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New Bar in the Former Home of The Uptown Delayed in Light of Owner’s ‘Serial Evictor’ Past

There’s some community outrage over how the building owner whose rent increase did in Capp Street bar The Uptown is now himself opening a bar there, in what looks like an owner move-in eviction of a nightclub.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Uptown Bar Owner Scott Ellsworth Dies

In another loss for the Mission's dive bar scene, Scott Ellsworth, owner of noted grungy 17th Street bar the Uptown, has passed away. Ellsworth died unexpectedly over the weekend after suffering

SF News

The Uptown, a Prostitute Hangout?

Well, this is exciting: The Uptown, a former watering hole of grit turned scenester sardine tin, might be a local hangout for the mobile sex worker community. That is to say, it'

Arts & Entertainment

Regifting -- East Bay Public Art Edition

Public art is often the butt of jokes and viewed with contempt, along with performance art and washed up aging rockers on the county fair circuit. Whatever your feelings are about the role

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The 'Fisties: Best Bar, or, Staggering Through FISTies

It’s about that time again (for the first time). Time to heap a whole year’s worth of praise on to several lucky and talented establishments that did us the kind service