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We’re Throwing One Last Happy Hour at the Uptown!

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On Tuesday, December 12th at 6pm, Bitch Talk Podcast, Broke-Ass Stuart, and Storied: SF present: One Last Happy Hour at the Uptown!

Why do we drink?

We drink to celebrate. “It’s awesome!” We drink to commiserate. “It sucks!” We drink to drown our sorrows. “It’s the worst!” We drink … just because. “Hey, how ya doin?”

This happy hour contains multitudes, because goddammit, San Francisco is losing another mainstay. Uptown bar is closing at the end of this year and we fucking hate that. Uptown is many things to many people, and it has been for a long time. It’s a neighborhood bar. It’s the beginning, middle, or end of a Mission bar crawl. It’s got couches, a rad “old” CD  jukebox, a pool table, a corner location a block off a pretty major SF intersection.

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But the Uptown exists in 2023 like the rest of us. We can’t have nice things, and reality is still (mostly) reality.

This feels like the downswing from the unexpected high of when we learned that, after its owner’s passing in 2014, Uptown workers pooled their resources and bought the damn place. That sure did feel like the old spirit of San Francisco, right?

All good things come to an end, I guess. Come on out, have a drink or four, and let’s send the Uptown out on the highest of notes!

One Last Happy Hour at the Uptown!
Tuesday, December 12th
6pm – ?
The Uptown
200 Capp St. @ 17th St.
[The Mission]

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Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap

Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap

Stuart Schuffman, aka Broke-Ass Stuart, is a travel writer, poet, TV host, activist, and general shit-stirrer. His website BrokeAssStuart.com is one of the most influential arts & culture sites in the San Francisco Bay Area and his freelance writing has been featured in Lonely Planet, Conde Nast Traveler, The Bold Italic, Geek.com and too many other outlets to remember. His weekly column, Broke-Ass City, appears every other Thursday in the San Francisco Examiner. Stuart’s writing has been translated into four languages. In 2011 Stuart created and hosted the travel show Young, Broke, and Beautiful on IFC and in 2015 he ran for Mayor of San Francisco and got nearly 20k votes.

He's been called "an Underground legend": SF Chronicle, "an SF cult hero":SF Bay Guardian, and "the chief of cheap": Time Out New York.