HOLIDAY GREEN PARTY, TONIGHT, 6PM AT MADRONE LOUNGE

Join the San Francisco Green Party for their FREE holiday bash tonight at the Madrone Lounge, 500 Divisadero (@ Fell), 6pm-9pm. Live performance by Garrin Benfield, Phantom Power and The Jabberlope and DJs. Happy hour ('til 8 pm) featuring $1 off drafts, 2 PBRs, $4 well drinks and more. Come on, get festive with some far out people. See you there!

UNDER $3 DRINKING ON DIVISADERO

We've long been hip to this 'hood they call "Nopa", but more locally is known simply as "Divis" (that's "Div-eez", ok?). We've watched it go from a handful of joints back in the day, to now more than 10 (count 'em, 10!) places where you can get drinks for under $3. Happy hours are long and extend beyond the Monday thru Friday thing, because let's face it, some of us don't do 9 to 5 and need cheap drinks, too. (In fact, we need them more than you do).

So, without further ado, let us link you to Ramona Emerson's Citysearch guide to "Under $3 Drinking on Divisadero".

"UPPER DIVERSION" PUB CRAWL, TONIGHT

Not to compete with the Divisadero Corridor, that almost-trendy strip of Divis pronounced Di-vees, you dipsticks)...or anything, but that slightly more gentrified strip of Divees, north of Geary, aka "Upper Diversion" has got a pub crawl going on tonight.

That's right. Hit the Divisadero Corridor Art Walk and score drink specials and a couple of half-priced appetizers on the lower end of this strip starting at 5 pm, then move north across Geary for more drink and food specials at the "Upper Diversion Pub Crawl".

Participating bars and restos include:

Tortilla Heights - $5 Margaritas, $5 street tacos

Godzilla Sushi - $4.50 Large House Sake, $4.50 Spicy tuna roll, $3.25 California Roll

The Fishbowl - $3 Landshark Lager bottles, $5 Three Olives Vodka cockails

Frankie's Bohemian Cafe - $4 Krusovice Drafts, $5 Buffalo Strips

Solstice Lounge - $2 Scrimshaw Pilsner drafts, $4 Four Roses Bourbon cocktails, $7 Tacos Two Ways, $10 Kobe Sliders with Fries

Tataki Sushi - $5 Sake Sangria, $4.50 Cut Rolls, $3 Hand Rolls, $4.50 Fried Calamari

Lion Pub - $5.50 Fresh-squeezed Greyhounds & Screwdrivers, $8 Fresh Fruit Mojitos

You are so there, we know you are!

F*CK BASTILLE DAY, WE'RE AMERICANS -- ALL-STAR GAME HAPPY HOUR AT ACME CHOPHOUSE TONIGHT

Okay, we think that headline says it all. F*ck the French and these silly Bastille Day celebrations happening around this good ol' American city we can't call Frisco. Tonight the All-Star game is playing out in Saint Louie, but you can catch the action live on the big screens at the Acme Chophouse with a Happy Hour that starts at 4:30 pm and goes 'til the end of the game. $3 draft beers, $4 wines by the glass and $5 special cocktails, plus $5 appetizers such as flat-breads, mac ‘n' cheese and prosciutto-wrapped peaches and mushrooms.

The Acme Chophouse is located at AT&T Park, 24 Willie Mays Plaza (between King & 3rd Sts.).

KUNG PAO KOSHER COMEDY TONIGHT AT EL RIO

It's official, comedy night has returned to El Rio, and now we're telling you about it so you can mark your calendar for every 2nd Monday of the month. It's Kung Pao Kosher Comedy -- and you don't have to be Jewish or like Chinese food to get the jokes.

7:30 pm, sliding scale $7-$15. Tonight's line-up: Dan St Paul, Aundre the Wonderwoman, Lynn Ruth Miller (a 74-year-old comic who just got started in stand-up 3 years ago), Ryan Kasmier, Erin Souza, and Lisa Geduldig (the foundress of Kung Pao Kosher Comedy).

21+. El Rio, 3158 Mission (@Cesar Chavez). And btw, it's Dollar Day all day long at El Rio today, $1 PBRs and $2 well drinks.

$1 TECATES AT HOMESTEAD TONIGHT

We hear there's $1 Tecates tonight at the Homestead in the Mission, 2301 Folsom St. (between 19th & 20th).

FREE peanuts, you can shell 'em right onto the floor and jukebox. Thank God It's Monday!

