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The Chron Admits Its Love for Dive Bars

The Gold Cane
The Gold Cane

Today we find the usually more buttoned up Chronicle surveying the city’s “favorite dive bars,” and their list isn’t half bad. You’ve got the 85-year-old Gold Cane in the Upper Haight, the ever-so-S.F. Kennedy’s Irish Pub & Curry House in North Beach, and one of our all-time favorites, Aunt Charlie’s Lounge in the ‘Loin — even though the two real stars of their weekend drag show, Gina LaDivina and Vicky Marlane, are now either semi-retired (Gina), or deceased (Vicky). The only one on the list we’d take issue with is Butter in SoMa, which is way too new to be called a dive. [Chron]

The Chron Admits Its Love for Dive Bars