Arts & Entertainment The Foundry In SF’s SoMa Changes Leadership, Aims to Host More EDM, Community Events A group of music industry professionals has taken over leadership of the Foundry in SF’s SoMa district, which recently announced a roster of EDM shows this fall, and they plan to organize more community-based events.
Arts & Entertainment Mission District Bank to Become Experimental Music Venue From Owner of Nearby Wine Bar A former Chase bank branch is set to become a new music and entertainment venue called Hidden Frequency, and it's a project that combines aspects of listening lounges, experimental music venues, and small performance spaces.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Club DeLuxe Reopens Thursday as The DeLuxe, With Live Music Every Night The Upper Haight's Club DeLuxe will be reborn Thursday night under the name The DeLuxe, and under the new ownership of Mr. Tipple’s Jazz Club owner Jay Bordeleau and former Club Deluxe bartender and musician Christian Beaulieu.
Arts & Entertainment Like Bottom of the Hill, Thee Parkside Is Also Now Going to Close "Well, looks like we’re gonna turn into a buncha condos," say the owners of Potrero Hill music venue Thee Parkside in an Instagram post featuring a video of graffiti being written saying "This Will Be Condos You Can't Afford."
SF News The Armory Building In the Mission Set to Return as Concert Venue With Additional Smaller Jazz Club Inside The former Kink.com Armory, which Kink moved out of and sold five years ago, is set to return to being a concert and event venue — which it was briefly before the pandemic — but the new owners have also submitted plans to add a jazz club inside.
SF News Regency Ballroom Up for Sale, Listing Depicts Nonexistent Condos On Top It’s a sign of the times that renderings of condominiums which do not yet exist or have permits are shown on a real estate listing for the 112-year-old Regency Ballroom, which is now on the selling block.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Announces 16 Extra Night Shows; Tickets On Sale Friday Organizers of Outside Lands just announced the biggest-ever slate of small-venue night shows for the week of the festival in late October, and these include a Wednesday DRAMA set at Bimbo's, and Kaytranada at 1015 Folsom. Also, there's a just-announced RUFUS DU SOL show at the Fox in Oakland.
Arts & Entertainment SF Opens Applications for Grants to Music and Nightlife Venues As promised earlier this year, the first round of grants from SF's Music and Entertainment Venue Recovery Fund is about to beginning taking applications.
Arts & Entertainment SF Will Prioritize Struggling and Legacy Venues for Entertainment Relief Fund — But the Fund Needs Private Donations The SF Board of Supervisors voted this week to establish the San Francisco Music and Entertainment Venue Recovery Fund, as a way to funnel money to struggling music venues and arts institutions that have been shuttered by the pandemic.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Music Venues and Theaters Can Apply For Lifesaving Grants Under New Stimulus Bill Owners and operators of cultural venues, from Broadway theaters on down to dive bars that host rock shows, will be able to fight over a new pool of grant money from the federal government as part of the new $900 billion stimulus package that Congress was finalizing Monday.
Arts & Entertainment Cafe Du Nord Officially Relaunches With June 1 Party And Rogue Wave Show Today we got some more details of the previously announced rebirth of Cafe du Nord as a full-time music venue, and among the new details we learn that the space is going
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cafe Du Nord Is Becoming A Music Venue Again The brief era of Cafe du Nord as a swank cocktail lounge with delicious bar food from the Flour + Water folks is officially over, one year after the opening menu was pared down
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Confirmed: Cafe Du Nord To Pivot More Into Event Space And Venue, But With Food As SFist reported exclusively last week, the Viking Room at Cafe du Nord, which opened last year with the promise of offering a full dinner menu in a sort of supper club environment
SF News Leo's Music Club of Oakland Temporarily Closed Following Bizarre Police Raid by Jack Morse Leo's Music Club, the barely-year-old venue in the Temescal neighborhood of Oakland, was forced to shut down over the weekend after a bizarre police raid left
Arts & Entertainment Is The Addition Refusing To Refund Tickets Sold Before They Abruptly Shut Down? It looks like the story of The Addition abruptly closing its doors this month may be getting a bit more messy. A tipster wrote into SFist telling us that Fillmore Live Entertainment, the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yoshi's Is Becoming The Addition; Poison Guitarist Will Play The New Venue We learned back in June that Yoshi's San Francisco was getting sold to a new ownership group, and would no longer be called Yoshi's. The restaurant has shuffled along
SF News Cafe Cocomo, Sound Factory Close To Make Way For Housing; Elbo Room Under Threat Too [Updated] Add losing local music venues to the ever-increasing list of casualties of the tech boom. As SFist previously reported, the owners of Mission venue Elbo Room were considering turning it into a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cafe Du Nord To Be Resurrected With Bar From Trick Dog Team, Food From Flour + Water Team Beloved music venue Cafe du Nord, in the basement level of the Swedish American Hall at Market and Sanchez, has been closed since the beginning of the new year for renovations under new
SF News New Valencia Street Music Venue, Preservation Hall West, To Open Early October Preservation Hall West, an expansion of the historic New Orleans Jazz hall, will become San Francisco's (and the Mission's) newest music venue when it opens its doors just in
Arts & Entertainment Train Announces Intimate Tour Of SF Venues Perhaps encouraged by Tony Bennett's continued success with his San Francisco anthem, three-time Grammy winners Train have announced a six show tour of their adopted and largely ambivalent hometown. The
