Arts & Entertainment Years Later, Hibernia Bank Still Might Become A Nightclub, Or A Tech Office We've been following the rumors about what is to become of the grand Hibernia Bank building at Jones and Market for years now. The historic, Beaux-Arts structure from 1892 is one of the
SF News Oakland Speakeasy Raided After Months-Long Undercover Op After receiving many complaints from Oakland neighbors about illegal alcohol sales, drug use, and loud music played well beyond the mandated 2 a.m. last call, an unlicensed basement club at 36112th Street
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Codeword, A New 24-Hour Pizza Shop And Club, Opens Tomorrow In SoMa Late-night slice fans have cause to rejoice, as a new 24-hour pizza shop and dance club is set to open tomorrow in SoMa. Codeword is located on the corner of 5th and Folsom
Arts & Entertainment Juanita More Talks About The End Of The Eight-Year Run Of Castro Club Booty Call Wednesdays Thanksgiving week will mark the end of an era for Castro nightlife as drag queen DJ and promoter Juanita More is ending her weekly party at Q Bar, Booty Call Wednesdays. Eight years
Arts & Entertainment One Of The GlamCocks Talks About Bringing Burning Man Energy (And Costumes) To Gay Nightlife As SFist noted in this roundup of gay parties last month, one of the most noticeable trends in SF gay nightlife the last year or so has been the infiltration of Burning Man
Arts & Entertainment The 17 Best Gay and Lesbian Clubs And Parties In San Francisco It's Pride Week, and with that comes a whole bevy of once-a-year parties to fill the dance cards of every LGBT party kid in town. But San Francisco is, after all, one of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink DNA Lounge Owner Snags Longtime Small Club Space At Fifth And Folsom The storied small club space at Fifth and Folsom which has been home to Annie's Social Club, the Covered Wagon Saloon, Cherry (the birthplace of the popular Bootie party) and most recently Qi
Arts & Entertainment Nightclubs And Music Venues Can't Be Sued Over Noise Complaints, Say Supervisors In a victory for SF nightlife, that proposal we talked about back in March to legislate protections for music venues and nightclubs against complaints by new neighbors and condo owners passed at yesterday's
Arts & Entertainment Local Nightclub Owners Make Noise At City Hall Over Shutdown Threats From New Condos Lucky 13 and the Elbo Room are currently endangered. Cafe Du Nord, The Lexington, Club Cocomo and others are already gone or counting down the days. Nightclub owners aren’t laying down anymore,
Arts & Entertainment How To Do The Fox Theater This is the first in a series of pieces in which SFist is going to school you at least those of you who don't already know how best to do certain important activities
SF News Will Car-Free Late-Night Streets Encourage More Nightlife? San Francisco's economy doesn't sleep. When Supervisor Scott Wiener and the Mayor’s Office, Entertainment Commission, and County Transportation Authority released a Late Night Transportation Plan earlier this week, the report emphasized that
Arts & Entertainment Exclusive: Heklina Talks About Mother, The New Incarnation Of Trannyshack At The Oasis Earlier in the year, local drag star Heklina announced that she would be retiring the name "Trannyshack" after careful consideration, and after getting significant flack from a younger generation of fans. As she
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Basement Opens In 222 Hyde 'Rave Cave' Space 222 Hyde, which the SFBG lovingly called a rave cave, closed last year due to a change in ownership of the building plus some trouble with their liquor license. Before the team left,
Arts & Entertainment SF Moves Closer To Getting A Permanent Trannyshack Though Trannyshack won't be called Trannyshack as of 2015, that doesn't mean the iconic drag event is just going to curl up and die. In fact, proposed changes to San Francisco's zoning laws
SF News 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
SF News Hibernia Bank Building Finally Under Renovation, Rumored To Be Becoming A Nightclub The long long dormant Hibernia Bank building at the corner of Jones and Market/McAllister, which for over a decade has been no more than a neo-classical pigeon roost, is finally seeing some
Arts & Entertainment Zoning Rule Holds Up New SoMa Nightclub From Heklina, Of Trannyshack Fame Drag show impresario Heklina, a.k.a. Stefan Grygelko, amidst the recent controversy over the rebranding of her iconic party Trannyshack, is trying to buy the building on the northwest corner of Folsom
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Sexy Dinosaurs Friday: Walking Distance Dance Festival Friday (and/or Saturday) night, ODC Theater's Walking Distance Dance Festival returns for a third year, with "three programs of paired artists, a book reading and a site-adaptive
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marla Bakery's Final Dinner Series, This Sunday Before Amy and Joe kick open the doors of Marla Bakery in the Outer Richmond — Marla Bakery is well known for their savory turnovers, among other baked finery; so good they landed a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink While You Wait: Nopalito photo credit: Premshree Pillai via photopin cc People in San Francisco like waiting in line for food (a lot). Sometimes, that wait is worth it. While You Wait, SFist's guide for how to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink While You Wait: State Bird Provisions photo credit: T.Tseng via photopin cc People in San Francisco like waiting in lines for food (a lot). Sometimes, that wait is worth it. While You Wait, SFist's guide for how to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink While You Wait: Mission Chinese Food photo credit: roland via photopin cc Apparently, people in San Francisco like waiting in lines for food (a lot). Sometimes, that wait is worth it. While You Wait, SFist's guide for how to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink While You Wait: Rich Table (By Lauren Sloss) Apparently, people in San Francisco like waiting in lines for food (a lot). Sometimes, that wait is worth it. While You Wait, SFist's new guide for how to pass the
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This: Roller Disco In An Old Church! Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, there will be a gay roller disco in an old church at Fillmore and Fell Streets. Are you going? Somehow I had not heard about the Church of 8
SF News Large Illegal Nightclub (And Brothel?) Busted In San Jose In that larger, sprawling city to our south, a sizeable illegal nightlife operation featuring 30 waitresses and "eight locked, private VIP rooms" was raided early Friday after police received a report of a
