Dear California: I love you, I really do, but you have a really lame Christmas vibe. Sure, the big tree in Union Square is pretty cute, and the... More >>

Well now, here's an interesting tidbit: "Nazi doctors tied to thalidomide." Social Kitchen and Brewery won't be pleased that this is what was on... More >>

I have to say that I am not an expert on S.F. strip clubs. I spend enough time in North Beach to see the dancers arriving for work, though, and... More >>

Sometimes before I go to bed I like to play a clip of Andrea Bocelli singing Elmo a lullaby. Elmo doesn't want to go to sleep, because he is... More >>

It's been a long time since I have been to a Mission bar, so I decided to go to none other than Mission Bar, natch. It just says "BAR" outside,... More >>

The bar at Hillstone is a big round horseshoe of upper-middle-class sippers and amber mood lighting. The man next to me was very drunk. The... More >>

Pacific Catch, I'm sorry I ever doubted ye. I would see you from afar whenever I emerged from Golden Gate Park, a Frisbee in my mouth and throat... More >>

As Don Ho once famously quipped, I never met a Tiki bar I didn't like. Grungy holes-in-the-wall are of particular interest, because all the... More >>

When I was little, we took a lot of road trips, and every time we went to a new city I would always ask my parents the same question: Where are... More >>

Specs' leaves me with a bad feeling. Not for what it is, but because of my behavior there a few years ago. I was drinking a beer, and the... More >>