Booze

06 Feb 2020

Wine Fraud: How to Avoid Buying Fake Wine

Wine—a drink, a luxury, a collectible, a love for some… one often has many emotions attached with these beauties. Fine wines from globally-renowned regions like Bordeaux and Burgundy enjoy strong investment values by collectors from around the world. Be it for sharing the luxurious bottles with friends and family, or

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06 Feb 2020

What it’s like to come in last place in a Drag Beauty Pageant

By Eddie Jen My roommate and I share a secret hand signal for embarrassing public moments. Like when the couple you’re having dinner with starts fighting. There’s no other way to express your discomfort at that moment — when you can’t talk, you can’t leave — you just have to

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30 Jan 2020

SF Beer Week, The Greatest Week of the Year

Beer drinkers from every corner of the Bay will be stroking their beards and sipping the finest ales, sours, stouts, porters, pilsners, and pub ales the world has ever seen…why?  Because it’s SF Beer Week, and there will be hundreds of new beers to try and all sorts of fun events

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30 Jan 2020

Zazie Sold to Its Employees, What a Great Restaurant Story

In a year full of restaurant closures in San Francisco, it’s nice to hear about a beloved Cole Valley bistro making its employees, owners. Zazie, Cole Valley’s fine french foodery has been on the right side of history in the restaurant business years, especially when it comes to taking care

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28 Jan 2020

‘Edna In A Bottle’ Returns, Catches Sketch Comedy Lightning in a Bottle

“Probably the most intelligent comedy involving a giant talking vulva” is a sentence I never thought I’d write, but nonetheless the latest installment of “Edna in a Bottle: Tastes Funny” has elicited this response. Produced by Potatoes Mashed Comedy, this monthly sketch comedy show combines the quirkiness and absurdity of

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24 Jan 2020

Columbus Cafe Being Sold to its Employees

OFF MENU IS SPONSORED BY EMPEROR NORTON’S BOOZELAND THE TENDERLOIN’S NEWEST HISTORIC DIVE.  HAPPY HOUR NOON – 7PM Finally some good news in the world of local San Francisco businesses! Legendary North Beach dive bar Columbus Cafe is being sold to three of its long time employees. While they’ve been going through the

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17 Jan 2020

Amnesia on Valencia is Closing

Sometimes it feels like the San Francisco local media business is a just a race to break the story of which place is closing now. That’s the sad state of media and the sad state of San Francisco in 2020. It’s like bummer porn. Amnesia was one of the very

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