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Stephen Torres - Threadbare-Fact Finder
A View of What the Mission was like in 1980
Thursday, March 11th Written by Stephen Torres - Threadbare-Fact FinderWhen you’ve grown up somewhere, there eventually comes the time when you’re walking down the street and realize: that you have walked up and down that street so many times, hung out on it with your friends, passed through it on the way to a party – and it’s not at all the same street ... Read More →
$2 Bulleit Bourbon Shots Thursdays at Bourbon Boys
Monday, March 8th Written by Stephen Torres - Threadbare-Fact FinderCheap drink specials are great, but the rub is that the liquor featured usually isn’t. Which is why the latest Thursday night binger’s jackpot is Truck’s Bourbon Boys. From ten ’til two, less than clothed guys are pouring $2 shots of Bulleit Bourbon in an overheated bar decorated like a garage. The only thing ... Read More →
White Elephant Sale Saturday and Sunday in Fruitvale
Thursday, March 4th Written by Stephen Torres - Threadbare-Fact FinderWhite elephant sales- the ultimate combination of trash and treasure! Overflowing in possibility for the cash-strapped, collectors and pack rats and a nightmarish trip to the brink of a nervous breakdown for the fastidious and organizationally obsessed- they are as part of the American landscape as tractor pulls and taco trucks.
As a child, I loved ... Read More →
Free Treats and Discounts at Meet a Microhood: The Mission Mid-Twenties Tonight
Thursday, March 4th Written by Stephen Torres - Threadbare-Fact FinderNeighbourhood designation is a debate that never tires in this town. I suppose that’s true of most places, but before you know it you’ll be at a party where two people are squaring off over what amounts to a one block radius. Old Todo guides are cited and people are breaking out Muni maps. Old ... Read More →
Audio Heirlooms 5th Annual “Listening Party” on Sunday
Thursday, February 25th Written by Stephen Torres - Threadbare-Fact FinderOften, when someone has died or the realization dawns that the kids are no longer kids, people will lament that they had never pulled out a tape recorder to document all those little things and stories that happened back when.
For five years, Evan Roberts of Audio Heirlooms has been doing just that. Recording everything from ... Read More →
Vienetta Discotheque – Cheap Booze and No Cover Every Monday
Monday, February 22nd Written by Stephen Torres - Threadbare-Fact FinderFor the discerning palate..
There was never enough of you to go around was there? So continental, so refined, why couldn’t you come in a larger size? How many dinner parties were transformed into sticky melees because of you?
Well unlike its namesake, Vienetta, the latest disco at the UndergroundSF, goes off every Monday with plenty of ... Read More →
‘Swinging Chinatown’ Exhibit @ Old Mint Fri-Sun
Thursday, February 18th Written by Stephen Torres - Threadbare-Fact FinderSoft, twinkling lights, snappy dance numbers, beautiful girls, and suppers of eastern delicacies called things like Chop Suey- What a night you could have in that enchanting Chinatown! The possibilities as endless as the stars in the heavens!
By the thirties, San Franciscan xenophobia had ebbed to a level where a night in Chinatown was considered ... Read More →
M & L Market – Cheap & Delicious
Monday, February 15th Written by Stephen Torres - Threadbare-Fact FinderLong before the word sandwich became synonymous with Ike’s, there was another place that was famous for the everyman’s fare in the neighbourhood bordering upper Market Street. That place is the M & L Market.
It would be a lie as well as being incredibly pointless to say that what is produced at Ike’s is anything ... Read More →
Save the Boathouse Valentine’s Dance This Saturday
Thursday, February 11th Written by Stephen Torres - Threadbare-Fact FinderIs S.F. Rec and Park a long arm of gentrification? With rumblings of what the newly beautified Dolores Park may entail, it remains to be seen.
Apparently, however, the pearl of the Mission, is not the only contentious jewel in the city’s parkland crown as that locals feel an impending revamp and potential shift of management ... Read More →
Speak-up Please: Queer Community Meeting on Living, Working and Gentrification in SF
Thursday, February 4th Written by Stephen Torres - Threadbare-Fact FinderQueer? Angry? Something on your mind? Well you’re in the right town, right? Hmm, good question. Activism seems a little play nice these days. Rally! Just don’t irritate people.
Um, maybe, but we still have tons of places to get wasted and trashy….
Well, that depends. You, say, can’t hang out on the patio half the time ... Read More →
