Tag: bars
Doc’s Clock, El Rio fundraisers to benefit Mission Street fire victims
June 22, 2016
Want to help victims of Saturday’s massive Mission Street fire? Two local bars are hosting upcoming fundraising events. El Rio and Doc’s Clock are hosting benefits – one this week, the other the next – with proceeds going to the 57 people displaced by the 5-alarm fire at 29th and Mission streets. Authorities have not […]
In an ode to the Lexington Club, “Uptown Homos” debuts tonight
August 12, 2015
Missing their old haunt, two devotees of the shuttered Lexington Club are putting on the first of what they hope will be a monthly queer night at the Uptown bar. Uptown Homos, “a dyke, lesbian, unicorn, trans queer night of flirtation,” takes place tonight, from 6 to 11 p.m. Kelly Robbie Hansen and partner Tanya […]
Successor to The Attic reveals underwhelming name
May 14, 2015
Maybe they’re saving the character for the inside of the bar?
Elbo Room set to close this fall
April 23, 2015
As much as San Francisco music fans were hoping for an intervention, sadly it looks like the Elbo Room will shut its doors by the beginning of November to make way for a condo project. According to SFGate, which cites a letter on the Mission venue’s Facebook page, the building’s owners decided not renew the club’s […]
I’ll drink to this: Uptown’s employees are buying the bar
November 3, 2014
Some good things are meant to last, even in the Mission in 2014. After months of uncertainty following the death of owner Scott Ellsworth, Uptown’s bartenders are about to finalize a deal to buy the beloved Mission dive bar. Uptown bartender Shae Green said she, the five other bar employees and one of Ellsworth’s good […]