San Francisco

I Heart Tacos: A Taco Tour
Tacos are the greatest. They’re like a flavor punch in your face and cover all five of the basic food groups (do the math…yeah I’m right) which does a body good. It’s pretty hard to mess up a taco, so most you encounter will be at least alright, but for

Two Commonly Used Words That Originated in SF
I’m a self admitted history nerd: I wake up every morning and watch an hour of the History Channel. I generally like any movie that’s a period piece. I really wanna be one of the actors that gets to dress up for historical reenactments for TV and movies. Like I

The 2025 SF Beer Passport is Here!
Step into a world of adventure with the San Francisco Beer Passport. There’s no better way to explore San Francisco than to literally drink it in. This passport is amazing! Each one contains 28 coupons to buy one beer, get a second beer FREE at 28 of the finest locally

Bow Bow Cocktail Lounge
The Goddess herself! photo from Anne B. on Yelp I’m going to say this in the most plain and honest way I can: I’m pretty sure Candy, the bartender at Bow Bow, is Dionysus disguised as a human being. It’s the only logical way to explain the way she handles

‘Swinging Chinatown’ Exhibit @ Old Mint Fri-Sun
Soft, twinkling lights, snappy dance numbers, beautiful girls, and suppers of eastern delicacies called things like Chop Suey– What a night you could have in that enchanting Chinatown! The possibilities as endless as the stars in the heavens! By the thirties, San Franciscan xenophobia had ebbed to a level where

Check out King Tut for FREE at the de Young This Weekend
We’ve mentioned a lot of ways you can get FREE museum admission on this site, but that’s because a) learning is great and b) unlike your favorite falafel place, they’re always changing what they have to offer. (It’s OK about the falafel though, don’t go changin’!) So if you’ve taken

Folky Events for Folky Folks All Week
I know that part of my job here is to make fun of everything and crack lewd jokes, but at times, though rarely, I find myself at a loss for things to hate. Either that, or I’m late for like 3 deadlines and don’t have time to make you fools

Cheap and Hidden Hot Springs in Magnificent Mendocino
This past weekend my lady and I went to a wedding up in the Mendocino hills. The wedding was just as lovely as the surrounding scenery and the best part was that it was as far from a traditional ceremony as you could imagine. The wedding started with all the attendees standing

FREE Grilled Cheese Sandwiches and Literary Stuff Served Up by Dave Eggers
Tonight the legendary City Lights bookstore on Columbus will be hosting a reading from Stoners and Self-Appointed Saints, and Fever Chart – the latter of which was published by McSweeney’s – that impossibly twee publisher/website/lit rag founded by love-him-or-hate-him memoirist/novelist/newspaper man Dave Eggers. To go along with the readings, their