 1 p.m. each day outside the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of San Francisco\u2019s oldest street fairs celebrates a milestone this year as the North Beach Festival returns&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[329,7,35717,839,330,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-360552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-arts-and-entertainment","tag-california","tag-datebook-pick","tag-festivals","tag-music","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}