Bar owners push back
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Jun 10, 2025

Bar owners push back

A longtime Oakland bar owner recently requested anonymity during a phone interview, out of fear of retaliation from the city’s Alcohol Beverage Action Team, known as ABAT. “They’re so aggressive. They come in like the mafia and...
San Francisco Jazz Festival reinvents itself
Jun 10, 2025

San Francisco Jazz Festival reinvents itself

For the casual music fan, the transition at SFJAZZ from the organization’s founder, Randall Kline, to trumpeter Terence Blanchard has been a seamless affair.  Week by week, the roster of artists performing in the SFJAZZ Center’s 700-seat Miner...
Social Eyes: Week of June 12-18
Jun 10, 2025

Social Eyes: Week of June 12-18

THURSDAY, JUNE 12 AMERICANA MARY GAUTHIER Mary Gauthier’s sophomore album, Drag Queens in Limousines, rocketed the bard of queer tales and tunes into visibility 25 years ago. Moving to Nashville, the Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter’s soulful lyrics told stories of outcasts. Gauthier’s...
Jun 3, 2025

Free Will Astrology: Week of June 4

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You have had resemblances to cactuses in recent days. It hasn’t always been pleasant and cheerful, but you have become...
The Royale opens in Pleasant Hill
Several years ago an editor asked me to come up with an article about a current dining trend. As a food writer I eat out a...
La Loulou welcomes all to an apéritif dinner
In the pre-streaming era, I watched the entire series of Sex and The City patiently, in real time. I couldn’t help but wonder, from one week...
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