Muni riders, rejoice: Most of the services that were axed in the spring will be restored as of today.

Late-night lines will go back to running every 30 minutes instead of hourly, lots of routes will operate later into the night, and several routes will be assigned more buses. The K-Ingleside and M-Ocean View rail lines, which had been cut because of construction, are also back to normal. Muni's website has more details.

In May, because of a budget deficit, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency reduced service overall by 10 percent to save $29 million. But after public uproar, Muni cobbled together some funding and improvements in efficiency.

About 60 percent of the service reductions are being reversed today. Muni vows that by December, it will have a plan for restoring the rest of the cut-back services.

If last weekend's SF Street Food Festival merely whetted your appetite, get sated this weekend at the Eat Real Festival.

The Oakland festival has eats from all of your favorite food trucks and suppliers such as Prather Ranch, Ritual Roasters and Straus Family Creamery. Besides gorging, there's plenty of food-themed entertainment--show-and-tells about chicken-raising and cheese-making, demos of goat-butchering and goat-milking (not the same goat), and instructions on making kombucha, tamales, sourdough starter and bacon. It's like Little House on the Prairie with an updated palate.

Best of all, Eat Real lasts all weekend, on Saturday until 9:30 pm and Sunday until 5:30 pm.

Eat Real Festival
At Jack London Square (Broadway and Embarcadero), Oakland

Sandwich from Roli Roti

Check out the only city's only freeway-ramp-turned-farm during a Friday soiree at Hayes Valley Farm.

The Dusker celebration includes live music, dancing, guided tours, hand-made drinks and eats and henna tattooing. Roam through the new greenhouse, admire the hundreds of potted saplings, and whiff real, fresh dirt. 

So that you're not totally in the dark when you're there, check out this short profile of the Hayes Valley community farm--which is also organic and sustainable.

DUSKER
Friday, Aug. 27, at 4:30-8:30 pm
450 Laguna Street
$5 donation requested. Proceeds benefit Hayes Valley Farm Structures Fund.

On Saturday, August 21, Fort Point rewinds about 150 years, to the time it was built. Back then, the California Gold Rush was in full swing. The US Army Engineers later hurried construction so that the sturdy brick fortification would be ready for the beginning of the Civil War, in 1861.

Fort Point was meant to be the strongest defense possible against any naval attack of San Francisco Bay. It was occupied throughout the Civil War but never engaged in battle.

It became a headquarters for building the Golden Gate Bridge and was used on and off as an army barracks, but its cannons became obsolete. Fort Point was named a National Historic Site in 1970. 

The American Civil War Association of Northern California will don period uniforms to do a flag raising and artillery and infantry drills on Saturday. A fife and drum band will perform, and others dressed for the occasion will demonstrate medical practices, sewing, quilting, and Victorian dancing of the era.

Fort Point Civil War Day
August 21, at 10 am - 5 pm
Info: Fort Point, 415 556-1693, or the American Civil War Association of Northern California.

General William T. Sherman and some of his staff
before the siege of Atlanta, Georgia, in 1864.
Photo by MPI/Getty Images.