The About section on the F8 Nightclub and Bar website says it all:  “Our main goal is music and everything else is supplementary…” That way of thinking has made the SoMa nightclub a beloved go-to spot at 1192 Folsom Street, but it has unfortunately backfired in terms of sustainability. The

When you’re young, broke and beautiful and living in (or adjacent to) Manhattan there are a lot of great dive bars just a subway stop away. From a tatted up staff to a punk rock mosh pit by the kitchen these are the bars that wear their history on their

The Huge Release Party for the Literary Magazine In case you haven’t heard, we just put out an incredible literary magazine called The Dreams I Dreamt: Letters to San Francisco thanks to a grant from the Civic Joy Fund. It’s a gift to San Francisco, where 19 of The City’s

Everyone should work in a restaurant at least once. Ask any server, bartender, barista, cook, dishwasher, buser, greeter, and they’ll agree. It’s a conversation I often have with other people in the restaurant industry. This conversation is half bitching about customers (sorry not sorry) and half enumerating all the ways that working in a restaurant makes you a better person.

Bad news buckaroos. I just got word from my boy QM that the very excellent Buckshot Bar & Gameroom is closing. It was announced on their Facebook page around noon today (Friday 1/15). I fucking love that place. I spent many nights there years ago when an exgf played in

Let’s go back 1,000+ years and explore history through some of the finest drinking establishments known to man. Do you like history, witchcraft, and booze? Well, this is the article for you.

Free Shit First-Ever Coney Island Ball Drop Avoid the Times Square chaos and watch the Parachute Jump which will give it’s own unique interpretation with 8,000 LED lights and fireworks at midnight. ‘Drop’ in at 9pm Free Steeplechase Pavillion, West 16th st. & The Boardwalk Purple Rain NYE Dance Party

Now, usually I don’t this, but uh, I’m gonna head on and break ’em off with a little taste of what my Friday night is going to be like. I won’t be up at the club with some other bitches, sittin’ in VIP, smokin’ and drinkin’ and kickin’ it. Will

It was a late Friday on the eve of the Folsom Street Fair, and I was sitting at the Hole In the Wall sandwiched between the well and two guys aggressively licking each other’s armpits.  My roommate had flaked on me per usual, so I decided to throw in the