Castro

05 Jun 2011

Thirsty Haiku at Dawn

It’s been a super long night. Don’t you wish you wrote haikus about what you did last night…or maybe this morning….? Here are some late night haiku clues as to where to party to the break of dawn. Find them below: 1) Tomato Vodka Breakfast of champions, yo Celery Castro

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02 May 2011

Tonight! Shh, It’s the Secret Secretaries

Within the past year, locals The Secret Secretaries have gone from “What’s so secret about ’em?” to “punk-styled ‘lit rock’… musically virtuosic… pure poetry” (Charles Kruger). Remain at Cafe du Nord after the group’s set tonight for the Quiet Lightning Reading Series, and you’ll have yourself a seriously cerebral night

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10 Jul 2024

This New Literary Magazine is a Gift to the People of San Francisco

I’ve got some awesome news! We received a grant from the Civic Joy Fund to put out a literary magazine celebrating SF and acting to counter the stupid “Doom Loop” narrative. It’s a gift to the people of San Francisco. And after months of working on this project it’s now available

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24 Apr 2011

Free Comedy Show at Harvey’s

Do you ever feel like you could use a good laugh?  What if I said you could have just that at Harvey’s Restaurant and Bar for FREE? Harvey’s Funny Tuesdays is a weekly event hosted by Ronn Vigh.  He and a special guest take the stage for roughly one hour

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13 Apr 2011

Protest the Eagle Tavern’s Closing – Drink at Surprise Leather Bar Tonight at Skylark

Just in case you haven’t been following the saga that is the impending closure of SoMa mainstay, the Eagle Tavern, the Guardian’s Emily Appelbaum gives a pretty good run-down up until this point here. In addition, if you want to join in the rabble that have amassed to protest these proceedings, put

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04 Apr 2011

Broke-Ass Bar Guide – 440 Castro

With over 2,000 gin bins on the Barbary Coast, we here at BAS thought it might be time to catalogue them and keep you informed on what they have to satiate your thirsty, thirsty ways. So, here is the Broke-Ass Bar Guide – San Francisco. You get to know a little bit about what

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03 Oct 2010

More Cheap All-You-Can-Eat Pizza at The Lookout on Tuesday Nights

I’ll start out with a hypothetical:  It’s a Tuesday afternoon, you’ve been working like a dog all day (or, like me, woke up at 3pm because you work from home and set your own hours) and you’re STARVING.  So starving you stoop to using a cliche over Gchat and tell

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19 Jul 2010

Coating Your Stomach at Rossi’s Deli

Cheap liquor usually isn’t a problem on Castro, but cheap food can be little harder to track down- with the exception of pizza by the slice, which only sounds great when your stomach resembles a wineskin. Before you embark on your next flash flood, stop by at Rossi’s Delicatessen for

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15 Apr 2010

50¢ Drinks While They Last at the LookOut on Tax Day

Tax day looms on the horizon for a lot of people, but for people in the service industry, its passing is always highly anticipated.  Like giving things up for Lent and making new year resolutions, the months following Christmas and leading up to tax day inspire the average consumer to

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