Crossroads has honored St. Patrick and Irish heritage for years with a month of highbrow culture including visual arts, theater, poetry, music and storytelling to enlighten and balance stereotypes. Renowned Irish musician & historian Mick Moloney & violinist Athena Tergis headline.

An on-the-water celebration of eau de vie transforms the gorgeous Belle Yacht into an elegant space for sampling the world's finest whiskeys & artisanal spirits distilled by American craftsman specializing in handcrafted vodkas, gins, and liqueurs. Also: Live jazz, bagpipers & a cigar bar.

Mixing the radicalopening night's Hadag Nahash's Israeli hip-hop ranting against racismand the sacredclosing night's Basya Schechter's melding of Rabbi Heschel's Yiddish poetry with her Jewish niggunim, Brazilian samba & North Indian classical blenddistinguishes this anticipated annual festival

Poets including Albert Flynn DeSilver, Marin's first poet laureate, and musicians like Taneen Sufi Ensemble join scholars from many religious traditions--Sufi to Native American to Jewish--for a weekend of art & Ecstatic Exchange, Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore's talk on "Life in Poetry & Listening."

This new festival is dedicated to innovative film & media that explores green sustainable living issues, presenting leaders in the movement from around the world and gems like "The City Dark," an exploration of what people, animals and the environment lose to excessive artificial light.

SFJAZZ's season is an embarrassment of riches, showcasing myriad masters of jazz, fusion, world music and more, like South Africa's sublime Ladysmith Black Mambazo, guitar great Bill Frissell, Flamenco legend Paco de Lucia and the great harmonicist Toots Thielemans.

At 27 years, it may seem odd that this world-class garden show is now "going green," but Gardens for a Green Earth is widening its focus to include sustainable exhibits, talks by organics pioneers from Greens restaurant and Green Gulch Farms & demos on environmental techniques for home gardeners.

This 160-year-old tradition starts with a parade winding through the city to Civic Center, where a green-flecked festival celebrates Irish influence on the City's "Past, Present & Future" with contemporary and traditional music, dance, arts and crafts, and all kinds of things to entertain the kids.

A precursor to Spring and a glorious five-day floral fundraiser, Bouquets to Art's exhibits are inspired by the de Young's permanent collection and feature work by innovative local floral designers, some of whom will create arrangements live in the Koret Auditorium and discuss trends in floral design.

Independent American artists and craftspeople descend on Fort Mason for this curated late-winter fair featuring functional and decorative crafts like exquisite jewelry, unique glassware, ceramics, hand-painted textiles and custom furniture, some of which can be found in galleries around the world.

Showcasing over 120 independent films and interactive media works, in its 30-year history North America's largest Asian American film festival has evolved beyond lamenting issues and stereotypes into cinematically celebrating great stories from the human and Asian American experience.

This winter installment of an only-in-California fair that takes place triannually at Fort Mason celebrates the natural formations found in quartz and other minerals and the assumed powers of crystals to heal and transform. Dozens of vendors sell jewelry, prisms, crystals or hawk healing arts.

Spring comes early to Fisherman's Wharf as Pier 39 hosts free daily guided tours that encourage tip-toeing aroundif not throughtheir gardens filled with thousands of tulips and other vibrant signs of life in full bloom.

An anticipated mid-winter rite, IndieFest celebrates the best independent films with screenings and animated after-parties that have become their own draw, like "The Big Lebowski" mini-bowling party or the final night dance-off to follow "Girl Walk//All Day," a video/dance film.

This is not your ordinary flea market--oh no, no, no. In addition to tons of stuff, you'll find designers and artists, gourmet food, award-winning California wines, local bands and just about any other form of amusement you might desire to help while away a winter day.