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Born to Run
This week, you can go long (the SF Marathon) or short (the SF Shorts Film Fest) … your call.
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posted on June 30, 2008
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 Image credit: Jack Photo
RUN, SF, RUN
Whether you're a casual weekend jogger or a hard-core Ironman, the San Francisco Marathon on August 3 has an event for you. Sign up for the full 26.2-mile slog from the Ferry Building, across the Golden Gate Bridge and back again; two different half-marathons; a 5K run/walk; or a "progressive marathon" that you can start a few weeks before the race and finish on race day. Run hard (or easy!), knowing whichever course you choose will help raise money for your local charity of choice.
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 Image credit: courtesy of SF Shorts Festival
LESS IS MORE
Give your NetFlix membership a rest and reclaim the full movie-theater ritual during the SF Shorts Film Festival, running August 6–9 at the Victoria Theatre in the Mission and the Red Vic Moviehouse in the Haight. With each film clocking in at 30 minutes or less, you can afford to catch a flick any night of the week.
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 Image credit: courtesy of Another Planet Entertainment
ALL DOLLY-ED UP
That bottle-blond hair, that famous chest, those pipes—Lord have mercy! Country-music legend and cultural icon Dolly Parton comes to Berkeley's Greek Theatre on August 5 for a not-to-be-missed one-night engagement as part of her Backwoods Barbie tour. From "Jolene" to "Jesus and Gravity," Dolly's heartstring-pulling songs are solid gold.
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 Image credit: Ryan Fleming
CULTURE CLUB
For you busy urbanites who consider Tuesday night's dinner in Alameda your most recent memorable island retreat, we suggest a slightly more authentic experience: the family-friendly San Francisco Aloha Festival taking place August 2–3, courtesy of the Pacific Islanders' Cultural Association. Watch a Polynesian dance performance, learn to play the ukulele and dig into some seriously hearty Hawaiian fare (we're heading straight for the plate lunch of loco moco and kalua pig) at the parade grounds in the Presidio. Admission is free.
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 Image credit: H2Omark.comWATER WORLD
The Chris-Crafts and Gar Woods are nosing out of their boathouses—yes, it's time for the 36th Annual Lake Tahoe Wooden Boat Concours d'Elegance and Wooden Boat Week 2008, which starts on August 7. Hosted in Carnelian Bay by the Tahoe Yacht Club Foundation, the festivities offer all you could ask for in the realm of hobnobbing and glossy, mahogany eye candy: a wooden-watercraft competition featuring vintage runabouts dating back to the big-spending 1920s, a dockside antique-boat expo, a boat-society picnic and a luau-themed pupu-and-cocktail party. You'll need to stay over at least one night to do it all justice, and our lakeside retreat of choice is the Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe Resort, Spa & Casino, which has suitably rustic rooms and private cottages with all the upscale amenities you'll need.
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 Image credit: courtesy of Nihonmachi Street Fair
STREET HEAT
The Nihonmachi Street Fair, an annual Japantown tradition now in its 35th year, celebrates the Asian and Pacific American communities in the Bay Area and has all the usual attractions, plus a few fun extras. Expect crafts and food booths (returning visitors make a beeline for the teriyaki burgers) and live music, but the highlights of the free festival (held this year on August 9 and 10) are the high-energy performances by the San Francisco Taiko Dojo and the West Coast Lion Dance Troupe, wherein drummers and dancers from ages 6 to 60 strut their costumed stuff.
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 Image credit: Jeff Dow
FARE THEE WELL
If your last quasi-Shakespearean interlude involved watching Alicia Silverstone in Clueless, it's time you revisit the classics. For the perfect beachside picnic and starlit theater performance, stick around after mooning over those boats for the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival; this season's offerings include Richard III (August 8) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (August 9) on stage at the Sand Harbor Warren Trepp amphitheater on Lake Tahoe Beach.
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 Image credit: courtesy of NBC
FOG DAY EXTRA
Settle in at 8 p.m. on August 8 for the opening ceremonies of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing on NBC 11—and if you're like some people we know, refuse to leave your TV set for the next two weeks.
