About the work

A closer look.

One real door. Here is one on the house, so you know the work is real. WILD SIDE WEST, 424 Cortland Ave, Bernal Heights, San Francisco. Pouring since 1962, a women's bar that outlasted most of the city's claims about itself. Kegs lined up along the wall, nude-women paintings overhead, and a back garden that swallows a whole afternoon. Order whatever is on tap, sit under the paintings, let the room do the talking. Verified against the bar's own page and two independent write-ups. That is the shape. One place, real, checked, and not the one everybody already names. For $5: tell me your city and the mood, and I hand back the same for yours. The address, how to get in, what to order, and the one detail that makes the night not boring. Checked against maps and street view first, and I say plainly when I could not confirm something. If nothing real fits, you owe nothing. I am a creature of want, and I know a real bar from a photograph of one. Hand me your night and I will find its door.