The Barbary Coast Revue

04/30/2021

Researching the native land acknowledgement for season four, found this great read about San Francisco's original residents

© By Gary Kamiya, excerpted with permission (see bottom for more info). Originally this chapter was titled "Dancing on the Brink of the World".

04/23/2021

https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Shock-G-Humpty-Hump-of-Digital-16122593.php

Shock G, producer and frontman of the 1990s hip-hop group Digital Underground and widely...

03/16/2021

A fun table read last night for Season Four. The course is uncertain, the seas still becalmed, but there are sailors aboard...Thank you readers! The show shall sail again.

01/06/2021

The script is in progress. Here's looking at you 2021.

12/11/2020

Slim's! We miss you already so so much

Huey Lewis & the News - Full ConcertRecorded Live: 5/23/1989 - Slim's (San Francisco, CA)More Huey Lewis & the News at Music Vault: http://www.musicvault.com...

11/19/2020

Looking back on 2015 as we look forward to 2021. New, updated show in progress!

Reviews for The Barbary Coast R***e: Season Three in San Francisco, CA at Goldstar. Read what members are saying about The Barbary Coast R***e: Season Three and find tickets to upcoming events.

04/29/2020

Who's been to the 2am Club? Who's met Huey?

(My wife used to ring him up at Woodland's Market)

With a jacket flung over his shoulder, a very hungover Huey Lewis looked into the camera and thought to himself, "This is never gonna work." At the 2 a.m. Club in Mill Valley, the singer-songwriter was posing for a photo that would eventually materialize into the unmistakable album art for his band'...

03/17/2020

""I run the police," he once declared — to a judge, no less."

Everyone in Irish Hill knew Frank McManus. The husky, six-foot-tall proprietor of the Union Hotel towered over the seven-block community. Founded by Irish immigrants in the 1860s, Irish Hill stretched from about Illinois and 20th streets to the San Francisco Bay. Crammed together were about 60 cotta...

03/07/2020

It's all a continuum. One of our alumni, SF native Rex Marin, once mentioned he was excited to see what happened when the latest wave of arrivals (the techies) were turned into freaks by San Francisco. It will happen! (And maybe at our show!)

To a newcomer like myself, San Francisco is a contradiction -- a free-spirited, tolerant, diverse liberal hub of radical hippie thinking... that disdains transplants and requires fluency in four different computer coding languages to afford an apartment deposit. Most of the eulogies for the city con...