SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland's Elbo Room Was Slated to Close Permanently, But Has Found New Buyers at the Last Minute Just seven days before it was set to host its final show, the Elbo Room Jack London has announced new buyers. The club will still have its final show Friday night, but is scheduled to reopen under the new owners in June.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Valencia Room Spiffs Up Former Elbo Room Spot, Officially Reopens Saturday Take a peek inside the new Valencia Room, with its restored dance floor and sweet new upstairs bathrooms.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Elbo Room Buys Another Year, Extends Lease Until 2019 The development boom has lowered the boom on the late, great Lexington Club, displaced the iconic Doc’s Clock, and taken the lives of many beloved longtime Valencia Corridor restaurants and bars because
SF News 7-Unit Elbo Room Development Challenged By Discretionary Review Request A redevelopment plan for the Elbo Room space at the corner of Valencia and Sycamore that would add three stories to the existing two-story building to create seven units of housing could be
SF News Day Around The Bay: An Expiration Date For The Elbo Room Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you — sign up here. A group of rape survivors filed a formal complaint
Arts & Entertainment <i>Stranger Things</i> Soundtrack Composers Playing Elbo Room Show October 7 Good news, Stranger Things fans. If you were as in love with the soundtrack as you were the show, the guys behind the music are putting out a two-volume album of tracks from
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dry Your Eyes: Elbo Room Renews Lease Through 2018 Reports of the death of the Elbo Room were greatly exaggerated! We ourselves spoke too soon — we just didn't want to drag it out, to get hurt more. But there's very good news
Arts & Entertainment Dub Mission Hosts 1000th Show Sunday, DJ Sep Waxes Nostalgic The long-running weekly dancehall reggae club Dub Mission has its 1000th show on Sunday night at the Elbo Room, with Subatomic Sound System and LUV FYAH joining DJ Sep and residents Vinnie Esparza
SF News Elbo Room Clings To Life With Month Reprieve, Open Through Year's End "Big fu**in News!" writes Elbo Room bar co-owner Matt Shapiro in a rosy Facebook post flagged by Capp Street Crapp."Elbo Room's lease is extended til the end of the year!!!! With
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Say Goodbye To The Elbo Room, For Real, Come November As SFist discussed well over a year ago, prompting fast denials from the bar's owners, the Elbo Room is indeed headed for closure to make way for a condo building. As Mission Local
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,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Elbo Room to Become Retirement Room? The Elbo Room is entering what could be its twilight year(s) with current owner Matt Shapiro's lease expiring in November 2015. Now, 647 Valencia Street property owners (and Elbo Room founders) Dennis
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Elbo Room Might Not Be Long For This World You need to take this with a grain of salt and not go screaming about it on Facebook like it's a done deal, but the people who own the property that the Elbo
misc SFsit Tonight The Pine Box Boys: Described as a group that creates "country ballads composed to accompany a slasher film," this local sensation dabbles on the Goth world ever so slightly in order to bring
misc SFist Tonight Festivus: Although we see no mention of the traditional "Airing of Grievances" or the post-dinner "Feats of Strength" battle, we can't imagine any proper Festivus celebration without them. Still, whether or not tonight's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Aimee Mann's Second Annual Christmas Show: Paul F. Tompkins, Sean Hayes, Chuck Prophet, and Morgan Murphy join the delightfully blond songstress for a night of holiday warm fuzzies. Because X-Mas is coming
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Welcome back, little piggies, from your night of binge eating and sipping. (That is, if you were fortunate enough to do so.) Why not get up, out, and about tonight to work off
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Roller Boogie (1979): '70s campfest about brightly colored roller skaters trying to keep their roller skating rink open should be fun, we think. For some reason older folks seem to have a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Arcade Fire: LCD Soundsystem and Wild Light open for this white-hot -- that's right, white-hot, or so we hear -- Canadian indie-rock band. Music starts tonight at 7 p.m. at
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Patterson Hood: Co-founder of the très hip Athens, Georgia rock/alt-country/cowpunk band Drive-By Truckers performs solo tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Swedish American Hall, 2170 Market (as Sanchez); $15.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- "Zombie Prom": Halloween approaches, and soon Walgreen's and Rite-Aids will start stocking fun-size 100 Grand and Lik-M-Sticks. But until that glorious day arrives, check out this Zombie-themed dance club night in SOMA.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Way Light Strikes Filled Mason Jars: This winner of the SF Fringe Festival has famous writers visiting a playwright on the precipice of completing his final work. Film starts at 7
Arts & Entertainment Pirate Cat Radio Benefit Corporate radio still sucks! Strike a blow for independent community airwaves and stop by Pirate Cat Radio 87.9 FM's benefit concert this Friday at the Elbo Room. The beloved low-power radio station/
misc SFist Rants: La Cumbre Taqueria La Cumbre, on Valencia at 16th, is the kind of place people tell visitors to San Francisco to go to get some "real Mission Mexican." Heck, it's the sort of place we can
Arts & Entertainment Queen of Soul? DJ Motion Potion did a nice job warming up the crowd with a 'Soul Sisters' set that ranged from the Jefferson’s theme song to more standard soul fair like Aretha and Diana.
