Usually when I tell people that they should check out a friend of mine’s music, I neglect to mention knowing the artist.  If you say, “yeah dude you should peep my friend’s band” most people will be automatically be less interested because they think you’re biased.  So I always say,

I don’t hang out in the Union Square area often.  It’s too loud and schizo for me between the tourists, the crackheads and the street performers gyrating to Michael Jackson songs and beating the shit out of trash cans.  But one bar I will brave the thousands of Street Sheet

I discovered Sugar Lounge after they turned me down for a bartending job, which was my first indication that these people know what’s up because I was grossly under-qualified for that position. This place is probably the best happy hour spot I’ve found in the city. They have $3 beers

Geoff King got at me the other day to hip me to a great deal he came across.  Apparently the fairly fancy Franklin Square Wine Bar in Oakland  has an amazing happy hour where they give out delicious FREE appetizers.  When I asked what kind of food it was, he

When you live in a continuous fog bank, the hours spent self-medicating might be a tad more than that of those who live in sunnier climes of the city.  That said, it would seem the Big Heart Video Café is finally living up to the first half of their name

As a general rule, I feel odd writing about events going on at my place of employment.  One because its redundant and two..well, best leave that one alone. Most people that have lived in the city for more than five years or live in the Outer Mission/ Bernal/ Excelsior hoods

Among the Castro bars, the Midnight Sun earns marks for consistency.  Atmospherically, it can best be described as a giant television.  There is never any natural daylight inside, as that there aren’t any windows, and it boasts no less than five television sets with either a constant rotation of gay