10 DRAFT BEERS UNDER $3 AT CUP-A-JOE COFFEE HOUSE HAPPY HOUR

Cup-A-Joe Coffee House in the Tendernob's got great Happy Hour beer specials. 10 kinds of draft beers on tap all for $2.95, between 4 - 8 pm, Monday through Friday.

Good coffee, too (duh). Sandwiches, bagels, gelato.

That's Cup-A-Joe Coffee House
896 Sutter Street (between Jones & Leavenworth)

Check it out.

$2 DRINKS AT AMBASSADOR HOTEL TONIGHT

Drinks in the Tenderloin ought to be $2 apiece. And they are -- at least on Tuesday nights at the Ambassador Hotel, 673 Geary between Jones & Leavenworth. Great link to the Ambassador lounge website here. Turn down sound if you are at work -- or not a Sinatra fan, which kinda sets the mood.

And, btw -- we love the homemade flyers we've seen around town touting this $2 Tuesday special. Have you seen 'em? They say:

Damn Gina!
$2 DRINKS.
F*CK Yeah.
Ambassador Hotel.

We're so there.

FREE MOVIE NIGHT AT ON THE CORNER - BULLITT

Get into the groove of the Swingin' Sixties tonight at On the Corner (literally, on the corner of Divisadero & Oak). FREE movie night tonight featuring a San Fran classic, "Bullitt" starring Steve McQueen. 9:30 pm. $2.50 beers, $3 sangria, FREE popcorn and pizza specials.

The "Bullitt" car chase scene is as famous for showing off the streets of San Fran as it is for taking some twists and turns that fling our hero Bullitt from one end of the city to the other. Take a right at Potrero Hill and you'll be in North Beach? And other impossibilities made possible only through the magic of film...oh, and now re-created on Google maps -- check out the "Bullitt" car chase on Google maps here.

YO! IT'S TACO TUESDAYS AT PARK CHALET

Yep, from 4 'til 9:30 pm, the Park Chalet's got it going on -- every Tuesday, with $2.50 tacos, 2-for-1 margs and $3 pints. And, FREE entertainment, too! Deets here.

DON'T RENAME THIRD STREET

There's been a movement to rename Third Street out in Bayview/Hunter's Point "Willie Brown Way" or something of that equivalent. We joined a Facebook group to stop it. And, because of that we got invited to a Happy Hour at the Speakeasy Brewery tonight to get our official 12" x 3" bumper sticker: "3RD ST"

Speakeasy Brewery (Keeping it 3RD, Keeping it Local)
1195 Evans Ave, enter on Keith

On right now, 'til 8 pm tonight. Show up, get a happy hour special beer and look for the guy with the "3RD ST" bumper stickers on his bag and jacket to get your sticker and save an iconic street name of San Francisco.

HAPPY HOUR DRINKS AT BENDERS

Wanna go on a bender? What better place to do it than at a place so appropriately named. Benders Bar has got a Happy Hour, Monday thry Friday, from 4 to 7pm and all-the-time drinks specials like $2 PBR and $5 margs. Yeah, baby! And we keep hearing about this amazing kitchen that serves up killer accompaniments to 4 or 6 PBRs and whiskey shots, like deep fried pickles, fried catfish with Buffalo wing sauce and seitan sandwiches that'll knock yer socks off.

So, where is this place?

Benders Bar
806 South Van Ness @19th

Happy Hour, Monday thru Friday, 4 to 7pm
Kitchen opens at 6
Bar opens at 4 pm on weekends

NIGHTLY SPECIALS AT CAFE FLORE

We /heart/ Cafe Flore, the heart and soul of the Castro, even though we're never there in time to snag an outdoor table and look fabulous. Still, looking fabulous and being in the right place at the right time are almost the same thing. And, Cafe Flore's got nightly specials that give you a reason to continue to strive for fabulousity while ensuring you are in the right place at the right time -- all the time.

Nightly specials are aptly named Micro Mondays, Margarita Tuesdays, Wino Wednesdays, Pizza Pub Thursdays ($2 gourmet pizzas), Shag Party Fridays (hey, we don't make this stuff up!), Sex-in-the-City Saturdays ($3 Cosmos) and Sangria and Sake Sundays.

Open every day from 6 am to 2 am, serving delish food from 8 am 'til 10 at night. Full bar. Instant gift certificates you can email to a friend and say, "Hey, Meet me at Cafe Flore for a drink or three!"

EL RIO'S CHICHARRONES, SATURDAY AT 3PM

Ok so, it's Saturday, it's gonna rain. You've got $11. You can

a) go to the movies

or

b) go to El Rio's Chicharrones party, starting at 3 pm. $1 gets you in the door. The other $10 is for unlimited all you can drink Miller beer, deejays, and free food/BBQ.

