UNITED IN NIGHTLIFE! Calling all ginslingers, barbacks, servers, deejays, bouncers, dancers, party photographers, hat checks, swampers, and anyone and everyone who works in this great city’s nightlife! Entrance is FREE for all you service workers and friends!  FREE Anchor Steam Beer provided by Broke-Ass Stuart for the first hour of

Highway 101 blows a continual load of cars onto a zone of central San Francisco difficult to define. Not the Mission, not QUITE the Castro, nor Hayes Valley (although realtors would disagree with that), and not precisely the newly-minted “Mid-Market” either, it’s an odd knot of sinew connecting a variety

It’s a magic time of year to eat well and drink beer.  SF Beer week starts this Saturday January 23rd and runs until January 31st. So we asked a bunch of San Francisco brewers about the events they would not miss during San Francisco Beer Week and of course we

This originally appeared in my Weeknighter column for 7×7.  When you’ve lived in San Francisco long enough, your personal history becomes a residue on every block you pass. Over there is the restaurant you worked in when you first moved to The City. Around the corner is the bar you spent too

Bad news buckaroos. I just got word from my boy QM that the very excellent Buckshot Bar & Gameroom is closing. It was announced on their Facebook page around noon today (Friday 1/15). I fucking love that place. I spent many nights there years ago when an exgf played in

North Beach has a certain magic to it. The neon lights and the strip show barkers blend with the San Francisco night and the smell of garlic, creating something old school and current, ancient and timely.

A great bar is more than just a place to drink. It’s a secondary character in stories of romance, regret, radiance, and redemption that transpire nightly throughout every town in the world.The Edinburgh Castle is one of these great bars.

I’m too old to go to Delirium now. The tightly packed bar area and the sweaty, sticky, smelly dance floor are too much for me, even if the drinks are incredibly cheap. But spending too much time and making poor decisions at Delirium is a right of passage for anyone who’s nighttime lives are passed in the Mission.