SF News New Law Will Require California Bars to Provide ‘Roofie Testing Kits' Later This Year Starting July 1, California drinking establishments will be required to stock testing kits that tell if your drink has been spiked with common date rape drugs like ketamine or GHB, though bars won’t have to provide the testing strips for free.
Arts & Entertainment Valencia Street Music Club Amado’s Reeling From Basement Flood, Needs Community Support The Mission District live music venue Amado’s took a $500,000 hit with a flooding incident this summer that turned its downstairs area “into a swimming pool,” and the club is looking to its fans and regulars to help them bail out from the extensive damage.
SF News Breed Getting Guff For Not Being Able to Name a Good Nightclub — While Speaking To Nightclub Owners Some remarks at Monday’s 2023 Nightlife and Entertainment Summit have Mayor Breed getting some blowback from nightclub owners, when said she couldn’t think of a good nightclub in San Francisco.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Upcoming Openings of The Dawn Club and Madarae Show Faith In Downtown Nightlife Returning This Summer/Fall In case you hadn't heard, two new nightclubs are headed for downtown San Francisco, with the owners banking on the fact that the wholesale-abandonment-of-SF story has been overblown.
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 Giving $2.5 Million in Tax Waivers to Nightlife and Entertainment Venues Some 300 San Francisco music venues, bars, and nightclubs will get their local taxes and fees waived in hopes of helping them survive the pandemic.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mid-Market Nightclub Mr. Smith's Quietly Closes As Neighborhood Struggles With Rampant Drug Use Mr. Smith's, the small, two-level nightclub that debuted on Seventh Street just off Market back in the days when the new Federal Building was under construction, has called it quits after 15 years in the neighborhood where it was once one of the first signals of gentrification to come.
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
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 DJ booth at
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 at 6th and
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,
SF News San Jose Driver Plows Into Crowd Outside Of Nightclub, Crowd Fights Back 23-year-old Christopher Atkins was arrested last weekend after he pulled up in front of a San Jose nightclub, threw his car into reverse and plowed into a crowd of bystanders milling about after
Arts & Entertainment Best Dance Clubs In San Francisco Why isn't there a dance club strictly devoted to tap dancing? We'd hit that place every night until our toes fell off into a pool of blood. We'd own that scene. But until
Arts & Entertainment Fancy Gay Male Strip Club Officially Coming To Castro [UPDATE] In what could turn the neighborhood into bachelorette-party hell, the city's first burlesque gay club is officially coming, so to speak, to the Castro. It promises to be "socially responsible," promote "community organization,
Arts & Entertainment Hometown Hero DJ Shadow Booted From Miami Nightclub for Not Being Commercial Enough Beloved local musician DJ Shadow, famous especially for his instrumental electronica and dreamy hip-hop pieces from the '90s, got kicked out of the DJ booth at a trendy Miami Beach nightclub because, as
Arts & Entertainment Top 5 Remaining Gay Spaces In SoMa Over the weekend, a smattering of gays held a protest in front of Foreign Cinema to rally against the loss of LGBT spaces (read: bars, clubs) in San Francisco — specifically in South of
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 News San Francisco Nightclub Patrons Just Want To Steal Your Stuff Last week, the Examiner ran slightly sensational story (with an exceptional lede, we might add) about the rise in thefts at local nightclubs. According to inspectors with the Entertainment Commission, the latest problem
Arts & Entertainment New Legislation Enforces Nightclub-Adjacent Parking Lot Security The latest development in the city's attempts to quell violence around the city's nightlife venues: Parking lot security. Standing in front of Club NV in SoMa yesterday afternoon, Supervisor Wiener and City Attorney
SF News SFPD Wants Club Bouncers To Tweet Suspicious Behavior In a move to address the ongoing issue of violence in clubs around the city, SFPD Chief Greg Suhr held a forum with members of private security companies at the Hall of Justice
SF News Richmond Kid Tried in Suede Nightclub Shooting Most of you should recall the shooting outside Suede nightclub near Fisherman's Wharf back in Feb. 2010 that left three wounded and one man dead. The incident prompted a judge to order the
SF News Temple Nightclub Increases Security, Decreases Bottled Beer Sales After a UCSF student died from severe brain injuries that occurred during one of two brawls in and around Temple nightclub on Howard street last weekend, the popular (and generally peaceful, we might
SF News Man Dies After Fight Inside Downtown Nightclub Joe Olivares Hernandez, 30, died yesterday after suffering a severe brain injury during one of two fights inside Temple Nightclub on Howard Street. "Hernandez was knocked unconscious, and a 26-year-old man was injured
SF News Sleepy Coastal Golf Town Sees First Shooting in 8 Months Late Saturday night three employees of the Mucky Duck "Nightclub" (the AP's term) in Monterey were injured by shots fired after an unruly customer pulled a gun in a 3-on-3 altercation between patrons
