SF Restaurants, Food & Drink More On Eagle Tavern's Glittery Gay Lease Signing First plucked from Facebook and then reported by SFist, the Eagle Tavern's lease will remain in the custody of the gays. The sparkly, festive queer community will retain their noted queer leather and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Just In: The Gays Get To Keep Eagle Tavern This just in: The San Francisco queer community gets to keep the Eagle. Via a very, very excited update on the Save the Eagle Facebook page, "Gays sign Eagle Lease!!!! Party at Lone
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Litquake Speakeasy at Public Works Get your 1920s on at a speakeasy party in the Mission care of the fine scribes at Litquake. Hear excerpts of biting authors read by some of your favorite Bay Area writers, including
SF News Is the War on Fun Winding Down? The unoffical War on Fun, in which the city and the SFPD excessively try to crack down on street-fair drinking and curtail all nightlife, might be finally waning. Or at least that's what
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hungry During the Witching Hour? Tablehopper Launches Handy Late-Night Dining App One glaring issue with San Francisco is that our sidewalks tend to roll up at 10 pm. More to the point, our city's lack of a late-night dining scene bugs. Sure, there's Sparky's
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Trippy "I love you! I need you!" shot at American Tripps at Z Space by Ariel Dovas.
Arts & Entertainment Party Down: San Francisco Nightlife Award Winners Announced! While the "Best Dealer" category was egregiously and painfully overlooked this year — Levamisole pushers need love too! — the 2012 Nightlife Awards were handed out Thursday night at Mezzanine. And what a party it
Arts & Entertainment Some Advice For Straight People In Gay Bars This being San Francisco, we have a lot of gay bars and clubs where go-go boys dance in tiny underwear, and drag shows that straight women like to go to, etc. Increasingly, gay
Arts & Entertainment Tonight Addendum: Berlin-Style Ping Pong Party At Rickshaw Stop By now many of you know about Allan Hough's now famous Berlin-style ping pong party called American Tripps. It is, in a word, spectacular. Loads of festive folks walk around a ping pong
Arts & Entertainment 7 Scenes From Last Night: RallyPad's Super Tuesday Tech Party SFist's new "7 Scenes From Last Night" feature took a brief hiatus just as it began due to a head cold that wouldn't budge. But we're back. Here's what we did last night:
SF News Woman Assaulted, Robbed By Man She Met At Nightclub Like a scene out of Sweet Charity, a 30-year-old woman was punched and robbed last night in the Mission after meeting what she thought was a nice man at a nightclub. SF Examiner
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Penthouse Club To Provide SF With Steak, Naked Breasts In 2012 Penthouse, noted purveyor of labial entertainment, will bring "four-star dining" to San Francisco in early 2012 via the city's very own Penthouse Club & Steakhouse. While the exact space is not yet know,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink S.F. Hookah Lounges Done, Banned Over the past year, the San Francisco Health Department has tirelessly worked to shutdown the scourge known as hookah lounges. For those not in the know, hookah lounges are a rite of passage
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Guest DJ Nights at Flour + Water On Monday, July 11, noted musicians will guest DJ at flour + water in the Mission. Let's see: Starting off on the decks next week will be Tim Carr. Screenings of his videos "Shake
Arts & Entertainment Red Vic to Close This Month After 31 Years After serving the stoned and extremely tripped out for three decades, Haight Street's Red Vic will officially close forever on July 25, the movie theater's 31st birthday. It was the kind of place
SF News Car Accident Outside DNA Lounge Injures Two Pedestrians We're hearing word that somebody drove a car into two pedestrians outside DNA Lounge after Trannyshack on Sunday night. One bystander at the scene told SFist that "[t]he driver just took off.
SF News Eagle Tavern Closed Although hope of saving it still clings to life -- just barely -- SoMa's Eagle Tavern closed over the weekend. "It marks the end of a month that saw a flurry of nostalgic
SF News 2 Dead, 5 Wounded After Oakland Nightclub Shootings Two people were killed and four wounded early Monday morning outside Sweet Jimmie's near Jack London Square. The deadly shootings, it seems, were sparked by the bouncer refusing to admit several patrons. "Several
SF News Eagle Tavern Update: Landlord Files Eviction Lawsuit Bay Area Reporter has some sad news: Eagle Tavern owner John Gardiner received an unlawful detainer lawsuit from property owner John Nikitopoulos today, 4/20. What does this mean for the troubled SoMa
Arts & Entertainment Red Meat: A Party For Gay Redheads And The Men Who Admire Them Starting on May 14, and the second Saturday of each month following, fetish venue Club Eight will host a club night dedicated to gingers and those who admire their fiery locks. It's called
Arts & Entertainment New Eagle Tavern Closing Date: End Of May, Possibly Later This Year At what we thought would be the Eagle Taven's final beer bust yesterday, we were surprised to hear that, instead of 4/29, the SoMa leather bar's new tentative closing date would be
SF News Entertainment Commission Postpones Security Requirements Meeting Last night's meeting to discuss new security proposals for San Francisco nightclubs -- which would include ID scanning and face recording of patrons, among other things -- was postponed. Mayor Lee wanted "further
SF News Entertainment Commission Rules Would Make SF A Police State, Claim Privacy Rights Groups Later today, the San Francisco Entertainment Commission will consider adopting new security rules at nightclubs and onetime events in San Francisco. Among reasonable security measures, like sufficient exterior lighting, a few rules have
SF News The Eagle, Famous Gay SoMa Bar, Set To Close, 4/29 The Eagle -- 30-year-old SoMa gay bar noted worldwide for its Thursday Night Live concerts and spirited Beer Bust Sundays -- will shut operations down on Friday, 4/29. Although, according to a