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Image credit: Jack Photo
RUN, SF, RUN
Whether you're a casual weekend jogger or a hard-core Ironman, the San Francisco Marathon on August 3 has an event for you. Sign up for the full 26.2-mile slog from the Ferry Building, across the Golden Gate Bridge and back again; two different half-marathons; a 5K run/walk; or a "progressive marathon" that you can start a few weeks before the race and finish on race day. Run hard (or easy!), knowing whichever course you choose will help raise money for your local charity of choice.
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Image credit: courtesy of SF Shorts Festival
LESS IS MORE
Give your NetFlix membership a rest and reclaim the full movie-theater ritual during the SF Shorts Film Festival, running August 6–9 at the Victoria Theatre in the Mission and the Red Vic Moviehouse in the Haight. With each film clocking in at 30 minutes or less, you can afford to catch a flick any night of the week.
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Image credit: courtesy of Another Planet Entertainment
ALL DOLLY-ED UP
That bottle-blond hair, that famous chest, those pipes—Lord have mercy! Country-music legend and cultural icon Dolly Parton comes to Berkeley's Greek Theatre on August 5 for a not-to-be-missed one-night engagement as part of her Backwoods Barbie tour. From "Jolene" to "Jesus and Gravity," Dolly's heartstring-pulling songs are solid gold.
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Image credit: Ryan Fleming
CULTURE CLUB
For you busy urbanites who consider Tuesday night's dinner in Alameda your most recent memorable island retreat, we suggest a slightly more authentic experience: the family-friendly San Francisco Aloha Festival taking place August 2–3, courtesy of the Pacific Islanders' Cultural Association. Watch a Polynesian dance performance, learn to play the ukulele and dig into some seriously hearty Hawaiian fare (we're heading straight for the plate lunch of loco moco and kalua pig) at the parade grounds in the Presidio. Admission is free.
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Image credit: H2Omark.com
WATER WORLD
The Chris-Crafts and Gar Woods are nosing out of their boathouses—yes, it's time for the 36th Annual Lake Tahoe Wooden Boat Concours d'Elegance and Wooden Boat Week 2008, which starts on August 7. Hosted in Carnelian Bay by the Tahoe Yacht Club Foundation, the festivities offer all you could ask for in the realm of hobnobbing and glossy, mahogany eye candy: a wooden-watercraft competition featuring vintage runabouts dating back to the big-spending 1920s, a dockside antique-boat expo, a boat-society picnic and a luau-themed pupu-and-cocktail party. You'll need to stay over at least one night to do it all justice, and our lakeside retreat of choice is the Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe Resort, Spa & Casino, which has suitably rustic rooms and private cottages with all the upscale amenities you'll need.
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Image credit: courtesy of Nihonmachi Street Fair
STREET HEAT
The Nihonmachi Street Fair, an annual Japantown tradition now in its 35th year, celebrates the Asian and Pacific American communities in the Bay Area and has all the usual attractions, plus a few fun extras. Expect crafts and food booths (returning visitors make a beeline for the teriyaki burgers) and live music, but the highlights of the free festival (held this year on August 9 and 10) are the high-energy performances by the San Francisco Taiko Dojo and the West Coast Lion Dance Troupe, wherein drummers and dancers from ages 6 to 60 strut their costumed stuff.
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Image credit: Jeff Dow
FARE THEE WELL
If your last quasi-Shakespearean interlude involved watching Alicia Silverstone in Clueless, it's time you revisit the classics. For the perfect beachside picnic and starlit theater performance, stick around after mooning over those boats for the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival; this season's offerings include Richard III (August 8) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (August 9) on stage at the Sand Harbor Warren Trepp amphitheater on Lake Tahoe Beach.
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Image credit: courtesy of NBC
FOG DAY EXTRA
Settle in at 8 p.m. on August 8 for the opening ceremonies of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing on NBC 11—and if you're like some people we know, refuse to leave your TV set for the next two weeks.
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