Booze

How to Crash All the Best Dreamforce 2019 Parties For Free
Open bar and appetizers paid for by Corporate America await you as Dreamforce 2019 swallows up SoMa and downtown all this week (Nov. 19 – Nov. 22). The world’s largest software conference is also the world’s largest party-crashing opportunity, with oodles of cash-negative startups throwing insanely opulent parties all over

Where to Find the Best Sake in the Bay Area
Wine and beer aren’t the only beverages you should be sipping in San Francisco. Japanese brewers have made sake for more than 1,500 years. Only recently have Americans brought the craft of making this fermented rice alcohol to the U.S. Some may refer to sake as rice wine, but the

Late Night at “No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man” is Dope!
This article was made possible by the fine folks at the Oakland Museum of California. Wanna support an article? Holler at Alex@BrokeAssStuart.com Did you know that the Oakland Museum of California has a really bad-ass exhibit right now called No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man? Well they do! And what

Hubba Hubba Revue’s “Video Games!” is Almost Here!
GRAB YOUR JOYSTICK & get ready to level-up, ‘cuz San Francisco’s *world-famous* BURLESQUE & variety show is bringing you a heart-stopping showcase of high-scoring TEASE! FRIDAY, November 8th — Hubba Hubba Revue’s VIDEO GAMES! TICKETS! https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2019/11-08.html COME SEE… Banbury Cross (Berlin) Anngela Burt (Portland) Jon Dutch (Portland) Marina Mars (Las

How to Behave in a Bar Like a Grown-Ass Person
This originally appeared in my Broke-Ass City column in the SF Examiner. For many, bars are sacred spaces. People go to them to make memories, and to forget. They visit them to unwind, and get revved up. They hang out in them to catch up with old friends, and

The Good Halloween Parties Happening in SF
Halloween is a holiday tailor-made for San Franciscans. It’s a celebration that gives adults a perfectly good excuse to wear costumes and go to several nights of parties, with the added bonus of making the conservatives nervous. Just because SF has the lowest percentage of kids of any major U.S.

How Booze Helped Britain Conquer a Quarter of the World
by Xan Holbrook As a people, we Britons are stereotyped according to our drinking habits. This usually falls into the twee joshing about tea, as Americans love to remind us with teeth-grinding regularity. However, it is no exaggeration to say that the British love of alcohol is fabric-of-the-nation stuff. But,