Well, at least he lives in the Richmond, right? (Some) affordable housing advocates and ethicists are shaking their heads over District 1 Supervisor Jake McGoldrick's poor party timing this week. Remember that lot on Cesar Chavez and Mission that everyone's fighting about condoizing? Well, the Board of Supes had a contentious debate about it on Tuesday, and narrowly voted for development on a 6-5 vote. (hey, Michela Alioto-Pier must've shown up that day!) The swing......

As part of the National Queer Arts Festival, graphic artist and memoirist Alison Bechdel is speaking at Michelle Tea's Radar Reading Series at the SF Public Library tonight! We've been huge fans of Bechdel's Dykes to Watch Out For for, like 10 years now (we're latecomers -- she's been drawing the strip since 1987), and her first graphic novel, Fun Home, about her relationship with her closeted gay father totally blew our mind with......

It's all about sex and land use around here in San Francisco, as kink.com (probably NSFW) moves into the Mission Armory and gets the official not-very-welcome wagon greeting from fifty community members yesterday, who braved the rain to protest the online porn industry. Much to the protestors' chagrin, though, it turns out kink.com has already moved in and started filming, and they didn't need to get permission from anyone to do so. The Armory's got......

We take you now from the world of politically incorrect comedians to politically incorrect neighbors, that being the new owners of the armory, Kink.com. Now you would think that the opening of a new porn studio would go over well with the neighbors, but for whatever reason, it hasn't. They don't seem to be that happy at all, especially as there's a school nearby and it's a bit of a residential neighborhood. You know the "Seinfeld" episode where Jerry turns down a threesome because he's afraid it would turn him into a "porn guy" and he didn't want to become a "porn guy." Well, that's what we have here-- the neighbors of the armory don't want to become porn guys....