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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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&
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
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,
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.
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
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
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
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
