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Arinell Pizza in the Mission Might be Closing
San Francisco is famous for many things, but pizza is not one of them. We’ve got a few really great options like Golden Boy and Tony’s but we are not a pizza town. That said, whenever anyone tries to rank the best slices in SF, Arinell Pizza always makes it

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Since this bad boy expires on 8/1/2022 we wanted to make it even easier for you to get out and support your local drinking holes. That’s right, the Oakland & East Bay Beer Passport is now 50% off! That means it’s only $20 for 27 coupons to buy one beer, get

50+ Year Old Bar, Hawaii West, Being Evicted by New Building Owner
Word just came in from multiple sources that Hawaii West, a North Beach tiki dive bar with a great kitchen is being evicted by its new building owner. But YOU might be able to help save it! Read below: Bar owner Nolan Kellet, whose grandmother started the place in the 1960s,

These Bay Area Bars & Restaurants are Raising Funds for Ukraine
We are a month in to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and from all reports, it’s pretty terrible. Millions of people have been displaced and hundreds, if not thousands, have been killed. It’s an absolute humanitarian crisis and Russia has been officially declared as committing war crimes. There is no doubt

The SF Protest Against the Russian War in Ukraine
I’m sure many of you are wondering where the San Francisco protest against the the Russian was in Ukraine will be. Luckily Magsy tipped us off to this protest happening today at City Hall in San Francisco at 4pm. All this info comes from the FB event invite: We call

Legendary Lucky 13 Sign Now Lives at Bender’s
San Francisco’s legendary Lucky 13 might be closed forever, but its famous sign now lives on in infamy at Bender’s. I was at Bender’s on Wednesday night for Richie Cunning‘s Noise Pop show and looked up to see that snarling cat surveying the festivities. I can’t think of a better

What San Francisco Felt Like at the Start of the Tech Boom
I moved to San Francisco in 2002, a time I like to call “between gold rushes.” The fervor and swagger of the first dot com boom had not so much burst as it had flown around the city like a balloon with the air let out, taking down everything it crashed into. San Francisco had ridden the dot com monster into the 21st century on a wave of optimism and massive change, and not unlike the original gold rush that created this place, more than just a handful of people ended up with obscene wealth. And then like anything too good to be true, it ended with a whimper, causing those who hadn’t managed to strike a vein of digital ore, left to pick up the pieces and create something of their own.

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