SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Nightclub Called YOLO Is Slated to Replace the Legendary Slim's A nightclub called YOLO, from a pair of San Jose club owners, is applying for a permit from the SF Entertainment Commission to open in the former Slim's space — you know, whenever such things get to safely reopen.
Arts & Entertainment SF Nightlife Operators Look Ahead to Outdoor Shows, Local Acts, and Telling Unmasked People to 'Get the F**k Out' The year (or two) ahead for San Francisco nightlife venues is full of unknowns, but during a virtual summit on Monday, nightlife operators gave reason for optimism for the city to have a much-needed reset from all this.
Arts & Entertainment Heklina To Host Final Two-Hour 'Mother' Next Saturday At Oasis Following on her announcement last fall that she would be stepping away from her ownership role at the nightclub in order to spend more time relaxing in Palm Springs, Heklina has just announced the date and details of the final Mother show.
Arts & Entertainment Mezzanine Is Closing In October, Canceling Holiday and New Year's Events A proposed lease extension through the New Year has been revoked, and the club will in fact shutter in October as was announced last fall.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Legendary Polk Gulch Nightclub Divas to Close Management vows they’ll find another space, but Divas Nightclub’s decades-long run at Polk and Post Streets ends this month.
Arts & Entertainment Iconic SoMa Club The Stud Is Saved Again, Gets New Two-Year Lease Legendary 53-year-old nightclub The Stud, endangered now for nearly three years, has got a new lease on life today, literally.
SF News SFPD Blames Nightlife For Uptick In Rape Despite the fact that a lot of people will tell you that nightlife in SF is on the wane and isn't as vibrant as it used to be in the age of Netflix
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cops Blame Bottle Service For North Beach Club's Ongoing Problem With Street Fights Hue, the nightclub on Broadway in North Beach that was formerly known as Atmosphere, continues to be a headache for neighbors and the SFPD, with the sidewalk outside the club being the scene
SF News Proposal To Sell Booze Til 4 A.M. Clears CA Senate Committee Late-night boozebags will be raising a toast to State Sen. Scott Wiener this week, as his proposal to move last call for alcohol to as late as 4 a.m. has successfully passed
SF News Bill Giving Cities Option To Extend Bar Hours To 4 A.M. Passes Committee State Senator Scott Wiener's bill that would allow cities to decide if bars and clubs may serve alcohol past the current 2 a.m. statewide last call has passed a first test: The
SF News Nine-Member Gang Robs Man In Chinatown Bar An extremely late night at a Chinatown bar turned into a bit of a bummer Sunday morning, when a patron was first robbed then shoved out of the establishment. The San Francisco Police
SF News North Beach Neighbors' Anger Grows As More Brawls Spill Out Of Hue Nightclub Hue Lounge & Nightclub, the relatively recent replacement for what was formerly known as Atmosphere at 447 Broadway, has been the site of some unruly sidewalk situations in recent months, most recently a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Finally! Ruby Skye Closing, Could Become Actually Cool Music Hall With Bowling Alley San Francisco's Hottest New Club of 2000 that somehow still felt trapped in the '90s, Ruby Skye, the now 17-year-old dance hall, is set to close later this year according to Hoodline. The
SF News Party On: New Bill Could Extend Last Call To 4 a.m. "California currently has a one-size-fits-all 2 a.m. end to alcohol service, regardless of circumstances," State Senator and former SF Supervisor Scott Wiener writes to his Facebook page — with "circumstances" referring to situations
Arts & Entertainment Longtime SF DJ Builds Online Archive Of '80s And '90s Club Mixes From Long-Gone Nightclubs "Somebody just came and dropped off this whole bag of cassettes," Jim Hopkins says, showing me a plastic grocery bag full of hand-labeled tapes sitting in the corner of the DJ booth at
Arts & Entertainment The Stud Announces New Two-Year Lease, And Plans To Move To New Location After That SoMa’s longest-surviving gay bar The Stud looked cooked this summer, when a 150% rent increase threatened the continued existence of the 50-year-old San Francisco institution. But a newly-formed Stud collective founded late
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SoMa Bar Owner Declares SF A Happy Hour Town, Late-Night Drinking Dead Maybe because San Francisco hardly kicked its drinking habit during Prohibition — the 18th Amendment was rather loosely observed by local law enforcement here — or perhaps because Anthony Bourdain once called San Francisco a
Arts & Entertainment Beatbox To Be Reborn As Halcyon, A Nightclub And Multi-Purpose Venue Beatbox, the former gay nightspot on 11th Street that called it quits after five years in July, will get new life under the ownership of longtime SF impresario Gina Milano, formerly of Bambuddha
Arts & Entertainment 1015 Folsom Cancels Performance By Virulently Anti-Gay Reggae Artist Sizzla Kalonji Notoriously anti-gay reggae artist Sizzla, a.k.a. Sizzla Kalonji, who is nonetheless one of the most prolific and popular contemporary reggae musicians in the world, was set to perform at SoMa nightclub
Arts & Entertainment The Stud Is Saved, For Now, As 15-Member Co-Op Secures Funds To Purchase Historic Club Official word arrived Thursday that the co-op that formed to figure out a path forward for iconic 50-year-old SoMa nightclub The Stud has succeeded in securing funds to purchase the business from current
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Stud Has Almost Died Before, And It Can Be Saved Again, If People Show Up The death of queer spaces has been written about plenty in the last few years, not just in San Francisco but in cities across the country. Portland's gay scene has been hobbled by
SF News Two Men Charged With Murder In June 5 Shooting At The EndUp Nightclub A fatal shooting that occurred in the early morning hours of June 5 that killed 19-year-old Sean Ford was apparently a gang-related hit that happened inside the famed EndUp nightclub at 6th and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SoMa's Gay-Owned Beatbox Nightclub To Close In July, After Pride Sad news for gay club-goers today as the five-year-old nightclub Beatbox (314 11th Street) has announced it will shut down for good as of July 3, the weekend following Gay Pride. The announcement
Arts & Entertainment Does Anyone Go Out Anymore?: San Francisco Nightlife In The Age Of Netflix And Chill In San Francisco in 2016, a lot of people are going to tell you that everything is terrible, that things aren't the way they used to be, and that everyone has forgotten how
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Black Cat, A New Restaurant And Lounge, Will Jazz Up The Tenderloin This Summer The Tenderloin, already purring with swanky bar and restaurant openings, will receive another place to carouse this summer in Black Cat, a restaurant and lounge with a touch of jazz. The bill at
