Arts & Entertainment New Nonprofit Vows To Pay Off Nightclubs‘ Unpaid Bills The Independent Venue Preservation Initiative says it will pay venues’ unpaid bills going back to last February, but will depend on “community-driven micro-donations” to do so.
Arts & Entertainment 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 San Francisco Commits $3 Million to Nightlife Recovery Fund A fund established by SF Supervisor Matt Haney to provide direct relief grants to music and entertainment venues that have been dark for the past year has gotten its first influx of public funds, thanks to the city's unexpected budget surplus.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Nightclub Called Lion's Den Opens Friday in Chinatown I bet you didn't think you'd be reading this news this week: A new nightclub is having its soft opening (in the midst of the pandemic) on Friday in Chinatown, and it's attempting to harken back to the glitz of 1950s-era nightlife in the neighborhood.
Arts & Entertainment With Back Rent Due, SoMa LGBTQ Nightclub Oasis Turns to Crowdfunding, Telethon to Prevent Permanent Closure Among the nightclubs and music venues that have suffered deeply in San Francisco over the last year, one of the relative newest, Oasis, could face permanent closure without some immediate help from patrons, or the federal or local government.
Arts & Entertainment SF Supervisor Hopes to Raise Funds From Local Billionaires to Save Nightlife Venues Supervisor Matt Haney hopes to create a nightlife fund that will attract private-sector donations so that the city doesn't lose one of its greatest cultural assets before the pandemic is through with us.
SF News SF To Allow Outdoor Entertainment Again — But Will Apparently Not Permit 'Singing' or 'Shouting' The city's live music venues have been closed for some six months now, leaving the talent that would fill them without one stream of income. But, finally, live entertainment has found its way into SF's reopening plan, per a new temporary permit program for outdoor performances called "JAM."
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
