Arts & Entertainment Party Down: San Francisco Nightlife Award Winners Announced! While the "Best Dealer" category was egregiously and painfully overlooked this year — Levamisole pushers need love too! — the 2012 Nightlife Awards were handed out Thursday night at Mezzanine. And what a party it
Arts & Entertainment Etiquette Week: How to Conduct Yourself Like a Human in a Bar or Club As you've hopefully caught on, it's National Etiquette Week here at SFist, and so far it's prompted lively discussions about children in restaurants, backpacks on BART, and where and how jaywalking might be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink S.F. Gay Dance Party's Confusing Pico de Gallo Racism Controversy Hard French, El Rio's award-winning afternoon queer dance party in the Mission District, turned soft over the weekend after several of its Facebook followers (i.e., commenters) took offense to their naming their
Arts & Entertainment Girl About Town: The Knocks, Maná, Tennis, Yo La Tengo & More! Let's welcome Veronica de la Mora to SFist, as she shares her concert-going wisdom with us on a regular basis. Veronica attends several shows per week, so keep up to date with the
Arts & Entertainment Tonight Addendum: Berlin-Style Ping Pong Party At Rickshaw Stop By now many of you know about Allan Hough's now famous Berlin-style ping pong party called American Tripps. It is, in a word, spectacular. Loads of festive folks walk around a ping pong
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Medjool To Become Rooftop-Only Establishment Fresh off of yesterday's announcement that plans are finally in the works to fix up the New Mission Theater, Mission Street tycoon Gus Murad's other holding over at Medjool announced they will be
SF News Woman Assaulted, Robbed By Man She Met At Nightclub Like a scene out of Sweet Charity, a 30-year-old woman was punched and robbed last night in the Mission after meeting what she thought was a nice man at a nightclub. SF Examiner
Arts & Entertainment NYE Club Choice: Go Bang & Honey Soundsystem Two parties. One night. Both perfect for you and your dilated pupils. First up, we have Go Bang! at Deco Lounge in the Tenderloin. The regular club night snorts things into high gear
Arts & Entertainment Mission Mission Presents: Berlin-style Ping Pong Party The crazy sex cool kids of Mission Mission will blow your minds this Friday. And next Friday too. That's just what they do! What are we talking about? This: Mission Mission editor Allan
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink S.F. Hookah Lounges Done, Banned Over the past year, the San Francisco Health Department has tirelessly worked to shutdown the scourge known as hookah lounges. For those not in the know, hookah lounges are a rite of passage
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Special Late Shows Announced: Arctic Monkeys, Vetiver, More Three-day music festival Outside Lands, running August 12 - 14, just announced several "special late shows" that will only be accessible to ticket holders... for a price. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Eskmo,
SF News Carlos Bar Closes Due to Sexless Cocktail Waitressing Scandal Carlos Bar, one of the few watering holes in the Mission geared towards Latinos, closed its doors on June 30. Its alcohol license was suspended by the Department of Alcohol Beverage Control. Why?
Arts & Entertainment Gay Pride Parties You Should/Shouldn't Attend Hi, everybody. Welcome to Gay Pride weekend in San Francisco. What's Gay Pride weekend, exactly? Well, it's the time of year when lesbians hold hands walking down Market Street and gay men's pupils
SF News Car Accident Outside DNA Lounge Injures Two Pedestrians We're hearing word that somebody drove a car into two pedestrians outside DNA Lounge after Trannyshack on Sunday night. One bystander at the scene told SFist that "[t]he driver just took off.
SF News 2 Dead, 5 Wounded After Oakland Nightclub Shootings Two people were killed and four wounded early Monday morning outside Sweet Jimmie's near Jack London Square. The deadly shootings, it seems, were sparked by the bouncer refusing to admit several patrons. "Several
Arts & Entertainment Red Meat: A Party For Gay Redheads And The Men Who Admire Them Starting on May 14, and the second Saturday of each month following, fetish venue Club Eight will host a club night dedicated to gingers and those who admire their fiery locks. It's called
SF News Entertainment Commission Postpones Security Requirements Meeting Last night's meeting to discuss new security proposals for San Francisco nightclubs -- which would include ID scanning and face recording of patrons, among other things -- was postponed. Mayor Lee wanted "further
SF News Underground SF for Sale The Lower Haight's only true nightclub, Underground SF, is up for sale. In fact, the entire building can be yours for around $1.5 million. According to Haighteration, the owner is "looking to
Arts & Entertainment Humphrey Slocombe's Celebrates 2nd Birthday at Alteraqueer Bar Popular ice cream scoopers Humphrey Slocombe celebrates two years of tickling your sweet tooth with a party at Truck (1900 Folsom) tonight. Local drag icon Suppositori Spelling hosts an evening of drag, booze,
SF News Cow Palace Temporarily Nixes Raves As expected, Cow Palace in Daly City will no longer host "music and dance parties" after a slew of booze and drug overdoses at parties there. While the Cow Palace board "voted unanimously
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 11/9 - 11/14 By Kevin Meenan A huge week of shows with dancey Barcelona quartet Delorean at Great American Music Hall Wednesday, Colorado gem Woodsman at Milk Thursday and drum-centric electronic act Publicist at Mezzanine Friday.
SF News Port Evicts Jelly's Nightclub After Fatal Shooting Pier 50 dance club Jelly's, who played host to a fatal shooting last week, could become a thing of the past. After the city's Entertainment Commission had yanked the club's permit last week,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Parties: Hard French at El Rio by Joe Payne The first thing one notices about Hard French, El Rio's still virginal afternoon soul dance party, is the line. Despite arriving to the Outer Mission at an early hour, we
SF News Nightclub Scapegoating Runs Rampant After Weekend Shooting Ever since 26-year-old Blair Henderson was shot and killed near the intersection of Second and Minna Streets on Sunday, the media's assault on nightlife spiked to hysterical proportions. Again. Most outlets (including SFist)
