Category: Bars
Old Amnesia? Forget about it
December 15, 2015
Amnesia has undergone a not-so-subtle facelift. Closed for two-and-a-half weeks for renovations, the Valencia Street bar reopened late last week and spent Saturday and Sunday celebrating with two days of free music. A visit there Monday night found the bar feeling bigger and looking sleeker and brighter. The interior was also sparser, with its ceilings opened up to reveal wood beams. […]
BREAKING: The Elbo Room is sticking around for two more years
December 8, 2015
Was just alerted to this Facebook post by Elbo Room owner Matt Shapiro. Will update this post as more information becomes available.
Good news music lovers, Elbo Room will stick around — for a few more months at least
August 18, 2015
Slated to be replaced with condos, the Elbo Room was supposed to be closing around the beginning of November. Now it looks like the Mission bar and club has been granted a bit more time. In a Facebook post today, owner Matt Shapiro wrote that the venue will stay put at least until the end […]
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 […]
Amnesia bar has been sold
June 10, 2015
UPDATE 6/12/15: Caught up with Shawn Magee of Amnesia and learned a bit more about his decision to sell the Mission bar. He said his reasoning was simple: he’d been doing the same thing for 15 years and wanted to do something different. “And although I love everything about Amnesia, it will always be the […]
Mission bar Truck is closing
June 3, 2015
UPDATE: According to public records, Truck’s liquor license is being transferred to a business called The Wooden Nickel. ORIGINAL POST: More sad news for the Mission. After 8 years at the corner of 15th and Folsom streets, gay bar Truck will soon close. One of the owners Matt announced the news this afternoon on his […]
Told to cease and desist, restaurant calls itself Cease & Desist
June 2, 2015
San Francisco’s membership in the Buffalo Club has been denied. Making the most of a legal threat, the Mission’s Buffalo Club is changing its name to Cease & Desist, starting today, after receiving the warning letter from a namesake bar. The newly christened Cease & Desist, at 2331 Mission St., is having an opening party […]
Successor to The Attic reveals underwhelming name
May 14, 2015
Maybe they’re saving the character for the inside of the bar?
So long Lexington Club
May 4, 2015
It’s hard to believe the Lexington Club is gone. Here are a few photos taken the night of and the weekend after the bar’s closing. [Second photo submitted by Adrienne]
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 […]