drinking games

Monday is Soul & Bowl Night at Mission Bowling

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

I have fond memories of disco bowl nights from high school—those air-conditioned evenings when all the cool kids would sneak beers in the parking lot and I'd just bowl.  Sure, the music was awful, because disco music is awful, and I never cracked 120.  Also the fog machine left me coughing fits and a weird desire to move to San Francisco.  But those nights were Good Times.

It seems Mission Bowling Club has gotten hip to the disco bowl phenomenon, only updated it with significantly more tolerable music.  Plus, Mission Bowling has alleviated their notorious steep prices with happy hour specials and other such discounts.  From Mission Bowling:

SOUL & BOWL is a curated soul music series that we host every 1st and 3rd Monday of the month, filled with soulful jams and fantastic food, drink, and bowling specials (Free shoes rentals!).

Starting this Monday, September 2, we'll have additional specialty cocktails for the night curated by Daniel Hyatt (formerly of Roka Akor). He's crafting some great drinks like the Sam and Dave and the Juke Joint Punch. We're so excited to try them!

Additional specials include:
Templeton Rye + Tecate $7
Free shoe rentals!
Lots of dancing!

Plus, it's the last day of the Burning Man Rapture, so take full advantage.

Cornhole!

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

We've been hearing rumors that everyone's favorite dive-themed bar Dr. Teeth had set-up a cornhole pitch on their patio, but never made it back there to see for ourselves.  And what a mistake that was.

They've got a nice terraced astroturf lawn for you to spill your drink on, two boards, and a whole bunch of bean bags to whip at your friends when they aren't looking.  It's all the fun that you come to expect with southern lawn games, without having to make friends with the randoms who bring cornhole to Dolores Park.  Plus, you get to play while sucking down PBR tallboys and feasting on a plate of sweet potato tater tots.  That is to say, it's pretty much the perfect way to spend daylight hours at a bar.

(If you're curious, Alissa effortlessly whooped my ass two games to one.  I'm not much into losing, so I guess I'm not much into cornhole.)

Previously on Uptown Almanac: 

Mini Golf in the Mission

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

Ever wonder what all these new 24th Street art galleries actually do for money?  Host a mini-golf 'pop-up', that's what.  For $2 a round (decidedly cheaper than grabbing the next flight to New York for a free round at Bushwick Country Club), you can putt a few balls indoors, just like you did when you were a horny teen.

Of course, who the hell knows when they're actually open for business, as they were closed Sunday afternoon—a seemingly perfect time to get a few bucks out of the wallets of some nostalgic sunburnt drunks.  But should you want to chance it for a round, you can head over to 24th and Treat (just down from Mission Skateboards) and rattle their gates yourself.