The weekend is dialing up the heat.
Mercury's relocation to the old Sneaky Tiki space brings more room and an expanded Asian-fusion menu, plus lunch specials like Friday's fried chicken. They also promise stronger and more creative cocktails starting next week (in the meantime, couldn't hurt to bring your own).
Grab a Mai Tai from the bar, then bask in the Aloha spirit with tuna poke, hula girls and the main event: a Spam Musubi eating contest. Because watching guys scarf down sushi is so much classier than hot dogs you almost feel bad for Joey Chestnut.
This new music event brings 35 horn-and-brass bands to the Bay Area to play everything from polka-punk to hip-hop. And you won't want to miss the Brasstastic Parade in Dolores Park—should be a horny crowd.
Check out the state's best yo-yo talent, then test your own skills with the strings at the Tricks Clinic, where you'll learn moves like the Atom Smasher, which involves a split-bottom entry and underpasses. Because she's tired of seeing you Walk the Dog.
Whether or not you're an opera buff, this is a great excuse to lounge in the park for a couple hours with some wine and cheese. Better make the cups plastic, though. We hear that Soprano can really belt it.
Weekday evenings in September, you and the little lady can grab Twilight Zone rates on Osmosis Spa's incredible cedar enzyme bath. The Japanese version of a mud bath, it uses finely ground cedar heated to 100 degrees to detox, relax...and mind-blow.
