Mission Mission

Meet Marilyn, aka OG, the newest member of Pops Bar team! Formerly of Dave’s, Marilyn loves a simple and sweet, classic Maker’s Mark Manhattan. Stop by and welcome Marilyn to the Pops family Monday and Tuesday mornings with happy hour starting at 6AM.

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F*ck Caleb! And we say that with nothing less then true love and affection for Pops bartender Caleb, aka Sprinkles. Known for inventing delicious speciality cocktails on the fly, he often stumps the rest of the staff when patrons come in wanting a repeat of an “off menu” Caleb concoction. One such cocktail is called “Risky Business”, a simple and delicious combination of tequila infused with cucumber over ice and soda water. See what Caleb cooks up for you every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night at Pops Bar.

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At Pops Bar, local DJs rule the decks. This Wednesday, Spin the Night promises you a bloodbath of amazing, organic, spaced-out trax on wax. Spin the night is a fun boozy filled evening showcasing the local heroes working hard to keep the music scene alive and well in San Francisco. No particular genre, just music that inspires us to party on. Sepehr and special SF guests are taking over this week for some craziness! Don’t miss out!

This week at Pops Bar:

8/15/16 MONDAY

American Tripps: The “Berlin-Style” Ping Pong Night!

Born in the back rooms of dive bars in Berlin and perfected in the secret semi-legal art spaces of the Mission, this is a brand of ping pong built for happy hours and late nights.

With DJs Beauregard & Nutzeffekt (and special guests) spinning dancefloor gems and barroom bangers they picked up in Berlin and elsewhere.

Now every Monday at Pop’s, 6pm-2am, no cover

8/16/16 TUESDAY

Trivia Tuesdays

Pops Quiz

$2 to play

8:30-10:30PM

Join us every Tuesday of the month and test your wits at Pops trivia night “POP’s Quiz” where your brain may get stump on categories such as Pop’s culture, Sports, Movies, Music and more, with little snippets of audio and visual effects too! So come on in for some good ole fashion competition and a night of drinking with the crew! It is a 2 dollar cover and winner gets the pot!! so tell friends and family because the more peeps the steeper the cash prize is!!

MUSIC THERAPY

Electro-Cumbia Breaks, Hip Hop, Nu Latin Beats

9PM-1:30am

No Cover

21 UP

8/17/16 WEDNESDAY

Spin the Night

Spin the night is a fun boozy filled evening showcasing the local heros working hard to keep the music scene alive and well in San Francisco. No particular genre, just music that inspires us to party on.

Sepehr and special SF guests are taking over this week for some craziness!

FEATURING SOUNDS BY:

BOB FIVE (DTE / STAR KOMMAND / OUTERFK*N SPACE)

PETKO NIKOLOV (SHUFFLE CO-OP)

RODNEY K (SIICK BAGELS / DEBUT SET)

AND MAYBE EVEN SEPEHR (BLACK CATALOGUE)

Expect a bloodbath of amazing, organic, spaced-out trax on wax.

9pm-2am

No Cover

8/18/16 THURSDAY

DJ Sektor

Happy Hour Entertainment 6-9pm with DJ Sektor spinning Retro Thursday.

BFF.FM Night

9PM-1:30AM

Rotating DJs from local BFF.fm radio!

This Week: DJ Melly G

• Más Lowrider Jams

• • Miami BASS

• • • Nigerian Club

• • • • That new Rihanna song

• • • 90′s R&B

• • BackPack Rap

• BOUNCE

9PM-1:30AM

No Cover

21UP

Come support local community radio.

8/19/16 FRIDAY

Happy Hour Entertainment 6-9pm

Haight Street All Stars

If you are looking for a good time, Todd’s rock and roll band, “The Haight Street All-Stars” will exceed your highest expectations. Featured at the Haight Street Fair this year, the blues/rock sensation, “The Haight Street All-Stars” will keep you dancing throughout the night. Playing songs to the likes of James Brown, B.B. King, Aretha Franklin, Albert King and many more. “The Haight Street All-Stars” are fun from beginning to end. Come on out to enjoy some soul in San Francisco !

Roger Niner Karaoke

9PM-1:30am

“Roger Niner is back in The Mission… at Pops! And he’s bringing his big ole’ book of rare and unheard karaoke tunes! Find and sing a new favorite or a long forgotten oddity! Karaoke like you never left the basement of your parents house! We go until they tell us to shut the hell up! Check out the songbook at book.rogerniner.com, and PREPARE!”

Web: www.rogerniner.com,

Facebook: Roger Niner Karaoke

Twitter: @rogerniner

Instagram: @rogerniner

8/20/16 SATURDAY

DJ SEKTOR

Resident DJ Sektor

9PM-1:30AM

No Cover

21 UP

8/21/16 SUNDAY

MUSIC THERAPY

Electro-Cumbia Breaks, Hip Hop, Nu Latin Beats

5PM-10PM

No Cover

21 UP

POPS BAR

2800 24th Street @ York

San Francisco, CA 94110

www.popssf.com

This Thursday, It’s the Highpoint Lowlife Radio Show’s turn to host the weekly BFF.fm night at Pops Bar. Highpoint Lowlife originally started out as a weekly DJ night at POW! on 6th and Mission, circa 1999, so it’s gonna be a fun one playing the same blend of weirdo electronics, hip hop, and noise! With DJ’s Thor, Bill Shitski and Mel taking you on a musical adventure all night.

