New Eagle owners Alex Montiel and Mike Leon discussed their plans for the landmark gay bar at a meeting last Thursday night organized by Folsom Street Events. Despite inheriting a throughly trashed facility and facing the usual difficulties dealing with the city’s building code bureaucracy, they’re hoping to be in business before the New Years holiday weekend. Continue reading
Category Archives: entertainment
Kim ponders radical realignment of 11th Street neighbor/nightclub zoning
More nightclubs?
To hear tell, business would be booming and we’d all be dancing in the streets if it were not for “the purple building” and “that lady on Norfolk alley who keeps complaining.” Such is the state of denial the California Music and Culture Association (CMAC) lives in as they plot to foment another war between neighbors and nightclubs in South of Market.
The purple building represents the threat of new development adjacent to existing nightclubs and the Norfolk neighbor has been driving the club owners crazy because she keeps asking the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) to enforce the law. Continue reading
Filed under entertainment, meetings, planning, politics, quality of life
Proposed legislation seeks to limit bars along Lower Polk Street
by JOSHUA SABATINI
San Francisco Examiner
Sustained neighborhood complaints about raucous nightlife have led one San Francisco official to suggest prohibiting new bars, liquor stores and shops selling tobacco products from opening along a six-block stretch of Polk Street. Board of Supervisors President David Chiu, whose District 3 includes the portion of Polk Street dotted with such businesses, said the concentration of watering holes has resulted in unruly behavior that causes problems for area residents. Read more →
Filed under crime watch, entertainment
Hyde apologizes to Planning Commission for misleading testimony
Entertainment Commissioner Glendon “Anna Conda” Hyde
During Public Comment before the Planning Commission recently, Entertainment Commissioner Glendon “Anna Conda” Hyde inappropriately introduced himself as having the authority to speak on behalf of the Entertainment Commission and presented a series of personal opinions as being the official position of the Commission.
Hyde was speaking on the adequacy of the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Western SoMa Community Plan at a special hearing on Thursday, July 26, 2012. Continue reading
Filed under entertainment, planning
Grand opening for SoMa “StrEat” food truck park set for June 6
The SoMa StrEat Food Park opens later this week, with a grand opening celebration scheduled on Wednesday, June 6.
For those of you who have been living off the $1.50 hot dogs from Costco, relief is in sight.
The SoMa StrEat Food Park is set to open near the corner of 11th and Harrison Streets, with its “soft opening” beginning this week on Thursday, May 31 and continuing through Tuesday, June 5 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The “grand opening,” featuring both lunch and dinner service, is set for Wednesday, June 6. Continue reading
Filed under community services, entertainment, open space, planning
SoMa scores another major sports facility/concert venue on waterfront
Renderings of the Warriors stadium at piers 30-32. Concept by Future Cities.
Matier and Ross printed the unofficial confirmation in this morning’s San Francisco Chronicle that the Golden State Warriors will build a new, privately financed arena along the southern Embarcadero at the foot of the Bay Bridge. The 17,000-19,000 square foot facility will also host conventions and concerts. Read more
Filed under entertainment, events
Group suing over events at Nob Hill Masonic Center
From the San Francisco Examiner:
The permit in question was approved in January by the Planning Commission to allow Live Nation — a concert promoter — to hold 68 live and 219 large evening events annually at the Masonic Center. A neighborhood group unhappy with The City’s decision to allow an increased number of concerts at the Nob Hill Masonic Center has filed a lawsuit to halt the change and require an environmental impact report. Continue reading at the Examiner
Filed under entertainment, planning, politics
Proceeds from upcoming leather/fetish events to benefit local charity work
A press release from Folsom Street Events:
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (Wednesday, March 28, 2012) – The Board of Directors of Folsom Street Events announced this year’s line up of its Major and Supporting beneficiaries today. Net proceeds from five key San Francisco leather and fetish events (Bay of Pigs™, Up Your Alley®, Magnitude®, Folsom Street Fair®, and DEVIANTS™) will be donated to local charities working in public health, human services, and the arts. Last year, Folsom Street Events donated over $330,000 to local and national charities in need. Continue reading
Filed under art, community services, entertainment, events, parties
Entertainment and land use make for strange bedfellows
The committee established by the Entertainment Commission to review the Western SoMa Community Plan held its second meeting this week and objections continued to fall away as its members learned more about what the plan actually does. Nothing is taken away from the entertainment industry. In fact, the plan opens up the entire area south of Harrison Street for the expansion of new venues.
Commissioners Audrey Joseph and Bryant Tam toured the area with April Veneracion from Jane Kim’s office prior to the first official meeting of the committee and they developed concerns that the proposed buffer zones might be an obstacle to growth. It was later explained that the 200 foot buffer zones only applied to four residential enclave districts (see map) and that the vast majority of the area would provide ample room for new nightclubs.
Filed under entertainment, politics
“Nightlife” report finds that tourists spend most $$$ in Chinatown, North Beach and Broadway restaurants
Supervisor Scott Wiener released his long-awaited report on the “The Economic Impact of San Francisco’s Nightlife Businesses” at a hearing today, and few were surprised to learn that 77% of the spending on entertainment in the city was at restaurants. Only 4% was at nightclubs or venues with DJs. Continue reading
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