FILM: SF FILM FESTIVAL
Join SF FILM on Saturday at 4 p.m. as they pay tribute to the inimitable Vanessa Kirby and celebrate her impressive career with an SFFILM Special Impact Award. She is known to many for her amazing performance as PRINCESS MARGARET in top rated Netflix show THE CROWN. See the full schedule here.
EAT: SF RESTAURANT WEEK
Happy days are here again as restaurants invite you to come dine al fresco and indoors for San Francisco restaurant week. Indoor dining is allowed at 25% indoors and soon to be at 50%. From BBQ to tacos, all-American to authentic Mexican, this week long food fest has something for all palates. The diverse prix-fixe menus give diners an opportunity to support restaurants and make their tummies happy. Call ahead to ensure your fave restaurant is open. Head to the website for more information.
MARKETPLACE: LA COCINA
The new municipal marketplace in downtown San Francisco by La Cocina showcases global cuisine by immigrant women food entrepreneurs. To enjoy the food here is to take a trip around the world with food from Mexico to North Africa and many places in between. Enjoy jerk chicken tacos or Algerian could couscous and sexy sandwiches that are the bomb. Chef Nafy Flatley of TERANGA, serves up a peanut salad that will knock your socks off. Order to go daily from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. It’s a wonderful new market in a challenging part of the city, but if anyone can succeed here it’s La Cocina with food offerings by some of the city’s richly diverse & most talented Chefs.
MUSIC: PRINCE POSTHUMOUS POP
PRINCE fans have something to get royally happy about: new posthumously-released pop album "Welcome 2 America," a 12-track album recorded at Prince’s Paisley Park Studios in 2010, will finally see the light of day on July 30. New limited editions have just been unveiled from gold vinyl to double album photo books. Venture to the Paisley Park website for more.
AWARDS: AMERICAN COUNTRY
Country music star Kane Brown is expected to sweep the board at Sunday's Academy of Country Music Awards. Zane has already won music video of the year award for "Worldwide Beautiful." Kane will be touring all 29 MLB arenas across the country in the fall. Enjoy the star-studded ACM Awards this Sunday at 8 p.m. on CBS.
RIP: A ROYAL FAREWELL
The world says farewell to Queen Elizabeth’s husband of 73 years Prince Philip this Saturday at 7 a.m. on CBS. The intimate service will take place at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor. Gayle King will host CBS coverage and will be viewed on TV networks around the world.
MURAL: HELP END FOOD INSECURITY
Chef Tyler Florence joins Mayor Libby Schaff on Friday at 10 a.m. for the unveiling of the tallest mural in Oakland, bringing attention to hunger, which the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated all over the world. The 190-foot-tall mural by artist Victor Ash has been painted on the side of the Oakland Marriott City Center at 1001 Broadway. Oakland is proud of its murals boasting more than a thousand all over the city.
Have a great weekend.
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