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Source: Sean Fan\/The StandardDate and timeWednesday, Sept. 30, 6 to 9 p.m.<\/p>\n
The rapper stops in SF for just one night.<\/p>\n
Date and timeWednesday, Sept. 30, 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
Dozens of arts organizations and artists come together for programming across the Bay Area. Thursday\u2019s official Nexus party (opens in new tab)<\/a> is hosted by MoAD and YBCA.<\/p>\n Date and timeWednesday, Sept. 30, to Sunday, Oct. 4<\/p>\n Head straight from work and start the weekend early at this block party with DJs and happy-hour specials.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Date and timeThursday, Oct. 1, 5 to 10 p.m.<\/p>\n Galleries and stores stay open late to host 21 mini exhibitions. There\u2019s the option to join a guided gallery-hopping tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n Date and timeFriday, Oct. 2, 5 to 8 p.m.<\/p>\n The \u201cTwin Peaks\u201d actor speaks on his memoir in a presentation by City Arts & Lectures.<\/p>\n Date and timeFriday, Oct. 2, 7:30 p.m.Date and timeFriday, Oct. 2, 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n Steve Earle, Molly Tuttle, My Morning Jacket, and others headline this free festival in Golden Gate Park.\u00a0<\/p>\n Douglas, the former minister of culture for the Black Panther Party and a printmaker, joins artists Scott and Smith for a panel on how art can be a tool for change.<\/p>\n Date and timeSaturday, Oct. 3, 1 p.m.<\/p>\n Bring the whole family to this celebration of music and dance from the African diaspora, complete with food vendors, face painting, and drum lessons.<\/p>\n Date and timeSaturday, Oct. 3, 11 to 4 p.m.<\/p>\n Local vendors sell clothes and jewelry at this indoor market that\u2019s the perfect place to hunt for Halloween costume components.<\/p>\n Date and timeSunday, Oct. 4, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.<\/p>\n It may be autumn, but it\u2019s still street-fair season. Connect with community at the 52nd annual edition of this neighborhood takeover.<\/p>\n Octo Octa headlines an evening of back-to-back DJ sets following the yearly street fair. <\/p>\n Date and timeSunday, Oct. 4, 6 p.m.Sold-out events:Thursday, Oct. 1, and Friday, Oct. 2: Michelle Branch at The Castro Theatre (opens in new tab)<\/a>Friday, Oct. 2: Robert Plant with Saving Grace and Suzi Dian at Orpheum Theatre (opens in new tab)<\/a>Saturday, Oct. 3, and Sunday, Oct. 4: \u201cRM x SFMOMA: Between You and Me\u201d opening weekend at SFMOMA (opens in new tab)<\/a>Saturday, Oct. 3, to Sunday, Oct. 11: My Morning Jacket at The Fillmore (opens in new tab)<\/a>Monday, Oct. 5: She & Him at The Castro Theatre (opens in new tab)<\/a>Looking ahead:Tuesday, Oct. 6, to Monday, Oct. 12: Fleet Week (opens in new tab)<\/a>Sunday, Oct. 11: Italian Heritage Parade in North Beach (opens in new tab)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published Sep. 30, 2026at6:00am Cheer on the Valks as they face off against the Wings in Texas. Looking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[188459,2644,36210,818,584,839,18739,674,2311,330,7117,7116,101,103,102,31162,104,106,105,84047,80104,83310],"class_list":["post-480484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-castro-street-fair","tag-concerts","tag-cool-factory","tag-downtown","tag-events","tag-festivals","tag-golden-state-valkyries","tag-hardly-strictly-bluegrass","tag-museums","tag-music","tag-night-markets","tag-outgoers","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-san-francisco-symphony","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-street-fairs","tag-the-castro-theatre","tag-this-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480484","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=480484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790775493_280_-S3840x2560-FPNG.png\"\/)
Source: Jay Blakesberg\/Hardly StrictlyDate and timeFriday, Oct. 2, to Sunday, Oct. 4<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790775494_602_-S3840x2561-FPNG.png\"\/)
Source: Jason Henry for The StandardDate and timeSunday, Oct. 4, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.Date and timeSunday, Oct. 4, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.<\/p>\n