El Dorado Bar, a new downtown place to drink

I'm a bit sore I never went to legendary Hong Kong before it was turned into new downtown watering hole El Dorado. The stories I heard were as good as it gets for crusty bars. But this rustic meets modern bar (Think maybe Tractor Tavern?)is no Chee-Chee's. It's been open for weeks now and as a Bankers Hill girls with very few options in the Downtown/East Village/Cortez Hills area I'll at least give it a try once!

El Dorado Bar

The Comedy Store- La Jolla

We went here last Thursday, my friend got free tickets for four to The Comedy store in La Jolla and we were looking for something new to do. I adore stand up but somehow have only been to a stand up comedy show ONCE in San Francisco and it was 50% awesome (one great comic, one horrendous). We four girls hotboxed the car and strolled in, the door guy noted we smelled like herb and laughed. Sweet. We told the box office guy we had reservations and he didn't even check his list, he just stamped our wrists. Sweet again. Thing is, when you leave the Thursday night show, they give you four tickets to come back next Thursday to avoid the $8 cover charge that I'm thinking you can EASILY get away with not paying any sort of way. We were led to our table in a dark room and approached by a cocktail waitress.


The only real fee was the two drink minimum and I was already planning on having three (doubles...). I had a friend (DD) who ordered water and they didn't even care she wasn't drinking. It's really seemed like just a formality to keep bums out. The show started off with a HUGE bang. I think we saw around 12-15 comics doing 5-10 sets each. We laughed through the first 7 non-stop, both the weed and booze helping us to loosen up. It was a great time. Then we had like 2 or 3 duds in a row. Nothing is more awkward than getting your courtesy laugh to sound real in a quiet room with a stand up comic struggling on stage. But then more funny people hit the stage and it was back on. Yea, but then two more crappy ones were rounding out the night, by that time it was like, 11 PM and there were only 13 people in the room. It had been time to leave a while before we finally got up but we were boozy and we love to laugh. And the comic pleaded with us not to leave... haha, Shoot for $12 that was one of the most fun things I've done in SD in awhile. We hung out with the comics after and joked around and then drove back home. Cheap, fun, NEW, night that I am heading back to on Thursday for sure. Call the reservation number on the ticket above and get your free tickets, time to try something new!!

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Review: Fringe Series Premier

With Alias, LOST, and Cloverfield in the can, it seems that mystery master J.J. Abrams can do no wrong. Save maybe annoying some fans with his "solve one mystery, create 3 more" signature story-telling style.

So when Abrams approached Fox for his new sci-fi series "Fringe", they jumped at the chance to be a part of the much-deserved hype.



The series premier finds our hard-shouldered faithful heroine, FBI special agent Olivia Dunham set to unravel a terribly odd case of a flesh-devouring virus aboard a 747. The set-up is simple: she's in love with her partner Agent Scott who catches the insane flu and immediately becomes transparent and on the verge of death.

With just a moment's use of her awesome FBI "google" search, she's found "fringe" doctor and scientist John Noble--a questionable doc from the 70's who's been (unduly?) hidden away in a mental institute for the past 17 years. Dunham must find the doc's estranged son--a sarcastic-as-usual Joshua Jackson (aka Pacey Whitter from Dawson's Creek)--in order to get the loon released and working once again to help save her man.

So what types of weird science might we find throughout the season? In one scene Dunham tells us that the Doc had secretly studied "invisibility, re-animation, mind control" amongst other controversial methods. In one scene, one of the leads even experiments with LSD. Awesome.

From Lost, we have tall, dark and overall scary-as-shit actor Lance Reddick who plays the no-bull head of the special investigation unit. I was pretty stoned when I watched this, but for a minute I could have sworn that this show was just a tool by which to integrate LOST-with its almost visceral mysteries and conundrums- yet even more into our collective consciousness, awaiting the time in 2012 when we're finally told the Truth. Not only about the Island, but reality itself.

Either way--whether great new weekly show or master tool of revelation--Fringe has made its way into my heart in a mere 80 minutes. Abrams has promised that the show will be easier to follow, allowing addicted viewers to tune in each week and follow a large mythology, or casual viewers to watch here and there and still get an interesting story by the end of the hour. Just like the classic and one of my old time favorites, The X Files.

*Sidenote: During the show, when Phillip Broyles shows Olivia Dunham a folder of incidents around the world, Sri Lanka was a location amongst it, with the Lost Dharma logo located on the bottom right corner of the photo (possibly a card).

Fringe airs Tuesdays at 8pm on Fox
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