Beer And Movies Eventually At The Red Vic

Hooray! The Board of Supervisors has agreed to allow beer and wine to be served at the Red Vic movie theatre. While a moratorium had been called on new liquor licenses in the Upper Haight, the newly-approved bill is intended to override that in the case of the worker owned and operated single-screen movie theater.

The Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi-penned ordinance goes into effect immediately, but the Red Vic still had several hurdles to leap. We spoke to the Red Vic's Martha Beck, to see if we could be drinking a (non-illicit) beer during City of Lost Children. She told us that they still need to go through several steps with the San Francisco Planning Department and the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. "The planning department has been great, but the ABC's another matter entirely" she said. "They have so many bureaucratic steps, with so many places where things can get hung up or go wrong. But it's in the ABC's hands, now."

"We're now hoping that we can start serving beer and wine by the end of the summer" she concluded. But that doesn't mean we need to wait until then to hit the Red Vic -- encourage the BOS's support of our local independent theatres now, and maybe take in The Big Lebowski tonight or something else from their calendar later this month. But go see something!