If you are headed to San Francisco for the Fourth, check out our guide to fireworks, celebrations, and other Independence Day happenings. We've even got a map to show exactly where the fun begins. Enjoy!

If you haven't had an agua fresca (fresh fruit juice drink), hot summer days like today are the perfect excuse to try one. These refreshing soft drinks originated in Mexico and are ladled out of big glass jugs at most of the Taquerias in the Mission. Made with ingredients ranging from watermelon to guava and served over ice, aguas frescas are one of my all time favorite thirst quenchers.

If you mised the blockbuster King Tut show thirty years ago, here's another chance to see this spectacular exhibition. More than 3,000 years after his reign, and 30 years after the original exhibition opened in San Francisco, Tutankhamun, ancient Egypt’s celebrated “boy king,” returns to the de Young Museum June 27, 2009 and runs through March 10, 2010. "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" is a glorious exhibition of over 130 outstanding works from the tomb of Tutankhamun, as well as those of his royal predecessors, his family, and court officials.

Photo courtesy Andreas F. Voegelin, Antikenmuseum Basel and Sammlung Ludwig.

June is LGBT Pride month in San Francisco; it's a month-long celebration culminating in the hugely popular Pride Parade on Sunday June 28th. Check out our extensive guide to SF pride month, including performance and event shedules and pictures from last year's parade.