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New Wave City

5.0 (6 reviews)
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8 years ago

New Wave City has the best DJs, music, videos, and overall feel!

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10 years ago

Great fun, cool staff and music from my youth. What's not to like?!

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Harlot

Harlot

3.0(950 reviews)
1.1 mi•Financial District, SoMa
•$$

Harlot runs on the smaller end in terms of club sizes in SF. The place is very narrow, and given…read morehow many tables there are, I wouldn't really call it a dance club -- like you literally can't dance except for a small square space in front of the DJ. It's much better as a place to gather friends and drink. The music is overall pretty well-selected. It's not too mainstream, but also not too obscure where you're just questioning what's going on. You'll definitely want to be on your feet and feeling the beat.

Originally had 5 stars but dropped down to 1 star after the disrespect the staff had with us. The…read morereviews are true, DO NOT go here during the evening time. Happy Hour is much better because the bouncer in the picture below is not present. Story: So my friend tells me their coworker is celebrating a birthday party here. I think, "great!" I come here for Happy Hour on Fridays and it will be a great time once again. It's about to be 1:00am and we're patiently waiting in line to get in. Harlot tells us there's a cover to get in but since a friend is having a birthday here and they have a table, we shouldn't have to pay. The bouncer tells us if the owner of the table comes out to collect us we can come in. After waiting for a while we just ask the bouncer if he can just check the table list for our names so that we don't have to wait for the friend. This is when the bouncer flips 180. He tells we not allowed in anymore and doesn't want to let us in. We think like you just promised us something else. He tells us we're being annoying and tells us to get out of the line. My friend gets real upset and asks why he changed it all up all of a sudden. This is when the bouncer picks up the rope dividers and starts pushing them towards us so that we move out of the line. We essentially don't move but the bouncer keeps edging closer with the ropes and it feels like he's trying to intimidate us with his height. Since we don't move bouncer puts his hands up to get us to move and makes contact with my friend. My friend flips out and doesn't understand what constitutes that kind of behavior from a bouncer. Look I understand that a bouncer's job is difficult having to deal with drunk people but I believe it's common courtesy to know not to put your hands on a customer. I'll take that your mad and frustrated any day but the fact that you have to resort to pushing an individual to get what you want is not ok. You originally had me at 5 stars but you are now down to 1 which has been rightfully deserved by the bouncer in the photo.

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Harlot - Models on Table

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City Nights - Mortified event

City Nights

2.1(271 reviews)
0.8 mi•SoMa
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Long gone are my teenage years of clubbing at the "18 and over" City Nights, but if anything can…read morebring me back to those days, it's Mortified. I attended the show at this alternate location in SF on Friday night, and had a blast as usual. The venue worked well for the event, for the most part. No balcony seating like the DNA Lounge (the usual spot for Mortified), but they had more bar height tables and chairs for couples on the side, and open seating both on the floor and along the back wall on a raised level of the main room. A small bar in the back corner too. Excellent lighting, and great view of the stage from anywhere. Technical difficulties occurred at multiple points of the event, related to the sound and screen display. They did short music clips in between readers' performances since there was no live band for this particular show. Sometimes the music volume would be excruciatingly loud, and at times the images were projected off the screen or were accidentally changed mid-performance. Can't speak of the nightclub atmosphere here, as it's been decades since I've experienced that. But based on my recent visit, I'd say the venue overall was decent for an event space, and even if not perfect, I still had a good time.

If I could give this place zero stars I would. Guy at the door accused me and my friends of…read morebringing alcohol in when I literally just had a bottled soda. They were super super rude at the door and the music is all girly pop artists. I would love to hear some Bay Area rappers or even rap or r&b in general. They played Taylor swift? Who plays Taylor swift IN A CLUB?!

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City Nights - Outside

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City Nights - Lights above and screens (Mortified event)

Lights above and screens (Mortified event)

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Corporate event

DNA Lounge - The Middle Aged Queers record release party at DNA Lounge (upstairs).

DNA Lounge

3.2(872 reviews)
0.3 mi•SoMa
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I came here for the first time on World Goth Night, and boy it was a lovely experience. The entire…read moreway the bar wraps around itself into cozy rooms with a variety of DJ's will definitely fill my dreams at night. The place was packed with people traveling from places as far as Antioch, Vallejo, and Cupertino to enjoy the sets of 10 DJ's from AfterLife, DeathGuild, Club Dark Sparkle, Club Night Shift, Gothicumbia, and LosGothsCo in 4 rooms, and two packed stories of dancers. This was definitely an event you didn't want to miss out on. So thankful to find my way into this supportive community. It's been a lovely place to meet some great people.

Came here on a Friday to check out the throwback night and came a bit earlier than I normally…read morewould, but since it was raining I didn't want to risk it. There was no long line, and I got in pretty quickly. The inside was pretty normal, you got the stage, bar in the back, and the upstairs level, but they closed out a good amount of it, which made sense since I think it was going to be a pretty smaller crowd. We got some drinks and were waiting for the music to pick up, and it indeed picked up! Great music, great old school throwbacks, and the people were rolling in. Ended up coming down to dance for a bit, and got another drink, but overall, I felt it was a great 2 hours of hanging and dancing, and the crowd was vibing too!

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DNA Lounge - Upstairs bar/seating

Upstairs bar/seating

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