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This Tuesday, August 2, is National Coloring Book Day! Join us at Pops Bar for an adult coloring happy hour with relaxing tunes courtesy of BFF.fm. Grab an adult beverage or two to go with your adult coloring and chill with us! Coloring books and sheets will be provided, but BYOC (crayons, colored pencils, markers, whatever you prefer to color with). It’s like kindergarten but with more drinking.

Learn more about National Coloring Book Day at www.coloringbookday.com

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This Sunday FPWK return to Pops Bar! So dust off those funky records if you got ‘em and join in the mayhem. Come dance to vintage funk and soul with the funnest people you know. Have a favorite old dance song? Have it on vinyl? Bring it! We want our neighborhood friends to come play records and dance with us. You ARE the Funnest People We Know!

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Hey Berlin-style ping pong fans! We’re kicking off a new season of the SF Berlin-Style Ping Pong League tonight at Pops Bar in the Mission. The league will meet every Monday night for 6 weeks, from 7pm-10pm or so. The table stays up all night long, and our DJs stay up all night long too, so be ready to PARTY!

Tonight’s special guest DJ btw is DJ JustStella from BFF.fm, just back from Japan — soooo expect some freaky tunes!!!!

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After seeing Victoria Beckham’s feminist revamp of Wannabe, our girl-power was feeling particularly…powerful. So when we heard local women-led company, 3Girls Theatre Company,  had a new show, written by a woman, about a very important women’s issue (homeless female war vets), starring women, it really was a no brainer, we had to see it for Drama Talk & Drinks.

Cheri Vanden Heuvel, Heather Gordon. Photo by: Mario Parnell Photography

Katie: Gosh, it had some strong elements to it, some good performances, and important subject matter, but there was just something about the play itself that felt off to me. Post war trauma that leads to homelessness is a complicated issue. This play does a good job highlighting elements of it and portraying the feeling of  helplessness, but the end just seemed too simplified. For one character it felt overly dramatic, and for two of the others is felt almost too easy (spoiler alert: they had a home to go live in with one of their families). It felt like the playwright needed an end, so she just tied it up a bit too tidily.

Brittany:  I agree having the show be resolved so easily felt weird. But there were some really strong female characters, which I appreciated. I thought the girl who played Cory (Heather Gordon, pictured above) was really good, she was a fantastic actress. There were some very moving stories, and important themes that each of the vets brought to the play. It was depressing… it was supposed to be, but at times it felt too heavy.

K: I didn’t love Maya’s asides where she was preaching in the church. They took me out of the story, it felt clunky.

B: Yeah, they didn’t move the story forward, although some of them had very powerful imagery. I don’t think they needed the extra drama that the Canyon character brought to the piece though. I understand her arrival was the catalyst for the conflict, but there was plenty of deep stuff to deal with without her making the end even more tragic. Right now is a hard time to see this show. There is just so much fucked up stuff going on in the world right now. This reminds you of something else to be depressed about.

The Verdict: An important but depressing play with some very strong actors. If you feel like you can handle an (almost overly) tragic play, it’s worth a watch.

The Drama Talk: Homelessness by itself is sad, as is PTSD, drug abuse, sexual abuse, war, and any number of issues that this play tries to tackle. This delta 8 vape carts are the newest trend where people in drug recovery use to help them ease the process. While the show is very well acted, the script at times feels like it’s just piling on too much tragedy. Particularly the end (which we won’t totally spoil, but DAMN really…you had to go there?) Still supporting local theater, by, for and about women is totally something you should do.

The Drinks: We headed into the Mission from Potrero Hill to check out Wild Hawk, which is the bar that took over the Lexington, but it was too full of people. So we headed down Mission Street to Gashead Tavern, mainly because it wasn’t busy. Since this show put us in a dark place, we both ordered Dark and Stormy’s.

Low Hanging Fruit runs until July 30th at the Z Below. Tickets are available for $30 through the 3Girls Theatre website. Right now there are tickets available on Goldstar for $17.50.

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HAPPINESS IS THIRTEEN HOUR HAPPY HOURS! Bacon Bloody Mary’s, Irish Coffee, Mexican Coffee, Fresh OJ Mimosa, Pabst…Pops Bar gets your morning going every day at 6am and keeps happy hour going until 7pm! So Rise N Shine, then kick back and unwind, Pops is your official starting point in the Mission. *Please make sure your puppies drink responsibly.

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BFF.fm radio aka Best Frequencies Forever is your local non-profit, bad-ass, volunteer run radio station, operating right out of the mission district. Every Thursday night, BFF.fm rotates their best DJs to take over the decks at Pops Bar. BFF.fm was recently voted “Best Radio Station” in SFWEEKLY.

This week DJ ZeroOne hosts the New Wave Dance Party. Join us for a night of post-punk, power pop, new wave, and other time- and genre-adjacent tunes. Cold beers, cool people, rad musics. So grab your BFF and hop on Pops!

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