FILM: In Being Michael Madsen, the titular star "turns the tables on notorious paparazzo, Billy Dant, by hiring a trio of documentary filmmakers to chronicle Dant's life, loves, and troubles." Crafty! The film also stars David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, and Virginia Madsen. Screens at The Roxie. READING: Michael Layne Heath and William Taylor Jr. read in honor of Abraham Lincoln's birthday (and of being our first gay Republican president!) at Dog Eared Books. *......

Aw. That's just sad. Bathroom emergency? We're just surprised that Sal didn't take the opportunity to swoop in and read some headlines. Sal was especially excited to remind us viewers that today is Abraham Lincoln's birthday and that he saved some random Sal fan from going to the DMV today, which is closed for the holiday. But poor Tori. All alone at 7:47. *sniff sniff*......

Unless you see all four of Mike Daisey's "Great Men of Genius" monologues (and see them IN ORDER), you might miss the point. GMOG is NOT in fact one man acting as four different "geniuses" -- Bertolt Brecht, P.T. Barnum, Nicola Tesla, and L. Ron Hubbard -- in four 75-minute monologues. Rather, this is one five-hour monologue, broken up into four segments, wherein the true genius of the piece, Mike Daisey, interweaves vignettes from his life with the excerpted life stories of those famous men. And did we say he's funny? ...

Well just look at that big goofy smile on Mark Leno! He's had a good day today, and so have all of California's queers. (And who, in this state, isn't just a little queer in one sense or another?) Assembly Bill 849, which would grant marriage equality to same-sex couples, passed its last hurdle to being considered by the state senate. Although a similar bill lost by five votes a few months ago, this......

SFist interviews Harmon Leon...

As you know, SFist reads the weeklies so that you don’t have too. While our love affair with Bay Area weeklies is long and sordid, we vividly recall the fateful summer day we were reading The Wave and stumbled across a bit by a local who had his girlfriend infiltrate the Raiderette try outs. Sheer genius, we thought. A mere two weeks later Harmon Leon presented another hilarious instance of infiltration when he described......