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The Armory Building In the Mission Set to Return as Concert Venue With Additional Smaller Jazz Club Inside

The former Kink.com Armory, which Kink moved out of and sold five years ago, is set to return to being a concert and event venue — which it was briefly before the pandemic — but the new owners have also submitted plans to add a jazz club inside.

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Regency Ballroom Up for Sale, Listing Depicts Nonexistent Condos On Top

It’s a sign of the times that renderings of condominiums which do not yet exist or have permits are shown on a real estate listing for the 112-year-old Regency Ballroom, which is now on the selling block.

Arts & Entertainment

Outside Lands Announces 16 Extra Night Shows; Tickets On Sale Friday

Organizers of Outside Lands just announced the biggest-ever slate of small-venue night shows for the week of the festival in late October, and these include a Wednesday DRAMA set at Bimbo's, and Kaytranada at 1015 Folsom. Also, there's a just-announced RUFUS DU SOL show at the Fox in Oakland.

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SF Opens Applications for Grants to Music and Nightlife Venues

As promised earlier this year, the first round of grants from SF's Music and Entertainment Venue Recovery Fund is about to beginning taking applications.

Arts & Entertainment

SF Will Prioritize Struggling and Legacy Venues for Entertainment Relief Fund — But the Fund Needs Private Donations

The SF Board of Supervisors voted this week to establish the San Francisco Music and Entertainment Venue Recovery Fund, as a way to funnel money to struggling music venues and arts institutions that have been shuttered by the pandemic.

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Bay Area Music Venues and Theaters Can Apply For Lifesaving Grants Under New Stimulus Bill

Owners and operators of cultural venues, from Broadway theaters on down to dive bars that host rock shows, will be able to fight over a new pool of grant money from the federal government as part of the new $900 billion stimulus package that Congress was finalizing Monday.

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Cafe Du Nord Officially Relaunches With June 1 Party And Rogue Wave Show

Today we got some more details of the previously announced rebirth of Cafe du Nord as a full-time music venue, and among the new details we learn that the space is going to

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Cafe Du Nord Is Becoming A Music Venue Again

The brief era of Cafe du Nord as a swank cocktail lounge with delicious bar food from the Flour + Water folks is officially over, one year after the opening menu was pared down

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Confirmed: Cafe Du Nord To Pivot More Into Event Space And Venue, But With Food

As SFist reported exclusively last week, the Viking Room at Cafe du Nord, which opened last year with the promise of offering a full dinner menu in a sort of supper club environment

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Leo's Music Club of Oakland Temporarily Closed Following Bizarre Police Raid

by Jack Morse Leo's Music Club, the barely-year-old venue in the Temescal neighborhood of Oakland, was forced to shut down over the weekend after a bizarre police raid left the club's owner and

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Is The Addition Refusing To Refund Tickets Sold Before They Abruptly Shut Down?

It looks like the story of The Addition abruptly closing its doors this month may be getting a bit more messy. A tipster wrote into SFist telling us that Fillmore Live Entertainment, the

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Yoshi's Is Becoming The Addition; Poison Guitarist Will Play The New Venue

We learned back in June that Yoshi's San Francisco was getting sold to a new ownership group, and would no longer be called Yoshi's. The restaurant has shuffled along the last few months,

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Cafe Cocomo, Sound Factory Close To Make Way For Housing; Elbo Room Under Threat Too [Updated]

Add losing local music venues to the ever-increasing list of casualties of the tech boom. As SFist previously reported, the owners of Mission venue Elbo Room were considering turning it into a 9-unit

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Cafe Du Nord To Be Resurrected With Bar From Trick Dog Team, Food From Flour + Water Team

Beloved music venue Cafe du Nord, in the basement level of the Swedish American Hall at Market and Sanchez, has been closed since the beginning of the new year for renovations under new

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New Valencia Street Music Venue, Preservation Hall West, To Open Early October

Preservation Hall West, an expansion of the historic New Orleans Jazz hall, will become San Francisco's (and the Mission's) newest music venue when it opens its doors just in time for the annual

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Train Announces Intimate Tour Of SF Venues

Perhaps encouraged by Tony Bennett's continued success with his San Francisco anthem, three-time Grammy winners Train have announced a six show tour of their adopted and largely ambivalent hometown. The "San Francisco Tour

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