'The Atlantic' hasn't spent much time in L.A. or S.F. recently.
News went out via Zeitgeist's own newsletter last week that the great Anthony Bourdain was coming there on August 12 to shoot a new episode of his show The Layover. Now they say it was a false alarm (also, Tony...
The new Travel Channel show, 'The Layover,' features Bourdain and crew chilling in a single city, at its 'must-see' spots, for a day or two.
The famously stinky porta-potties at Mission beer garden Zeitgeist have been replaced, ladies and gentlemen, by actual constructed restrooms made of wood, concrete, and corrugated metal. As Uptown Almanac reports, there is now more seating where the porta-potties once stood....
The Bold Italic outlines the many ways one can get booted from the place.
But he did dine with Steve Jobs last night, who might not have long to live?
The renovations mostly had to do with making a window behind the bar so bartenders could serve people directly outdoors.
Some of you may have noticed that Zeitgeist has been closed the past couple of days, and they'll remain shuttered until Valentine's Day for some semi-major renovations. As an SFist reader reports, "the back wall with 20+ years of bumperstickers...
Wow. A true marketing gaffe.
• A total loon with an apparently urgent need for a beer started vandalizing Zeitgeist after they wouldn't let him in (it was morning, they weren't open). Police were called, guy cuffed and put in squad car, but he kicked...
"Besides scowling things like 'F-ing yuppies' if someone with a shirt with buttons orders a drink, there is always an unpleasant sort of life-has-kicked-them-in-the-nuts, unhealthy tweaker vibe [from the bartenders]..." City Brights blogger Harmon Leon discussing SF's surliest bar...
When New Year's Day rolls around, you'll be thanking us.
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