This is not a multiple choice kind of thing.

That's because the $10 goes to an LGBTQ Latino non-profit group - Pride at Work.

Rosa la Rumorosa, Carsanova and guests spin pop clasico y chido from both sides of the border. Dancing, dancing and more dancing, drinking and food. A little rain? So what. You won't melt. Vamonos!

FLY BAR SECOND LOCATION GRAND OPENING

If you've trucked up and down the Divisadero Corridor anytime over the past 10 years, whether for a concert at the Independent or to get your car washed, you've seen the purple and orange "Fly" sign outside the bar on the corner of Divis and Fulton. Maybe you've even stopped in for the Sake and Soju cocktails and pizzas and other bites and chilled for awhile inside the purple and orange vibe. It's a cool place and we love it.

So, as fans of the original Fly Bar, we need a damn good reason to check out the new second local location now open in the space near Polk Gulch formerly known as Brick. How 'bout two reasons?

Full liquor license and FREE video games.

That's right they've got a vintage video game section all set up and you don't need to bring those precious quarters that are so much better suited to feed meters and laundromats. Meanwhile, they've got $7 Pisco Sours, rum drinks, gin concoctions and things with vodka -- the real deal.

The New Fly Bar is at 1085 Sutter St. (@ Larkin). The old one is still at 762 Divisadero (@Fulton).

$1 OYSTERS AND $3.50 PINTS AT HOG ISLAND HAPPY HOUR

Gorgeous and sunny days in San Francisco are few and far between -- and in our opinion, overrated.

Give us the charming cool of the fog and limited visibility from the Ferry Building, where we head tonight for the Hog Island Oyster Company Happy Hour.

Hog Island Oyster Company
5 pm - 7 pm
Mondays and Thursdays

Fog or shine, they fill up fast. But here's the good news -- so will you!

$1 MARTINIS AT LUNCHTIME AT PALIO

We sat on this one for a while because we *heart* your liver and we *heart* your good job downtown, but today is Friday, the end of a long and tax'ing week and we gotta give it to you straight up.

Palio is serving $1 Stoli vodka and Hendrick gin martinis at lunch, from 11:30 am to 2:30 pm, Mondays through Fridays for the rest of the month.

Located near your FiDi office at 640 Sacramento St. Within stumbling distance to MUNI and BART. Drinking at lunch has never been so CHEAP or so EASY.

MORTY'S DELI - DAILY SPECIALS

We heard about Morty's Delicatessen after the fact. On Tuesdays, you can get a $7 Reuben sandwich and a PBR -- for lunch. And, man were we bummed, having eaten instead a couple of rye crisps and some watered down tuna.

But then we found out that this Morty guy -- located at 280 Golden Gate Ave. @ Hyde has specials every day. And while we'll have to wait 'til next Tuesday to get the deal on the Reuben and the PBR -- today he's got Quite Possibly the Best Mac & Cheese in town, on Thursdays it's Mama Mia Spaghetti Day (and $2.95 glasses of Merlot). Then there's Fish Fry Fridays (again with $2.95 glasses of wine), $2 Blue Moons, FREE fried clams and jazz on Monday nights -- we mean, really. What took us so long to find this joint that says they offer "East Coast Soul and West Coast Style"? We're on our way there now!

BRING YOUR OWN DINNER - TO THE CANDYBAR

Your mom always said you had to eat your dinner before you could have dessert. But what do you do when you head to Candybar, the West Addy's hot-a-licious dessert bar, just steps off the Divisadero Corridor (1335 Fulton) and dessert is the main course?

BYOD -- that's bring your own dinner!

Open Tuesdays through Sundays at 6 pm. $2 beer and wine and $5 sparkling wine drinks at Happy Hour. Your own delicious dinner food welcome. Candy Bar will even provide the soundtrack...and silverware.

BROKE ASS STUART'S F*CK THE RECESSION PARTY - THIS WEEK

You've got to RSVP for this one -- and for $5 Broke Ass Stuart's Fuck the Recession Party, Wednesday night, April 8, at the Rickshaw Stop is gonna fill up fast.

Not only is Stuart buying the beer -- the original San Francisco broke ass has lined up some serious entertainment, like live music by Sugar & Gold and Richie Cunning, DJ Citizen Ten and the peeps from the SF Indie Mart will be doing some DIY stations -- bring a t-shirt and they will silk screen it for you. Get a button. Buy a cupcake.

It all starts at 8 pm, Wednesday, April 8 at the Rickshaw Stop. But don't forget -- you got to RSVP to get a piece of this. Click here now.