Life is weird and sometimes you end up at Monarch a lot. This is one of those times for me apparently. Thursday is the inaugural event for Pisco Sour Amazing Hour. While I don’t know if there will be FREE empanadas on every Thursday, on this particular one Wes Rowe

We’ve all been there, dude. You’re happily single, watching True Detective from a stolen source of cable, pretending the chicken in your fridge is still ok to eat, Peter Panning your way through life on a meager salary, when, BAMM! The perfect person comes along, and you’re screwed (literally and

Ten years ago, when I was just a slightly younger bartender, I was working at Kimo’s up in the Polk and had just recently been hired on as a floater at El Rio, when I was invited to a citywide gay bar mixer held at some guys’ house in the

Our outdoor ceremony was 15-minutes: my mom walked me down the aisle and gave me away because my dad sucks balls, rings exchanged, vows exchanged (I left vows upstairs and was forced to wing it), some bawling, Iron & Wine “Lion’s Mane”, two renditions of Erik Satie’s “Gymnopedia No. 1”,

Ahhhh…It feels really good to finally have kicked those New Year’s Resolutions to the curb doesn’t it? I’m really glad we were able to help you do that. I mean, I feel like we really shared something, hell maybe we did. The end of the night is a little hazy.

Clockwise from left: heart, corn, rocoto The flower of Peru’s glory is at its highest peak of florid magnificence when the traveler steps outside the bounds of urban settlements.  This can be difficult at times; the central yolk of most Peruvian cities is broken here and there and allowed to

The history nerd in me wants to think that this is in honor of the Sydney Ducks, SF’s original organized criminals. But it’s not. It’s actually because Jess, one of the people behind American Tripps, is Aussie and Australia Day is the “Down Unda” version of the 4th of July. So

Special discount for BAS readers: Use discount code BROKEASS for $10 off tickets!! Buy your tickets here!! We all knew you weren’t gonna keep that New Year’s Resolution you made, so why not come blow it off with a bunch of other New Years relapsers? There will be chocolate, bacon, booze, Ploom vaporizers,