San Francisco and what to do in it

don't knock em

Los Gatos is pretty posh iirc

Do you hear me knockin'?

If you're close to Market St. in SOMA or Union Square, BART will get you to 16th St. or 24th St. fairly quickly depending on the scheduled trains.

I know 4lly stayed here once - http://www.hotelmilanosf.com/

Transit-wise, it's pretty central. It's been ages but I used to know their chief engineer and I long ago worked on a photo shhot that used their business center as an office for a week.

Union Sq is probably your best bet, anywhere near Powell Station is properly central. When are you here?

is a FAP in order? been a long time

thanks, all. I'll be there mid-april, exact dates tbc but roughly 4/7-13. kinder, I didn't realize you were an sf ilxor!

I am! For the time being, anyhow. I was wondering if you guys ever fapped, I think there was one a couple of years ago? but I hadn't been here long also I was scared....

I just moved to the bay area. Staying in temporary digs in temescal until they're done with the carpet at our awesome new place near where the mission/dubocetriagnle/Castro meet (right by sushi zone).

I'm always looking for more cool shit to do in the area. Already have plans to check out pancakes and noise on Sundays at the lab and maybe make it a semi regular thing. I saw 222 hyde's radioactivity night listed on the east bay express and tried to go on Friday but the bartender said she'd never heard of such a thing. Come to this thread to see that a couple ilxors djed that night once upon a time. Anything like this still go on? Anybody got any cool shows/gigs coming up?

Anybody got tips for a good mission bar crawl that starts closer to the outer mission and ends by market?

500 Club!

I <3 SF bars

El Rio near Mission & Valencia (south of Cesar Chavez) is a good place to start, great outdoor area. Then there's Phone Booth on 25th/South Van Ness which I like for some reason even though it's small. You can pretty much smoke in there if that's your thing. Medjool on Mission/21st isn't amazing but the roof terrace is cool. Homestead on 19th/Folsom is good too, and I've ended up in Beauty Bar on 19th/Mission a few times (gets crowded and a bit shitty later on though ime).

And Make-out room is fun!

Does it live up to its name, I bet not

I prefer the Throw-up Room on Guerrero

Pop's on 24th is enjoyably dive-y, a few blocks from my friends' rad record store.

do they still have the saturday night "northern soul" thing at the elbo room? that was always big fun.

and also on the route

hate to admit but i always enjoyed the backyard at zeitgeist, even though it's like the portlandia funhouse-mirror version of SF

the radioactivity night's replacement is haceteria btw
my fave bar was the phone booth at 25th and south van ness, but that was partially due to proximity & comfort

also like the attic on 24th quite a bit

Shout-out for The Attic on 24th, btw

is the phone booth not a lez bar? that's what i always thought.

Ha ha!

I miss SF bars. NYC bars are more like carefully engineered and over decorated "fun zones" and in brooklyn they're all like ex-auto shops filled with wacky furniture and pinball machines etc.
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phone booth not lez bar! but speaking of, wild wild west is a great lez bar! I mean, all are welcome there of course (in bernal heights)

I can't vouch for lez effectiveness tho

Verdugo Bar in my current hood (NE LA) reminds me of a Mission bar

am i thinking of another tiny corner bar in the mission?

I like Verdugo Bar too! I also miss LA bars.
:( :( :( :/

Actually, just went to sweater funk at elbo last Saturday night, late great!
And thanks for the tip on haceteria, will definitely be hitting that up.

admrl, did you ever go to Ye Coach and Horses in LA?

Pop's on 24th is enjoyably dive-y, a few blocks from my friends' rad record store.

wait - is this that record explorist shop or whatever it's called? some good stuff in there

cool, some friends of mine are involved in sweater funk and it's a pretty good night! never been to haceteria, but I can't imagine it being anything but cool.

yes, michael. I saw England vs. Poland there

the soul thing i am thinking of is like mod 60s soul, never been to sweater funk, hope you enjoyed it though

re: corner lez bars in the mission i realize now i was thinking of lexington club

is the soul thing night beat?

I like the Lex

no, i think it's just called "saturday soul", and it looks like its happening this saturday night

http://player.vimeo.com/video/20307099?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0

when i went it was nowhere near as corny as it looks in the video (only the DJs were dressed up) but the soundtrack for the video should give you an idea of the music

also iirc one of the DJs is markedly better than the other two

when i used to go (5+ years ago, it's a very long-running event) it was $5 apiece, looks like now it's $10 apiece but $5 if you show up in mod / swing / steampunk attire

all those corner places in the mission look exactly the same!

I still like the Arrow Bar haha

assuming it's still there and still "The Arrow Bar" and not some wine bar or something

xp shakey - yeah Explororist Int'l and I think we recently met irl at a party last weekend iirc?

wait waht

your daughter was climbing a tree, and we were talking about the weird Asian lady who managed the Portlite Club in Oakland

hahaha hoooooly shit I totally did not put 2 and 2 together!

nice to meet you!

i thought you were trying to be incognito!

nah I'm just stupid

I'm coming next week! Don't know how much time I'll have for bars, but pls places to eat dinner that are not ridiculously $$$?